The Evil Rot at the Center of the Empire

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Given President Biden’s decision to succumb to the CIA’s demand for continued secrecy of the CIA’s 60-year-old Kennedy assassination-related records, this would be a good time to remind ourselves of how President Kennedy felt about this type of secrecy:

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.

Kennedy’s attitude toward the evil of governmental secrecy was just another reason why the U.S. national-security establishment hated him so deeply and considered him a grave threat to national security, in addition to, of course, Kennedy’s determination to end the Cold War racket and establish friendly and peaceful relations with the Soviet Union, Cuba, and the rest of the communist world. 

In his 1985 book People of the Lie, the noted psychiatrist M. Scott Peck noted that there definitely is evil in the world. 

The Central Intelligence Agency epitomizes the evil to which Peck was referring. That’s not to say, of course, that everyone who works for the CIA is evil. It’s to say that everyone who works for the CIA is either wittingly or unwittingly working for an evil institution, one that should never have been grafted onto America’s federal governmental system and that now forms the core of the rot that afflicts the American empire. 

The problem, of course, is that all too many Americans do not wish to confront, much less acknowledge, the existence of this evil. Succumbing to CIA propaganda and wishing to defer to the power of the national-security establishment, they have convinced themselves that the CIA is a force for good in the world and that it is necessary to their safety and well-being. 

Thus, such Americans have turned a blind eye to the evil actions in which the CIA has engaged practically since its inception in 1947.

How many times are we reminded of the evil of the Nazi regime that the U.S. defeated in World War II? Hardly a week goes by without someone bringing it up in the mainstream press.

Yet, here we have an an entity within the federal government that secretly hired Nazi officials after World War II ended. How can that possibly be reconciled with moral or religious principles? When an entity knowingly cavorts and partners with evil, doesn’t that say something about the evil nature of that entity?

Let’s not forget the drug experiments that the CIA conducted on unsuspecting Americans. I don’t know if the CIA’s secret Nazi employees assisted with those drug experiments, but I do know that the mindset that went into those experiments was the same type of mindset that motivated the Nazis to conduct medical experiments on people. 

That CIA partnership with Nazis isn’t the only partnership with evil that the CIA has engaged in. There is also its partnership with the Mafia, one of history’s most evil criminal organizations, one that engages in murder as one of its regular activities. Yet, all too many Americans ignore that CIA-Mafia partnership. They would rather just look the other way.

What was the purpose of that secret CIA-Mafia partnership? Assassination, which is really just a fancy word for murder. The purpose of the secret CIA-Mafia partnership was to murder Cuba’s president Fidel Castro. 

Why Castro? Because he was a communist. More important, he was also a communist who established peaceful and friendly relations with the Soviet Union and rest of the communist world.

That’s it. That’s what the CIA says justified its assassination partnership with the Mafia to assassinate Castro and its repeated attempts to assassinate Castro.

One of the fascinating aspects of the CIA-Mafia partnership to assassinate Castro has been the reaction of many Americans who just have taken it all in stride. That blasé reaction to unjustified state-sponsored murder is a perfect example of what CIA propaganda and indoctrination has done to warp, pervert, and stultify the consciences of many Americans. 

The fact is that not only was the CIA partnership with the Mafia evil, so were its repeated assassination attempts on Castro. The CIA never had the moral, religious, or legal authority to murder anyone, including Castro, just because he happened to be a communist or a socialist or just because he favored establishing peaceful and friendly relations with the Soviet Union and the communist world.

And yet, all too many Americans, especially the mainstream press, have been so nonchalant about those repeated CIA murder attempts on Castro.

At the risk of belaboring the obvious, there has also been a steadfast willingness among many Americans to turn a blind eye to the overwhelming evidence establishing that the November 22, 1963, assassination of President Kennedy was a regime-change operation on the part of the CIA and the national-security establishment, no different in principle from the CIA’s repeated assassination attempts on Castro.

But let’s set aside the Kennedy assassination. Let’s just talk about the CIA’s assassination of Patrice Lumumba, three years before Kennedy was murdered. Or how about the CIA’s kidnapping/murder of Gen. Rene Schneider in Chile seven years after Kennedy was assassinated? How can those two assassinations be labeled anything but evil? What did Lumumba and Schneider do to warrant having their lives snuffed out by the CIA? They did nothing to warrant their assassinations.

