Syrian Serial

Given space for reflection, let's review the American attack on Syria that occurred on Friday the thirteenth (or fourteenth, varying by timezone).

Events eerily resemble April of last year, when in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack purported to have been committed by the Syrian regime, President Trump ordered the destruction of the Syrian airbase connected to the attack. Twenty percent of the Syrian air force was obliterated in that strike by two American destroyers firing fifty-nine missiles from stand-off range. Given last-minute warning, Syrian casualties were minimal. Trump warned that any further chemical attacks would face similar response.

This year, isis is almost defeated in Syria, and Trump declared military withdrawal, saying that Syrian forces were capable of cleaning up the little that remained without further assistance from the US. Almost immediately afterward, another chemical weapons attack was shoved onto the world scene.

Once again Trump struck Syria, using the same sudden precision as before, but this time with twice the ordinance. Instead of an airfield, combined US, French, and British forces destroyed a Syrian chemical weapon's factory and two storage facilities. All weapons hit within the space of two minutes, and the blind Syrian AA systems fired uselessly after the attack concluded.

As best as I can tell, there were four possible negative consequences of this second attack on Syria. Firstly, nuclear exchange or at least full-scale war with Russia, Syria's ally and sponsor. Secondly, a long-term entrenched ground war to depose Assad and create a power vacuum. Thirdly, military embarrassment of air defence systems foiling our attack. Fourthly, widespread civilian casualties.

Despite initial alarm, none of the above calamities has occurred: the world has not gone up in radioactive inferno nor has WWIII begun, nor have we become isis's air force, been technologically embarrassed, and, so far as I can tell, not a single civilian casualty has been reported. That's absolutely incredible.

So did Assad actually use chemical weapons on his own people? It seems unlikely. But when all is said and done, the game of geopolitics is not entirely dissimilar to the society of a chicken yard: security can be obtained only through dominance; boasts, posturing, and threats are the order of the day, and any failure to sustain and enforce such threats invariably results the humiliation, degradation, and insecurity of the one to chicken out. Whether or not Assad was the one to cross the line, the line had been crossed. President Trump had promised to punish the further use of chemical weapons, and the world-wide consensus was that Assad was the culprit.

Given a choice between a ducking his head or enforcing his own warning, President Trump called Putin's bluff; Russia had promised "the gravest of consequences" should anyone attack Syria. But attack Syria Trump did, with ruthless precision that annihilated exclusively relevant facilities without any allied or civilian casualties. And in response, Putin did nothing.

At the end of this little game of high-stakes poker, President Trump has once again come out on top. America stands supreme in its new image of efficacy, resolve, and overwhelming military power. Putin looks as big a chump as did Obama when that individual wagged a limp finger at him for seizing Crimea.

I've always supported a non-interventionist policy of not getting involved in foreign wars. But in this case, it seems our outstanding President has once more pulled off an impossible stunt, inexplicably coming out on top of an impossible situation. Look out folks. Putin's not the only tough guy around anymore; there's a new sheriff in town.

Britain, and what it means for America

Do you ever wonder, what would our country look like if the election of 2016 had gone differently? How would having an establishment president, hand-picked by globalist elites, have affected the United States of America?

Try looking across the pond. What do we see? Rampant and unchecked immigration, expanding no-go zones, rescue personnel refusing to enter dangerous areas without armed escort, police refusing to enter altogether; France building an "aesthetic perimeter" to minimize carnage around its signature masterpiece, the Eiffel Tower; Sweden is telling its citizens to look on the bright side of GRENADE ATTACKS; Poland, one of the few nations in Europe not inundated with hostile migrants, is being told by the EU that they must accept "refugee quotas," or else face international consequences.

But perhaps saddest of all, Britain too faces cultural extinction and mass suicide by immigration, or rather, invasion. Acid attacks, knifings, cars used as weapons to mow down pedestrians, children abducted and abused and murdered by the hundreds, and the government won't do anything about it for fear of committing that unspeakable crime of racism. ISIS killers are allowed back into the country without question, and the public is told that police cannot possibly be expected to apprehend or even to monitor these murderers because of limited resources and the need to prioritize their efforts, all the while running hither and thither to investigate and arrest British citizens for saying mean things online.

