Michael Scheuer | Non-Intervention

Because, Mr. Trump, you will set your own foreign policy, the main tasks for the next secretary of state will be to execute that policy and to purge the Department of State of those who have, for so many decades, championed the causes of foreign countries and have plied those foreigners with taxpayer money that should have been spent at home. In simple terms, if American taxpayer money is to be spent to make life better for people, those people can only be Americans.

The next secretary also will have to find and remove the cadre of interventionists, socialists, one-worlders, environmental-quacks, anti-Christians, social engineers, and that corps of incompetent, bespectacled, and ill-spoken young feminists, who have shown beyond doubt that feminism’s only real power is to block a young woman’s growth into a mature adult. Two terms of the Obama administration have sewn this useless and destructive ideological menagerie into the department’s fabric, and, if the department is to be re-professionalized, it must be sent packing.

Of the current names being bandied about for the secretary’s position, not one can be expected to do the necessary in terms of either cleansing the institution of the just noted rubbish or of reliably executing your America First foreign policy.

Mitt Romney: He is a part of the bipartisan governing class that, over the past 40 years, has made the State Department a hive of Ivy League-educated bees who advocate republic-killing interventionist wars and the spending of taxpayer money on what Kipling would have called their favorite “little brown brothers.” Romney and the State Department together would be more of the same status quo doctrine — everything for foreigners whatever it costs Americans — unless you or another adult reviews and approves everything Romney wants to do. It also should be recalled that Romney is a coward. He lost the 2012 election — like McCain did the 2008 election — because they feared being tagged racists if they publicly dismantled a Black man named Barack Obama by proving in debate that he had no contact points with the real world. Romney’s 2012 campaign staff also was flush with Israel-Firsters who spoke and wrote to damn and slander Dr. Ron Paul and other American non-interventionists as “isolationists” and anti-Semites. Finally, Romney and his buddy Netanyahu would keep the United States mired in religious wars that concern none of the republic’s life-and-death national interests.

John Bolton: This man is the quintessential Neoconservative-interventionist-Israel First war monger. The only senior-level, foreign-policy posts for which he is fitted are located in the Israeli government.

Robert Corker: The Senator is Bolton-lite. As secretary of state, he would want more unnecessary military interventions, more aid for and protection of Israeli interests, and probably would ask to have Bolton as his deputy.

David Petraeus: The General lost two wars — Iraq and Afghanistan — and wasted U.S. military lives in his faux “surge” in Iraq, which was all show and no substance. The surge’s net result was to allow many of the Islamist fighters now serving with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State to escape to Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey and build networks and destabilize each before returning to the battlefield. He also happens to be a self-confessed felon who passed classified intelligence to his paramour. Petraeus should be neither appointed nor pardoned. Let him stew in his own self-made juices, and make sure that Hillary Clinton — a person Petraeus championed — stews in the same kind of juices for her multiple and similar felonies.

Rudy Giuliani: Do you recall his arrogant, scurrilous, and neoconservative attacks on Dr. Ron Paul for his reverence for the Founders, his America First philosophy, his non-interventionist policies, and his reluctance to make Israel his country of first allegiance? In so doing, Giuliani displayed his support for the Bush-Cheney-Obama doctrine of relentless militarily intervention in places where no genuine U.S. national interests are at risk; for going to war for the ludicrous and unattainable causes of spreading democracy, freedom, human rights, and feminism; and for continuing the enormous and unconscionable amounts of taxpayer funds that are expended on such wars, and on aid — monetary or military, or both — for such “noble” but unnecessary and generally useless allies as Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, most of NATO, and the other Gulf states.

These five men taken individually or together amount to a poisonous dog’s breakfast of intervention, war-mongering, deeper bankruptcy, and Israel First. There is not an America First-bone in any of them, and they would work against your often-stated goal of reforming U.S. foreign policy in the direction the Founders intended, and ending the influence of the passions of Neoconservatives and Israel Firsters for involving the republic in endless, unnecessary wars.

Able alternatives to these war-lovers are available and ought to be considered, two of whom come quickly to my mind, Senator Rand Paul and Professor Walter A. McDougall, perhaps as a team. The former is a consistent non-interventionist by inclination and birth-right, and the latter wrote the two best books ever written on the cost of a U.S. foreign that deviates from the Founders’ guidance: Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776 (1997) and The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How America’s Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest (2016). MacDougall’s long survival in the academy as a non-interventionist and champion of the Founders’ wisdom also suggests a talent for in-fighting that would help to clear the State Department of the dross mentioned above.

Think it over, Mr. Trump. The five men you are reported to be considering for Secretary of State will do nothing but make America more hated around the world; begin and lose more wars that waste the lives and limbs of young Americans; and, perhaps, distract your government from addressing and funding all the work that needs to be done in the United States. Long-term security for America, after all, depends on stopping illegal immigration, ridding the nation of illegal aliens, unleashing business to create jobs and profits, restoring law and order, rebuilding the military, and completely removing our children’s education from the malign hands of the national government.

Avoiding the cost and distractions caused by war are keys to accomplishing these other, more important domestic tasks. If we have to fight somewhere to defend ourselves and our interests, you have General Mattis to do the job, and there is no better man for doing that task quickly and definitively. Give him a colleague at the State Department who will not seek unnecessary wars for him to fight.

Michael F. Scheuer
December 2, 2016

Image source: A billboard in Detroit stating ‘America First Not Israel’ is causing controversy and accusations of anti-Semitism. The advertisement was paid for by the Deir Yassin Remembered group, which aims to make American’s more aware of the plight of Palestinians. The billboard can be seen 8 Mile Road in the city, and was placed there by Deir Yassin Remembered, which is based in New York. — Blog.deiryassin.org, Oct.27.2016 / selected by wg.pco

Although Obama’s effort to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign by taking Mosul on the eve of the election failed, there is a good chance that Mosul will fall to the heterogeneous coalition that is attacking it. Be that event in six weeks, six months, or a year, the United States and its allies will rejoice over the event as if it is the death knell of the Islamic State (IS). They will be wrong to do so, showing again how deeply ignorant they are of the Islamist enemy and the religious war it is waging against them.

IS has lost in Palmyra, Anbar, Ramadi, and other territories, and yet its troops are putting up their hardest fight yet in Mosul. Why? Two reasons: (a) IS leaders prematurely declared the caliphate, ignoring Osama bin Laden’s guidance that the lasting re-creation of caliphate was impossible until the United States was driven from the Arab World; if he was alive, he would probably add Russia to that guidance; and (b) because in the minds of IS leaders, fighters, and their supporters, everything, good or bad, comes from Allah; victory is from Allah, and defeat is a trial sent by Allah to test His followers’ faith and perseverance. While far from irrelevant, IS’s defeats in 2016, in Islamist minds, are in part a consequence of a IS leadership mistakes, but overwhelmingly because Allah did not grant them victory at this time.

The stubborn defense of Mosul and other places in Syria and Iraq, as well as the not infrequent, often unexpected IS offensive actions occurring in tandem, are mujahideen operations meant to prove to Allah that they are working through His test and trying to prove that they are fighting His fight and are worthy of His assistance. This is not a new phenomenon. Between 1979 and 1991, the Afghan Islamists were constantly beaten up, tactically defeated, and generally beleaguered by the Red Army and Air Force, but they stayed in the field, fought the Soviets and their Afghan allies, and Allah ultimately gave them victory. More recently, the West and its African allies have twice dealt the Somali Islamists heavy blows and declared victory. Today, however, Al-Shabaab remains in the field and is advancing, and a nascent Islamic State outfit has joined the war.

Faced with an enemy that thinks in this manner, victory for the United States, Russia, and their respective allies requires nothing less than as a complete annihilation of the mujahideen and their supporters as is militarily possible. As noted here previously, the loss of the cities that IS held or holds in Syria and Iraq is a blow to the organization’s prestige, and is costly in financial and manpower terms. It does not destroy the eternal goal of recreating the caliphate, or the IS organization. Indeed, in the counter-intuitive ways of insurgent warfare — where losses are often wins — those defeats will make IS stronger, more elusive, and more appealing to young Muslims. The latter due to its fierce resistance against what is irrefutably the strongest Crusader force that has ever taken the field against Islam.

Without the cities, IS will no longer need to supply food, electricity, water, roads, health, education, and social services, or law-and-order for urban populations, all of which are expensive and manpower-intensive. Shed of this burden, IS forces will be reapplied. Much of IS’s remaining force will return to what they do best, which is to base in remote areas of Syria and Iraq and conduct a patient insurgent campaign, which will be fought by small groups, in a hit-and-run manner, and will be punctuated by ambushes, IEDs, and car-bombs in urban areas.

