Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Chairman Mao, the unspoken hero of our garbage ruling caste, understood that power flows from the barrel of a gun, and it’s not unreasonable to wonder whether the institutions in America that carry guns – law enforcement and the military – and who are supposed to protect us will turn those guns on us if commanded to by the ruling elite.
Stop wondering.
Their answer is that to a greater extent than those of us who grew up in America, when it was a free country before it became our present crypto-leftist tyranny, want to admit, they will. Right now, they are hiding news that undermines their rule. They are censoring opponents. They are locking up political dissidents. And eventually, when the current junta feels truly threatened by the emerging backlash from patriotic citizens, too many of these alleged protectors will kill for their masters – and I mean more than just the occasional and totally unpunished massacres of unapproved dissidents like at Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Pretty harsh? It is harsh, but it’s not wrong. Explain why that is the red line they suddenly stop at when they have blasted through the red lines of lying, of censorship, and of framing the opposition using a two-tier justice system. “Yeah, those things are fine, but we won’t go all the way. Oh no, never.” Where’s the guardrail that is going to block the trend that is now sending SWAT teams out to bust people for praying at abortion clinics from accelerating into actually using those big, scary assault rifles?
Remember, we’re not just political opponents. We’re monsters, not even human, and dehumanization is the first step toward murder. In their hideous propaganda – memorably delivered by that brain-dead corrupt husk on TV against that ominous red and black background – we are extremists, terrorists, enemies of democracies and – regardless of our skin tone – “white supremacists.”
What do you do with people who pose such a perilous peril? Their civilian catspaws have the answer. They kill them on the streets in riots over dead thugs, at a congressional softball game, in a Christian school. And when that doesn’t snuff out the embers of freedom, who can argue that the elite will hesitate to use the organized forces of the government to do it” Sorry kids, but the logic of their hate and desperate grasping at power leads to blood, ours. And the leftists would cheer our governmental deaths as just and necessary and beautiful just as they did those amateur atrocities.
Remember Ashli Babbitt? Remember how they delighted in her murder? Remember how her killer is free and unpunished?
We thought we could rely on the members of these institutions to refuse the commands of their leaders if those leaders turned them upon the citizens. We properly hanged Nazis for “just obeying orders” and established a personal responsibility not to be a cog in the gears of tyranny. But look at our law enforcement agencies today. Look at the disgraced FBI, an organization that differs from the Stasi only in that many of its members are fatter. They share the communist secret police’s leftism and the delight spying on and framing citizens. The agents have accepted pursuing political opponents, framing a president, and all manner of lies and deceptions, and we know they accept it all because they don’t resign. A few whistleblowers have come forward, but the vast majority have stayed at their posts, participating indirectly or even directly in the oppression that is the hallmark of this modern Ministry of Truth. We can only hope that those few good apples don’t contaminate the barrel full of bad ones.
Why do they do it? Human weakness. Most have invested in their shabby careers. Most are eying pensions. They go along. They follow orders. And if you think that, given the order and the chance, they will not pull a trigger for the ruling class, well, I have a burnt patch of Texas dirt to sell you. Cheap.
Some will do it eagerly. Some will just do it to keep their jobs. But they will do it, and they will try to justify it to themselves. They will high five each other telling themselves how they are protecting democracy by capping people who dare exercise it. Get it through your heads – this is the result of years of selective hiring and grooming and making clear that you must conform or be cast out. They have built an organization that will protect the ruling class against any threat to its hegemony, and if that means threatening you or framing you or even killing you, they will do it.
Tell me I’m wrong, but support that position with evidence and not cliches like “The vast majority are dedicated to doing their important work defending our country.” Yeah, like defending us from the threat of borderline mental defectives their informers convince to LARP at revolution, or maybe busting granny for taking a Rotunda selfie. Again, the trend line is toward the worst case scenario and there is nothing in the way to stop its downward plunge, except maybe nominating and electing Ron DeSantis instead of a Democrat or some sissy Republican who desperately wants it to be 2005 again so s/he can pretend that federal law enforcement is not today a determined enemy of liberty.
But the FBI is a law enforcement organization and it functions only when the criminal justice system – which is equally a farce on multiple levels – is itself sort of functioning. If that charade collapses, out comes the military. Remember all the collective panty-wetting at the New York Times when Senator Tom Cotton wrote an op-ed suggesting Trump use the troops to crush the communist BLM/Antifa rioting? That will last about a second when the threat to the ruling elite’s hold on power is people like you. Then they will eagerly unleash their dogs of war.
