Following an extensive three-year investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar by investigative journalist David Steinberg, a House ethics complaint has been filed by Judicial Watch calling for a probe into potential crimes committed by Omar and her brother.
“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
Matthew 5:11-12 NIV
A trend I have come to notice is that among the “right”, the disdain for followers of Yah has become palatable. A few years ago a man in the “Liberty” movement who professed no faith in any intelligent Creator would not disparage or fight against people who professed that hope. We all agreed that we were comrades in arms and would support Liberty as the ideal that bound us together. As of today the opposite is true in circles that used to be bastions of support for anyone who desired to push back the waters of progressivism.
It matters not in the real world. The only reality which will affect my mountain is my neighbors, at least in the short term. A man on the World Wide Web in somewhereville really has no bearing on my circle at all, again in the short term.
The thing we need to keep in our minds however is that while it is possible that there will be honorable and trustworthy men who are not directed by the Spirit of God, there are far more who will succumb to every base behavior imaginable. If the conversations I have witnessed in multiple places is indicative (and I believe it is) of the nature of some who claim to be anti-progressive, then we have danger on every hand.
Language mocking Christ and condemning His followers as not just fools but enemies, who will be fragged to be eliminated have become commonplace. It seems the enemy within may be a more pressing threat than the Progressives without.
Where does this leave a man who is trying in earnest to do what is right in the eyes of Yah?
Have a group around you who share your beliefs. Make it a priority that your tribe is comprised of God-seeking individuals or if necessary at a minimum people who show no hostility to the tenants and teachings of Christ.
Beware of any individual, no matter his value to the tribe, who shows open hostility or mocks Christ or individuals who seek scripture as a guide to life. Even relatively benign jokes now are a warning sign. He at some point may well betray you or will be a thorn that sows division and strife in your group. Things will be stressful enough during any upheaval without the added worry from within your own circle.
Being of one mind is how God works with groups, just read Acts and it will become more clear. Love, true care and compassion in a group is the way to see the power of the Holy Spirit move and inspire. Being of one mind and committed to a common set of values and ideals will be a comfort and powerful asset in terrible times.
Soon, probably sooner than you can imagine, Christians will become the worst of the scapegoats in the pool of society’s wrath. White Christians will be driven to ground and openly vilified before eventually openly persecuted, ultimately eliminated.
Those in the “Libertysphere” will not come to your aid. They will sit back and mock you as cucks and say “good riddance”.
When Deutsche Bank collapses and takes down the global banking system, will the government still print entitlement checks? If the banks are closed and the people who are working are not paid, how will we feel if the entitled class who have been feeding off of our carcasses are still getting paid?
Then again, I could be wrong. Does anyone know how an insolvent bank can pay back $49 trillion?
David DeGerolamo
And as Deutsche Bank collapses, it could take a whole lot of others down with it at the same time. According to Wall Street On Parade, the bank had 49 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives as of the end of last year…
During 2018, the serially troubled Deutsche Bank – which still has a vast derivatives footprint in the U.S. as counterparty to some of the largest banks on Wall Street – trimmed its exposure to derivatives from a notional €48.266 trillion to a notional €43.459 trillion (49 trillion U.S. dollars) according to its 2018 annual report. A derivatives book of $49 trillion notional puts Deutsche Bank in the same league as the bank holding companies of U.S. juggernauts JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, which logged in at $48 trillion, $47 trillion and $42 trillion, respectively, at the end of December 2018 according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
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If people understood the above information, they would go to their bank when it opens in the morning and withdraw all of their money. Sapience is a two-edged sword: we see the sword about to drop but most will not take the necessary action to survive.
David DeGerolamo
It’s been a few days since I was labeled a threat who would shoot a fellow blogger in the back. I thought most of the “kill them all” rhetoric had died down.
But a question had been raised, I believe honestly, that prompted another “kill the communists” post. The question “what direction?” did not get a satisfactory answer.
Since the focus has been on collectivism / communism, let’s review some numbers.
General statistics on welfare in the US indicates 25% of the population receives some form of transfer payment. Your government has promised some $19 Trillion in Social Security benefits and $30 Trillion in Medicare benefits. This roughly amounts to a $1 Million liability per Taxpayer in a pool of potential Taxpayers whose total assets are less than $500 Thousand per Citizen. (reference: USDEBTCLOCK.ORG)
From this finance lesson, let’s return to the “kill the communists” rhetoric. One out of every 4 people in your community are voluntarily recipients of stolen goods, or eagerly awaiting delivery of future stolen goods. Roughly 70 million people would have to be murdered to “kill the communists”.
Don’t have the stomach to move through your neighborhood and kill every 4th person? Not sure which of the four is deserving of a lethal sentence? Good, neither do I.
Our first conceit is a belief that we have properly identified our enemy: communists. It feels right. The first three planks in the communist manifesto attack private property, institute heavy taxation, and abolish inherited wealth.
But what is a communist? Merely a person who has not starved to death because you and I have fed him with the surplus from our commerce. A communist cannot harm you unless he directly threatens you with violence, and under common-law you are justified in responding with unorganized individual violence. A group of communists cannot harm you unless they employ a government to threaten violence to coerce you to submit to their will.
Let us clearly identify the enemy. The enemy is any attack on private wealth and private property. As I indicated previously, neither the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, nor the Bill of Rights speak to any protection for private wealth and private property. You cannot run there for help.
