A Word to the Wise

I have no idea if Major General Higginbotham actually penned this or not but it is a stark warning, one that I have maintained for years, that a civil war in North America (if it happens in the USA it will take Mexico and Canada along for the ride) will not be as cut and dry and as some folks would like. There are no definable sides to our current predicament, no political organization to speak of, and as such a wide spread conflict would become chaos in short order. The continent would get very tribal very quickly. Political ideologues proceed with caution. You won’t like what you are about to read.


“If you are paid $25.00 an hour to show up to a rally to “counter” the other party using physical force and violence, you are not a “counter protestor.” You are a mercenary.

There is no need for further debate on this. You were paid to attack someone you don’t know for reasons that you couldn’t care enough about to go there for free. You did your “job” and collected your check and your reimbursement of expenses. You’re a mercenary.

Not a Patriot. Not a Social Justice Warrior. Not a Defender of Freedom or Liberty. Not an upholder of Truth or Justice. None of those things you claim to be. You are a mercenary.

And mercenaries are not lawful combatants and deserve whatever comes their way at the hands of the people they are attacking.

You have no 1st Amendment rights when you’re a mercenary.

Doesn’t matter what side you’re on. Doesn’t matter what cause you’re showing up to disrupt. If you can’t express yourself peacefully through diplomatic means, then you better be prepared to meet your maker at the hands of someone who is only barely keeping their own violent tendencies at bay through a massive exercise of self-control.

I know it sounds romantic to attend these rallies and get shit started with the other side. And when you’re young and passionate, it’s really easy to get whipped up into a frenzy of raw emotions. There is a reason why young people are preferred when it comes to warfare. They are easy to manipulate and control and set off.

But I’m telling you all this right now. You’ve got no idea what road you are starting down. Romance and idealism wears off really fast when you’re laying in a pool of your own blood trying to stuff your intestines back into your torn abdomen.

I’ve been lucky enough to go forty-two years without having to put the skills I learned in the Marines to use. I continue to train and keep those skills up to date because I see the madness that is happening all across this country. I don’t train to attack others like you do. I train to defend others FROM you. I’m not alone either.

There are thousands of men and women in this country who have seen war and death and don’t want any more to do with it. They want to live in peace. They want to forget the things they’ve had to do in the service of their country. They want to raise their kids and have family BBQs and build tree houses and soap box derby cars and have tea parties.

They don’t want this shit that you’re selling.

You have the extremist left and the extremist right that are doing their best to get something started. To force us into a Civil War. Even in the 1860’s, the violence between the North and South was nowhere near what we see today. Nowhere. Even. Close.

And yet we still had a war of ideology that consumed hundreds of thousands of lives.

All you young and naive kids on both sides of this equation who think that having a Civil War will advance your agenda or restore your vision of what you think is America, just remember this… Those of us older generations aren’t having any of this shit. And if you jump off, you better be prepared to deal with US. We don’t care what color you’re wearing or what sign you’re holding if you come after us, our friends, our family, our co-workers, our neighbors, etc., WE will kill you.

So remember that when you’re thinking that it’s just Left vs Right, or Liberal vs Conservative, or Commie vs. Fascist. We are the variable you’re not considering.

That “Silent Majority” that you pretend does not exist is getting really sick and tired of your bullshit.

Geoffrey B. Higginbotham
Major General, USMC (Ret.)

-SS

 

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Anonymous
Anonymous

A civil war in America might look more like what John Ross predicted, but on steroids and with other countries and interests joining in to pick the winners and losers.

FWIW, Civil wars are not called that because of their civility.

Rise Up

Ok, we know George Soros is backing and funding the Antifa, but who is backing the “Alt-Right”?

Bet it’s also George Soros. Whatever it takes to sow discord and chaos, me thinks, is his agenda.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

I don’t think the “Alt-Right” has any backers other than itself, the people that make it up.

No one is paying them to be the Alt-Right, they seem to be covering their own way by themselves.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage

Interesting, general, and up to a point wise. I am also a former Marine (the correct term for a Marine no longer on active duty, by the way – but you are always still a Marine.). I am your age, more or less. I went through TBS in 1976.
You lump left and right in the same pot, no difference, eh? You and the boomers want to watch football and BBQ. Fair enough.
You claim to speak for your and my generation. You don’t.
The Leftists are Marxust criminals who hate this country. The Right consists of patriots. Misguided, extreme, angry? Yes, but you have no right to question their love of America – the Left openly despises our country.
I spent much of my life fighting Communist terrorists fughting to seize political power in Latin America. General, you are the one who does not know what we face unless the Left is defeated and destroyed. I do.
You are nothing but a Paul Ryan, a John McCain or a Mitch McConnell.
All I can say is tired, cynical old geezers like you should shut up and not stand in the way of the young who wish to save the country OUR generation ruined.

