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The foreign adulation of Obama proves only one thing—they like him because they see him as not very American.
I'm sorry, President-elect Obama, but I don't feel very healed by this election.
Opposed to a black President? I am not reconciled yet to John Quincy Adams.
I hear that local gun sales are up 49 per cent. I can think of many reasons why this might be so.
It is said that a conservative estimate of more or less direct corporate welfare donated by the U.S. government is about $90 billion per year—before the recent bailouts.
What if the federal government had to send you an itemized statement of how your income tax was spent?
What if the federal government was required to adhere to a simple honest practice of "pay as you go"?
What if the federal government had to abide by Jefferson's dictum that no debt could be incurred lasting more than 19 years (a generation), i.e., that the present generation cannot consume the earnings of future generations?
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"Opposed to a black President? I am not reconciled yet to John Quincy Adams."
Well maybe next time, John Calhoun won't go groveling to the likes of George M. Dallas and his cronies in PA.
Even if the Jack Kemp or Fred Barnes variety "conservative" is too obtuse to understand the symbolic meaning of the election of Barack Hussein Obama, the Left does understand. The Left- blacks, Hispanics, self-hating whites, feminists, homosexuals, Daily Kos and Democratic Underground liberals- views the election of Senator Obama as a giant step in the dissolution of the remnants of the old republic that they so dearly despise. The "conservatives" of the Peggy Noonan, David Brooks or Mona Charen stripe can pontificate about how wonderful it is that a black with the bizarre, non-American name of Barack Hussein Obama can be elected president, the hard truth of the matter is that Senator Obama's coalition wants to revolutionize America into something incomprehensible not only to George Washington but to Dwight Eisenhower or even Lyndon Johnson.
"I hear that local gun sales are up 49 per cent. I can think of many reasons why this might be so."
Its true. I hear AR-15's are selling like hotcakes and AK and SKS ammo is shooting up in price. I also read about a fellow who purchased a whole pallet of 9mm ammunition....thats 100,000 rounds!!!! I guess he plans to go down fighting.
Great post Dr. Wilson. I always look forward to yours.
I'm not yet reconciled to Madison's war.
A friend of mine put up a nicely crafted homemade sign about a week before the election, "No BO in the White House."
But Mr. Obama fits perfectly in the line that began with A. Jackson. The Stupid Party creates crises which the Evil Party then exploits. Since 1933 it has taken the form "depression--New Deal--war--New Deal--recession--New Deal--war--New Deal," each time ratcheted up a notch. Now the Evil Party will compete the purchase of Big Business. Next time...?
The fact that Obama is black bothers me little, and likewise his name. I'm bothered by the fact that he is obama!
Obama's ideas are thoroughly communist. The cult of personality which surrounds him is not unlike that surrounding Hitler, Stalin or Mao, which is a dangerous sign because it means there are people willing to do his will, just as the SS did Hitler's and radicalized student groups and community organizers [sic] did Mao's.
Dr. Wilson have you ever heard of George Washington's dream? My priest was telling me the other day (as he gave me a list of ammo he needs!) that Washington was shown a vision by a lady of the Southern war for independence finally of a red cloud which would cover the union and bring disaster. Finally it will recede and the union will survive to the end of time.
If true do you think that Obama is the red cloud?
From King George III to Barrack, what a fall! Guess the old regime wasn't so bad, afterall.
What bothers me about Obama is that like Bush his appointees will be running the White House.
Do you think Obama chose his staff which includes the most supremacist people and war criminals like General James L Jones who engineered the NATO bombing of Serbian civilians in 1999 when he served as NATO’s Supreme Commander while leading the American operation in Kosovo.
Obama is a Brezinski puppet and this is a Brezinski administration.
You could have a cardboard cut out of Santa as president and it would be just the same.
To be fair to Obama, I think he is closer to Pierre Trudeau, Oolof Palme or the younger Tony Blair than he is to Hitler, Stalin or Mao. But think of the cultural damage Trudeau provided Canada. That is what Obama wants to do for the USA.
"The Left- blacks, Hispanics, self-hating whites, feminists, homosexuals, Daily Kos and Democratic Underground liberals- views the election of Senator Obama as a giant step in the dissolution of the remnants of the old republic that they so dearly despise. "
Pitiful clueless fools. Dissolution of the Republic? This is not all out of tune with America's foreign policy of late.
Why is it that "conservatives" who are supposed to be associated with limited government and free enterprise, and liberals who claim to be against corporations, foriegn war and imperialism, both seek their remedies through the federal government?