Governments, specifically the men that run them, work hard to make us submit to their will. Long before FDR and LBJ accelerated the adoption of naked communism within the United States, the 16th Amendment legalized theft of a portion of every-man’s paycheck. Lincoln killed 650,000 people to make the southern State submit to his will. And before that, state and local governments extorted property taxes to disburse “for public purposes”. Governments have coerced men to submit their persons and property to the will of others from the beginning of time.
A second conceit is that we, as partisans, can become cohesive enough to conduct meaningful, coordinated action against the leviathan of collectivist government. I believe this needs no comment.
So what useful direction can be given to Patriots faced with thieving governments and freeloading neighbors, who steal and consume our surplus? The simple choice appears to be binary: cut the head off the snake, or remove the tip of the spear.
I don’t recommend an attempt to remove the head of the snake. The engine of evil will remain in place, operating on inertia, until the next bureaucrat is selected to run the machine.
I favor an uncoordinated effort to remove the tip of the spear. Direct your individual ingenuity and energy into disrupting, at a local level, the theft of wealth by your various governments and their engines of re-distribution. The question is how?
This can take many forms dependent upon your courage and risk tolerance. Disrupt local town and city council discussions on topics of taxation and benefits. If you have the technical skills, disrupt local processes and systems of tax collection, disbursement, and the downward flow of funds from FedGov to local agencies. If you have the fortitude, infiltrate the agencies and conduct subtle sabotage from within. Finally, disrupt the personal lives of the employees who work in the agencies that run these functions.
Be creative in your escalation, but stay focused. The objective is to convince government managers and employees, at the operational level, to reconsider the morality of their chosen profession. Motivate them to seek honest employment in the private sector. If you are successful there will be consequences. Governments have agents with guns who will be directed to stop you, cage you, or worse.
The systemic theft we’re accustomed to cannot continue without the serfs who collect, count and re-distribute the coin. There are not enough enforcers on the payroll of municipal police to go door to door and threaten people directly for payment in the absence of a functional bureaucracy and its automated systems.
Others among you must simultaneously communicate the Fatal Conceit of socialism / communism / collectivism to your neighbors. That Fatal Conceit is the belief that rational man can use his intellect, along with tribal-level concepts of compassion, to replace the market-order that evolved through millennia of human experimentation. That Fatal Conceit which makes man hope he can engineer a centrally planned economy that doesn’t collapse and kill tens of millions he claims to help.
Expose the economic error of socialism: that the extended order necessary to feed, cloth, and otherwise maintain civilization cannot survive in in a centrally planned economy with managed markets. Explain how the extended order of modern civilization requires free markets and private property to deliver widespread prosperity.
To become prepared to do these tasks, read “Fatal Conceit”, by F.A.Hayek. It was the final work of a Nobel prize winning economist who earlier wrote “The Road to Serfdom”, sounding an alarm regarding state control of production and the relationship between socialism and totalitarianism.
Finally, recognize that reliance on tribe for organization, family values, and a desire for geo-political balkanization by the Patriot movement will likely inflict the same damage to the thin veneer of civilization as the central plan of the collectivists. To a lesser degree, perhaps, if trade across geographically dispersed free markets is actively encouraged and an absolute respect for private property is maintained.
Actions recommended above will remove the tip from the spear. As a consequence local, state, and even national government will probably collapse. If you elect to pursue this course, consider how you will provide short term compassionate care for neighbors whose welfare safety net has been removed.
In the interim, while you contemplate your resolve, reflect upon the fact that at no time in history has Freedom or Rightful Liberty prevailed on a significant scale; other than on the frontier at the boundary of civilization … and no such frontiers exist today.
You might want to consider how to live as free as possible in this un-free world. For that exercise I would recommend a book by Harry Browne “How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World”. An excellent summary can be found here .
What is the difference between 1939 and today? Hollywood was exposing the corruption in Washington, D.C. instead of promoting it.
David DeGerolamo
I remember asking Stewart Rhodes when the Oath Keepers were going to uphold their oath to support the Constitution. Seven years later, the same question is being asked. And avoided. As the Communist agenda of the Democrat Party has now become mainstream news, black masked Antifa attack with the tacit support of the law enforcement and patriots are vilified for being Americans, what should we be doing to preserve our children’s legacy?
I have spent my fortune building community. I hope that I have honor as bestowed by my brothers and sisters. I pray that the Lord has given me sacred Honor.
I pledge my life for one simple reason: I have no choice. I will not reason, bargain or compromise with evil. And this government is evil. It is not of God. It has one goal: power. And this power does not honor our lives so we have no choice but to pledge our lives for our children, our grandchildren and our country as founded by God.
David DeGerolamo
I am undergoing the fatigue of people who do not have the firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence to stand up and fight for our Liberty.
David DeGerolamo
“It is hoped that but few will think the subject of [this sermon] an improper one to be discoursed on in the pulpit, under a notion that this is preaching politics, instead of Christ. However, to remove all prejudices of this sort, I beg it may be remembered that ‘all Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.’ Why, then, should not those parts of Scripture which relate to civil government be examined and explained from the desk, as well as others?”
from the Preface of Dr. Mayhew’s published sermon
I hope many will take the time to read this….