IS’s loss of the cities and return to its main fighting skills will coincide with a gradual recognition on the part of the U.S.-Russia-Iran-NATO coalition that its string of urban victories have yielded a catastrophic result. In the space of a year, for example, the coalition will have lost the only kind of targets in which it has prevailed against Islamists since 2001 — cities — and will then confront an enemy that requires quite large numbers of infantrymen for use in undertaking the long, bloody, costly, and usually unsuccessful counter-insurgency campaign needed to have any chance of annihilating IS and the other Islamist fighting groups. Oh yes, the Western members coalition also will have to pay through the nose — given that Syria, Russia, and Iraq do not have a pot to piss in — to rebuild the urban areas and infrastructure its air forces and IS have destroyed. They also will have to feed the hundreds of thousands who have lost their homes and jobs; who largely blame the current coalition’s Westerners, Russians, and Shias for their dire predicament; and who hold an enduring hatred for the U.S. government for invading Iraq in 2003.

An Islamist insurgency being waged from Damascus eastward to the Iranian border, however, will be only one part of the catastrophe which will be delivered by the coalition’s successful campaign to drive IS from the cities. As noted, IS will return to its strongest military skill, and it also will return to kind of warfare that requires less manpower. IS leaders, therefore, will be free to redeploy their fighters to areas of its choosing, and, as the history of the last 20 years has shown, the arrival of even a few veteran mujahideen can make a notable difference to the quality and lethality of local jihadi operations.

The European governments are already in a public and cowardly tizzy about IS’s foreign fighters returning to their home countries. Some will certainly return to Europe and stage attacks, but they will only serve as icing on the Islamists’ cake. The Europeans have already sealed their well-deserved fate by letting in a tidal wave of Arab refugees — in the name “Merkelism,” which is an insane, Western civilization-destroying brand of humanitarianism — in whose ranks were untold numbers of mujahideen in the guise of innocent refuge seekers. Indeed, the greatest threat posed by IS fighters returning home probably lies not in Europe, but in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Jordan, India, and western China, where the ample local supplies of would-be Salafi mujahideen are in dire need of military trainers, combat-experienced leaders, explosives experts, and talented organization-builders and logisticians.

The real rub for the victorious U.S.-Russia-NATO-Shia coalition will come when IS leaders deploy — as they now are — fighters to countries where other jihad struggles are ongoing. IS fighters from Syria and Iraq, for example, have been and will be sent to Afghanistan, among them Pakistanis and Afghans going home with significant combat experience and organizational and leadership abilities. This move will strengthen IS’s foothold in Afghanistan, and begin to pave the way for the priority IS goal of entering Central Asia and opening another front against Russia.

Other IS fighters will be deployed to Gaza to strengthen the growing Salafi movement, as well as to be filtered by HAMAS’s military wing into the Sinai Peninsula to fight the Egyptian military and attack Israel. IS fighters also will sent to assist the growth of Salafi organizations and military capabilities in the Tripoli region of northern Lebanon. IS leaders will continue deploying fighters, munitions, and explosives into Iran, and will surely move some troops to Yemen, either to fight there or to move across the Red Sea to serve in Somalia and East Africa, to reinforce IS fighters in Libya and the rest of North Africa, and to join IS-allies in Mali, where the regional Islamist tide again appears to be rising.

In this religious war, U.S. and NATO “victories” — such as the deposing of Saddam, killing Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gadhafi, and backing the coup that overthrew Muhammad Morsi — have very often led to more, rather than less war, as well as to sky-rocketing expenditures by that effete gang of war-without-killing bankrupts. The retaking of the Syrian and Iraq cities from IS seems likely to yield the same kind of result, only this time perhaps on a much broader international scale.

In view of the foregoing budding reality, and the long string of disasters that have preceded it, there never has been a better time for the U.S. national government to make a clearly America-First decision to complete the Mosul operation and then withdraw all U.S. troops, aircraft, and private contractors from Syria and Iraq. That action will let the nations from Europe, the Levant, and the Arab Peninsula who have what America has not — genuine life-and-death national interests in the ultimate outcome there — continue the war until they are successful or until they perish.

While that melodrama plays out, Americans can work on defending U.S. interests, in all of their dimensions, in the place it matters most, in North America. That is, after all, the clearest and most important of all the constitutional responsibilities assigned to the U.S. national government, as well as the one that won Mr. Trump the recent election.

Until inaugurated on 20 January 2017, Mr. Trump would be well advised to follow the pre-inaugural behavior of one of his predecessors, a fellow New Yorker named Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From November, 1932, until his inaugural on 4 March 1933, FDR refused to make any public statement that would tie him to the floundering policies of Herbert Hoover’s government. Roosevelt was about to undertake the monumental task of trying to get America out of still deepening economic depression and wanted no association with the administration that Americans — rightly or wrongly — perceived as the cause of their economic misery. FDR resisted requests for supportive statements from the Hoover administration and defied the bashing he received from parts of the media for not speaking out on the economy and the worsening banking crisis.

FDR always held his cards close to his vest — earning the nickname “Sphinx” — and Trump should follow his lead. The domestic and overseas ravages caused by eight years of Obama-Clinton policies and unconstitutional actions are coming home to roost and Trump ought to leave them to reap the whirlwind and wither alone. Obama, Clinton, and their party are also behind the violent post-election demonstrations America is now witnessing, and they are hoping that Trump will say something that can be used to blame for the spreading violence.

Mr. Trump has a few election-provided blessings to count, but his biggest task at the moment seems to be to keep silent on a number of domestic and foreign-policy disasters that he had no hand in creating, thereby letting those disasters fall squarely into the laps of Obama and Clinton.

Following are a number of silence-worthy topics, and two blessings to count.

Silence: The unusually fast expressions supporting a “peaceful transfer of power” from Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton apparently were meant to impress Americans with their even-handed handling of a stunning and well-merited electoral defeat. Do not be fooled. They knew that street violence was coming because their surrogates, led and paid by Soros-ites, had it prepared just in case the unimaginable happened and the American people prevailed. If Mr. Trump is smart he will say very little — preferably nothing — about the issue and sit back and see where the violence goes. Paid-for violence often takes on a life of its own, and if the anti-Trump violence continues, he should then say — absolutely nothing. If the violence grows and gets out of hand, Mr. Trump should led Obama, Clinton, Podesta, Pelosi, Schumer, et al. stew in their own juices. If Trump says anything at all, the Democrats will blame him for causing the violence and then simply pay for more of it. As did FDR before he was inaugurated, Trump should remain silent and let Obama and Clinton manage the problem they created, either by ignoring it and falsely publicly blaming it on Trump or by cracking down on their own paid goons. Either way, Trump and the republic win, and hopefully a goodly number of the Soros-paid mercenary thugs will get killed.

Blessing: Trump enters the presidency with the unqualified blessing of having seen Senator Mark Kirk (R-Illinois) and Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-New Hampshire) defeated in their bids for reelection. Kirk and Ayotte are both ardent interventionists and even more ardent Israel-Firsters. The loss of two Republican votes in the Senate is more than compensated for by the departure of two war-mongering interventionists who would have been nothing but enemies and underminers of an America First foreign policy.

Silence: Trump and his team ought to silently make plans to close all of the White House space that has been used by journalists, either as work areas or for the daily press briefing. Almost all the U.S.-media worked as an extension of the Democratic Party during the recent election and manufactured coverage of Trump that was 91-percent negative. Trump owes the U.S. media nothing, and certainly not coddling inside the White House. Trump must not ignore the press, however, and so ought to have a covered platform built — with no walls — on the White House grounds where the journalists can gather for the daily press briefing, and from there can ask questions via a skype-like arrangement to the president’s spokesman who will be in his office inside the White House.

Blessing: The reelection of Republican Senator Rand Paul in Kentucky is unalloyed good news for non-interventionists and for Trump’s intent — if it is sincere — to conduct an America First foreign policy. Senator Paul’s victory gives him the chance to clarify and sharpen some of his foreign policy ideas and objectives — which seem to have drifted a bit from non-intervention — and to keep Mr. Trump up to mark on his foreign policy promises. Senator Paul’s presence, moreover, will give Trump a non-interventionist ally in a Republican senate caucus where the majority has never seen a war it did not want to get into, and which long ago hired on as well-paid shills for Israel First.

Silence: Mr. Trump should remain silent on the ideas coming from the media, and even some Republican quarters, that suggest he should “wipe the slate clean” and pardon Hillary Clinton and her coterie of fellow felons if the felon-in-chief Obama does not do so. If the possibility of pardoning Clinton and her gang remains viable at the time of his inauguration, Trump ought to slam the door shut on it on his second day as president. Although Gerald Ford is surely among the most decent men ever to be U.S. president, it was his pardoning of Richard Nixon that cleared the way for the Clintons’ criminal operations. Ford said the pardon of Nixon was meant to end a “long American nightmare,” but it really did nothing but demonstrate to the electorate that the U.S. political elite was above the law. Trump is likely to be faced by the same king of nightmare-ending arguments — as noted, even from Republicans — if he is sworn in with Hillary and her comrades in crime still unpardoned. At that point, the new president ought to appoint Patrick Fitzgerald — the Special Counsel who nailed the Bush administration’s Scooter Libby for leaking a CIA officer’s true name — and let him examine both the use of the unsecured server and the activities of the Clinton Foundation. If he finds no illegality, fine, but if he finds illegality, then indictments and a trial are mandatory to bring the lawless political elite to book. If their are valid legal grounds for indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration, nothing could do more to help the citizenry to start to believe that the republic is returning to the concept of the equality of all before the law.