Or how about the CIA’s regime-change operation in Iran ten years before Kennedy was assassinated? It was accompanied by the deaths of many innocent Iranian people. Then came 26 years of U.S.-supported horrific tyranny and oppression under a brutal U.S.-installed dictator. That led to the Iranian revolution and more decades of horrific tyranny and oppression. That led to brutal U.S. economic sanctions that have killed and impoverished countless innocent citizens of Iran. How can all that not be labeled evil?

Or how about the CIA’s regime-change operation in Guatemala nine years before the Kennedy assassination? The CIA had a secret assassination list for that operation which listed the people who were to be murdered as part of the operation.

What did Guatemalans do to deserve such evil being inflicted on them? They had the audacity to elect a socialist named Jacobo Arbenz, who declared a willingness to establish peaceful and friendly relations with the Soviet Union and the communist world. 

He wasn’t the only one. Ten years after Kennedy was assassinated, the Chilean people elected a socialist named Salvador Allende, who, like Arbenz, established peaceful and friendly relations with the Soviet Union and the communist world. The CIA said that that made him a threat to U.S. “national security.” The CIA and the Pentagon convinced the Chilean national-security establishment that it had a moral duty to violently oust their country’s president from office. How can the CIA/Pentagon-instigated Chilean coup, which left Allende dead and tens of thousands of Chilean citizens raped, tortured, executed, or disappeared by the brutal U.S.-supported military dictator who replaced him, not be labeled evil?

In fact, that’s why the CIA’s goons kidnapped and murdered General Schneider. Schneider opposed the CIA’s violent regime-change operation and instead favored supporting and defending the Chilean constitution, which provided only two ways to remove a president from office: impeachment and election.

With the exception of the Kennedy assassination, Americans have come to accept all of these CIA regime changes as part of America’s legacy as a national-security state. Unfortunately, however, owing to a stultification of conscience that came with the unconstitutional conversion of the federal government to a national-security state, all too many Americans have not yet come to the moral realization that every one of those regime-change operations, including the Kennedy assassination, was evil to the core. 

In his 1978 book The Road Less Traveled, M. Scott Peck stated, “Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs.” 

The same principle applies to a nation. For America to heal in the wake of the Afghanistan and Iraq debacles and all the lies that came with them, it is necessary for Americans today to dedicate themselves to reality at all costs — especially the reality that a rotten evil entity known as the CIA lies at the core of America’s federal governmental structure. For America to restore morality, freedom, health, and right conduct to our land, it is necessary to eradicate, not reform, that evil.

Jacob Hornberger

Arrest Fauci

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Imagine if the honorable practice of science were hijacked by intellectually dishonest, cynically politicized, creepy profiteers who torture puppies, flirt with mass murder and gain the unearned credibility to turn the previously free world into a dreary, totalitarian nightmare. Oh, we don’t have to imagine. It’s actually happening. #ArrestFauci

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Watch “The Difference Between a Democracy and a Republic” on YouTube

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NOTE: We, and talking heads and people who should know better, continually refer to our country as a democracy. Such talk would have the Founders turning over in their graves. We are not a democracy, or at least not intended to be one. We are a constitutional republic with strictly enumerated powers (Article 1, Section 8). A/D.

White People are an Endangered Species

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Today throughout the Western world the only expression permitted to white people is expression of their guilt. Their function is limited to working tirelessly to elevate their racial and cultural enemies. While people everywhere are organized in an act of self-genocide.

And this despite endless warnings. Half a century ago in 1972 Wilmot Robertson showed in his book, The Dispossessed Majority, that majority white expression in art, literature, and culture was so thoroughly banned that the ban is enforced with pre-censorship by white writers and artists themselves.

As for the classics of the culture, “Chaucer and Shakespeare have been cut and blue-penciled. The motion picture of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist had a hard time being released in the US because of the recognizably Jewish traits of Fagin. The masterpiece of American silent films, The Birth of a Nation, can no longer be shown without the presence of picket lines. Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn has been blackwashed and expurgated by liberal-minded watchdog organizations. As for modern classics, Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House, perhaps her greatest novel, is not reprinted as a paperback because a Jewish character is treated unsympathetically, while Henry Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn has been attacked by millionaire novelist Leon Uris as ‘anti-Semitic.’ Even nursery rhymes and Stephen Foster are being rewritten and bowdlerized.”

“Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice has been removed from the curriculum of New York City high schools. . . . ‘The prioresses Tale’ is omitted from editions of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales because it tells of a murder committed by Jews. The Oberammergau passion play, a fixture of European culture since 1634, is under constant attack by Jews . . . a tireless, clandestine literary vendetta is being waged against such towering modern writers, composers and scholars, both American and European, as Eliot, Dreiser, Pound, Toynbee, Henry Adams, D.H. Lawrence, Celine, Roy Campbell, Wyndham Lewis, Knut Hamsun, Franz Lehar and Richard Strauss.” There is, of course no counter vendetta of white artists against those who are erasing Western culture.

Multiculturalism is the weapon that has successfully banned Western literary and cultural achievements, destroyed its monuments, and rewritten its history to serve its racial and cultural enemies. “Diversity” means demonizing white people and replacing their society and culture with those of other races and persuasions. The only remaining career path for white people whether as writers, artists, employers or politicians is service to the elevation of “minorities.” Thus the universal support for non-white racial preferences in university admissions, employment, promotions, and entertainment. No Western politician in office anywhere in the Western world except for Hungary and Poland serves the white ethnicities that once comprised nations and now are submerged in a Tower of Babel. Even the formerly self-assured British are repudiating and dismantling their heritage.

Multiculturalism has stripped the West of unity. That a Tower of Babel can stand up to a united people such as Russia, China, and Iran is nonsense. This is why Washington does everything it can to spread disunity in those nations.

To understand the total failure of multiculturalism, all a person has to do is to look at the artificial boundaries created by Europeans in Africa and the Middle East. Whereas the white minority in South Africa is clearly threatened, the worst conflict is among the black tribes themselves, as the recent violence in South Africa demonstrates. In Nigeria the Igbo could not coexist with the Hausa and Yoruba, seceded and existed as Biafra until conquered and reincorporated into Nigeria in 1970. The genocidal conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994 is another example. Here is an account in Wikipedia which I suspect will soon be censored for reflecting doubt on multiculturalism:

“The Rwandan genocide[4] occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War.[5] During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were slaughtered by armed militias. The most widely accepted scholarly estimates are around 500,000 to 800,000 Tutsi deaths.[6] Estimates for the total death toll (including Hutu and Twa victims) are as high as 1,100,000.[3]
In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel group composed mostly of Tutsi refugees, invaded northern Rwanda from their base in Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War. Neither side was able to gain a decisive advantage in the war, and the Rwandan government led by President Juvénal Habyarimana[7] signed the Arusha Accords with the RPF on 4 August 1993. Many historians argue that genocide against the Tutsi had been planned for a few years. However, Habyarimana’s assassination on 6 April 1994 created a power vacuum and ended peace accords. Genocidal killings began the following day when soldiers, police, and militia executed key Tutsi and moderate Hutu military and political leaders.

The scale and brutality of the genocide caused shock worldwide, but no country intervened to forcefully stop the killings.[8] Most of the victims were killed in their own villages or towns, many by their neighbors and fellow villagers. Hutu gangs searched out victims hiding in churches and school buildings. The militia murdered victims with machetes and rifles.[9] Sexual violence was rife, with an estimated 250,000 to 500,000 women raped during the genocide.[10] The RPF quickly resumed the civil war once the genocide started and captured all government territory, ending the genocide and forcing the government and génocidaires into Zaire.”

In the Middle East artificial boundaries encompassing both Shia and Sunni have made Arabs powerless despite their numbers.

The participation of white ethnicities in the erasure of their own culture by submerging themselves in multiculturalism and then dismantling the white culture that “offends” the “preferred minorities,” deprives them of power to resist their demonization, the precursor to genocide. Nothing strikes more fear in a white person than being called “racist” and “anti-semite.” We are witnessing the self-genocide of the white race. White people are erasing themselves. They are their own worst enemies.

For the latest act of white self-flagellation see: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2021/10/25/cambridge-formerly-a-university-now-an-insane-asylum-rushes-forward-in-erasing-western-literature/

Will this Moronic Monster ever be Held Accountable

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At what point do we start to hold this moronic monster responsible — morally and even legally — for the horrendous damage he is doing to human civilization? He is gleefully and willfully obliterating our individual rights and destroying our lives, our property, our currency, our economic system and our Constitution with an unapologetic gusto never before seen in America. Not just him, but all the people he answers to, and all the citizens who actually still support him — will they be held accountable?

