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Political conservatives are the now the target of the Deep State’s “War on Terror.”
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:34 am
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:34 am
Yet like lambs led to slaughter. conservatives still will ultimately coalesce and vote for whatever candidate is packaged as the “savior” of the Republic by the UniParty® in 2024....
THE AMERICAN RIGHT IS THE NEW TARGET OF WASHINGTON'S "WAR ON TERROR"
The security walls around the US Capitol may be removed, but the federal response to the January 6 protests has only just begun. The Democrats in Washington are determined to treat the incident as on par with the events of September 11, which may explain a troubling report about the potential use of the famed No Fly List.
Yesterday Nick Fuentes, a right-wing social media pundit who attended the January 6 protests in the capital, alleged that he has been placed on the federal no-fly list, preventing him from traveling to Florida for a political rally. While Mr. Fuentes shared on social media audio of an airline employee suggesting that his flying restriction did come from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), later that night Tucker Carlson informed his audience that his staff could neither confirm nor deny the report. While critics pointed to previous social media posts which documented his being removed from a plane for failing to comply with mask policies, Fuentes has noted that he had no problem flying to Washington in January.
Since January there has been a concerted effort by Democrat leaders, former deep state officials, and America’s most despicable neoconservatives to push the Biden administration to utilize the power of the federal government against the supporters of Donald Trump. While the incidents at the Capitol on January 6 are used to justify these calls, the weaponization of federal power against political opponents goes back almost as long as the federal government itself. In more recent years, President Biden’s previous service in the White House saw a Democrat administration that used both the IRS and Department of Homeland Security to target conservatives.
Another reason to expect escalation from the Biden administration against vocal figures like Fuentes is the unique critique of the current regime from the right. The majority of Republican voters do not simply oppose President Biden due to politics, but flatly reject his democratic legitimacy. As Murray Rothbard explained, it is precisely this sort of attack that the state fears most:
How the State Preserves Itself—and What the State Fears....
This perspective explains the disproportionate treatment that mostly peaceful protesters at the Capitol in January have received in contrast to those arrested during riots in American cities throughout the past year. The state will always treat those who seriously threaten its perceived legitimacy with greater zeal than those guilty of simply destroying the livelihoods of its citizens.
This also highlights the self-defeating nature of the modern American conservative movement.
For decades now, the same political party that often gives lip service to “federalism” has often been the party directly responsible for the growth of federal power. As noted earlier, it took exactly one administration before the Department of Homeland Security, created by the Bush administration, began to target the very voters who elected him to office. It was just two election cycles before the PATRIOT Act was used to target a Republican presidential campaign.
The biggest question that now lies in American politics is whether conservatives are capable of learning from these examples. If the American right is capable of fully absorbing the reality that the greatest threat to their lives, liberty, and prosperity lies domestically—and not abroad—perhaps there is potential for a political rollback of the American empire.
If not, American conservatives will come to understand how little constitutional rights truly mean in the face of a hostile state.
THE AMERICAN RIGHT IS THE NEW TARGET OF WASHINGTON'S "WAR ON TERROR"
The security walls around the US Capitol may be removed, but the federal response to the January 6 protests has only just begun. The Democrats in Washington are determined to treat the incident as on par with the events of September 11, which may explain a troubling report about the potential use of the famed No Fly List.
Yesterday Nick Fuentes, a right-wing social media pundit who attended the January 6 protests in the capital, alleged that he has been placed on the federal no-fly list, preventing him from traveling to Florida for a political rally. While Mr. Fuentes shared on social media audio of an airline employee suggesting that his flying restriction did come from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), later that night Tucker Carlson informed his audience that his staff could neither confirm nor deny the report. While critics pointed to previous social media posts which documented his being removed from a plane for failing to comply with mask policies, Fuentes has noted that he had no problem flying to Washington in January.
Since January there has been a concerted effort by Democrat leaders, former deep state officials, and America’s most despicable neoconservatives to push the Biden administration to utilize the power of the federal government against the supporters of Donald Trump. While the incidents at the Capitol on January 6 are used to justify these calls, the weaponization of federal power against political opponents goes back almost as long as the federal government itself. In more recent years, President Biden’s previous service in the White House saw a Democrat administration that used both the IRS and Department of Homeland Security to target conservatives.
Another reason to expect escalation from the Biden administration against vocal figures like Fuentes is the unique critique of the current regime from the right. The majority of Republican voters do not simply oppose President Biden due to politics, but flatly reject his democratic legitimacy. As Murray Rothbard explained, it is precisely this sort of attack that the state fears most:
How the State Preserves Itself—and What the State Fears....
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Once a State has been established, the problem of the ruling group or "caste" is how to maintain their rule. While force is their modus operandi, their basic and long-run problem is ideological. For in order to continue in office, any government (not simply a "democratic" government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects.
This support, it must be noted, need not be active enthusiasm; it may well be passive resignation as if to an inevitable law of nature. But support in the sense of acceptance of some sort it must be; else the minority of State rulers would eventually be outweighed by the active resistance of the majority of the public.
Since predation must be supported out of the surplus of production, it is necessarily true that the class constituting the State — the full-time bureaucracy — must be a rather small minority in the land, although it may, of course, purchase allies among important groups in the population. Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens....
The increasing use of scientific jargon has permitted the State's intellectuals to weave obscurantist apologia for State rule that would have only met with derision by the populace of a simpler age. A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the "multiplier effect," it unfortunately carries more conviction. And so the assault on common sense proceeds, each age performing the task in its own ways.