I've tried to explain this to my liberal family members. I ask them "who provides power and protection for corporations, and who declares war on distant nations? The answer can only be the federal government. So, I continue, why do you wish to strengthen the power of the federal government? Why are you against decentralization, states' rights, homeschoolers, and the sovereignty of intermediary institutions like families and churches?
Similarly, I pose this question to seemingly normal and conservative people. Why do you approve of foriegn wars and having military bases all across the world? Do you not see that a powerful centralized government is needed to support these ventures? And why can large corporations receive subsidies and ignore zoning and environmental laws, yet small farms and businesses have to jump through hoops to survive? Doesn't it have something to do with the relationship between corporate executives and government bureaucrats, I ask? If you believe in limited government and some kind of home rule, why do you support a senseless wars and a global economy? I don't think I've yet received any answer from either party.
Isn't there a common link in all this? Why can't people put two and two together? I failed 11th grade math, but even I know that 2+2=the federal government is the f#@$ing problem!!
Mr. Wilson,you forgot one, Jefferson Finis.
Mr. Cooney, I think you will find most writers for and readers of CHRONICLES support a withdrawal of American military forces from most of the world(Korea, Japan, Iraq, Europe..) and do not support any foreign wars America has been engaged in the last several years. For that, the most prominent have been smeared as "unpatriotic" by neo-conservatives.
Mr. Leaberry,
Oh no, I wasn't referring to readers and writers of Chronicles. I was speaking generally of the mainstream dichotomy between liberals and conservatives. I know most, if not all, participants on this site see the federal government--as it exists today--as an enemy of the common good. I was just reflecting on the impossibility of getting that fact through to anybody else.
@2: Mr. Leaberry, it isn't even a question of the Republic; it's even deeper and yet simpler than that. My beloved grandmother of nearly eighty years, hardly an intellectual or scholar and a small but tenacious lady, said in her patient resignation to the results of the election, "The majority has spoken!" I told her that that was exactly what bothered me about the elections: not that Obama won, nor that he is black, but that a man who is so flagrantly hostile and antithetical to everything about traditional American history and culture carried a majority of votes in one of the highest turnouts in American electoral history. It was, I said, a sure slap in the face against the likes of her Austrian parents who wanted to build a better future for their children in the Atlantic and a sign that the PLACE they came to and loved no longer exists, and that they do not want it to exist. Grandma seemed to feel exactly the same way as I.
A true American conservative cannot help but understand that his country is dead. What will become of the place when the perverted democratic republic (I know the first of the three makes the phrase redundant) has its way, I shudder to think.
"But think of the cultural damage Trudeau provided Canada. That is what Obama wants to do for the USA."
I don't think Canada was in nearly as bad of a state in the 1960's as the United States is today. Imagine if someone came to modern Québec and decided it needed to become more secular. The grand Basilica of Our Lady of Montréal would surely be demolished, the Catholic Church outlawed, and the priests of the Fraternité Sacerdotale de St-Pie X in the District of Canada would be flayed alive in public.
Mr. Cooney is of course running up against the bane of anyone opposing our unreflective, know-it-all culture. Just as the denizens of Air Strip One knew it all, if they knew enough to love Big Brother so it is with us. People cannot or will not think independently. They know what they have been told and all other possibilities, even if factually supported, are anathema. Further proof that the man who remarked that the propose of propaganda is not to persuade but to limit the bounds of discussion was correct.
Sorry that last line should read:
Further proof that the man who remarked that the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade but to limit the bounds of discussion was correct.
"I hear that local gun sales are up 49 per cent. I can think of many reasons why this might be so."
Here in these climes, guns and ammunition are very hard to find; and when they are found, they are found to be quite expensive. Folks are anticipating the outlawing of so-called assault rifles, multi-round clips and several kinds of ammunition; hence, the haste to purchase. The sheriff informs us that we should anticipate more home breakins as folks with criminal intent steal the guns in order to turn a profit. Some hold that the incoming regime might well outlaw assault rifles already purchased, making it illegal to continue to own them. We shall, I am quite sure, see!
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I do believe the 'Finis' middle name of Mr. Davis is a myth.
Mr. Peters @18
I still think the gun craze we're experiencing is probably a tad premature - I do not believe for a moment that Obama will spoil his moment and alienate his supporters in states like Virginia and North Carolina so quickly. The blue collar vote is probably what tipped those two state of Old Dixie to Obama, albeit for economic reasons.
The Democrats probably learned a lesson from 94', but we'll have to see how they will attack the Right to Keep and Bear Arms covertly. My guess - tax on ammunition, a step up of BATFE's enforcment, and perhaps the 'ballistic testing' nonsense.
