Tag: Evil Bastards

First Issues

Bad News

I’ve been watching the events unfold over in the UK, and not for the entertainment value of a bunch of working-class people boiling over with rage at how the masses of immigrants have more or less taken over their country — and yes, it is their country.  I would venture to suggest that a huge majority of the protesting working class folks have roots in Britain that go a lot further back than those of the many “immigrants” (legal and illegal) that now live in Britain, and let me tell you, that has to count for something.

You see, their forebears endured all sorts of hardship for King and Country — the trenches in WWI-era France, fighting against an evil empire, and having their cities bombed and their civilians killed by the next-gen evil empire, to mention but two.

I’ll bet that a huge number of those protesting working-class men have ancestors who go even further back:  ancestors who fought for king and country at Balaclava, Isandlwana, Waterloo, Malplaquet, Trafalgar and countless other times when their king (and sometimes their queen) asked that they make the supreme sacrifice for the sovereign and their country.

It is a long and storied heritage, and one quite worthy of veneration.  In fact, I envy them that heritage.

So when you see that this heritage is being subverted and dismantled by wave upon wave of people who do not share that heritage, who would seek to replace their system of ancient British law with some loathsome gobbledygook like shari’a, wokism, Communism or a ghastly combination of all of these, where individuals have no rights and their basic freedoms of thought, religion and speech can be suppressed by some new regime of oppressors, a regime actually supported by their elected government over their own — and it must be said, shared — heritage… well, small wonder that ordinary people are rising up against it.

And needless to say, the powers that be — in this case, the horrible governing Labour Party, but it’s difficult to see how the Conservative Party would have behaved any differently — have described these disaffected people with all kind of sobriquets  (“Right-wing thugs” being the most common) and even gone after those who support the protestors by their own speech, with elderly people being arrested for Facebook posts and other online methods that, so far, fall outside government control.

Small wonder too that this new breed of totalitarians, this ghastly soup of bureaucrats and politicians, want to clamp down on the freedom of speech;  only this time, they want to extend their reach past the shores of Great Britain and prosecute citizens of other sovereign nations for daring to speak against them and their terrible actions.

We (citizens of said other nations) are being cautioned to avoid going anywhere near the UK, lest the British government use that opportunity to arrest us in situ  (where we are beyond the help of our own governments) had we ever dared to voice opposition to them and to their actions.

I love Britain.  Well, let me expand on that a little.  I love the British heritage, its history, its castles, its monuments, its countryside — hell, I even love their silly Royal Family — and I’ve visited there often, enjoying every single minute I was there.

No more.

Simply by writing this post, I could be added to some BritGov list of undesirable people and face arrest at the airport should I ever be in a position to go back there.  So why take the chance?

A number of my British friends — and I have many — have told me in no uncertain terms that they are making concrete plans to leave their country of ancestry and birth for other climes.  “I don’t care for where the country is headed” is a common theme, but here’s one — a classic libertarian — who responded in a completely different manner when I asked his opinion of current events:

That should tell you all you need to know.

The bobby’s helmet used to be a symbol of all that was good about British policing:  unarmed, civilized, part of the community.  Now it’s synonymous with government thuggery (although it’s instructive to note that they don’t wear those helmets anymore and they sure as hell are not unarmed).

Let’s hear it from Rule, Britannia!

♫ ♪ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ “Britons never never never shall be slaves.” ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

Uh huh.  No wonder they’re rioting.

It’s a good thing they aren’t allowed to own firearms, isn’t it?  (That’s not a snarky comment;  that’s a sentiment most likely being expressed all over the British government and its police force.)

Update:  I see that in my Comments section there have been one or two instances of what might be termed “hate speech” by the Wokists.  I can only hope that more of you follow that fine example.  If I may say so:  the Wokists haven’t seen real hate yet.

Quelle Surprise

Freaks & Loonies, Marxists

Here’s one little story that shouldn’t really surprise anybody, but apparently it has.

This man went to a Kamala event wearing a Trump shirt, and a Trump event wearing a Kamala shirt. The difference in how he was treated was stunning.

Look, the Left (especially in the Western hemisphere) has always been characterized by its boorish (and often dangerous) behavior when it comes to dealing with people who don’t share their loony little vision of a perfect world.

Of course, that boorishness extends to “Establishment” institutions as well.  I remember Brando’s immortal line from On The Waterfront The Wild One  where he is asked just what, exactly, he has got against the Establishment (or, in the modern idiom, the belittling term “normies”).  His snarled answer of “What have you got?” typifies the attitude.

“Whatever we want is great and wonderful;  opposition to that — no matter how well-founded or realistic — is not only wrong, but evil.”

Hence the vituperative reaction of Lefties to a Trump t-shirt at one of their rallies.