So, will our military kill American citizens to suppress opposition to the junta’s rule? The leadership will certainly do it without hesitation. Again, the leadership has been carefully selected and groomed to accept that order if and when the time comes. Milley is clear that he thinks the greatest threat to America is other Americans. Oh, the brass hasn’t won a war in thirty years, and the Chinese are laughing at us in Mandarin as the Navy’s pride flag-waving ships run into each other on the open seas, but they have plenty of time to root out “extremists” in the ranks. And by “extremist,” they mean people like you – the very folks who traditionally serve in our military. Conservative. Patriotic. Cognizant of which bathroom to use. Those people, the enemy of the ruling caste. They have been largely pushed out of the senior ranks, and those that remain keep their heads down counting down to retirement. And few new ones are flowing in – the woke military can’t meet its recruiting goals.
Now, right-wing anarchist imp Michael Malice recently posited that: “The conservatives joking about how ‘woke’ the military supposedly is becoming should realize that it would be far easier for the Federal government to use a ‘woke’ military against them and their families.” This is true, but so is the fact that it will be – hell, it already is – a bad military. Our disastrously-led forces lost to a bunch of mountain tribesmen. Do you imagine their performance fighting ticked-off fellow Americans, who do not want arms and many of whom got military training back when we had a real military, will be better?
His concern also overlooks another key point – the wokeness is in the senior ranks, where your commitments to the fascist ideology that is DEI signals that you are down with the struggle and therefore trustworthy for advancement. These senior leaders, like their FBI counterparts, have an investment in the institution. But all is not lost. The regular joes and middle-level leaders, though shedding many of the patriots that once filled the ranks, are less inclined to that nonsense since they have less of an investment. Most are doing a single hitch; they have no pension to protect. These are the folks who would be expected to do the dirty work, and the dirty work would largely be atrocities committed upon their own people. If it got ugly, we could expect significant desertions and some level of non-compliance, even mutiny. Whole formations in National Guard units, which work for state governors, might resist intact. And it can be fixed quickly with a real leader who clears out the Pentagon deadwood.
But let’s not overlook the fact that a lot of troops would still obey such an order, even if it meant suppressing their fellow citizens. There is a cheery notion to consider, though. The military and law enforcement can put maybe 3,000,000 people on the streets, and a lot of them are support and logistics.
There are about 150,00,000 patriots. If it all goes to hell – and, sadly, the trash who run our institutions are dumb and evil enough to make it all go to hell – I still like freedom’s odds.
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And that Mr. Schlicter, is why I am prepared for the enemy when he comes to my doorstep. I can’t run and shoot anymore, but I can still shoot, and the goal is to take more of them with me.
NOW, do I think DeSantis is the answer? Maybe, maybe not. But I will support the conservative nominee for president with all my heart. Another question you failed to answer is: What happens when the Left steals the election in 2024? Will Conservatives take up arms at that point, or will we wait patiently for the railcars to arrive to transport us to the camps?
Kurt. You just now figured this out?
Bravo, here’s your sign.
Sheriff’s deputies in county next to mine shot an unarmed man (white) at the door of his trailer with his hands up. Captured on home surveillance. Nothing happened to the deputies, nothing! They are led by Democrats.
Got the video? Care to share?
I can’t link it, but I saw it, 2-4 months ago.
https://wlos.com/news/local/cherokee-county-murphy-jason-harley-kloepfer-swat-man-shot-police-releases-surveillance-video-shooting-facebook-indian-police-department-sheriff
“Hands Up; Don’t Shoot” is only good policy for joggins.
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! — Henry Kissinger
Well color me shocked! An entire article from Kurt without any gatekeeping BS. On the other hand he is not saying anything new or groundbreaking. I was in the Army for 6yrs (1980’s) and have always known they would follow orders when told to suppress their fellow citizens.
I do hope that this may wake up a few normies aka the only people that take Schlichter seriously.
They just need a new kind of leadership, starting with the people. Sherrifs, deputized citizens, patriotic governors, action from the States. Article explaining more about to drop in 3, 2, 1, …
Does anyone believe the Ashley Babbitt story?
Not necessarily, but it’s good for our side….
Thee is complete film footage of her getting murdered. Some things are what you see. Nothing else about her matters.