Silence: Trump also should remain silent on Iraq. The current siege of Mosul — which Obama timed to help Clinton win the election — is producing increasing numbers of reports that Iraq’s Shia fighters are indiscriminately killing and torturing Sunni civilians in retribution for similar behavior by the Islamic State. With any luck, this will be the proverbial final feather that turns Shia-Sunni violence into a full-blown sectarian war. If that happens, the 5,000-6,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines that Obama has pointlessly put on the ground there may have to fight their way to safety, as the inter-sect warfare expands. If those troops can get safely out of harm’s way, Obama will have to either send them back into the fight, in what would be a suicide mission; massively reinforce them, a move that would produce nothing but dead Americans; or bring them home. Such an all-consuming sectarian war that begins in Iraq has been the end toward which events there have been heading since Obama foolishly re-entered Iraq in August, 2014. Trump should remain silent on the issue, and let Obama reap the disgrace he deserves by repeating George W. Bush’s two-fold madness of (a) sending the U.S. military into Iraq and (b) deploying just enough troops to ensure U.S. defeat.

Let me first say how much I appreciate people taking the time to write, whether from a favorable or unfavorable view. I have learned a good deal from those who kindly take time to read what I write.

At some point in the last six-weeks, I received an e-mail telling me the blog has been defaced a bit. So far I have tried to cope with the problem — placing articles a bit farther down from the page top — but have not found a way to fix it.

Then, about 7 or 10 days ago, I received another e-mail saying that my responses to readers’ comments were not appearing on the blog. I checked and found that to be the case. I have not found a way to fix that either.

Anyway, below are the responses that I have so far written on some of the comments received about the last three blog pieces. I will continue to put responses in this format until I can fix the problems.

Again, many thanks for your comments. MFS

“The Jewish-American media elite intends to kill the republic,” 2 November 2016

In reply to Mike Phillips.

Thanks for writing. None of them is CIA inventions. They are the inventions of (a) devout Muslims and (b) the Russian invasion of Afghanistan (1979) and the USG’s pots-1945, bipartisan interventionist foreign policy that is thoroughly hated across the Muslim world, as well as by any right-thinking American. MFS

In reply to Jacques.

Thanks for writing. I have detested that elite most of my adult life. It has given Trump nothing but negative/lying coverage since the start of the primary season. Indeed, they have been more despicably anti-Trump than parts of the liberal media. Have you been on vacation for the past 18 month? MFS

“The choice in 2016: Liberty or the yoke,” 29 October 2016

In reply to Jacques.

Thank you for writing. I have, incidentally, answered everyone of the comments you have sent. Slavery was legal/constitutional at the time of the Civil War. The slaves were freed by a Civil War that prepared the ground for the 13th-15th amendments. The Civil war was not waged to free the slaves. Lincoln could not have fought the South to free slaves because he would have been fighting an unconstitutional war and he would have had almost no popular support. The slaves were freed by constitutional amendments, as it should be in a constitutional republic. Without question, the Confederate nation was opposing what it perceived as tyranny, and perception is always reality. As in, I perceive you as a hopeless fool. MFS

In reply to Warren.

Thank you for writing. Yes, the anti-Federalists almost to a man saw what the new constitution could and has lead to, and that is why the liberal academy has for so long tried damn them as complainers, cranks, and men with no alternative plan. The anti-Federalists are as, if not more, important than the Federalists because they never for a second forgot that man is a fallen creature and will behave tyrannically given half a chance. On the other side, Washington, Madison, and some others were of the exact same mind. Had the Founders lived forever we might have been okay, but here we are with a traitor/butcher/felon running for president and access to all the arbitrary power the anti-Federalist warned off. Time is running out. Finally, I am about have way through a new book on the anti- Federalists. The book is by William A. Watkins Jr. and called Crossroads of Liberty. I think it is excellent in showing how much liberty was lost at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. MFS

“Of course the 2016 election is rigged, here’s how, and what it may yield,” 17 October 2016

In reply to Jacques.

Thanks for writing. Do you have a script from the DNC that you use for these witty and compelling notes. I always try to be polite, but I’ll tell the truth. If your grandparents are alive today, they must surely regret the mess you have made of the opportunities they won for you at high personal costs. You and your kind wouldn’t get up off your asses to do anything for yourselves if it required going farther than the refrigerator, and so you depend on a criminal, Wall-Street whore like Hillary to take as much money as possible from people who work and give it to you worthless, narcissistic, and lazy creeps. Grow up and get to work, and learn what it feels like to have half of America get paid from what you earn. MFS

In reply to Z.V. Dongone.

Thanks for writing. The media is completely biased in favor of the left and of suffocating liberty and the republic at all times. Because they have neither respect for, nor knowledge of the citizenry, they covered Trump initially to bedevil the Republican Party establishment and — given Trump’s wealth — reinforce the idea that Wall Street owns the party. (NB: You’ll note the media has been largely silent now that we know that Hillary is Wall Street’s aged but bought-and-paid-for whore.) After it became clear that Trump had struck a nerve in the populace and had growing support, the coverage simply continued and grew increasingly negative toward Trump and vastly more pro-Clinton, especially in what they chose not to report about Clinton’s criminality. It is all of a piece really, and has been for nearly half a century. I read yesterday that the public record shows 96-percent of all the media people — reporters, editors, pundits, media owners, anchors, etc. — who can be identified as having made a contribution to a presidential candidate in the 2016 race gave their money to Hillary. I would say that the 96-percent figure is a pretty clear proof of bias if any more was needed. MFS

In reply to Charles Byrd.

Thanks for writing. For my money, Rand Paul never made clear where he stood and so came off as one who would trim as the situation demanded. I thought the material on his website was especially confusing in this regard. This may be unfair because part of the lens through which I see Rand Paul is his dad, whom I never had to worry about straying off course. I also think that Rand Paul and the 15 or 16 other candidates missed what is truly clear about the Republican Party; namely, that it, as well as the Democratic Party, are well and truly hated by much of the citizenry. There was Trump and 16 other candidates, and the latter group would have run Romney-like campaigns and would not have gotten down in the gutter where Hillary and her party live and thrive, and which is the only place in which they can be beaten. Hillary would have mopped the floor with any of the other fifteen, moreover, because all of them would have been made to look like Romney by the Clinton machine, and all would have played the role of the well intentioned but soon-to-be-defeated gentlemen because they would have not spoken frankly and in the blue-collar idiom, as Trump has, about her criminality, treason, greed, arrogance, run-away corruption, and the obvious hatred in her heart for non-elite white Americans and this republic. Anyway, I am no expert on any of this, but I am confident of one thing. Trump is the last chance for our republic, and much of the election depends on whether Christians and Protestants can see, and act accordingly, on the what I think is the irrefutable fact that if they turn their back on Trump — a fallen creature just as I and they all are — they in fact turn their collective backs on themselves and their children, and volunteer to see the closest thing to heaven on earth turned into a genuinely hellish tyranny that intends to finish banning faith from the public square and constitutional liberty and order from the republic and its citizens. MFS

There clearly is a good deal of malign foreign intervention occurring in the 2016 presidential election, but it is not coming from Russian President Putin and his intelligence services. It is coming, rather, from Israel, and it is being executed through that country’s legion of disloyal U.S. citizens, be they Israel-Firsters, Neoconservatives, AIPAC’ers, or that steadily filling sty of war-loving foreign policy gurus and general officers that hate Trump.

First, the Russians. The idea that the Russians are the only ones who stole the DNC and Podesta e-mails and gave them to Wikileaks is a hoot. Of course the Russians stole them — that is what all intelligence services do and should do — and the Russians also no doubt have the entire body of Hillary Clinton’s pre-bleach-bit e-mails, as do the Iranians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, all the EU governments, the Saudis, the Israelis, and, really, any savvy teenage computer jockey. The three e-mail collections now in the hands of foreign governments are there because the DNC, John Podesta, and Hillary Clinton did not put an even marginally effective safeguard on their e-mail files.

But neither the Russian nor any other government would waste its e-mail hauls by giving them to Julian Assange or Anonymous; indeed, both hacking organizations are fully capable of stealing the e-mail collections off their own hook. No, foreign governments would save them for use in controlling a President Clinton by threatening to release them after her election, a form of ruthless shake-down that Hillary would no doubt recognize and admire. This simple fact makes nonsense of the argument that Russia stole the e-mails to prevent Clinton from becoming president. Clinton and Podesta are proven and dependable commodities for the Kremlin. Each has done Moscow’s bidding for pay, and that behavior, at least on Clinton’s part, would be guaranteed to continue if she is elected, given Mr. Putin’s possession of her e-mail.