After a little consideration it's obvious that the election of Barack Obama to The Presidency really wasn't the ground breaking event people would believe it at first glance to be. After eight years of the dull-witted George Bush, it should by now be obvious to all and sundry, far and wide, that ANYONE really can be President of The United States, and I mean anyone.
The reason bullets are getting expensive -- prices have more than doubled in 2 years -- is because of demand for lead and copper in India and China. Some of my re-loading friends pick up lead weights that have fallen off wheels so they can melt and mold new ammo.
The election of this character to the egg - shaped office is the sign that the end of the old order is imminent. By that I do not mean that either the cultural Marxists or he will be able to finally erase the old culture a.d create the bizarre, nonsensical world they want. Rather, I mean that the collapse of the empire is imminent, and things, forces, and events will spiral out of the elites' control, and they will wind up in history's garbage dump where they belong. A more natural and saner order will arise.
@2: Mr. Leaberry,
"The Left- blacks, Hispanics, self-hating whites,..."
Obviously, all blacks and Hispanics are not Leftists. Most, probably, but that's not what you wrote. Heck, I know of one colored fella who almost never misses a John Randolph Club meeting.
#24 In certain ways blacks seem more conservative than whites. Perhaps even more "paleoconservative" than whites. When blacks go to Church and funerals, they were wear suits and have their shoes polished. At my college, most of those I would call "dedicated Christians" are blacks, and the only on campus Bible study is organized and attended mostly by blacks. While the white students are in the campus ministry "ending world hunger and poverty," these blacks seem to be more interested in learning their faith and living it out in their daily actions and relationships. We all know the statistics of crime, teenage pregnancy, and broken black communities, so I'm not going to idealize them, but to some extent I see a more genuine and realist approach to life among blacks than whites.
Perhaps Paleos can make a pitch to intelligent black folk. I've heard of worse ideas.
To athanasius at #5:
I first read of this alleged dream of Washington's in a pamphlet in the back of my parish. It struck me as an attempt by Catholics in the late nineteenth century to prove they could be as American as Protestants.
Looking up "George Washington's dream at Valley Forge" on Yahoo, I clicked on snopes.com. It turns out it was published in "The Soldier's Casket", a newspaper begun in 1865 by Philadelphia journalist Charles W. Alexander. The man had a history of fabricating visions of famous Americans like Washington, George McClellan, Abraham Lincoln, and Ulysses S. Grant and then offering them for sale in his paper.
The dream or vision supposedly was told to "Wesley Bradshaw" in 1859 by Alexander Sherman. There was an officer in the Continental Army named Alexander Sherman but he wasn't at Valley Forge where Washington had this alleged vision.
Mr. Hackney, I endorse fellowship with any right-thinking person irrespective of race, ethnicity or religion. However, having grown up in Prince George's County, MD(in the very town, Seabrook, where the late Sam Francis lived when he died), a county that went through a demographic revolution within a short two decades, I am skeptical that many blacks will ever be sympathetic to any sort of conservatism nor develop any sort of devotion to the old republic and Christian European civilization(not that most whites are much more sympathetic). A supermajority of blacks view big government as a friend, benefactor and protector. Yes, I can agree that in some situations like Califronia's Proposition 8 blacks and Hispanics showed much more sense than whites in reafirming that marriage is an institution binding one man to one woman, but this is an anomaly. Blacks still voted 97 % for Barack Obama who, if he had his druthers, would just as soon support homosexual "marriage" just as the Big O supports any corrosion of Christian-based culture. Barack is the black god, the magician who will free them from mortgage payments and credit card debt.
@23: "... I do not mean that either the cultural Marxists or he will be able to finally erase the old culture a.d create the bizarre, nonsensical world they want. Rather, I mean that the collapse of the empire is imminent, and things, forces, and events will spiral out of the elites’ control, and they will wind up in history’s garbage dump where they belong. A more natural and saner order will arise."
Some say that I am bitter and cynical after many years of living in large cosmopolitan cities; some say things are still different in the American South. When I lived in the South it was in Miami and therefore assuredly *not* THE SOUTH, but regardless of the many amicable Southerners that I have met (a higher proportion that most other sectors of American society), the (admittedly little) time I have spent in the actual South did not make me terribly confident that the bulk of Southern youth will prove capable of carrying their ancestral banners through this generation.