In the latest and most publicly visible outrage, the UK has arrested, interrogated, and banned political activists for "hate crimes" Martin Sellner was arrested and detained for planning to give a speech on the threats to free speech at Speakers' Corner in London. Brittany Pettibone was also held, her crime being a planned interview with Tommy Robinson. Lauren Southern was arrested and detained under TERRORISM LAWS for mocking the islamic god. All three of these people have been deported and banned from the UK, without trial, without having committed any crime, while known jihadist killers are welcomed with open arms and allowed to roam the streets of Britain and prey upon the defenceless populace, all the while feeding off the country's welfare system at the expense of the taxpayers whose lives they threaten.

That's the grand injustice of this state of affairs: authorities used legitimate danger of violent extremists as justification for almost absolute control and emergency security laws, only to turn and use those laws against peaceful civilians who dare question the status quo, while allowing the hostile radicals that the laws were made to protect against to come and go with a wink and free check.

If there was any doubt in your mind about whether Britain is still a free country, look again; they have left us no room for doubt: Britain is in a state of tyranny, dominated by a totalitarian government hell-bent on the destruction and replacement of its own populace by a foreign enemy. Britain is under siege, and their rulers have opened the gates to the unholy heathen outside.

It seems now glaringly obvious that Britain is past the point of peaceful resolution of its wretched state; at this point the possibility of legislative reversal of the governmentally-sanctioned invasion seems a far-flung daydream, and the only alternative, revolution, will almost certainly never happen. The enemy have corrupted and crippled the populace from the inside out, precluding even the possibility of the victims standing up for themselves. The average citizen of urban Britain has been nutritionally crippled and culturally shackled against beyond any hope of meaningful resistance. There will be no peaceful resolution, and there cannot be a violent one. Hence, the outcome is inevitable: England will fall; it is already falling, and its end will be a lengthy and torturous one, brutal and horrific.

It does beg the question, “WHY?” Why, in the name of Reason, should a government of a country, let alone multiple countries, so ardently seek their own destruction? It is the nature of all living things, from the worms of the earth to the beasts and fowl and mankind itself, to seek its own self-interest and the interest of its kind, at the expense of others if necessary: the fault, when it arises, is always that inflicted upon the “other,” not the self. Nowhere in nature will you find any species that sacrifices its own young for the sake of another species, even another, foreign, group of its own kind. It is the paramount directive of nature to seek self-preservation, or failing that, the survival of the young. Without that, no species can last.

But now we see entire countries that have set aside self-preservation, sacrificing their own for the sake of the invader. The hen-house has been opened and let in the wolves, and the chickens tell each-other not to be racist even as they are eaten. This is a phenomena never before seen in the history of the world; that leaders should willingly gut their own countries is beyond stupid, and evil of a sort absolutely unprecedented. I submit to you, this evil that defies the most fundamental principles of nature is beyond human evil; every evil deed in history, unless committed by a madman, has always been in the interest of the evil-doer, at least as they see it. The leaders of Europe are behaving like madmen in concert, acting absolutely against their own interests beyond any doubt or stretch of the imagination.

So the question is, whose interest are they acting in? If they're not serving themselves, whom are they serving?

So when you look at the state of the world today, you should thank Almighty God in heaven that America, for a time at least, has been spared. And we must be vigilant, and prepared to act in whatever way necessary, to defend ourselves from the forces that seek our destruction.

Dust off your Bibles, and oil your guns. Be ready, for whatever happens. And whatever you do, never, ever, become complacent. The fate of your life, your very soul, rests on vigilance.

The War on Truth

By this point I assume everyone has to one extent or another become familiar with a recent trend in our modern culture, a trend of insidious nature with far-reaching consequences and truly sinister implications. I am speaking of the theme of subjectivism.  The notion of absolute truth, the very idea that facts are real, is under attack,

This creeping and malevolent philosophy has infiltrated almost every facet of our modern dialogue. We see it in discussion of societal injustice, people speaking of “my truth” as though subjective imagination and fickle opinion had some sort of moral authority, a ready counter to any provided fact, one that implies intrinsic virtue on the part of the claimant. We even perhaps see people consciously and wilfully lying our very faces for the sake of what they see as a greater truth.

We see it in fiction and entertainment, where people insist that what they feed their minds on has nothing whatever to do with who they are as a person, that it's “just a story,” that good guys can adopt the traits and actions of the bad guys and we're somehow expected to just swallow it without question. We are even told that the only “wrong” that one can do is to suggest that something is objectively wrong, that to judge someone else is the only true fault that can be committed. We see absurdities like the name of “hero” being applied to someone for having appeared on stage in their underwear. If hero means nothing more than some pretentious slob dressed like a drunk who forgot his drawers, the word loses all true meaning.