Biden may not look as scary as Hitler or Stalin, but his actions, and the actions of his lawless, executive order-driven regime, will lead to the exact same results, or even worse. And we are only 9 months into this nightmare. Look at the empty shelves in your stores, something never before seen in this nation, and don’t say you weren’t warned.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

Not THIS, Please

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Bunker Hill, crossing the Delaware, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Industrial Revolution, Gettysburg, the Wright Brothers’ flight, the invention of electricity, the highest rise in the standard of living in all of human history, a day of infamy, D-Day, victory in the Cold War without firing a shot, “Let’s Roll” on 9/11, the Information Revolution, the Trump resurgence … dear God, please tell me that it won’t all end with THIS.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The Ideology Behind Biden’s Disastrous First Nine Months

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Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?

Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.

Yet most Americans are arguing not over the sheer chaos and disasters of the Biden administration, but rather how could such sheer pre-civilizational calamity occur in modern America? Were these disasters a result of historic incompetency? Or mean-spirited nihilism? Or a deliberate effort to create the necessary turbulence to birth a new American revolution? Or a bit of all three?

Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers (who are pulling the strings of the Biden marionette) see. Our catastrophes are their minor glitches. For them bad polling is mostly a public relations problem of an occasional uncooperative media. Otherwise, a few broken eggs are always necessary to create the perfect socialist omelet.

The Left now controlling Washington believes that the U.S. border is a mere construct. Every impoverished person has a birthright to cross into America illegally. The 2 million who are scheduled to enter this fiscal year alone is a wonderful, if occasionally sloppy, event.

Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border? Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history? A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out? The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels? Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring? Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences? Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?

Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months.

Yet most Americans are arguing not over the sheer chaos and disasters of the Biden administration, but rather how could such sheer pre-civilizational calamity occur in modern America? Were these disasters a result of historic incompetency? Or mean-spirited nihilism? Or a deliberate effort to create the necessary turbulence to birth a new American revolution? Or a bit of all three?

Start instead with the idea that what most Americans see as sheer ruin is not what the left-wing puppeteers (who are pulling the strings of the Biden marionette) see. Our catastrophes are their minor glitches. For them bad polling is mostly a public relations problem of an occasional uncooperative media. Otherwise, a few broken eggs are always necessary to create the perfect socialist omelet.

The Left now controlling Washington believes that the U.S. border is a mere construct. Every impoverished person has a birthright to cross into America illegally. The 2 million who are scheduled to enter this fiscal year alone is a wonderful, if occasionally sloppy, event.

Our border calamity is their celebration of humanity and a long-overdue recalibration of ossified American demography, one that will properly warp the Electoral College to provide the necessary election result. If you believe that a culturally imperialistic America needs to be taken down a notch overseas, then the flight from Afghanistan is “impressive” and a “success”— by how quickly and efficiently we skedaddled.

Why worry about a lost $1 billion embassy, a $300 million refit of the Bagram airbase, or $80 billion lost in military hardware and training? Empty shelves? Boohoo.

Grasping, upper-middle-class consumers are angry that the working classes are not willing to risk COVID infection to supply them with their accustomed holiday trinkets.

So, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg intoned that the shortages mean only that the consumer class has to wait a wee bit—until Christmas Eve—to splurge on gifts.

Who worries about a little inflation? Under new monetary theory, printing dollars brings prosperity. Or as White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain put it in a retweet, inflation is a mere “high class problem” of the Peloton elite.

Only those with money worry their ill-begotten pile shrinks. But the majority without money will eventually rejoice that it is everywhere now”—finally and properly “spread,” as former president and now multimillionaire Barack Obama once promised.

As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez swore, gas and oil are going to be gone anyway in 10 years. So, if Joe Biden slashes over 2 million barrels a day in U.S. oil production, what’s wrong with that?

Didn’t Steven Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, long ago brag that when we hit $8 to $10 a gallon, we’d approach European levels of proper fuel usage? Why whine about paying over $100 to fill up, when the planet more quickly cools?

Did not Americans learn “critical legal theory” and “critical race theory”? Or as the architect of the “1619 Project” reminded us, destroying or taking someone’s property is no big deal. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey shrugged off torched downtown buildings; such torched stuff, he said, is mere “bricks and mortar.”