Russian intervention is a bogey that has driven James Carville publicly insane, but Israeli intervention is a hard and long-standing fact. While the Israeli government has been properly silent about the election, its fanatic supporters in the United States have been trying to destroy Trump and elect an anti-American — like themselves — felon, traitor, and tyrant as the next U.S. President. Oh, they dress up their opposition to Trump in the glad-rags of “principle” — he gropes, swears, evades taxes, etc., etc. — but no one should be fooled by this faux mix of moral righteousness and indignation. No, they hate Trump because of two words, namely “AMERICA FIRST.”

You see, these disloyal Israel-First U.S. citizens have spend decades and billions of dollars — in the form of campaign contributions and other kinds of rewards-for-politicians — on effectively suborning much of the bipartisan governing elite, the media, the military, and the federal civil service so that each always acts in Israel’s foreign-policy interests, and almost never in the foreign-policy interests of the United States.

When Trump said he would pursue a foreign policy of America First, the Israel-Firtsers suddenly envisioned that long-past-due day when the FBI would be dismantling their network of high-level, U.S. citizen espionage agents; when their subversive organizations would be required to register as agents-of-a-foreign-power; and perhaps even when veteran FBI and Intelligence Community officers would testify under oath before the Congress, describing what they know about how disloyal Israel-Firsters hurt the United States, a truth that many of those officers believe their fellow citizens also ought to know.

Most of all, the Israel-Firtsers knew that “America First” would mean the end of the U.S. government’s heretofore supine willingness to go to war on behalf of a country that is of no national-security value to the republic — indeed, it is an acid that erodes that security — and against an Islamist enemy who attacks America primarily because the U.S. government, under both parties, supports all-things Israel, as well as every two-bit Arab tyrant who can offer bribes disguised as campaign contributions, gifts to help build presidential libraries, or arms contracts.

The difficulty of speaking the truth about Israel-First’s anti-American malignity is obvious to all. Given that fact, I thought I would end this piece by offering readers the chance to decide for themselves. There follow below citations for a series of articles that have been published by leading Israel-Firsters, Neocons, pundits, professors, and other of their associates during the past 14 days. Note the steady increase in their venomous and panicky tone as Trump’s campaign picked up political momentum, and especially since the FBI began taking another look a Hillary’s unmistakable criminality.

The theme of each article is two-fold: (a) Donald Trump is an unprincipled, crude, and genuinely bad guy, and (b) Hillary Clinton is a flawed but far preferable alternative for the presidency, notwithstanding that she is a liar, a felon, a self-confessed traitor, a war lover, an aspiring tyrant, a spendthrift intending to bankrupt the republic, and a deadly enemy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Also making these flaws tolerable is the fact that the Israel-Firsters know that they own Hillary, her husband, and their party — and many senior Republicans — because they have been on the take from Israel First for decades and will do its bidding no matter how many interventionist wars are required or how many dead or maimed U.S. soldiers and Marines result.

For the writers below these are minor flaws and vastly better than the havoc and political impotence that would ensue for Israel-Firsters, their subversive networks, and their ability to serve their country of first affection, if Mr. Trump wins and implements a policy of America First at home and abroad.

So have a read, and see what you think. And remember, the writers are so viciously anti-Trump not because of who he is and how he speaks, but only because the disloyal Israel-Firsters are so palpably and quite correctly terrorized by that clear, simple, historically resonant, and enormously popular phrase “America First.”

• Thomas L. Friedman, “Donald Trump Voters, Just hear me out,” 2 November 2016.
• Michael Gerson, “My Reluctant and Strategic Vote for Clinton,” 1 November 2016.
• Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Expose Trump’s enablers: How many people who should know better are making it easier for him to lie to the American people,” 31 October 2016.
• Michael A. Cohen, “FBI director James Comey should resign,” 31 October 2016.
• Benjy Sarlin, “The Vengeful World of Donald Trump, and Why It Matters,” 31 October 2016.
• Damon Linker, “Clinton Scandal Nothing Compared to the Plague of Trump,” 31 October 2016.
• Jonathan Chait, “Republicans’ Age of Authoritarianism Has Just Begun,” 30 October 2016.
• Howard Fineman, “James Comey Just Unmasked Himself,” 30 October 2016.
• Mort Zuckerman, “The Intolerable Donald Trump,” 30 October 2016.
• William Kristol, “A Populist-Nationalist Right? No Thanks,” 30 October 2016.
• Dana Milbank, “Mr. Comey’s Dangerous October Surprise,” 29 October 2016.
• Eli Lake, “Don’t Let the FBI’s E-Mail Surprise Swing the Election,” 28 October 2016.
• Gabriel Schoenfeld, “Comey’s letter is not a bombshell: Donald Trump is still unfit, and we’re unlikely to learn anything new about Hillary Clinton’s email error,” 28 October 2016.
• Dana Milbank, “The Bricks in Trump’s Wall of Shame,” 28 October 2016.
• Alan J. Lipman, “The narcissism of Donald Trump’s candidacy,” 28 October 2016.
• Harold Myerson, “Dems Get Out the Vote; GOP Suppresses It,” 28 October 2016.
• Thomas Friedman, “Trump is the enemy of all that’s great,” 26 October 2016.
• Dana Milbank, “The Lap Dogs of Democracy Who Didn’t Bark at Trump,” 25 October 2016.
• Yoni Applebaum, “Trump’s Gettysburg Address Attacks Faith in Government,” 24 October 2016.
• Michelle Goldberg, “The Anguish of Being a Republican Woman in Age of Trump,” 24 October 2016.
• Noah Feldman, “On Nov. 9, Let’s Forget Donald Trump Happened,” 24 October 2016.
• Laurence Tribe, “Donald Trump’s Dangerous Nonsense,” 23 October 2016.
• William Kristol, “Donald Trump: The Loser,” 22 October 2016.
• Jonah Goldberg, “Aren’t Trump’s Supporters Living in a Bubble, Too?” 22 October 2016.
• Roger Cohen, “Donald Trump the anti-American,” 22 October 2016.
• Dana Milbank, “Trump Can’t Just Be Defeated. He Must Be Humiliated,” 22 October 2016.
• Michael Cohen, “Trump Undermines the Legitimacy of Our Democracy,” 21 October 2016.
• Charles Krauthammer, “My vote, explained,” 21 October 2016.
• Paul Krugman, “Why Hillary Clinton wins,” 21 October 2016.
• Jonathan Cohn, “Trump Disqualified Himself from the Presidency,” 20 October 2016.

“No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for a man who can build his greatness upon his country’s ruin.”

George Washington, 12 December 1778 (1)

A few weeks ago, a reader of this blog sent a comment saying that perhaps our republic is just finally “fizzling out,” as have almost all of history’s previous republic’s. I did not answer this cogent note at the time because I wanted to think about it. Little did I then imagine that so much new data would appear since the reader’s comment that, at least in my mind, makes the fizzling option seem all too real. The days pass and the picture gradually fills in, and the fuller and more complete it gets the louder the fizzling becomes. But there is a last-resort option for Americans, one that has strong precedent and sanction in the republic’s history, tradition, and founding documents.

Long ago, in 1963, America’s newest Nobel Laureate for Literature wrote a song that seems to pretty much fit this particular point in U.S. history, which is a knack Bob Dylan has demonstrated repeatedly during his remarkable if, at times, ornery and reclusive career. One verse of that song is worth quoting in full:

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’ (2)

This week’s news that Colin Powell has said he will vote for Hillary Clinton highlights the point that, as Mr. Dylan said, the old “order is rapidly fadin’. Powell is brave and intelligent man, a military officer who served his country well and was highly honored by it. And now, in return for those honors, he publicly champions for the presidency a woman who is a felon, a traitor, and a proven war lover. I must confess that I stopped respecting Powell when he supported Barack Obama for president twice. Obama is a man that, given his lack of every credential of character, experience, and personal accomplishment, General Powell would not have given the command of a squad of soldiers. I wonder what Powell now thinks about backing Obama after Wikileaks has shown that he, like Hillary, is a documented traitor for knowingly using an unsecured server to conduct the classified business of the nation.

The famous ex-General Powell has dug for his once enviable reputation a grave that would be best left unmarked. History will remember him as man who willingly and openly betrayed his oath as a military officer, and his duty as a citizen, to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution not only against foreign foes, but from domestic traitors like Clinton and Obama. The much-praised General Powell has though his own words and actions now built a permanent place for himself in U.S. history, one where he will be remembered not as a combat veteran and a secretary of state, but rather as a man who will be deservedly damned for being the callous abettor of two of the most despicable traitors in all of American history.

But Powell is only one voter. What is to be thought about the tens of millions of other U.S. citizens who apparently intend to vote for a woman whose entire career has been one of intentionally applying her lethal brand of wickedness to the body politic?