We see it in news, where media outlets couch information in such a way as to cast it in a shroud of ambiguity laced with moral certainty that we the viewer are justified in our preconceived prejudices because we are given key words that tickle our ego without ever examining the facts of the matter. (That's assuming the information we are given is not an outright lie, a not uncommon occurrence in our modern age.) Adolf Hitler, a master of deception on a grand scale, said with great insight “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

 
It's a simple fact of human nature that we are affected by what we expose ourselves to, and if everyone tells you that a certain thing is true, you may very well find yourself believing it to be so. We are told that “silence is violence,” and hence our natural revulsion to genuine violence is dulled. The word “violence”, like the word “rape”, has been used and abused so often where it does not apply that it has become virtually meaningless.

Political correctness is perhaps the most commonly accepted aspect of this soft war on truth. Shame people for saying something and they will come to see the thing itself as shameful. Call something by another name and you shape the mind's perception of it. Call something by another name, we are told, and you can change the very nature of the subject. This madness began with the ostensibly harmless practice of smoothing niceties of language like calling disabled people “special.” It has now culminated in some truly appalling developments. We are now told not only that we must call a psychologically damaged individual by their preferred gender, we are now told that they are in fact that gender. We are even told that children who cannot legally consent to sex can choose to have irreparable physical and mental damage done to them through sex change operations, all in the name of “inclusivity” and “understanding.” And if you don't concur and comply, you are a sexist bigot who is motivated purely by hate.

It doesn't stop there either. Not only are genders of adults subject to whim, not only can children be subject to gender modification, there is absolutely no one who is safe from this form of subjectivity. Swedish churches now worship a “gender neutral” christ, (because Our Father in Heaven is sexist and patriarchal or some such rubbish), a violation of fundamental Christian doctrine that surpasses even the catholic practice of calling priests “father”, and saying long-drawn repetitive prayers in direct contradiction of Christ's instructions. It gets worse and worse. The bloody pope has modified the Lord's Prayer. At first glance the change made may seem innocuous, an exercise in streamlining semantics, but it's the principle that is truly alarming here. If the pope can change one of the most explicit instructions of Christ, to any degree, where does it end? Once this game starts, there is absolutely nothing to prevent the Lord's Prayer from being eventually, gradually, incrementally, entirely rewritten. And if the Lord's Prayer is not sacred, what is?

That is the truly alarming truth about all of this. If the Lord's Prayer can be rewritten, there is nothing to prevent the entire Christian faith, as propagated by the church, from being gutted wholesale and replaced by an unspeakable abomination. And people would accept it. We live in a world where people are so divorced from the idea of objective truth that they rant about a “literal genocide” that is supposedly happening in America, a world where many people are more comfortable with the idea of human sacrifice than the idea of reintroducing Christianity into our modern dialogue. If this insidious notion of subjectivity were allowed to continue unchecked, if people were to continue being lulled into a stupor of moral vacancy, there is quite literally nothing they will object to, no lie they will not swallow, no atrocity they will not be amenable to committing. After all, if “literal violence” means nothing more than a verbal rebuke, then a truly literal murder means nothing.

That is where Trump comes in. In a world that was ready to slide off the brink into a bottomless abyss of horror, suddenly on the world stage is a leader who outright refuses to comply with the soft coercion of political correctness and the slow tyranny of abused language. Even worse, from the enemy's view, this ruthlessly impudent man with his brusque mannerisms and relentless proclivity for politically incorrect speech has had the audacity to not only resist the web of deception that was being woven around us, he had the unpardonable gall to go on the offensive, pun notwithstanding. By adamantly refusing to abandon the use of words like “anchor baby” and “radical islamic terrorism”, and his uncompromising insistence on using the phrase “merry Christmas”, President Trump has perhaps irrevocably changed the game. And having this insufferable and unquenchable upstart be a Christian who has reintroduced Christ into not just the White House but our cultural dialogue as a whole, is perhaps the best part of all.

After just one year in office, President Trump has dealt a potentially lethal blow to the censorship of thought and the absolute depravity of spirit that would assuredly have followed. And were that his only success, even if he had not crippled isis, exposed the duplicity of the democrats and republicans, re-established American sovereignty and enforced our laws, revitalized the economy and restored national pride, that would have been enough. Out of all our President's accomplishments, this one stands supreme.