Not really very good footage and a little sketchy at that what there is. There are people (actors) on TV getting murdered all the time and getting a paycheck for it. Video can be a very good vehicle for telling the truth, but it can also be used to deceive billions of humanity. That should be obvious after just going through covid.
I’m personally about 50 / 50 in if she did or didn’t, as anything I see on vid, or anything I don’t personally see (mostly), is rated on a sliding scale.
Lying signs and wonders is very apt for today’s world, and it is slated to get worse. They won’t even need actors, and if possible for even the elect to be deceived.
Yep. Everyone needs to let go of the notion that there are still good people working for the institutions. All that’s left is order-takers and zealots. The order-takers may complain because they fashion themselves as “religious conservatives” or “moderates” but they will still conform to the organizational culture and follow the orders to keep their job.
Why don’t police officers refuse to enforce the legalized extortion scheme that is speeding tickets / traffic cameras? Why don’t doctors stand up to mask mandates and unhealthy, non-nourishing food in hospitals? How come there weren’t any officers in the military refusing to enforce the covid mandates until the legality of the order was resolved in court? The answer to all is that it is easier to bide your time until you can quietly quit (and never support that institution again) than to crucify yourself trying to reform a corrupt institution from within. That dynamic leaves only people who are comfortable with the corruption remaining within the institution.
The truth is the exodus has already happened…from the military, police, healthcare, academia, government, you name it. Covid was the test and any who endured that humiliation and overreach, then chose to remain have revealed their true character.
Amen…
These fuckers will kill their first born for that pension.
You mean our first born.
The big collapse, is it a coping mechanism? Is it a wish fulfillment wet dream? If such an event were to occur all the armed minions of the overlords can be expected to participate fully… on the side of the overlords. One does not become a minion of the overlords due to a strong sense of independent self reliant competence. One becomes a minion of the overlords due to a sense that the powerful organization will provide adequate food and shelter, and a place to exercise unearned but delegated power over others.
The decline will continue and the desirability of jobs working for the overlords will become stronger as poverty and instability increase among the people. Once one has that secure check he will do what he is told to keep that secure check.
There’s no help coming from the ‘rank and file’ of any of the overlord’s agencies in this slow decline into anarcho-tyranny.
Take the time to watch, learn & listen. Thoroughly astounding.
Then pay it forward to the ones in your sphere who need a wake up slap to their skull full of mush.
Could not agree more.
Kurt moves another inch closer to the reality of the situation except for the unspoken vote harder, but for DeSantis this time.
At his current pace, I expect him to come to the truth just a few minutes before it’s all over. Good for him. Not so great for those who might rely upon him.
I reckon Kurt will get it figured out around the time they’re loading him into the box car.
“There are about 150,000,000 patriots.”
In his fucking dreams.
He’s including “Summer soldiers and sunshine patriots.” All of you remember this, that we aren’t going to line up in a field like in flintlock black powder days. Done right , they won’t even see the guy who explodes their pal’s head all over them from 400 yards away. The guys who sabotage every police car in their town during shift change. The kid who puts glass in their hamburger or drugs in their drinks. Etc. Once Normie gets hold of the .50 BMG’s off a couple of ambushed Hummers it starts to get real interesting.
It does not have to happen. It’s up to them. How they can be doing these things is simply unfathomable.
They know not what they do, per usual.
1000 up votes
I met guy a few weeks ago who trotted out the old democrat talking point that you can’t fight the government because they have F15s. When I pointed out “you” don’t fight the planes, “you” target the pilots, he walked away mad.
Gravel in the right area…….
Just learn where the pilots’s families live
If their patriotic allegiance is to Mammon, I believe it.
Who have done, are doing, and will do, nothing.
We are experiencing the total collapse of a dying empire and it will be ugly. The plutocrats running the ship are plowing headlong into the iceberg of KARMA and they will replicate in their own way the demise of all Western empires. TPTB turned on us decades ago its just too many folks are just discovering how corrupt the politicians, FBI and Deep State are; anyone remember COINTELPRO? Look at the Church Committee Reports to see what was going on Post WWII as far as government criminality and overreach are concerned. https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/83873/1/24878642_Townley_Thesis.pdf
The plutocrats are bolder now and even more psychopathic as they pursue their megalomaniacal agenda for global hegemon. The sooner we stop pretending not to know what we know and are experiencing the better our chances of surviving the collapse.
