THE ONE-PARTY STATE

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest of causes.” — THOMAS PAINE

America has become a de facto one-party state.   Consider the following:

>>The media no longer represents the people.   There are many issues that cannot be discussed (race, abortion, LGBTQ issues).   Gradually, freedom of the press has died.  Almost all papers support the Left.  Every TV station does, except for Newsmax and OAN (One America News).   Most people are unaware of their existence. Fox News retains some conservative anchors (Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity).

“The aggressive censorship conservatives face was foreseeable.  Communities and cultures are built on common values. The culture of the left is no longer compatible with our Constitutional Republic and conservative culture.  It was inevitable this day would come.”  (Codias, 1/9/2021)

“The only security of all is in a free press.”  Thomas Jefferson

>>The Democrat- controlled House has arranged for 25,000 National Guardsmen to protect the Capitol in the days leading up to Joe Biden’s inauguration.  This is the most troops Washington DC has seen since the Civil War, over 150 years ago.  It’s more than five times the number in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.  Our democracy seems to have turned from freedom to oppression!  Additionally, troops are being screened to ensure they have no sympathies for outgoing President Donald Trump, which risks politicising and dividing the military.

>>Nancy Pelosi addressed the troops yesterday, as if she were Commander-in-Chief.

>>The President has been impeached for a second time.   If the trial goes against him, he will not be allowed to run for office again.  The Democrats will have effectively ended Trump’s political career.   Whatever you may think of Donald Trump, silencing the opposition is a tactic of a one-party state.

“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says no-one can hold office if they’ve engaged in “insurrection or rebellion” against the United States.

And if you’ve been paying close attention, you’ll notice that’s the same phrase used in the impeachment charge that was passed this week.”

“House Democrats want veto power over whom Republicans can nominate. And this is the crowd that does not cease to bray about its devotion to “democracy.””  (Pat Buchanan, 1/14/2021)

>>The Washington Post is, like almost all newspapers, pro-Democrat.   Only 19 minutes after Trump’s inauguration four years ago, the paper carried the banner headline:

“Campaign to impeach President Trump has begun.”  That’s been the plan for four years.

>>There are calls for the children of conservatives to be sent to re-education camps.

“Prominent leftists are talking of reprogramming Trump supporters. Reprogramming seems to include vilifying Trump staff members to destroy their careers. In some cases, Trump backers could loose banking privileges and other discriminatory actions including depriving them of access to air travel. A now infamous Project Veritas video captured one suggesting the children of Republicans be taken away from their parents and sent to reeducation camps. These, by the way, are the same leftists who accused immigration officials of separating families.” (Laura Ingraham).

>>Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets have banned Trump.  (Today’s news says they have lost $51 billion off their share value as people have stopped using them, in support of the president.)   Apple and Microsoft have dropped the Parler app which still carries Trump’s messages.

>>Lockdowns throughout the country have shut down businesses, destroying the economy.  According to AFP tonight, almost twenty million jobs have been lost since March. One million jobs were lost in the first week of the new year.

>>A policy of the new Biden Administration will encourage illegal aliens and new immigrants to seek citizenship, thereby securing more Democrat votes.  It’s estimated that 70% of immigrants vote for the Democrats.

>>Accusations that “white supremacists” were present at the Capitol were untrue, but the accusation has stuck.  Race was not a factor in what happened on January 6^th.

>>In Michigan, former Republican Governor Rick Snyder is to be tried for “neglect” causing the deaths of nine people during the Flint water crisis.

>>The Michigan legislature has banned guns (open carry) from the legislature.

>>(President Trump) stands accused of incitement, obstruction of justice, “high crimes and misdemeanors,” sedition, and treason.

>> On January 6, Trump even exhorted his supporters to “walk down to the Capitol” and begin “marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”  (“Democracy more at risk with no brake on Biden,” Salvatore Babonas, The Australian, 1/14/2021)

>>In the Detroit News January 7^th appeared the following: “the difference between the way the police handled Wed’s events with BLM in the summer; a heavier police presence for BLM.”    Why was the police presence so small at the Capitol following on from 9/11?