President Donald Trump has stood before the world as a Christian and an American, and has turned the culture war around, and the world on its head. For the first time in what seems an eternity, the enemy's hell-bent course of destruction has been checked. We are winning.

Thank God for President Trump. May the blessing of the Lord Almighty be with us as we step into the new year. The tide has turned, but the war is not over.

Thanksgiving

There are I think two reasons for why leftists hate Thanksgiving. First and foremost, there is the fundamental purpose of the holiday, the giving of thanks to God,

"...for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country... for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed... in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us." [George Washington 1789].

Such an intrinsically Christian holiday is of course insufferable to the viciously atheist left, and therefor cannot be tolerated.

Thus we have the underlying core principle. There is another branch of this tree of dissent that springs from the original, one perhaps more obvious and commonly recognized: racism.

The fact of the matter is leftists cannot abide Thanksgiving for the very simple reason that it entails a historical account of white men and red men, for a rarity, on peaceful and even generous terms of mutual goodwill. Such a stark and jarring example of human decency is simply unendurable to the left, flying in the face of their false, hate mongering. and self-congratulatory ideology that insists white man's history is one unbroken and unmitigated string of heinous atrocities.

Thus, Thanksgiving Day and it's offensive example of Christian humility and benevolence must therefor be abolished, because the image of white Christians passing the turkey and bread while red men pass the venison and corn, instead of blowing each other's brains out with musket balls, defies the unholy tenets of fomented enmity, and if we for even one day of the year set aside our carefully cultivated divisions of racial hatred, that would be RACIST. ...or something, something something.

So thanks be to God, and make Christmas merry again.

Las Vegas

Following the horrific attack in Vegas, the issue of gun control has of course been pushed to the forefront of our public discourse. The left labours under the delusion that increasing gun laws, perhaps even turning our entire country into a single massive gun-free zone, will decrease gun crime. Nevermind that gun-control fails to deliver the promised safety, even the good people on the left want to do something to prevent violence and will gladly cede more power and authority to the state if it promises to do that.

We could of course talk about empirical evidence of how, rather than safe-guarding against attacks, gun-free zones are sites of choice for killers; we could talk about how cities like London and Chicago that have tried and are still trying to ban guns have consistently failed.

But I think there's a broader philosophical issue underlying this debate. The right are largely, though by no means exclusively, Christians. We believe in a supreme Creator, objective moral Law, and in the eternal struggle, the dichotomy of good versus evil.

The left, conversely, are predominantly atheists. They believe in nothing beyond the obvious subjects and evidence's of creation readily perceived by our six senses (sometimes not even that). In the absence of an Almighty determinator of good and evil, they are left with the belief that man himself is the ultimate, and consequently that man's greatest creation, government, is the ultimate tool.

In the face of this, how could they not believe that, if only given enough power, government can solve all problems?

If only it were that simple. But the problem of evil transcends mankind and can never be “solved” by him. Every person on the face of the planet has a choice between good and evil. So long as free will exists, so to will the potential for evil. The means to that evil, be it a gun, a car, a plane, a knife, poison, or public authority, are mere detail. If a man wishes to cause harm or kill, he has defied the Law of God, and has no cause to heed the law of man.

Now don't get me wrong. I approve of law and believe in the rule of law. Human laws are about the best means we have to protect ourselves from the evil of our fellow man. But when all is said and done, the only way to absolute security is through absolute control. Once the state ascends to such a level of absolute power, it has become no longer a servant of the people but a veritable Frankenstein's monster that destroys it's erstwhile masters (reference communism). Some would gladly accept such dominion over them. America will not.

As regards the Vegas attack, this massive murder could never have been perpetrated without extensive aid and preparation. ISIS claims credit for the attack, but that cannot be the whole story. Paddock was reporedly on no one's radar, and there is no way a man stockpiles dozens of guns without attracting attention, let alone stores those guns in a first-rate hotel for five days without being discovered. There is no doubt in my mind that we are looking at the biggest inside job since 9/11.

The solution is not to disarm the law-abiding populace. In the immediate, the goal should be to root out every dirty murderous crook and accomplice that had part in this attack, neutralize the traitors at home, and destroy the enemy in the middle-east. In the long term, the only way to prevent murders like this is to foster and cultivate a mentally healthy and morally sound culture, one that produces a populace that is armed, honest, and God-fearing, one that has respect for their fellow man, and is prepared at all times to defend the innocent with lethal force.

Peace be with the dead and strength with the living. May God bless and guide the USA.