razzle
razzle

He’s been living in an environment that has become so accustomed to capitulating to marxists that it seems like *that* is the normal… and any pushback that has any teeth and success FEELS like right wing extremism to most people, even if it’s just words on a webpage that cause unpleasant emotions.

razzle
razzle

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https://farleftwatch.com/2017/08/29/austin-antifa-group-declares-everywhere-a-battlefield/
“Reclaiming violence means making revolutionary violence available to be utilized by all types of comrades at all levels and all abilities.”

BL
BL

All 18 of them, wow scary stuff. The professionally made banner and matching commie kerchief over their faces is indeed threatening. Run for the hills, the commies are coming.

I’m pretty sure they were paid to do this photo, it’s too silly to be on the up and up.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You are free to look into them yourself.

About
https://www.facebook.com/redguardsaustin/

Could be satire, could be. From their contacts you can continue to follow through to other associated groups if you are so inclined. Perhaps you could ask them if they and all those they consider themselves of like mind with are irrelevant for us. Perhaps start hanging out with them.

You might like ’em actually.

BL
BL

OH noes ….even scarier….they are on FARCEBOOK…..I iz beside myself. The commies are really too much, really.

RedGuardUSA
RedGuardUSA

Keep up the good work comrade. Your efforts here have been invaluable to our revolution.

Quik Hit
Quik Hit

They’re righties putting on a farce. The left don’t know how to hold a rifle with their finger off the trigger. Look at them all holding the rifles safely. Nope, it’s a fake

AC
AC

There are thousands of men and women in this country who have seen war and death and don’t want any more to do with it. They want to live in peace. They want to forget the things they’ve had to do in the service of their country. They want to raise their kids and have family BBQs and build tree houses and soap box derby cars and have tea parties.

Then maybe the General should have taken the appropriate steps fifty years ago, to avoid what is coming. You want to live in peace? Tough shit. You, and people your age – especially people in any position of authority – are directly responsible for the situation we are in now. You caused this.

He says he wants a good future for this country – but it is a future that he has made impossible, without drastic changes to the course of the country. The things he says he wants for the future, are the things the “extreme right” is actually working to make a reality for this country. The General can pretend things are going well, because he is far closer to the end of his lifespan than the beginning. The younger generations will not survive an entire lifespan with that level of self-delusion.

To have this man, so detached from reality, lumping the extreme right (as he puts it – the only people that are even attempting to address some of the great many problems created by the General and his ilk), in with the communists who are actively attempting to destroy this country and its population, indicates that the General is incapable of even comprehending the situation.

My advice to the General, and those like him, is to go play golf – while better people work to fix the catastrophic mess we have inherited.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

Indeed, the General wants peace at any price (a price that will be paid by working people and conservatives), which is disgusting….and not going to happen.

Philip
Philip

I like your response. All over the alternate media you hear the same ‘threat’ as posed by the General: “if you come after us, our friends, our family, our co-workers, our neighbors, etc., WE will kill you.” Seems he doesn’t want to be bothered until it’s marching down his street or knocking on his door and, by then it’ll be too late. Probably one of those that in past elections ran to the polls and pulled the lever of his favorite political party no matter the candidate.

No, civil or international war is not pretty but, why do we keep walking or in today’s world running towards the destruction? Oh yeah, it’s the new football season and were going to have a B B Q.

They tell us that liberty isn’t free yet, no one wants to pay the price. It’s OK though for us to send our young to die in some crap hole or shell out trillions so an Afghan who has no concept of liberty can be free. Will we ever learn?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Could not agree more with this general. Period.

Fiatman60
Fiatman60

All I can say is “I have the General’s back on this one”

Not Sure

FWIW, it looks like the General is singling out the mercenaries who are in the fight without any convictions. I am not aware of any mercenary freedom of speech protesters/white heritage defenders who were paid for their participation, but I could be wrong.
OBW, when I saw the title of the article, I couldn’t help but open it, pretty smart eh?

MN Steel
MN Steel

Click-baity, definitely.

The only paid “right-wing extremists” that I’ve even seen given lip-service were the ones filing off the buses with Antifa/BLM/SJW forces.

And that group almost definitely included “folded Swazi-guy” in OD-shirt and khakis that appeared in every single MSM photo spread.

