Posted on 08/03/2023 6:51:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I only hope I live long enough to see it and to participate.
Another great article by J.B. Shurk. I highly recommend clicking over to read the whole thing.
The point was hammered home in San Francisco a while back.
the people will not freeze to death
the people will warm themselves by the bonfire
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Maybe true in Greek times but the Greeks didn't foresee the power and effectiveness of media control, sophisticated propaganda, and institutional dominance. Its a different ballgame today, what one might call the Golden Rule. He who has the gold makes the rules, is unaccountable, and see's no need to ever apologize.
Very good article.
Throughout history “elites” are better defined as those who inherited wealth or a legacy. Those that initiated or actually created the foundation of their power were usually upright, moral decent people. These elites whatever the civilization or era more often than not embrace hedonism and decadence. Today in America many newly minted elites have created great wealth have deified themselves , have little or no moral underpinnings and unabashadly wish to impose their thinking and “values” on the rest of us. There no longer exists a common consensus of decent values to unite Americans as these “elites” seek to control the political discourse, the media, academia and rule the world.
Took the words right out of my fingers.
Mortars and automatic grenade launchers have no respect for gated communities or security guards.
“The Downing Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991. The IRA launched three homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the headquarters of the British government, in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister John Major and his war cabinet, who were meeting to discuss the Gulf War.”
“One of the 140 pounds (64 kg) mortar shells exploded in the back garden of Number 10, yards from the Cabinet Office. Due to the bomb-resistant windows, none of the cabinet were hurt, though four other people received minor injuries, including two Metropolitan Police officers. The other two shells overshot Downing Street and landed on a green nearby.”
“An IRA co-ordinator procured the explosives and materials needed to make the mortars. The unit began making the mortars and cutting a hole in the roof of the van for the mortars to be fired through. They reconnoitred locations in Whitehall to find a suitable place from which the mortars could be fired at the back of 10 Downing Street, the official residence and office of the British prime minister.”
“In November 1990, Thatcher unexpectedly resigned from office, but the Army Council decided the planned attack should still go ahead, targeting her successor John Major. The IRA planned to attack when Major and his ministers were likely to be meeting at Downing Street and waited until the date of a planned cabinet meeting was publicly known.”
“On arrival, the driver parked the van and left the scene on a waiting motorcycle. Several minutes later at 10:08 am, as a policeman was walking towards the van to investigate it, three mortar shells were launched from a Mark 10 homemade mortar, followed by the explosion of a pre-set incendiary device. This device was designed to destroy any forensic evidence and set the van on fire. Each shell was four feet six inches (1.4 m) long, weighed 140 pounds (60 kg), and carried a 40-pound (20 kg) payload of the plastic explosive Semtex.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_mortar_attack
“The improvised mortar properly called “barrack buster” - known to the British security forces as the Mark 15 mortar - fired a 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) long metal propane cylinder with a diameter of 36 centimetres (14 in), which contained around 75 kg (165 lb) of home-made explosives and had a range of 75 to 275 metres (246 to 902 ft).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrack_buster
He is also outnumbered by thousands to one. Pi$$ing off enough of those thousands could result in a bad outcome for the gold-holding rule-maker!
The traitorous scoundrels in America are on the verge of complete defeat and they know it.
They have seen the enormous crowds gathering to see and hear Donald Trump. There has been nothing like it in American history.
The Left are a complete failure. Everything they touch turns to sh*t. The cities they control are becoming so dangerous and filthy, nobody wants to live there anymore so the decent people there are fleeing. The gigantic commercial buildings in Democrat cities are vacant and becoming worthless.
Their desperate attempts to pervert the law are signs of their imminent defeat.
“‘Elites’ cannot hide...”
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Already wrong.
Stopped reading.
When has this actually been true?
There are no consequences. That’s why it’s only getting worse.
They don’t have to hide yet because NOTHING is being done but talk.
“On 12 October, 1984, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England.”
“Thatcher was still awake at the time, working in her suite on her conference speech for the next day. The blast badly damaged her suite’s bathroom, but left its sitting room and bedroom untouched. She and her husband Denis escaped injury.”
“The bombing killed five, none of whom were Cabinet ministers....Several more were permanently disabled, including Walter Clegg, whose bedroom was directly above the blast, and Margaret Tebbit who fell 4 floors and after undergoing two years of treatment recovered some use of her hands but used a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Thirty-four people were left injured.”
“Mrs. Thatcher will now realise that Britain cannot occupy our country and torture our prisoners and shoot our people in their own streets and get away with it. Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always. Give Ireland peace and there will be no more war.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
“Once investigators had narrowed the seat of the blast to the bathroom of Room 629, police began to track down everyone who had stayed in the room. This eventually led them to “Roy Walsh”, a pseudonym used by IRA member Patrick Magee. Magee was tailed for months by MI5 and special branch, and finally arrested in an IRA flat in Glasgow. Despite days of interrogation he refused to answer questions – but a fingerprint on a registration card recovered from the hotel ruins was enough to convict him.”
“Magee was released from prison in 1999 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, having served 14 years (including the time before his sentencing).”
“Of those killed in the bombing, Magee said: ‘I deeply regret that anybody had to lose their lives, but at the time did the Tory ruling class expect to remain immune from what their frontline troops were doing to us?’”
A legitimate attack on the leadership of an army whose troops were an occupying force in their home country, much like the Ukrainian attacks on Moscow.
I rooted for the IRA to kill British troops until they started blowing up pubs full of civilians to take out a few soldiers. If we were invaded and occupied, I'd be out there ambushing the occupiers, so I can relate.
But the IRA leadership eventually went Marxist, which soured me on them. I still sing their songs in the pub, though!
Joe Biden is the face of ‘white privilege’.
Biden makes me think of the movie “Being There”...
“It’s for sure a white man’s world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-ant. And I’ll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with rice pudding between th’ ears. Shortchanged by the Lord, and dumb as a jackass. Look at him now! Yes, sir, all you’ve gotta be is white in America, to get whatever you want. Gobbledy-gook!”
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