Thus, ideological support being vital to the State, it must unceasingly try to impress the public with its "legitimacy," to distinguish its activities from those of mere brigands. The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax....
This perspective explains the disproportionate treatment that mostly peaceful protesters at the Capitol in January have received in contrast to those arrested during riots in American cities throughout the past year. The state will always treat those who seriously threaten its perceived legitimacy with greater zeal than those guilty of simply destroying the livelihoods of its citizens.
This also highlights the self-defeating nature of the modern American conservative movement.
For decades now, the same political party that often gives lip service to “federalism” has often been the party directly responsible for the growth of federal power. As noted earlier, it took exactly one administration before the Department of Homeland Security, created by the Bush administration, began to target the very voters who elected him to office. It was just two election cycles before the PATRIOT Act was used to target a Republican presidential campaign.
The biggest question that now lies in American politics is whether conservatives are capable of learning from these examples. If the American right is capable of fully absorbing the reality that the greatest threat to their lives, liberty, and prosperity lies domestically—and not abroad—perhaps there is potential for a political rollback of the American empire.
If not, American conservatives will come to understand how little constitutional rights truly mean in the face of a hostile state.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:37 am to Toomer Deplorable
Ron Paul supporters were called kooks when we told Republicans in the Bush era that the War on Terror, the Patriot Act and FISA would be used against them in the future. Who was right and who was wrong?
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:38 am to SCLibertarian
Mainstream Republicans shunned Ron Paul for decades. They deserve what they get.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:40 am to SCLibertarian
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Ron Paul supporters were called kooks when we told Republicans in the Bush era that the War on Terror, the Patriot Act and FISA would be used against them in the future. Who was right and who was wrong?
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:43 am to Toomer Deplorable
There's more of us than there is of them.
A lot more.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:43 am to Toomer Deplorable
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If not, American conservatives will come to understand how little constitutional rights truly mean in the face of a hostile state.
Progressives have just adopted old Republican Moral Majority tactics, thrown in some Maoism and are at war with normal people.
Freedom is the only route. We need to destroy most of our legal code as it will only be used to attack political opponents from here out.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:49 am to Toomer Deplorable
It’s beyond Clown World, it’s Cloward and Piven. The American Patriots who want to save the republic in the fashion our founders intended the country to exist are now the enemy. It’s going to get interesting when tens of millions of Americans say a big collective, SCREW YOU!!! To the oppressors.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:51 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Progressives have just adopted old Republican Moral Majority tactics, thrown in some Maoism and are at war with normal people.
Freedom is the only route. We need to destroy most of our legal code as it will only be used to attack political opponents from here out
Yes! But the Marxists couldn’t do this^^^ if we didn’t allow them to redefine words in the English language.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:53 am to SCLibertarian
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Ron Paul supporters were called kooks when we told Republicans in the Bush era that the War on Terror, the Patriot Act and FISA would be used against them in the future. Who was right and who was wrong?
A lot of well intentioned Americans fell for the 9/11 BS....some of us have woke the frick up and some continue to be lead around by their taint hairs.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 9:56 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Progressives have just adopted old Republican Moral Majority tactics, thrown in some Maoism and are at war with normal people.
This is an astute observation and very succinctly stated!m
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:11 am to SCLibertarian
Good point, but the sinister PR behind labeling Paul some sort of kook no doubt comes from the same anti-Trump party disguised as Conservatives. They put their lobbyists above liberty.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:14 am to Padme
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but the sinister PR behind labeling Paul some sort of kook no doubt comes from the same anti-Trump party disguised as Conservatives.
Actually the Pauls were attacked constantly by the Trump contingent.
Trumpism is activist government.
We need fewer laws, not more.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:19 am to RogerTheShrubber
The the very least we all need to be in the jury pool and find these people not guilty.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:23 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Actually the Pauls were attacked constantly by the Trump contingent.
Trumpism is activist government.
Yeah, unfortunately, Trumpism and Libertarianism is kind of splintered. All factions are slightly splintered at this point. That's always a goal.
I know that the GOP machine, unfortunately, railroaded Ron Paul in 2012. He actually won some states in the Northeast over Mitt Romney, but the primaries were stolen from him.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:23 am to RogerTheShrubber
That maybe true, it can be hard for conservatives to be engaged all of the time. I think the constant war on Trump from all sides has opened some eyes. Even had Paul somehow been elected, he would have had to endure the constant demagoguery that Trump did, but perhaps he had better inside connections.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:24 am to AURaptor
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There's more of us than there is of them.
A lot more.
Unfortunately the head controls the body. We must chop it off and grow a new one.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:25 am to HabaneroBuck
The one thing Trump has over Ron is he was somehow able to dodge the anti-semitic label. Not sure why, maybe because of Kush or something. But, yeah, I prefer Ron's brand of politics.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:25 am to bird35
I'd love to slap the taste out of Chris Wray's mouth. Mealy mouthed lying snake. If he didn't have a badge to hide behind I doubt he'd have the spine to do anything about it.
Trump should have fired this bozo on his way out at the very least. I consider it a failure that he did not.
Trump should have fired this bozo on his way out at the very least. I consider it a failure that he did not.
Posted on 5/1/21 at 10:29 am to Toomer Deplorable
Term limits.......
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