But WTF do I know, being just a hick metal fab vet on the edge of the sticks…

Montefrio

We’re starting to see a small resurgence of this sort of thing in Argentina. The electorally defeated left, led by the corrupt Cristina Kirchner, goes to the slums, rounds up some rabble-rousers, pays them a pittance to climb aboard a bus to be taken to a “demonstration” or “protest”. They get the local equivalent of a hot dog plus a ball cap or even a tee-shirt when they dis-board and don their masks, then start blocking thoroughfares and throwing rocks. These days, though, the police let loose on them, much to the delight of many. Don’t want to be over-optimistic, but I believe they’re down down here. Too many people remember what happened the last time around (the “Dirty War”) and the middle class has grown enough that “class warfare” is a concept that has run its course.

When will the USA put these people in their place?

Centurion1222
Centurion1222

Mercenary; one who expects payment for the use of his military skills. At your peril, do not place them in the category with BLM or the “masked hoodies” parading around with signs and sticks. Mercenaries serve a purpose when the normal citizen can not or will not face an enemy. It is a time honoured vocation, if you’re not up to the task, don’t knock it. The “Merc” may just bite your arse.

JIMSKI
JIMSKI

Everybody re read the Turner Diaries. Had no idea that book would be so prophetic.

EL Cibernetico
EL Cibernetico

The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce (founder of the white supremacist organization National Alliance), published under the pseudonym “Andrew Macdonald”.[1] The Turner Diaries depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the federal government, nuclear war, and, ultimately, a race war. All groups opposed by the author, such as Jews, gays, and non-whites, are exterminated.[2] The book was described as “explicitly racist and anti-Semitic” by The New York Times and has been labeled a “bible of the racist right” by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[3][4]

As a cultural artifact, The Turner Diaries is political fiction that presents the means by which white nationalism (white separatism, eugenics, etc.) can be established with a race war against the perceived non-white enemies of the nation.[5][6]

RCW
RCW

“Even in the 1860’s, the violence between the North and South was nowhere near what we see today. Nowhere. Even. Close.”

Major General Higginbotham, I DO beg to differ as I think you missed your mark by making this statement that warrants either re-zeroing or re-reading our history from the 1850’s. See accounts of the death & destruction inflicted upon the dirt people in Missouri & Kansas by the Bushwackers & Jayhawkers. And I speak for no one but myself.

GilbertS
GilbertS

I don’t like war and I don’t think it’s a nice thing. I don’t like violence and I am repulsed by it. Sadly, I think it might be necessary at this point for us to physically decide these issues we can’t seem to solve any other way.

The left in this country has been pushing us to this point for decades and they’ve gotten away with it because the right is, more or less, civilized and non-violent. They’re not wussies, as I believe the left believes, but just well-mannered and well-intentioned patriotic citizens who are slow to resort to violence, aside from self-defense, but will rise to the challenge once assaulted.

I believe Civil War is inevitable and I believe it is the left’s fault. And once the violence is unleashed, they’re going to be stacked like cord wood.
And they’ll deserve it.

One side fills most of the military, police, and emergency services.
One side owns most of the guns, supplies, and ammo.
One side has most of the work ethic and survival skills.
One side has most of the arable farm land and self-sufficient skills.
One side has most of the families, reproduces itself, and is more community-oriented and makes most of the charitable donations.
A different side is primarily entitlement-driven and not self-sufficient.
A different side doesn’t build communities or families.
A different side believes their problems are others’ fault.
A different side resorts to violence and sabotage to further their goals.

And it’s going to be awful and cataclysmic and it will probably damage the entire world economy.

What’s more, there are a lot more issues than left-right. We have conflicts between rich-poor, north-south, east-west, city-country, repube-demonrat, religious/non-religious, Christian/muslim etc.

Ultimately, I am firmly convinced this will devolve into a race war because race is the simplest, most easily-identifiable group affiliation in this country and the left has worked to divide us be race for decades. Even if you aren’t a racist, and most of you aren’t, I suspect eventually you’re going to be driven into the arms of your skin color group because members of the opposing groups will only see your color. Just like Yugoslavians were reduced to their ethnic/religious groups, despite intermarriage and shared culture, we will be reduced to our apparent skin color. Black Whites, like Obama, and White Hispanics, like Zimmerman, will be forced into their apparent skin color group, regardless of their personal opinions on the matter. Those who refuse to adopt their skin color group, like some prison movie, will be excluded and open to assault from all sides.

And expect this race-based conflict to lead to a wholesale looting of military, police, and paramilitary organizations to arm these racial groups. Thanks to the DOD arming cops with military gear, expect even the smallest towns to field violent paramilitary race-based militias and ethnic cleansing to be the rule across the land. Look up Arkan’s Tigers for an example of what we’re probably going to see and where many of you may find yourselves employed on a day-to-day basis.