It is only a crime to “steal” over $500 of needed merchandise from a Walgreens in San Francisco, because the rich who make such absurd laws never have to steal goods from a pharmacy shelf.

If racists wish to point out that African American male youths are disproportionately represented in the latest crime wave, then maybe America should be learning not to create the conditions that force them to break the law.

In sum, we are on a left-wing roller coaster headed to a socialist nirvana.

Most Americans believe it is instead an out-of-control “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride” nightmare with incompetents at the wheel. But the architects of such “hope and change” shrug that the occasional disturbing news that the media sometimes accidentally leaks out is merely the cost of an equitable America. One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice.

Keep that mentality in mind and the absurdities that are mouthed by Biden, Klain, press secretary Jen Psaki, Homeland “Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Pete Buttigieg, or the ravings of the Squad make perfect sense.

They are merely trying to explain to us dummies that what we think is purgatory is actually the new paradise—a promised land that, once we are properly programmed and educated, we too will welcome and thank them for our deliverance.

Victor Davis Hanson

Don’t Reform the Income Tax—Abolish It

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As I have repeatedly emphasized, in order to achieve a genuinely free society, it is necessary to dismantle or abolish infringements on liberty. If all we do is reform infringements on liberty, we have done nothing to achieve liberty. All that we have done, at best, is improve our lives as serfs. That’s because reform is not freedom. Reform is reform.

Obviously, making the case for liberty to people is much more challenging than making the case for reform. Since reform leaves the infringement intact, people feel more comfortable with it because it doesn’t entail a fundamental change in what they are accustomed to. Moreover, the arguments for dismantling or abolition are fundamentally different than the arguments for reform. (See my recent article “Don’t Reform the IRS. Abolish It Instead.”)

A good example of this phenomenon is a recent article in the American Thinker entitled “An End to Tax Withholding” by Lloyd Billingsley. In his article, Billingsley criticizes the federal withholding tax. He provides readers with an interesting history of the withholding tax. It came into existence as an emergency wartime funding measure in World War II and then became a permanent part of the government’s income-tax system. He also points out that the idea, ironically enough, originated with libertarian economist Milton Friedman.

So, what does Billingsley advocate? He settles for calling for an end to the federal withholding tax. He says, “ Long before the pandemic, the federal government was too large, too intrusive, and too destructive of freedom.  Freedom is seldom lost all at once, and once lost, it is difficult to recover.”

But ending the withholding tax does nothing to restore genuine freedom to the American people. After all, such a proposal doesn’t relieve people of having to pay the income tax. It just delays the payment of the tax.

In order to achieve a genuinely free society, it is necessary to abolish the income tax itself. Obviously, the arguments for doing that are different from the arguments calling for a repeal of withholding. With income-tax reform, the income tax stays in place. With income-tax abolition, the income tax is eradicated.

Freedom entails the right to keep everything you earn. Your income belongs to you — all of it. None of it belongs to the government. 

When government wields the power to take any percentage of your income it wishes, you become a serf. You exist to serve the state. Oh sure, sometimes the state is kind and lets you keep more of your income. Other times it’s not so kind and leaves you with less. But make no mistake about it: When government is determining the percentage, you are on an allowance.

That’s not a free society. That’s a serfdom society.

The problem, of course, is that most everyone has been indoctrinated into thinking that the income tax, along with the welfare state-warfare-regulatory state it funds, is freedom. That’s why many Americans really do believe it when they sing, “Thank God I’m an American because at least I know I’m free.”

Our American ancestors understood that freedom necessarily entails an income-tax-free society. That’s why America lived without income taxation and an IRS (and a welfare-warfare-regulatory state) for more than 100 years. 

Statists lament that an income-tax free society would produce massive disparities of wealth, but they are simply succumbing to the grave sins of envy and covetousness. They also fail to recognize that when people are free to accumulate unlimited amounts of wealth, everyone benefits from rising standards of living, especially the poor. Income taxation destroys massive amounts of capital, which is a key to rising standards of living. In the process, it ensures greater poverty.

Let’s leave reform to conservatives. Let us libertarians continue leading America to freedom and prosperity by raising people’s vision to a higher level — to the level of genuine liberty.

Jacob Hornberger