• How will parents explain to their children and grandchildren that they voted for a woman who is congenital liar; for a woman who speaks loudly of her ardor for helping children, but has been and is the relentless champion of murdering 60 million of them, a fact that makes the history of slavery in American slavery seem a quite minor event; and for a woman who claims to be liberated and independent, but has spent 30-plus years protecting a sexual-predator husband, defaming and threatening the women he attacked, and utterly depending on that predator and dozens of other girly-whipped, criminal-loving men — think of John Podesta, Robert Creamer, James Carville, Terry McAuliffe, and all the male and semi-male reporters at ABC, CBS, NBC, and MSNBC — to do the lying, violence-making, cheating, and bribing that are responsible for winning her the offices, riches, and status that she could never have won on the basis of her own meager stores of talent, brains, character, and courage.
• How will the parents of America’s soldier-children explain to them why they voted for a woman who loves war, cares not a bit about dead or maimed soldiers and Marines, and has helped to start, or has started, the wars in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, and now seems eager to start one with Russia? And if that war with Russia comes, how will those parents explain that they voted for the woman who lit the fire that led to that war by joining with George Soros and the globalist U.S. and European elites to recklessly foment the coup that overthrew the pro-Russia government of the Ukraine and then continually lied by blaming all that happened in Ukraine on Vladimir Putin?
• As citizens, how will pro-Hillary voters justify to themselves, and to the rest of the citizenry, the fact that they voted for a woman (a) who helped deprive enormous numbers of Americans of affordable and effective health insurance, and who has promised to make that problem bigger and more expensive; (b) who intends to appoint Supreme Court justices who will complete the destruction of the U.S. Constitution by permanently entrenching rule by and for minorities, be they ethnic, racial, sexual, or illegal aliens and refugees; (c) who intends to make sure that working people get to keep only the smallest possible portion of the salaries they earn; and (d) who will use the bogey of climate change to destroy the jobs of millions of Americans — do not think coal miners are only targets — and also use Obama’s unconstitutional climate-change deal to expand the executive branch’s power, pour on ever increasing taxation and growth-killing regulations, and eradicate the 2nd Amendment so that she can cede more and more U.S. sovereignty and independence to world governance via an America-hating abomination like the UN or some even worse international institution that she, Soros, and their globalist pals have readied but for now is hidden.
• Perhaps most important — though there is no small beer in the foregoing — how will those who intend to vote for Clinton explain that they knowingly voted for a third American civil war. The election of Clinton will leave those who did not vote for her with only the stark choice between supinely submitting to her goal of creating a country that is a republic in name but without liberty, Christianity, or a viable economy, or to do as their ancestors did and decide to risk all on the long-shot of an armed rebellion to rescue and then rehabilitate all that is politically, spiritually, historically, and economically dear to them.

It is on this last point that pro-Clinton voters ought to focus and reflect because it is their lives that will be on the line, and they will be easily identifiable. All of the republic’s enemies — Liberals, Neocons, media personalities, Israel-Firsters, socialists, teacher unions, abortionists, etc., etc. — brilliantly chose to gather together under Clinton’s tent and and loudly proclaim their support for her plans to destroy America and those they deem “deplorable” inhabitants via taxes, interventionist wars, and executive orders. It is only commonsense to say that it always is a good thing to know who and where your enemies, and the pro-Clinton folks have made that as easy as targeting apples bobbing in a barrel of water.

Historically, Americans are one for two in armed rebellions against those whom they perceived as intending to impose tyrannical rule on them. The Founder’s generation won; the Confederate-American generation lost. The Founders delayed rebellion until Britain’s tyranny was installed in the northern parts of British North America and could be seen to threaten all of it; the patience-short Confederate-Americans rebelled on the suspicion that a northern-run tyranny was coming their way.

The Founders, as noted, won, and the Confederate-Americans lost, but the latter’s defeat really provided no guarantee against a future civil war, notwithstanding the many clueless historians who have claimed that armed rebellion has been unthinkable since peace was made by two wise soldiers at Appomattox.

Why did the civil war’s conclusion fail to make a future armed rebellion impossible? Simple. The door to and duty of rebellion can never be permanently closed or denied to citizens who are armed; who sense the approach and/or have experienced the beginnings of tyranny; and who believe a failure to attempt rebellion will only yield their enslavement as serfs to the elite. This hard and ominous fact, of course, is why Clinton and her ilk are striving to neuter the 2nd Amendment.

Today, the U.S. citizens who will never vote for Clinton have been much more patient than either the Founders or the Confederate-Americans, but that patience is near to run out. For over 40 years they have watched their taxes steadily increased and even more quickly wasted; their religion vilified, ridiculed, and attacked by unconstitutional laws and undermined by federal control of education; their jobs deliberately exported, thereby blighting their communities and their own and their children’s futures; their kids killed or maimed in unnecessary interventionist wars the governing elite never intends to win; their share of equality before the law eroded by the unconstitutional legal, financial, employment, and educational preferences given to favored ethnic groups, illegal aliens, and dangerous, unwanted refugees; their civil liberties deliberately constricted by presidents using the impact of needless wars and the mad advice of Ivy League ideologues to increase the executive’s power; and their own and their nation’s history, traditions, sovereignty, and independence sold out in the name of an anti-democratic, God-less, authoritarian-cum-fascist world order.

It seems quite likely that there are many millions of nationalistic Americans who now stand only a short step or two from the enough-is-enough line, and that they may soon see little recourse save an armed rebellion while the 2nd Amendment is still operative and doing what the Founders intended. The Founders’ goal for the 2nd Amendment was, of course, to ensure that succeeding generations of Americans always have the tools with which to overturn rigged elections, protect and defend their Constitution, and, especially, to kill as many as necessary, and then a few, of their fellow citizens who are trying to subject them to the whims and wickedness of a liberty-murdering tyranny imposed — in this case — by a lying, corrupt, arrogant, power-and-money hungry, and obviously mentally disturbed politician.

Those refusing to vote for Clinton can, I think, take pride and succor in knowing that America’s Founders faced much the same situation and, against long odds, took up arms and restored their liberty. From that day to the ever-pertinent Dylan’s, no one has described the duty of rebellion better than a prominent, Boston-based Protestant divine named Jonathan Mayhew. Reverend Mayhew, a cleric when clergymen were intelligent, manly, and courageous, preceded most of the Founders by 20 years in telling to his congregants that they had no obligation — under either God or the law — to submit to tyranny. “The king,” Mayhew told his congregation in 1750:

“is as much bound by his oath of office, not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows, that as soon as the prince sets himself up above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant: he does to all intents and purposes, unking himself, by acting out of, and beyond, that sphere which the constitution allows him to move in. And in such cases, he has no more right to be obeyed, than any inferior officer who acts beyond his commission. The subject’s obligation to allegiance then ceases of course; and to resist him, is no more rebellion, than to resist any foreign invader.” (2)

If Mrs. Clinton and her supporters — that is, the criminal and her accomplices — win the 2016 election, the “obligation to allegiance” to her government ceases for those who opposed her and her abettors. As the Reverend Mayhew, and later a Virginian named Jefferson, said their is no obligation for citizens to continue to offer unlimited submission to a tyrant or to fail to resist her government’s tyranny. Under God, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and plain commonsense, the citizens’ duty and responsibility lies squarely in refusing to submit to the taking of their liberty, and a grim willingness to risk death, family, and property by seeking to preserve the republic by destroying the tyrant, her associates, and their enslaving intentions.

Endnotes

1. George Washington to Joseph Reed, 12 December 1778. See, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-18-02-0452
2. Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” 1963. See, http://bobdylan.com/albums/the-times-they-are-a-changin/
3. Jonathan Mayhew, “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to Higher Powers, 1750.” See, http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1044&context=etase

Imagine that naughty Mr. Trump having the nerve to suggest the 2016 presidential election is rigged. Most in the mainstream media and the Democratic party establishments are now in a high, Captain Renault-like faux dudgeon over Trump’s assertion. Their noisy anger and syrupy, patriotic-sounding rejection of the fact that the vote is clearly rigged serve to do only two things: (a) validate Trump’s claim, and (b) confirm the voters’ growing suspicion that they are again being had by the powerful, wealthy, and tyrannical political elite that hates everything about them except for the money that they can take from their pockets. Trump must stand by this accurate assessment of this year’s rigged presidential election, no matter how much the media and Democratic hounds — and probably some similarly slobbering Republicans — bay for him to recant and repent.

So absurd is it to deny the obvious fact that the powerful, rich, and sordid Clintonites have rigged the vote to maintain their access to the federal treasury and their ability to wield arbitrary power that it might be considered superfluous to note a few examples of the conclusive evidence of rigging. But their egregious rigging of the election is so threatening to the republic’s peace, prosperity, cohesion, and survival, and a Clinton victory is so full of chances for an armed rebellion against the tyranny she plans, that a few issues proving the election has been rigged are worth pointing out.