Ever read Civil War II? The author theorizes this could easily mean we’ll see a 50+ mile dead zone stretching across the land around every ethno/racial enclave; 50 miles being roughly 2x the average range of our artillery.

Ultimately, he suggested the US will break up into at least 3x race-based nations, including a black south, hispanic southwest, and white north with small minority enclaves around big cities awaiting the majority group’s “final solution.” This new America(s) will lead to some unusual and desperate trade arrangements, with some regions being energy and industry-rich and food-poor, while others are food-rich and industry-poor, and some urban areas just being sealed-off to wither.

Before this period of conflict draws to a close, I suspect we’re going to see millions of dead and injured and displaced people nation-wide and from Canada to South America. America might even end up being occupied by external powers, but any nation attempting to come into the Great American Freakout will probably find itself suffering massive casualties as we burn ourselves down.

I don’t think the author of this article is right. I doubt veterans are going to step up and stop this. I think they’ll be sucked into their affinity groups and find a new productive outlet for their professional skills.
Personally, when the balloon goes up, I plan to send my family overseas first thing, lest they get caught up in the conflagration. I figure my Eastern European relatives will welcome them with open arms. They know what it’s like when all hell breaks loose and they’re probably not interested in seeing it consume another generation of their family.
America… It sure was nice while it lasted!

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Rise Up

That is one DARK assessment, Gilbert.

Hope to hell it doesn’t come to pass.

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TampaRed
TampaRed

I went to Wikipedia and looked up Arkan-a thug who was good to have on your side.

Maggie

Interesting way to assess the aftermath, but would THREE be enough? Are the Asians going to do everyone’s laundry and clean houses?

GilbertS
GilbertS

Not nearly enough of them to make up more than a bubble in any particular area. Asians generally get along OK with whites, perhaps they might co-exist or make common cause against the rest? China Town will probably be China Town again.

Anon
Anon

“I believe Civil War is inevitable and I believe it is the left’s fault. And once the violence is unleashed, they’re going to be stacked like cord wood.
And they’ll deserve it.”
Wrong. It is not the lefts, or rights “fault”. It is the OLIGARCHS fault. They love this “left vs. Right” shit. Lets place blame where it truly lies. The reason people are pissed off is that they have no means by which to make a living, and things are so goddamned expensive that even if they could, they cannot enjoy them. It was the same scenario that caused the rise of Hitler, and the subsequent death of the Jews, Pols, and WWII. It is also the same things that have caused (indirectly) the rise of Islamic terrorism, etc. Idle hands are the devils tools.
People with meaningful work, and prosperity do NOT follow sociopaths. They simply aren’t interested in that IF they have far safer, and more fulfilling things to do. Do you think Soros would have any willing “employees” if they were all working on much better things, had homes and wives that counted on them? Hell no, they would be at home, probably mowing the lawn on Saturday, or at the office giving a presentation on a weekday.
If the large majority of young people in this country were NOT being siphoned dry by the sociopaths and oligarchs, through Fed money printing (loss of buying power), “healthcare”, student loan debt, the fact that almost everything of value now MUST be financed to even begin to “own”, they would NOT be out protesting anything. It is little coincidence that EVERY war that has been waged in the last 100 years (and maybe even longer) has been brought about by only two things: Land and Wealth. And land is the means through which wealth is largely created, so in many ways, they are one in the same. Period, full stop. If people could rationalize who the real evil is that causes this (not Robert E. Lee statues or Russia) there would be a rush on just a few buildings, mostly in Washington DC (not Wall Street, as Washington is the enabler) and a few key people marched out in handcuffs, that would subvert – quickly any war that may happen.
That, unfortunately though is NEVER what happens, as humans seem to have this problem with unchecked emotion, and failure of critical / logical thinking.

TampaRed
TampaRed

no,it IS the left’s fault because they choose to participate in class warfare,whether by legislation,activism,or violence/physical intimidation.

GilbertS
GilbertS

No, it’s the left. They’ve been pushing for this for decades. Every Day and in Every Way, the left works to create division, hatred, and violence. Remember who started the “Texas is Karmic Retribution for Trump”-bullshit last week? Lefty assholes said they wouldn’t donate to help red state victims (ignoring the fact the epicenter of Harvey is, in fact, a blue city.)