>> “In this day and age of threatened terrorist attacks against vital US institutions, you can be sure that security around Capitol Hill would have long ago been prepared to repel an attack by a highly trained, armed enemy force. And “they” are trying to tell us that a bunch of unarmed hooligans could break into Congress. Do “they” think we are totally stupid?!  It had to be an inside job designed to make DJT look bad.”   (ARM 1/10/2021)

>>The Democrats are losing support amongst blue-collar workers, African-Americans and Hispanics.   This may explain their attempt at establishing a one-party state.

>>Two thirds of Republicans, in a weekend poll, still believe the election was rigged. There has been no serious attempt to look into this.

>>“It is only a slight overstatement to say that, while the mob’s coup against Congress ignominiously failed, big tech’s coup against Trump triumphantly succeeded.”  (Niall Ferguson) “Trump is not merely being denied access to the channels he has used throughout his presidency to communicate with voters.  He is being excluded from a domain the courts have for some time recognized as a public forum.”

>>US screens troops for riot sympathizers:   The US army and secret service are carrying out background checks on National Guard troops in a bid to weed out extremist sympathizers ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration.

Thousands of part-time soldiers are being sent to Washington D.C. to stand guard as the new president is sworn in next Wednesday.   (The Week, 1/14/2021)

>>DW news tonight said: “extremist right-wing groups, supporters of Donald Trump, have called for a civil war in the US.”  Such statements will only increase support for the Democrats and take it away from conservatives.   There are calls for Texas to secede.

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OF INTEREST

• FYI Nancy Pelosi wore the same dress on Wednesday as she wore at Trump’s first impeachment.  This was not due to a lack of money to buy a new dress.

• Former UKIP and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage decried lockdown restrictions that could see elderly people fined by police for resting on park benches, along with legislation in Parliament that could allow authorities to recruit teenagers as stool-pigeons against their own parents.  (1/13/2021 James Tweedie, Sputniknews)

• Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, a Muslim, has asked the government to close down places of worship in the UK capital.

• Brexit exempts Brits from speeding fines — British drivers will escape most speeding fines in EU nations because the UK’s departure has ended deals governing several motoring offences in the bloc. French officials say that following Brexit, the EU’s cross-border enforcement directive no longer applies, ending arrangements for sharing information about drivers caught on speed cameras. The Times says the news puts British drivers in the “fast lane.”  (The Week, 1/13/2021)

Stay focused.  We could be in for a rough ride.  Remember Matthew 6:33:  ^“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness.”

(Credit for top cartoon picture goes to Pat Buchanan)

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FEAR BEHIND CHURCH ATTACK

Photo: EPA ; AP

The killing of nine people in a Charleston church last week and the election result in Denmark seemingly have little in common.   But at the root of both is fear.

The 21-year-old white male who shot dead nine African-Americans wore two badges on his jacket.   They were the Rhodesian flag and the South African flag of the old apartheid regime.   TV reporters were quick to say these flags represented racism and that Dylaan Roof identified with these countries because he, too, is racist.

As usual, there was very little depth shown by reporters.   It’s just not as simple as they made it out to be.

Rhodesia and South Africa were the last two nations on the African continent to be ruled by whites, people of European descent who had colonized Africa in previous generations.   During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s the European powers were rapidly dismantling their colonial empires.   The ruling whites of Southern Rhodesia, rather than have black majority rule forced upon them, declared themselves independent of Great Britain, something that had not happened since 1776.

Why did they do this?   Out of fear, fear of what would happen if the whites handed over to the majority African population.

This fear was not unfounded.   They had seen what happened when countries to the north of them got independence.

Tribalism, violent upheavals and economic collapse were quite normal in the years following independence.   In 1961, the whites of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), at the time in a federation with Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, had been instrumental in saving thousands of people from the Congo who had fled the country after Belgium pulled out.   Chaos and confusion were commonplace in Africa at the time. The whites at the southern end of the continent did not want the same fate to befall them.

In neighboring South Africa, apartheid also had fear at its root.   The white minority imposed segregation to protect themselves from violent crime, murder, and rapes, all of which have increased dramatically since the end of apartheid and the introduction of majority rule.   There was a great deal wrong with apartheid, but post-apartheid South Africa also has serious problems with little hope for improvement.

Which brings us to last week’s Danish election.

Scandinavia has been the last bastion of social democracy, with widely admired societies that have inspired leftist parties around the world.

But these days, social democracy in Nordic countries is in crisis.   The defeat of Denmark’s ruling social democrat party, led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, means that for the first time in seventy years, Sweden is the only Scandinavian country with a social democrat government in power.   Even there, it’s doubtful it will survive long.