Accordingly, while Mr. Wilson is a well-intentioned and down-to-Earth man whom respect, I must dissent. The damage to the cultural tissue of Occidental society runs far deeper than the political apparatus, and moreover is endemic--and most importantly, in North/Anglo-America it has reached terminal proportions. When the system collapses I am afraid it may mean the end of Anglo-American civilisation once and for all, and its replacement with a more natural and simpler Latin American peasant order.
I am not taking pleasure in this, but I have been speculating grimly about the ultimate fate of my country since at least 2004 and while I have entertained my share of rather spectacular obsessions* I have not been far wrong.
*On that note I must apologise for the grim mêlée canadienne depicted in my post #15. For the record I am not immune to my own morbid candour. In fact, I paid a heavy price for writing that; I woke up this morning in a cold sweat with horrifying and very real images on my mind.
29NGPM:
I admired Pierre Trudeau's sharp intellect... The man could speak volumes with very few words and expose intellectual fallacies with sarcastic brutality.
One quip in particular stood out: Mr Trudeau was being grilled by a number of reporters about the runaway costs incurred by the Canadian Post Office at that time. One reporter pointedly asked Trudeau what he was going to do to save money at the post office. Mr. Trudeau's reply: "If you want to save money at the post office, close it down!" The reporter stuttered and mumbled that that was not what he meant. Mr. Trudeau: "It is not the job of the post office to save money. Its job is to meet the legal obligations, and to get the biggest bang for the bucks allocated by parliament." (this last part somewhat paraphrased). Just brilliant I thought at the time.
What I never understood was his failure to govern Canada in an economically responsible manner, even though he had attended the London School of Economics, I seem to recall.
Apart from this failing, and it was a major failing, he would never, for example, have put up with the runaway antics of our home-grown kangeroo court known as the Canadian Human Rights Commission, they of such intellectual deficiencies that public proclamations of "The Truth is no Defence", and "Free Speech is an American Concept and (we) give it no Credence" are proudly proffed for public consumption.
And the silence of public outcry is absolutely deafening! This glee in public of such ignorance may be likened to those that proudly proclaim that they are lousy in math, English, geography, or whatever subject an educated and civilized individual should have a reasonable command of in our technological society. I am sure there is commonality here.
Many of the social ills afflicting Canada now are being blamed on Trudeau, which I think is wrong, but perception is everything in politics.
Trudeau would have been the last person to blindly implement policy based purely on ideology.
Tossing the Anglo-American "civilization" onto the scrap heap of history is the best that could happen to the most brutal and warmongering group of people to ever walk on God's good earth. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Unfortunately with the collapse of any political system, violently or otherwise, comes great disruption along with carpetbaggers and crime. As you pointed out so very well the veneer of civilization in the current western world, and particularly in North America, is so thin that the results of such collapse is likely to make a bad situation much, much, worse.
However, I believe it to be necessary if there is to be any hope for our planet. Continuing with the current insanity will surely obliterate humanity.
H.F. Wolff
@30, H.L. Wolff, apropos the intolerable "Human Rights Commission" you mentioned, check out this link http://www.remnantnewspaper.com/Archives/2008-1130-allesio-news.htm concerning one its decisions. It should cause you to at least grind your teeth. If this institution is not an incarnation of the Double Standard, then I don't know what is.
"Tossing the Anglo-American “civilization” onto the scrap heap of history is the best that could happen to the most brutal and warmongering group of people to ever walk on God’s good earth. Good riddance to bad rubbish... I believe it to be necessary if there is to be any hope for our planet. Continuing with the current insanity will surely obliterate humanity."
Yes, the present state of Anglo-America is a very bad thing, but do you really look forward to the up and coming hegemony of officially atheist China? Is this really a better fate for the world? When I say the civilisation is about to disappear, I also mean the population which comprises the civilisation. This population is in a bad way but they are my people, as much as I may be ashamed of that fact, and I feel like I'm just standing on a plateau from abroad helplessly watching them destroy everything that was even nostalgically homely. Where will we go and what will we do? Some of us have European relatives who will take us in. Others, like me, have work contracts that are getting us into Europe, but how long will that last?
Re: Trudeau, while no one man can be blamed for the cultural damage that took place in the 1960's and 1970's across the Occident, Trudeau belongs with the culprits of legitimisation of deviance and murder. Whatever his impressive qualities, his legacy is stained with the blood of the 43 Québécois children who are hacked to death before birth for every 100 born alive.
31J. Meng:
The Canadian Human Rights Commission, along with its junior partners in the provinces and territories, is indeed a colossal blight on Canada and all Canadians.
Unfortunately many Canadians do not see it that way as they are fair weather free speechers ie. free speech is ok as long as its agreeable speech.