• In the macro sense, U.S. elections at all levels became readily riggable when Democratic and Republican elected officials agreed to install electronic voting. The Democrats always have gotten the dead, hopelessly addled drug addicts, and illegal aliens to vote. Why do you think they so viciously oppose voters being required to show a photo ID before voting? But today, every citizen’s vote can be changed by either party because elected officials have suborned the computer companies and their experts — never forget that Silicon Valley’s collective head is very far up Hillary’s butt — with the rich contracts given to them for installing, maintaining, and monitoring the electronic equipment used in elections. Like social media’s elimination of personal privacy with tools Hitler, Stalin, and Mao would have killed more millions to possess, electronic voting negates the personal and private choice of the voter by making it simple for the political elites and their computer-geek minions to change a citizen’s marking of his or her ballot silently and without chance of detection.
• In the day-to-day political arena, the mainstream media for more than a year have been rigging this election. They have focused on ephemera such as Trump’s blue-collar speech, his legally paid taxes, his un-political correctness, his honest and correct economic pessimism, and now the steady and predictable parade of weepy, lying women that the DNC probably recruited from Bill Clinton’s history-of-the-women-I’ve-attacked ledger. (NB: Is there anything more surreal than a wretched criminal like Hillary Clinton claiming that her character is more admirable than Trump’s? How many wars has Trump started and lost? How many legless Marines are now hobbling about because of Trump? How many times has Trump betrayed the republic for money? How many sexual predators has Trump protected? How many blue-collar jobs has Trump promised to destroy? How many millions of infants has Trump helped to murder?)
• The media also have ignored the campaign’s real issues, such as Obama’s Hillary-approved excessive taxation, regulation, and debt expansion; the Obama-Clinton war on free speech, religious liberty, and the 2nd Amendment; the long-stagnant economy that produces few jobs and almost no growth; the Democrats’ war on whites and all blue-collar Americans; unlimited illegal immigration; Hillary’s silence about Obama’s arbitrary and so unconstitutional rule; Hillary’s advocacy for importing the Islamist terrorists she has said are among the unvetted Syrian Muslim refugees; Hillary’s love for starting and losing wars and not giving a damn about American casualties; and Hillary’s championing of the currently collapsing, unaffordable, and unfixable Obama health-care system.
• While the citizenry looks squarely into the face of their dying jobs, kids’ futures, communities, and nation, Clinton, the Democrats, the mainstream media, and many in the Republican establishment want to focus on what they claim are the greater dangers of offensive language, the unforgivable sin of hurting feelings, and — most hilariously — the dire need for an increase in rights for women, but only for those who agree with Hillary. My God, pro-Hillary American women already are legally superior to every American male; no man, after all, can hire a medical doctor to murder the human being he designates for death. This limited cackle of pro-Hillary women, moreover, has contributed nothing to the nation save its always negative trademarks; namely, its constant adolescent whining and groundless discontent over long-resolved problems; its targeted humiliation of stay-at-home mothers and women who live their faith; its joyous support for the murder of 60 million infants and rabid enthusiasm for killing millions more at home and abroad if Hillary wins; its arrogant demands for unconstitutional legal preference and free contraceptives; and its eagerness to provide the stars and extras needed by the pro-Hillary producers of the massive and ever increasing amount of made-in-America pornography.

While Trump’s political and mainstream media opponents focus on tripe, it is worth recalling that the citizenry has heard only limited snatches of news about Hillary Clinton’s record of relentless incompetence, deceit, sleaze, and crime. Among dozens of examples are:

• The fact that Hillary’s campaign chairman and his brother have been in the pay of a Russian state bank that is reported to have built Putin’s personal fortune and to serve as a conduit for the conduct of Russian intelligence operations. This fact comes on top of the fact that Clinton approved the sale of nearly a quarter of the U.S. uranium supply to a Russian company that has given millions of dollars to her foundation. (1)
• The fact that President Obama procured a false e-mail address to communicate with Clinton about classified national-security issues through her unsecured server. FOIA data has proven Obama lied when he claimed have learned about the server in the press, and so now we have irrefutable evidence that both the commander-in-chief and the secretary of state deliberately compromised sensitive national security information to the republic’s enemies. (NB: The same kind of Obama/Clinton disregard for U.S. security is manifested by much of the Republican elite in its support for the clearly lying and traitorous Hillary Clinton over the patriot Trump because, they claim, “she is better fit to be commander-in-chief.”)
• The fact that the current tense situation between the United States and Russia began with the Clinton-approved State Department operations — assisted by our feckless NATO and EU allies — that helped to over throw the pro-Russian regime in Ukraine and replace it with an anti-Russian regime.
• The fact that Hillary Clinton has been wrong on every issue in the Middle East, having supported the invasion of Iraq; approved Obama’s re-interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan; led the destruction of Libya, which is destabilizing Africa; intervened in the Arab Spring with a sublime ignorance of Islam; cheered the re-establishment of a military tyranny in Egypt; and took money for her foundation from the Saudis and Qataris even though she knew they were supporting the Islamic State as it killed Americans and so many others.
• The fact that Obama has put more than 5,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers on the ground in Iraq to participate in the battle for Mosul, the timing of which was set to help Hillary’s campaign. The Democrats’ disregard not only for U.S. military lives but all human lives in the Mosul area in this politically timed battle is stunning, though not surprising. If U.S.-backed, Iraqi forces take the city, more than a million people will be displaced to starve at winter’s onset; the Shia will slaughter Sunnis and Christians; Kurds will fight Turks and Arabs; Iran’s presence and military strength in Iraq will be strengthened; Iraq will become an even greater economic catastrophe that America will expected to rebuild; and the Sunni world will once again see the United States killing Sunnis, helping Shias take territory from Sunnis, and intervening in an oil-rich Islamic country. And what will happen to the Islamic State? Well it will lose a city and some manpower, but afterwards it will simply return to what it is best at, and what U.S. forces have proven they cannot defeat — an insurgency — and try to find a way to keep track of the flood of donations and foreign fighters that will be flowing in from wealthy Sunnis and newly radicalized young men enraged by U.S. actions.

In time, there will be numbers of books written about the manner in which the 2016 presidential election was rigged. The evidence for that reality is already massive and irrefutable, and it is in the form historians’ describe as “primary sources;” that is, contemporary documents that are written by the individuals involved — usually at the leadership level — and record the events they led and/or experienced.

If Trump wins, these books might be written by Americans. If he loses, the books will have to be written by foreigners who have saved the now-available materials, because Clinton, in power, will wage a much more thorough Sandy Berger-like war on the historical record — bleach-bit-ing the National Archives, if you will — so as to protect her power, fortune, and grotesquely false, media-built reputation.

But Hillary best be quick to start and finish her war on the historical record, as ordinary Americans are not likely to long delay acting to render her, her tyranny, her deceit, and her hatred for the republic entirely unable to further damage America. To paraphrase President Roosevelt’s December, 1941, words about the much less formidable threat Japan posed to the republic, I am confident that the mortal danger irrefutably posed to America by Hillary Clinton will be met and annihilated by “… the unbounding determination of our people — [and] we will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.”

Whether that vital defeat is inflicted at the polls on November 8th, or sometime after the election, matters not, though the former certainly will be less unpleasant than the latter. Come what may, however, this rigged election marks the end of the Clintons’ era of arrogance, corruption, treason, criminality, and greed. Just retribution is quickly approaching.

Endnotes

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html?_r=0
2. http://millercenter.org/president/fdroosevelt/speeches/speech-3324

In a republic whose media are rife with lunacy, addled by sex, and enthralled by magically appearing damsels in distress, there are few crazier analyses than that which argues Russian president Vladimir Putin wants Donald Trump to win the presidency.

Let us leave aside that Putin’s government is closely linked to Mrs. Clinton’s senior lieutenant John Podesta’s consulting company, which was hired and paid by Putin’s favorite Russian bank. (1) Let us also leave aside the fact Putin also has all of the e-mails — as do China, Iran, and others — that Mrs. Clinton and her traitorous, Comey/Lynch-immunized team of IT experts and senior aides made easily accessible to the republic’s enemies. There is no use arguing this point. Whether Julian Assange got none, some, or all of his Clinton e-mails from Putin’s intelligence service is irrelevant. (NB: My own guess — and it is only that — is that Assange got them via his own methods, perhaps including the young DNC employee murdered in Washington after Assange’s first Clinton-related leak, about which the media is now silent.)

Mr. Putin is not a moron. There simply is no way that it is in Putin’s and Russia’s interests to give Assange the cream of the crop of the Clinton e-mails; namely, those that document Clinton’s sale of the influence via the Clinton Foundation while secretary of state; those showing her extorting highly paid speaking jobs for he husband; those demonstrating the top-secret material she intentionally put on the unsecured server is now safely cached on secure servers in Moscow; and those that show she is wholly responsible for the murder of four Americans in Benghazi and the Iranian nuclear scientist who was working for U.S. intelligence.

No, dear, dumb media and foreign-policy experts, those e-mails — or at least copies of them — will be presented, if she is elected, to President Clinton by the Russian ambassador just after the inauguration. The copies will be accompanied by a short, hand-written note from Putin that will read something like, “Madam President, congratulations to you and to me! Please read these documents and then guess who is now calling the shots. Call me soon — that’s not a suggestion. Respectfully, V. Putin.”