Their decline has been accompanied by a surge in support for anti-immigration, eurosceptic parties.   “Should the Danish People’s party — which came second, nearly doubling its support from the previous vote in 2011 — join a centre-right government, three of the four large Nordic countries would have such a group in power (Finland and Norway being the others),” the Financial Times reports on its website.   After decades of rule by parties of the left, this is a dramatic change.

“There is a familiar progression in the way that the DPP, True Finns, Sweden Democrats and Norway’s Progress party have hollowed out the establishment parties.   As with the DPP, they have started by stealing voters from the centre-left — the working class, the elderly — before taking them from the centre-right.

“It’s a worry and it’s a wake-up call,” says Carl Bildt, former Swedish prime minister.”   (ft.com)

What’s behind the swing to the anti-immigrant, eurosceptic parties? Fear.   The same fear that motivated the whites of Rhodesia and South Africa.   And the same fear that was behind the church shooting in Charleston.   This is not to suggest that the Danes, the Rhodesians or the South Africans would have been in agreement with Dylaan Roof’s actions.   It is simply that there is a commonality here – and that common denominator is fear.

The Danes are afraid of being overwhelmed by people of different cultures, especially Muslims from North Africa and the Middle East.   A significant percentage of people in every European country share the same fear.   They do not want to see their way of life threatened. These fears are not taken seriously by mainstream political parties, so voters are looking elsewhere.

The same fear led to Rhodesians breaking away from Britain.   Their “rebellion” lasted fourteen years, seven of which were spent at war with homegrown terrorists who wanted to take over the country. When the terrorists took over, white fears were realized when their land, jobs and money were all taken by the post-independence government of Robert Mugabe, who has been in power for over 35 years.

In South Africa, twenty years after apartheid, the country’s biggest problems are corruption, violence and life-threatening crime.   The affluent society the whites created is under increasing threat, driven by African demands for more and more at the expense of the white taxpayer.

In America, too, many whites fear for the future as they head rapidly toward minority status.   A recent announcement by the Obama Administration that instructs government agencies to enforce greater “diversity” in affluent neighborhoods will only make matters worse.

I’m writing this while we are headed back to our home on a train.   We had to change trains in Chicago.   While lining up for the second train, a young white lady next to me complained to her friends that “the Mexicans are pushing in ahead of us.”   A minor incident like this can trigger off a racial confrontation.   This time it was avoided.

The mad, multicultural mayhem created by the ruling intellectual elites is increasingly being found wanting throughout the western world.

We should expect more incidents like the one in Charleston and more election results similar to Denmark.   It could be the start of a white backlash against enforced multiculturalism.   Politicians should take note on both sides of the Atlantic.

A century ago, the world was dominated by Europeans and people of European descent.   Since World War II this has changed dramatically.   Today, only a handful of countries are still run by Caucasians; and, based on demographic trends, all of those will have a majority non-white population within the lifetimes of those now living.

When the dominant culture of a country changes, great upheaval can take place.   Rhodesia is the best most recent example of this.

Dylaan Roof, at 21, was not even born when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.   He may have worn the Rhodesian flag but was ignorant of Rhodesia’s realities.   Race relations were generally quite good in Rhodesia.   The “white” army was 82% black.  If Dylaan Roof had shot nine black Africans in Rhodesia, he would have been tried, sentenced and hanged within a few months.   I remember clearly a young white male who killed a black cab driver and was hanged, if I remember correctly, within 90 days of his sentencing.

The world’s media may have judged Rhodesia a racist society.   In the same way, it now judges South Carolina as seriously wanting in this regard.   But there has been an outpouring of love and support from different ethnic groups since the mass shooting in church.   The Governor of the state, Nikki Haley, has called for the old confederate flag to be taken down from the Capitol building in Columbia, the state capital.

Just as the world’s media stirred up feelings against Rhodesia and South Africa, it will do so against South Carolina.

Watching CNN on Monday morning, I was shocked at how much time was devoted to a one-sided discussion on the future of the “Stars and Bars,” the old Confederate flag.

What Dylaan Roof did was inexcusable and should be roundly condemned.   But he was just one man and a young man, at that.   His actions will not inspire the majority to replicate his act.   But the fears he expressed about the direction America is headed should be openly discussed.   The flag is not the issue.