Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan
“The Barbarian cannot make … he can befog and destroy but … he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilization exactly that has been true.”
Hilaire Belloc’s depiction of the barbarian is recalled to mind as the statues honoring the history and heroes of the Republic and of the West continue to be vandalized and smashed.
A week ago, the statue of missionary and Catholic Saint Fr. Junipero Serra was beheaded at the Santa Barbara Mission he founded. A century-old Columbus statue in Central Park was defaced and spray-painted with: “Hate will not be tolerated.”
Baltimore’s monument to Francis Scott Key, who observed the bombardment of Fort McHenry on a British warship late in the War of 1812 and was inspired to write “The Star-Spangled Banner,” was covered in red paint. “Racist anthem” was written across it.
In Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement, the university last week had to spend $600,000 to protect an invited speaker of the college Republicans from being assaulted.
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But St. Louis was where the real action was. Friday, a mob hurled rocks and bottles injuring 11 cops, leaving one with a broken jaw. They smashed windows at the mayor’s residence and marched miles to the Central West End to berate diners on patios of restaurants with the menacing chant: “Off the sidewalk. Into the street.”
Saturday, the mob invaded and shut down a suburban mall, and then smashed windows across a nightlife district.
The protesters rationale: rage at a not-guilty verdict in the murder trial of ex-cop Jason Stockley in the death of Anthony Lamar Smith — in 2011.
Stockley’s police van had been struck by Smith’s car, who had been nabbed in an alleged drug deal and led police on an 80-mile-an-hour chase, at the end of which Stockley emptied his gun in Smith.
Yet even Attorney General Eric Holder declined to investigate.
On Sunday, Black Lives Matter showed up at the St. Louis’ police headquarters chanting, “Stop killing us!” But if the killing of black folks is a legitimate grievance, we need to ask: Who is killing them?
Last year, there were 4,300 victims of shootings in Chicago and 762 deaths. How many of those shootings were by cops?
How many of those shootings, mostly of blacks, were acts of “terrorism by White supremacists, White nationalists, neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan,” all of whom our ever-heroic Congress demanded that President Trump, in a joint resolution after Charlottesville, denounce.
Nowhere in the resolution was there any mention of Antifa, the “anti-fascist” fighters on the other side of the Charlottesville brawl, where a protester was run down and killed by a Nazi sympathizer.
What is it in their DNA that causes Republicans reflexively to sign on to a one-sided Democratic denunciation of President Trump for the sin of suggesting there were two parties to the Charlottesville brawl?
And are neo-Nazis really a threat to the republic?
In 1963, this writer was at Dr. King’s March on Washington, which began on the Monument grounds where George Lincoln Rockwell’s Nazis were yelling slurs. On the site where Rockwell’s Nazis stood, there stands today the African-American Museum.
When my father was a 21-year-old Al Smith Democrat in D.C. in the Calvin Coolidge era, scores of thousands of anti-Catholic Klansmen strode up Pennsylvania Avenue, and the national Klan numbered in the millions.
But is the KKK of today a serious threat to civil rights?
Lately, St. Louis and East St. Louis have boasted the highest murder rates in America. Is that the doing of white supremacists?
This morning we read there have been so many smashed and stolen bicycles that Baltimore is canceling its Bike Share program.
Did David Duke and his Klan friends steal all those bikes?
Who are the ones shouting down speakers? Who violently disrupts political rallies, on campuses and off? Who engages in mob violence after almost every police shooting of a black suspect? As for interracial assaults, rapes and murders, according to FBI crime statistics, these are primarily the work of black criminals against white victims.
The Justice Department should report on hate crimes by white racists. But from the stats, anti-white racism is far more common and far more manifest in crimes of violence. Who reports that truth?
Are Christian supremacists murdering Muslims in Europe, or are Muslim supremacists committing acts of terrorism in Europe and conducting genocide against Christians in the Middle East?
The left has been marinated in an ideology where the enemy is always to the right. People blinded by ideology, unable to see the true enemies of their civilization, end up losing it, and their lives as well.
“We sit by and watch the Barbarian,” wrote Belloc, “We tolerate him … We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond; and on those faces there are no smiles.”
I keep thinking that one day people are going to get really pissed off. I am surprised it has not yet happened.
It’s no surprise Llpoh. The ones that should be pissed off, people who read TBP have jobs and responsibilities to family. We all know we’re not going to throw it all away to start the next CW until we are absolutely backed into a corner with only one way out. Right through the middle of the mob with guns ablaze and nothing left to lose.
That’s how I envision it anyway.
The mood has yet to shift.
It is measured by the stock indexes. Optimistic, trusting people bid prices higher. And they have, to the orbit of Mars.
Am I wrong in claiming that the same Pollyanna-ish mood underpins the public’s “tolerance” (apathy, torpor, take your pick of word) for:
Tranny this and tranny that.
Chimpouts in St. Louis, Baltimore, etc.
Flooding the country with Mestizos.
Said Mestizos acting like they’re owed something.
Black on white crime.
Brown on white crime.
The fact we can’t have nice things any more.
Faggots insisting we pay for their drug cocktails so they can have 200 sex partners a Saturday.
Lesbians shrilly lecturing us.
Affirmative Action quotas making every institution a make-work program.
College degrees becoming useless yet unaffordable.