Does anyone really think that Putin is stupid enough to give away one of history’s greatest intelligence coups by giving all the e-mails he derived from Mrs. Clinton’s unsecured server to Mr. Assange to exhaust prior to an election from which may emerge a U.S. president whom he will be able to control, perhaps even command? No, Mr. Putin is much too talented, street smart, nationalistic, and, frankly, simply has too much of a taste for the jugular of Russia’s enemies to do such a self-defeating thing and thereby let Mrs. Clinton off the meat hook she crafted for herself and on which she so richly deserves to be impaled.

But, again, let us leave aside the realities of the Catholic-hating Podesta playing Putin’s cat’s-paw and Mrs. Clinton’s obvious treason, and again ask why the Russian president would want a hard-ass, frugal, economy-reviving, nationalist like Trump to be president, when he could have a corrupt, compromised, lawless, profligate, bankruptcy-loving, and civil war-promoting virago like Mrs. Clinton at the helm of Russia’s greatest enemy? If he did want Trump elected, Putin would be trying to end a string of four U.S. presidents — Bush, Clinton, Bush, and especially Obama — whose mad foreign and economic policies have all but killed America, while putting Russia back on the road toward superpower-dom, even though its economy is still in only marginally better condition than the shambles the USSR left behind. This kind of self-immolating tack can make sense to no one except a Democrat or Anderson Cooper. (NB: Forgive my being redundant.)

What Putin absolutely does not want to encounter — much less help to elect — is a U.S. president bent on reestablishing the republic’s financial solvency, military and economic power, social cohesion, and rule-of-law. Nor does he want to face a U.S. president who will stop conducting a foreign policy of relentless and unnecessary interventionism, which is, clearly, a pro-Russia policy in that it has earned much of the world’s hatred, all of its laughter for America losing the wars Washington starts, and which has made Putin and Russia appear to be a stronger, smarter, more reliable, and less indiscriminately destructive nation than the United States.

No, Putin is not going to waste all of the best e-mail bullets he stole from Clinton’s unsecured server in order to prevent the election of a hectoring woman whose personal greed, dreams of open borders, elitism, stated intentions, education, Ivy League-colleagues, and tyrannical goals certainly will finish the destruction of the United States — either by bankruptcy, civil war, or both — and quicken the rehabilitation of Russia’s international stature and power. Indeed, Putin knows that, with Clinton’s election, Russia will be well-positioned to win the nearly 75 year-old contest between Russia and the United States, and would be set do so without firing a shot, spending a nickel, or losing a soldier.

If Putin knows anything about U.S. history, he must know that Mrs. Clinton — despite her recent assertions — is not even the palest shadow of Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Clinton is as close to being like Lincoln, as her husband is to being like a celibate monk. But what Mr. Putin might not know is that Mrs. Clinton, her party, and their supporters are fully capable of making one of Lincoln’s still-pending predictions come true. “Shall we expect,” Lincoln asked an audience in Illinois in January, 1838,

“some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio [River] or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach[es] us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”

Mrs. Clinton’s actions as president surely would make Mr. Lincoln’s prediction come true. Under Mrs. Clinton and her party, the American “nation of freemen” undoubtedly will “die by suicide,” and she, her party, their supporters, and most of the media will be “the author and finisher” of the republic’s destruction.

Mr. Putin must be licking his chops.

Endnote

1. See, for example: With Saudi and Russian ties, Clinton machine’s tentacles are far reaching, according to Panama Papers, and Clinton campaign chief linked to Russian bank listed in Panama Papers.

I have consistently argued in this space that there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans on the issues of foreign policy and military interventionism. I have always suspected — but have been less confident in my judgment — that there is precious little difference between the two parties on any issue.

The whining, womanish behavior of Speaker Paul Ryan, and other “too pure” establishment Republicans, since the media played the tape of what Trump accurately described as “locker room talk” — and I would make it “common locker room talk for both men’s and women’s sports” — has convinced me that there are not two parties, but only one autocratic political machine in this country, and that its only goals are power and arbitrary rule.

Paul Ryan is, essentially, speaking for both parties’ hatred for anyone who suggests the current political status quo should be shattered for the good of the republic. They oppose it because anyone seeking to serve the good of the nation, must first destroy the seeming death grip that the parties cooperate to maintain on the national government, its actions, and its treasury. Ryan and the Republican establishment are saying in the clearest and most understandable way, that when their and the Democrats’ corrupt, gold-laden, and citizen- and middle-class-hating gravy train is headed toward the cliff, they will come down on the same side, that is the side of self-interest and the booty they regularly extort in taxes from working Americans. In other words — and to use a vulgarity — everyday, working Americans can shut up and go to hell.

So, here’s the deal. Speaker Ryan and his party have now said quite explicitly that they agree with the Democrats that:

• Vulgar words are a greater danger to the United States than a $20 trillion debt that will be wildly increased with the approval of both parties if Trump is defeated.
• Vulgar words are much worse than having a lying, two-faced, condescending, treasonous, influence-peddling, man-hating, rapist-protecting, and felonious president.
• Vulgar words are much more dangerous to the republic’s political stability and social cohesion than the fact that both parties have created a situation in which less than 50-percent of Americans pay income taxes, because tax laws are fixed to shield campaign contributors and to reward the automatons who mindlessly vote for them.
• Vulgar words are more dangerous to peace, U.S. national security, the national debt, and the lives and limbs of U.S. soldiers and Marines than are endless, unnecessary, and always bipartisan and losing interventionist wars.
• Vulgar words are more immoral than a president who has enabled the murder of 60 million American children and is transparently aching for a chance to kill more at home and abroad.
• Vulgar words are a greater threat to Americans and their personal economies than the Democrats’ intention to wipe out the coal/fossil-fuel industry and the millions of middle-class jobs that it provides.
• Vulgar words are a greater threat to the citizenry than a Harvard-ish, and so not surprisingly failing national health-care system that is bankrupting both individuals and the republic, and is leading to a system that will be much worse in terms of timely health-care delivery and much more expensive.
• Vulgar words are more dangerous to the republic than both political parties deliberately governing in a manner violating the Constitution, and effectively undermining the rule-of-law, the freedoms of religion (but only when it protects Christianity), speech, and privacy, and the 2^nd Amendment. (NB: Perhaps Speaker Ryan can lead both parties in a joint, Obama-Holder-Clinton-like attack on the massive threat posed to the nation by the Little Sisters of the Poor, who have the nerve to care for ill seniors who have no other place to turn for help.)
• Vulgar words are much more dangerous to democracy and social cohesion than giving taxpayer-paid subventions to fund the unconstitutional legal privileges both parties have awarded to all Americans but whites, via judges who are nothing more than Ivy-League ideologues and/or corrupt party apparatchiks.
• Vulgar words are much more dangerous to our kids’ future than a president beholden to the corrupt and anti-American teacher unions, organizations that are the partners of the abortionists and responsible for killing the minds of those who do not get physically murdered in the womb and then dismembered.
• Vulgar words are more dangerous to American youth than having a president who is beholden to a non-substantive, pet-media that hates the United States and loves any kind of sexual deviance, anti-white violence, and human debauchery, and to a movie industry that for decades has taught kids how to kill, rape, take drugs, debase women, and hate the republic and its history, symbols, and traditions, and whose actresses — who politicians cite as role models for young girls — vie with each other to see who can “leak” the sluttiest and most self-degrading sex-tape.
• Vulgar words, in sum, are much more dangerous to the republic’s survival than is a presidential candidate who has for decades helped the Democrats and Republicans to deliberately inflict an unmitigated economic, racial, constitutional, employment, societal, political, military, and cultural catastrophe on the now near-to-expiring republic.

Speaker Ryan’s effeminate anti-Trump decision, and the wide support it has in the Republican establishment, has at long last completed the concentration of all of the republic’s non-vulgar but black-hearted and pro-tyranny enemies under one tent.

It would be best, of course, to wait for the Lord to strike dead this republic-killing menagerie of the willingly greedy, murderous, racist, anti-Christian, and war-mongering. But He is a busy fellow, and probably none too pleased to see how thoroughly Americans have mucked-up the unrivaled opportunities for peace, prosperity, and social amity Providence afforded them in North America. Instead, as Theodore Roosevelt is reported to have said, let us proceed “fearing God, and taking our own part” and joyfully strike dead that cursed, two-party menagerie at the ballot box on 8 November 2016.

I am a white male and soon will be 64 years of age. In the current presidential campaign Mrs. Clinton has spoken a great deal about the “evil” of “white privilege,” and about her intention to destroy it. After reflecting on what the substance of that phrase has meant during the course of my life, I enthusiastically, even rabidly, endorse the idea of eradicating “white privilege” in its entirety, almost as much as I endorse eradicating Mrs. Clinton and her family from American politics.

The following, then, seems to me to constitute the gist of what I have experienced and observed because I am honored to be a holder of what Mrs. Clinton calls “white privilege.” I have been, for example, a privileged observer of the following.