Conservatives, on the other hand, tend to be a lot more tolerant, even accommodating in the opposite scenario, which is probably one reason why the Left has been able to extend and indeed entrench its various little substitutions:  free love for morality, intolerance for opposition, and so on.

Taking just one comparison:  when the Left — in the shape of the loathsome Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Abbie Hoffman and their cohorts — took over college campuses in the late 1960s and the decades which followed, conservatives allowed them to occupy campus administration buildings in the name of “Free Speech!”, only evicting them when their behavior became too extreme to bear.  Of course, that takeover had dolorous consequences, because those Leftists and their philosophical progeny took over campuses really took over universities and entrenched their foul little political philosophy by becoming lecturers and administrators.  (One has only to look at what the Ivy League colleges have become to see exactly how rotten this takeover has made them.)

Now, of course, as the Left occupies most of academia and the media, not to mention popular culture, any opposition to them is not treated with the same respect as they were accorded, but with feral hostility.  (One has only to see the reaction of the Left when Elon Musk turned Twitter from a Leftist organ into something more open-platformed to find evidence of such.)

One would expect such hostility from younger people, because young people are often passionate about their beliefs (even when, as is often the case, when they are demonstrably wrong).  But if there’s one unifying characteristic of the modern Left, it’s that even their older adherents are similarly intolerant, and often as violent.

The comments to the above post are quite telling, and mostly reveal the stark differences between conservatives and the Left, e.g.:

 

You see, we make jokes about tossing Lefties from helicopters (thank you, General Pinochet);  but the Left is the side which actually has the death squads, mass executions, gulags and “re-education camps”.

And if you think that such an outcome is impossible in the United States, you’re as delusional as they are.

Quiet Skies

Government Thugs, Surveillance Society

Apparently, Tulsi Gabbard is on the dreaded “SSSS” list:

This story began two weeks ago, when the former Hawaii congresswoman returned home after a short trip abroad. In airport after airport, she and her husband Abraham Williams encountered obstacles. First on a flight from Rome to Dallas, then a connecting flight to Austin, and later on different flights for both to cities like Nashville, Orlando, and Atlanta, their boarding passes were marked with the “SSSS” designation, which stands for “Secondary Security Screening Selection.” The “Quad-S” marker is often a sign the traveler has been put on a threat list, and Gabbard and Williams were forced into extensive “random” searches lasting as long as 45 minutes.

“It happened every time I boarded,” says Gabbard. The Iraq war veteran and current Army reservist tends to pack light, but no matter.

“I’ve got a couple of blazers in there, and they’re squeezing every inch of the entire collar, every inch of the sleeves, every inch of the edging of the blazers,” she says. “They’re squeezing or padding down underwear, bras, workout clothes, every inch of every piece of clothing.” Agents unzipped the lining inside the roller board of her suitcase, patting down every inch inside the liner. Gabbard was asked to take every piece of electronics out and turn each on, including her military phone and computer.

I suspect she’s on the SSSS list because of stuff like this:

Not having flown on any airline for many a year, I wouldn’t know if I was (still) on the SSSS list (story here and here) and it doesn’t look like I’ll be doing so anytime soon either.  But should I take to the Friendly  Quiet Skies again, it will be interesting to see if my inclusion has lapsed, so to speak.

I think I’ll pack the 1911 in my checked luggage, just for giggles.

And I wasn’t aware of this little thing.

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

From a Reader who was once in law enforcement:

“When I was a cadet at FLETC back in ’83 we were told (off the record):  ‘Never join any team or Task Force set up by the FBI.  They either want some information you have and they don’t or they want someone to blame when they fuck up.’

“Forty-one years later and it has become a nation-wide mantra.”

Indeed it has, and they deserve all the scorn and shunning they get.

Quote Of The Day

Marxists, QOTD, Resistance

Here’s the background to the quote below.

This is as true in the U.S. as it is in the U.K.

“It is hard to avoid the conclusion that we are ruled by people who fear the anger of the masses following acts of inhumanity more than they do the acts of inhumanity themselves.”

Note the overreaction of the political class to the theater of Jan 6, 2020.  If what’s happening in the U.K. now were to happen in the U.S., there’s no telling how they’d react.

Oh wait;  something like that did happen, when the Antifa/BLM riots leveled whole areas of various cities and anarchy became the order of the day in places like Portland and NYC.

But those riots were virtuous riots, you see, riots that were actually supported by the ruling- and media elites.  If ever there’s a furious backlash by conservatives against — oh I don’t know, say massive and palpable vote fraud by the socialists which prevents Donald Trump from winning the November 2024 election — you can be damn sure that the Marines will be mobilized, posse comitatus  be damned.

This is going to be interesting.