Any white person who joins the military is lacking something upstairs…Apart from anything else, blacks and women have been promoted over whites for 3 decades now, without regard to merit…It’s a dead end…
Hey. It’s not like ANY of us are getting out alive, so what difference does it make, really?
Every fucking time.
There is a difference between Federal and Local law enforcement…I live in a Red state and I don’t fear the local cops, they have families and jobs just like the rest of us. Actually I don’t fear much of anything because I live in the knowledge I’ve done all I can to survive and will take each challenge as it presents.
They all have the same appetites and they all feed from the same trough.
Everyone has an opinion…isn’t America great.
Bring it.
Indeed. They are sorely mistaken if they think this will be a cake walk for them. For Christians, death is understood to be a reward. We don’t fear it. I, for one, have zero problems with standing and delivering in a Just cause.
The kids sitting in a room flying drones will not hesitate to unleash a hellfire on any target they are given. It is just a big video game to them and if the Lt. tells them this is the house of a terrorist, then it is “weapons free” time.
325 million Americans, plus what? Maybe 80 million illegals by now? Just how many Hellfire missiles do you suppose they have? I’m betting it ain’t even close to enough.
“Be where they ain’t and aim where they’re gonna be” – TCS, 2023
The 325 million includes at least 25 million of the illegals in the country and I would guess the total number of illegals to be closer to 40 million.
It was less than 3% of the population who fought the British. If Washington, the Adams, Franklin, Hancock, Hamilton, Jefferson and a handful of others had been taken out, the revolution would never have succeeded.
You can bet your bottom dollar the FIB is looking for any leader to stick his head up so he can be taken out of the game. If things get spicy, the Pentagram will strike anything that looks like a gathering of dissidents. They have been practicing in the sandbox for 22 years. The kids flying the real life video games will not question the target, they will just execute the order.
Seems like they already took a lot of them out over Jan 6th. And certainly drove many more out of the fray like after OKC.
Wasn’t that the whole point of Jan 6?
You could make that argument about any exercise of power by the people. All it works out to is allowing your opposition the win without even a fight, because you are to enslaved to fight. Seems Sun Tzu had something to say about that.
But no I don’t think it was. In fact, they acted like it was their worst nightmare and still do (have the fences ever come down?). And getting the tyrant to act like a tyrant is the start of his downfall (everybody starts to see the hypocrisy and illegitimacy), and usually the cost is way higher (think terrorism) and certainly in many cases far less legitimate than a march of power on power. In war there are casualties. That is never going to change, though you could argue the longer we wait, the more costly it will become (and rallying cries with adequate substance don’t come everyday) .
Though lord knows there is a distinct lack of real leadership.
I may be prejudice though, because I have been calling for (armed) marches since before brady, which is the real reason I used sleep ready to fight with a pistol in a shoulder holster (not that the ex didn’t make me nervous too).
During the Covid propagandized crush of liberty a county code inspector I know took on closing businesses with great enthusiasm.
I pointed out to him that these edicts he was enforcing had no constitutional basis for him to enforce these rules or codes were all illegal attempts to control free people !
His response is typical of a true socialist that survives and thrives on the wealth confiscated from those who produce it !
I got to follow my bosses orders , besides I’m so busy I’m getting overtime pay !
I replied : Your being paid now to shut down the tax base that pays your salary and benefits.
Again he doesn’t get it ! I said you and your boss are just following orders , perhaps you should read about Nuremberg and how just doing my job , following orders is not a viable excuse for unlawful actions!
The time in America fore a rebirth of patriotism is close at hand . I fear that the job left to us and this lost and confused generation of tic toc addicts will become bloody
FORGET ME NOT
Bureaucrats seem to love following orders when it hurts other people.
Backsliding on your “anon” pledge already? That was fast.
Not an anon, it is Forget Me Not, a regular contributor
Interesting effort at distinction.
Those who understand the statement : FORGET ME NOT need no explanation and those who do not may not be trustworthy of the knowledge
So I just need to add “FORGET ME NOT” at the end of a post to fool you? 🙂
FORGET ME NOT
You are either trustworthy or the fool ? If you know the historical significance of FORGET ME NOT and believe in freedom from socialist tyranny welcome aboard if not you will be exposed like all who play fast and loose with the truth .
Stating FORGET ME NOT as a ploy to deceive will eventually be exposed for who and what you are !
Um, what?
ME NOT FORGET