• While a student attending two U.S. universities, and then teaching at another, my white privilege permitted me to closely watch advantages given to all who were not white, to watch basketball players sit in class day dreaming, napping, inspecting parts of their anatomy, skipping classes, and not turning in assignments, and yet getting grades as good as the supposedly highly privileged whites who worked their tails off and missed neither a class nor delivering an assignment on time. I also had the white privilege of often walking across the campus of a new-age Catholic university in Washington, D.C., at which I taught, and listening to the routine use of the word “nigger,” as well as the blaring of a noise inexplicably identified by many as “music,” and the lyrics of which were replete with the word nigger, anti-white slurs, misogyny, demands for dead police and whites, and calls for violence against women. The surreal nature of this experience lay in knowing that my white privilege would entitle me to being fired if I used the word forbidden only to whites, or if I refused to acknowledge that this non-music and its grotesque, violent, and often inhuman lyrics were admirable and award-worthy achievements of non-white culture and so were bound for honoring in non-white-only museums.
• During 15 years in the blue-collar, unionized work place, my white privilege permitted me to witness white guys get suspended or fired for drunkenness, drug use, absenteeism, or just plain laziness, and non-whites coddled, warned but retained, and promoted despite being guilty of the same infractions. This in a factory where hazardous work was done and inattention to the job — whatever the cause — could be deadly.
• In the white-collar work place for 30-plus years, my white privilege entitled me to watch the nation’s national-security apparatus incrementally and knowingly debilitated by a growing infusion of unqualified, non-whites who were hired, passed their probationary period, and then promoted to positions far above their competence, this on the basis of appraisals authored by those who feared for their own careers if they wrote a truthful but negative performance appraisal report for a non-white. This still intensifying process bodes ill for the republic’s security, and simply savages commonsense, the commonweal, and racial amity.
• As a father for 42 years and counting, my enviable white privilege allowed me to see my children denied access to large blocks of seats in universities that my taxes help support because those seats were reserved for non-white Americans, women, LGBTites, and foreigners of all races, this though my children had grades at least as good and, in many cases, much better than the students given preference. My precious white privilege also allowed me to watch my children compete for employment in job pools in which a portion of the jobs in each were also reserved for non-whites and the others to whom the law gives preference, whether or not they are qualified or even U.S. citizens.
• As a taxpayer for 50 years this December, my white privilege has been bountifully rewarded by allowing me to watch the hard-to-come-by money needed to raise and educate my family taken from my pocket as tax and then given to non-whites for their food stamps, college tuition, welfare, medical care, rent, low-interest mortgages, childcare, small businesses, and even for their kids’ breakfasts. Likewise, it has given me a wonderful view of how these trillions of working-Americans’ dollars, combined with incompetent, cynical, and vote-buying elected city officials, have destroyed major U.S. cities, exponentially increased crime and killing both between non-whites and against whites by non-whites, and generally worsened the lot of non-whites, notwithstanding the unearned money and unconstitutional legal preference they have been given.
• As a senior citizen, now for more than a decade, my sainted white privilege has allowed me to realize that I have spent most of a lifetime seeing non-whites riot, loot, kill/assassinate police, murder bystanders, slaughter each other, and raze the property of members of all races with no fear of facing justice; the election of a completely inexperienced, incompetent, amazingly lazy, lawless, and anti-American president simply because he is a non-white; the pardoning of hundreds of non-white felons imprisoned for lengthy sentences for selling narcotics to kids of all races (so they can do so again?); and the unending celebration by the media and movie-makers of the glories of non-white culture, among which are gang wars, complete with assassinations of 9-year kids; untold of numbers of fatherless children; narcotics-trafficking; and hatred for the American republic.
• Most of all, my sublime white privilege, in my dotage, has been blessed by knowing that since my youth trillions of tax dollars have been doled out to non-whites and wasted by them, as well as by the fact that I am fortunate enough to still hear the non-whites’ shrill, grossly selfish, often-vicious, and never-ending whining about the terrible condition of their lives, a condition which is largely of their own making and that of the politicians to whom they have self-enslaved themselves. Perhaps no people other than American non-whites has ever been given so much money and unconstitutional legal preference for which they have not worked and do not merit, have done so little with them to improve their lot, and have the nerve, shamelessness, and greed to demand even more of what I and other whites earn and require for the needs of our families.
• Finally, as an American citizen, my superb white privilege has awarded me a wonderful ringside seat to see and understand that most of the men and women now operating in the U.S. political arena can do so only because of the non-white votes they purchase with my taxes. These politicians also exist only because they have mangled my Constitution by finding it in heretofore invisible pro-tyranny clauses with which they and their pet judges justify such unconstitutional, discriminatory, and anti-white absurdities as racial quotas, unlimited illegal immigration; brain-dead diversity schemes, which do nothing but reward the untalented and legally preferred; and the existence of a “right” to apply the republic-killing scourge of multiculturalism, which might as well be entitled “Whites need not apply for anything, but better pay up.” Today, my glorious white privilege also permits me to see that the concepts of “merit-based employment and promotion” and “the equality of all before the law” have just about disappeared in the United States. They have been replaced by the absolutely unconstitutional, perhaps civil-war engendering, doctrine of “preference for all non-whites, women, LGBTites, felons, etc.” before what has become, at best, law-in-name-only.

What to do? It seems obvious to me that there are only two possible solutions. One may preserve domestic peace and restore some of the racial amity that the politicians — especially Obama, Holder, and Lynch — have intentionally destroyed, the other will cause the terrible civil war that inevitably must come from the maintenance and further enhancement of a tyrannical, anti-white status quo. Indeed, the fuse for that struggle may already have been lit by the national government’s expenditure on each non-vetted, illegal, and usually non-white immigrant of an amount of money that exceeds the average annual income of the whites it is taxing to pay for this government-imposed burden on and threat to the republic.

The solution to the problem is simple enough. At a future date, say 1 January 2018, applications for attending and teaching at schools at all levels, as well as all applications for employment in the state or federal civil services, the U.S. military, and all private sector for-profit and non-profit firms, will be submitted by e-mail from an address that does not identify the sender. They will no longer include an applicant’s name, address, age, gender, race, sexual or political proclivities, home address, or sporting skills. The applications also will not require letters of recommendation, essays written by the applicant, or pre-application interviews, which these days amount to nothing more than special pleading and implied threats of lawsuits by those entitled to legal preference. In addition, all schools will be required to forward transcripts without identifying information save for a number provided to the applicant by the entity to which he or she is applying for a position.

The would-be employer would thereby receive an application which can only be evaluated on the basis of the sender’s documented scholastic and/or workplace accomplishments, followed by an estimate, on the employer’s part, of what the merit present in the application, if any, is worth in terms of position and salary. If the decision is made to interview the applicant, the admitting or hiring officers will have made the decision that there is merit in the achievements recorded in a particular application, and will not know, until the applicant walks in the door, all the other data — name, age, gender, sexual proclivity, extracurricular activities, work experience, race, etc. — that enable the working of the discriminatory system the politicians have established for giving unconstitutional legal preference for non-whites in schooling and employment.

Such a system would, as they say, begin to re-level the playing field, and it also would reestablish merit and fairness as the main guiding principles of success and advancement in America. Under such a regime, my white privilege will be, praise God, erased; my children and I will regain our birthright, equality before the law; and whites will cease to be the financial and legally debased sponsors who are forced by the national government to be silent and abide by the legal and many other preferences reserved for non-whites.

Now, there is no suggestion here that whites should seek reparations from non-whites for their decades of unconstitutional subordination and for the trillions of their tax dollars the national government has taken from them and given to non-whites, who, by and large, remain politically enslaved to politicians who bribe them with my money and hateful toward their unwilling but legally obligated white benefactors. After all, whites would have to pay even more taxes to enable the politicians to give non-whites more money to pay back the money they did not earn and have wastefully consumed. Neither is there any animosity toward these non-whites, women, LGBTites, ex-convicts, illegal aliens, etc., they are as much the pawns as whites are of the increasingly tyrannical national government that is found under either party.

To conclude, I can only say that I have never owned a slave, discriminated against a woman, a non-white, an immigrant, an Indian, or a LGBTite, and that I hold, at this point, no anger, much less hatred, for any of them. (NB: For obvious reasons, I cannot say that about the national government) I am simply indifferent to them and their problems. I am, rather, eager to have the income after taxes to assure my family’s security now and in the future, and to pursue my own interests and goals. As a result, I am completely unwilling to be ever more heavily taxed to support the inability or unwillingness of non-whites, women, LGBTites, ex-convicts, and illegal aliens to pull their own weight without endless subventions from me and other whites. Let all of us make our own way in American society, and let all sink or swim based on their own merit and hard work. To make racism minimal in the United States, the national government must be made to stop both its longstanding and now deepening policy of deliberately pitting whites against non-whites, and its unending and highly illegal immigration-based campaign to make whites the republic’s subordinate and pay-for-all-others minority.

If that change does not come, civil war will, and with it will come the hatred and blood that naturally succeeds indifference. And it should.