Start with Anti-Freedom. Look at the dems and leftards physically assaulting anyone who supported Trump. Cathy Griffin’s headless president pics. I’ve always seen Terrorism defined as “the use of force, or the threat of force, to gain one’s desired ends.” That definition fits the left pretty well. Just look at their many, many violent assaults on Trump supporters. The “Punch a Fascist” campaign. Oh, decades of divisive racist rhetoric from the left to get the blacks up in arms while simultaneously lowering educational standards and expectations to the point of turning out illiterate morons speaking an incomprehensible patois, virtually guaranteeing their nearly-total unemployability, and ensuring they have a permanent angry underclass. And we can’t forget their tendency to create fake racist events when they can’t find authentic racism to fit their agenda. They even argue it’s OK to make up a fake swastika “sighting,” or rape, or anything else, as long as it makes us talk about race in a meaningful way. Seen any banana peels in trees lately? Remember “white latinos” and Zimmerman, the edited 911 call, and the inaccurate 11-year-old Trayvon pics? Go to Obama, who appears to have made nearly every decision from the point of view of “What will hurt America most?” He did his part to destabilize things. Hell, he started his political career in Alinsky’s living room. My personal experience is even the leftists who refuse to use physical violence will still vandalize your shit and resort to libel and slander against you, even doxxing and false accusations, to harm you in any way possible. Go back to the dem supporters who torched, rioted, and looted RNC offices during the previous few election cycles (and may have been using these violent riots and assaults to steal computers for opposition intel purposes). How about the demands for assassination of Bush and the violent rhetoric of the Bush protest years? They even made a “nostalgic” movie about killing Bush. Go to the campus insanity and violence. Let’s not leave out Klinton’s use of FBI files to attack conservatives and the RNC, his sell-off of US secrets and stategic industries to the Chinese and others. Go farther back to the radical leftists of the last 30-50 years, many of which worked hand-in-hand with the soviets. Don’t forget the Saul Alinsky-ites who worked to wreck the country from the inside-out in order to topple the system and create a communist utopia. And let’s toss in FDR and his ilk who worked hard to wreck the economy and force it under govt control. He even stated he knew Social Security would fail, but long after he was gone. We could go even farther back to Woody Wilson’s tyrannical rule.

Everyone on the right isn’t an angel, and there are even some serious assholes that are on the right, but you can’t accuse them of trying to wreck the nation from the inside out. (Even most of the white supremacists out there are also hard-core patriots.) The right is not generally known for violence, intimidation, libel and slander, organized campaigns to silence critics and prevent opponents from being employed (aside from the most egregious incidents, like Griffin’s Trump Decapitation photos). Nor do they have the ability to really effect the population in the same way, since the left completed their Long March through the institutions long ago, taking control of education, the press, entertainment, and much of the government bureaucracy. The right has been on the losing end of nearly every cultural and social battle for decades. They lost abortion, gay marriage, trannies, welfare spending, religion in schools, religion in public, gays in the military, women in combat, trannies in the military, and…. I guess they’ve kept guns and talk radio and just barely held the line on illegal aliens. With the right’s track record of losing as often and as thoroughly as they do, if they were as violent as the left accuses them of being, you would think they would have been murdering people left and right long ago. But that didn’t happen because they’re generally civilized (most, not all) and adhere, more or less, to the rules.

Nope, it’s the left and it always has been. They’ve been working for decades to wreck this country from the inside out. They always seem to feel free to use any violent rhetoric and they’ve finally taken it to the point where the nation is teetering on the edge of widespread violence.
So in my opinion, when it finally kicks off, one side will be primarily at fault and they’re going to reap what they’ve sown for years and years and years.

EL Cibernetico
EL Cibernetico

In a fight between a dog and a pig, the ultimate victory belongs to the butcher – The Art of Wealth

BL
BL

Me thinks FM has sniffed the coffee and sees the truth. Oh yes, you Canucks with be right in there with us in the third act of BS.

GilbertS
GilbertS

We might have just received a temporary reprieve from the Civil War with the decision to make Anti-Free Speech a terror group.
So what happened? Did the folks running the operation decide the black shirts had accomplished their mission, or did the outpouring of love over Harvey hamper their plans?

yahsure
yahsure

The country is too mixed for this thinking. I would offer that the left and its bad thinking is being slowly fed to us by the media and many in power. A war of ideals?

cali
cali

The left need to think about how long they can poke, poke and poke until they get bit. The silent majority will not remain silent forever nor will they continue to give them the other cheek. The s#it will stop rather sooner than later since their plan for an outright resistance summer in their warped little minds will not play out as they envision.
I agree with the general in how that will go down for them!
Lastly it is said that the plug on Antifa has been pulled. We will see how their media cheerleaders are reporting that as criticizing them already pops up here and there. I wonder whether the designation of being terrorists is the turning point.

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