The list goes on and on.
People have to be almost DRUGGED to put up with this crap. I submit they are, they’re drugged by their unconscious herding urges to accept this insanity….for now.
When the markets fall and interest rates rise, choking off the borrowing addiction, ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE.
It will be like Rip Van Winkle waking up and realizing he’s in the process of being sodomized by a gang of low IQ invaders and savages.
Throughout history, the strong defeat the weak and rule, or just kill, them.
People today are no different than all other people throughout history, the human race hasn’t mutated in the last several generations into something different.
Life is a jungle, and in the jungle only the strong survive. Survival of the fittest as Darwin mentioned.
Want to know who are the strong and who are the weak in the world today?
Look at who are growing in numbers and who are shrinking in numbers as they do.
Yes, but who are the strong?
Barnum – these days the strong are those that band together and riot. Unfortunately they do so without a plan for the future, and also unfortunately they are the free shit army and its supporters by and large. As a result, the strong are going to destroy everything if the productive do not get on with playing the same game.
Politicians and law enforcement are to blame. They keep good people from taking action.
Barbarian is a term coined by the romans like slavs ( slaves ) who were never conqured, made of of tribes east of the danube, who went on to sack rome and destroy it and free mankind
Because their foreign yammering sounded like, “bar-bar-bar-bar,” to the Romans.
There is ONLY ONE REAL THREAT to our society, our freedoms, our liberties, and our rights. That is government at the federal, state, AND local level. No KKK member, neo-nazi, or foreign terrorist for that matter has EVER taken away rights en masse. Admittedly, taking of someone’s life or property on an individual scale is just as horrible to the individual impacted, but NONE of these groups have done the kind of large-scale destruction that ONLY the government can do. Even Hitler would have just been a pissed off out-of-work artist had it not been for his ability to seize control of the power structure the German people allowed their government to possess. The reason Progressives, liberals, republicans, democrats, and all the other folks who continue to support the massive concentration of power in the hands of government are SO DANGEROUS, is because of exactly that. Until we face the truth that belief in powerful authority over our lives IS THE SOURCE of all of our problems, we will never be free again.
We get the government to which our neighbors consent (or at least, to which they acquiesce.)
Etienne de la Boetie wrote, 500 years ago, that all political systems exist only in the presence of popular consent. Even the most murderous tyranny meets that requirement.
That’s a fact, it’s tragic and I don’t like it. My whole life the society in which I live has gone down hill, and is nowhere near where I think it will hit nadir.
I got a black co-worker who believes all this stuff. He really believes this oppression narrative, despite the fact he has a legitimately good job in a good career field with better money than most and he did it without going to college. I knew his (white) boss who pulled him out of a help desk to work for him, trained him, and got him a much better job and vastly improved his existence based on his professional ability, not skin color. He still rattles off the racist oppression baloney every day. It’s hilarious. For instance, he defends the New Black Panthers. When I mention the voter intimidation story, he shrugs it off because they still let people vote. The weapons, he said, were not an implied threat to anyone. He also defends the original Black Panthers as a, get ready for it, social support organization, like a ghetto version of the Lions or Kiwanis. To him, they were just delivering lunches to people in the ‘hood and driving little old ladies around. He also defends Louis Farrakhan and can’t understand why people consider him racist. He’s a firm believer in prisons as another form of slavery and is an avid fan of The Thirteenth, a radical communist anti-American prison documentary that references such respected sources as 60s terrorists, Angela Davis and James Kilgore, and radical enviro-commie, Van Jones.
To speak with this guy is to visit a strange, inexplicably bizarre world of racism and victimhood.
Be a damned shame if Jabbo slipped on the escalator. Wouldn’t it?
No, he’s a good person at heart. He’s just really brainwashed. He’s a dedicated family man, a good worker; he’s just unable to see outside his lane. As long as you can look past politics, we get along just fine.
BE complacent and agreeable with BLM lunacy or whitey gets fired . I would sever all association with the militant black because you will find yourself behind the 8 ball . Ever since the late 70’s early 80’s the white male is the one all groups can ridicule and criticize and even get fired over the slightest indiscreation . The fathers 9 year old daughter and his wife always know better because they take the advice from the gay biracial couple next door and all white males are babbling fools . This is the narrative pushed out of most media and entertainment today and our court system is infected by it too .
Time may come where white males have had enough sensitivity training and get back to Reality of life . Much of what the left and the BLM agenda is can not be a workable plan for any society and the past 40 years have proven so . Also most of the right agenda has failed the majority of people and on both sides there is a distinct minority that has been able to enrich itself while the majority of people in America continue to lose ground on that American dream . This was and is still no accident ! Sadly Trump continues the play . Wash Rinse Repeat !
One thing I’ve learned is how to work with practically anyone, regardless of my actual opinion of them. That guy isn’t a threat. Like I said, politics aside, we get along just fine. Half my office is liberal, half is conservative and we just sort of avoid getting too deep into arguing over it. Regardless of how someone might feel, we all still have to work together and be able to trust each other.
I’ve seen racism in hiring and firing, but this isn’t an issue in this situation. My previous work place, where we both worked together, was a different story. That one was run by a black-hispanic female with an immense chip on her shoulder. She did try to get me fired on trumped-up charges. She was a total psycho.