H.F. Wolff
32NGPM:
"...but do you really look forward to the up and coming hegemony of officially atheist China?..."
No, No, NO! And I do not think that I said or implied such a thing. I think the Chinese should do, within their borders, whatever they deem good for themselves. Western society must also do what is best for it and get rid of malicious activities designed to diminish it.
What I wish and hope for is a distillation of the best CHRISTIAN ideas and policies that western Europe and North America has developed over the last 500 years or so. Combined with the best ideas of other and ancient societies it would be quite an intellectual feast.
Of course I'm dreaming in technicolour here because one man's feast is another man's famine. But it is an ideal to strive for. It would be necessary to begin with a few Christian fundamentals such as "Thou shalt not kill", and "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's". These two points cover a lot of ground, and I for one would wish to see every piece of legislation measured against this standard.
And any portion of the population that didn't like it could just leave... I'd even be prepared to spend the tax payer's dime to ship out the malcontents that wish to destroy all and everything that is good in Christian society.
Business decisions should always meet the criteria that it be good for our society. Business obviously needs to turn a profit, but it should also benefit that society which makes it possible to turn that profit.
H.F. Wolff
29 NGPM: I fear you are right. Most Southerners seem to me as useless and worthless as any Yankee or Canadian. That's why I never said that the South may rise again. Whatever might be saved by a collapse - whether Southern or not - will likely be saved by shear accident, but the collapse will at least make that possible.
30 H.F. Wolff: Your point is made as far as the current socio-economic and cultural order goes. It is bad rubbish and it must go. The next question is what is best for we 'Anglos' - for we have every right to survive as a race and as distinct peoples. As for what would replace the current order, your recommendations @ 35 would certainly be a step in the right direction.
36Allen Wilson:
My nature and business makes me a realistic pessimist.
And yet I believe that western man ('Anglo' only because we happened to speak English, right?) will survive and prosper.
My belief stems from the fact that western man has fought some truly terrifying fraticidal wars, and for what?
On this basis I conclude that once the threat to our western culture and fundamental way-of-life directly affects the man-in-the-street it will be easier to mobilize opposing forces, and fight similarly terrifying battles to protect something worthwhile for a change.
As it stands most people still have way much to lose and are thus resistant to any call to arms. Consequently things will have to get much worse before any attempt to organize resistance would be successful.
Let history be our guide here: It took the Spanish only 400 years to toss out the Moors!
H.F. Wolff
I think you are right, Mr Wolff.
37, Mr. H. F. Wolff, forgive me this piece of trivia, but I think the Reconquista took longer than 400 years. Taking the year 1492 as the year of the expulsion of the Moors, history points to the second half of the 8th century where Spanish remnants held off the Muslim scourge and from that point on began to reclaim Spain, bit by bit. It was more like 700 years.
39J. Meng:
I stand corrected; and 700 years of revolution seems excessively long for what is needed. Time to begin the fight now.
In another thread on this blog I have advocated a method of fighting. I would invite critique and suggestions as to better & improved methodologies.
Surely the current system cannot go on?
H.F. Wolff
@40, H. F. Wolff, You surely are gracious. As to the other thread, if it is the one about imposing universal non-spending, I have no critique. If it does not offend you, I would like to inject some theological notions, here. This is what I believe based on the last 500 years of history, and I am drawing from the Book of Apocalypse. Viewing the presesnt situation in the world, but especially, in the Western world, it appears we are living in the times of an unchained Satan. The rebellion against the authority of the Catholic Church, the concommitant movements of naturalism and rationalism leading to the ever secularization of human society (meaning the ever diminishing spirituality of most of us) through political and economic liberalism and scientism and technology by which industrial-based nations have emphasized the material over the spiritual, and the movement away from rural-agrarian ways of life, have made of us nothing more than never-satisfied consumers in an arid, cultural wasteland. The only solution for individuals in this historic colossal catastrophe is to keep the Faith, and if one doesn't have it, to pray for it. Patience and doing what one can within one's station in life is all that is expected. If one is able to buy some land, as you did, wonderful. It will be of immeasurable practical value in the days coming. However, there will be no economic or political solutions to the situation plaguing mankind. Human institutions without God don't work for the benefit of mankind. Beware the great man who appears to solve all of these problems: he is the Anti-Christ, and many will follow him. Our Hope and the only real Solution will be the Second Coming of Christ -- a day to be feared by wicked men. When that day will be I have absolutely no idea, but we must await it with hope and patience while Hell stalks the earth. Let us act with charity and pray for each other.