May 3, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
“To Whose Benefit Is
It?” COVID-19, Our Elites, and the
Selling of America
Ilana Mercer Writes
Friends,
The Latin
phrase “Cui bono?”—meaning “To whose benefit is it?”—is often used in a legal
or philosophical sense. Things, events, actions occur according to the great Roman
legist Cicero because of something specifically we will get from them happening, a benefit
to us. Whether in our everyday lives or on a global level, this question always
lurks, often just below the surface but never that far away. And the answers to
it often explain a lot about why we—or a business or corporation—or government have
done what we or they did.
Who stands to gain.
Presently,
in the midst of a nationally-proclaimed pandemic, a pestilence that is said to
threaten our very existence as a nation and a people, in which governments from
the court house to the state house to the While House have arrogated unto
themselves enormous and unprecedented political and social authority, “cui bono”
must be asked.
But not
only “to whose benefit is it?” in the present tense of just now what is
happening in the United States and most Western countries, but more broadly,
how did we reach this point in government and business operations: to whose
benefit was it that conditions were
created and engineered so that we reached this situation?
Yes, it’s
a question essentially of responsibility for what has occurred, but why and to
whose benefit were those conditions first created and set in place on the
national (and international) level?
“Follow
the money” is a saying, a phrase that I first remember from the 1970s film, “All
the President’s Men.” And it parallels closely, in a sense, what Cicero wrote
2100 years ago: power and money go hand-in-hand.
One-hundred
and forty years ago writer Mark Twain, commenting on the headlong rush into and
triumph of industrial capitalism in the post-1865 United States, sardonically remarked of its
architects: “Brisk men, energetic of movement and speech; the dollar their god,
how to get it their religion.”
Erected as a global principle in our world increasingly—and perhaps fatally—without borders, given their praxis of obtaining power and wealth, thus the origins of what we behold engulfing us become clearer. And the future prospects and designs, as well, of those who first manufactured this crisis become more terrifying.
Erected as a global principle in our world increasingly—and perhaps fatally—without borders, given their praxis of obtaining power and wealth, thus the origins of what we behold engulfing us become clearer. And the future prospects and designs, as well, of those who first manufactured this crisis become more terrifying.
“Cui
bono?” indeed.
*****
I pass on
two columns addressing both points: first, an eye-opening column by Ilana
Mercer focusing on the origins of our situation, and to whose benefit was it,
how our American elites actively worked with the Chinese communists to fundamentally
enable what has befallen us. And,
second, my column of April 29, now published by LewRockwell.com (May 1): “Will
COVID-19 Bring Full Totalitarianism to America?” which looks sullenly to the
future. Again, who is and will benefit from all the new executive orders and
government power?
Read on:
Who Invited The World To Infect America?
Hate the Chinese government if you wish, but hold your own government
responsible for hollowing America out like a husk.
On March 31, the number of Americans dead
from the Chinese coronavirus stood at 3,900! A mere month on, at the time of
writing, and 63,801 Americans have perished.
American deaths by COVID-19
account for a quarter of the world’s, including those in the undeveloped world.
To ignore this Third-World-like specter is to dismiss the dead and the dying.
It’s tantamount to cancel culture.
China sucks. But if the United
States must rely on the Chinese government to keep its citizens safe, then what
kind of a Mickey Mouse country are we?
If the American people can be
convinced by their government to saddle a foreign power
with the responsibility for their existential welfare—what kind of people are
we?
China didn’t force the traitors
of the American economy to shift crucial production lines to its country and
strand Americans without surgical and N-95 masks and medication; homegrown
turncoats made that decision, all by their lonesome.
Trade Goods, Not Places
Decades ago, the political,
corporate and industrial leaders of the West chose to enmesh the fate of their
pliable people with that of the vigorous, voracious Chinese.
Like the United States, another
hard-hit region—Northern Italy, so progressive and tony—had swung its toll
gates open. Italy outsourced whole production lines to China.
Free trade in goods is great.
But trade goods, not places. The toll gates were
swung open to human trade, or population replacement.
Since the Chinese had begun
settling in Northern Italy and buying up assets, I hazard that, much like youngsters of King County, in Washington State—local Italian girls and boys
have had a hard time affording life in their homeland.
And now, their grandparents and
parents are dying.
Italy constructed gleaming
tarmacs to accommodate the many direct flights to and from Wuhan. More than 100,000 Chinese
citizens moved to Italy. As the Chinese accrued wealth over the past two
decades, still more took up residence in Northern Italy, and bought up Italian
firms.
See if you can spot the trend.
New York City, by Wikipedia’s telling, is home to far and away “the
highest Chinese-American population of any city proper.”
Courtesy of an Italian strain
of COVID-19, the New York metropolitan area has been as badly struck as Italy.
In early April, it was said that “coronavirus was
killing a person roughly every four minutes in New York state, and about every
six minutes in New York City.”
In my state of Washington, the
overwhelming majority of Chinese reside in King County and Snohomish County, where the infection was
seeded and from where it spread.
The West’s political and
corporate leaders, not China’s, had opened their borders to the world’s flotsam
and jetsam. Agreements to exchange goods and people reflected the choices of
these gilded global elites, not those of their people.
Economic Elephantiasis
The sphinxly Bill Gates, we are
told, foresaw the pandemic. Gates also pioneered the
outsourcing of American lives to China (and India). I say “lives,” because, as
it has become abundantly clear, in the wake of COVID, the very stuff of
life has been outsourced to China. Not mere jobs;
but careers, not just some products, but entire production
lines; not one or two manufacturing plants, but the
entire means of production.
Engineers who can think hate
Gates. America’s best and brightest have done time supervising and titivating
squalid, sub-par Chinese factories, when they knew full well that, instead of
cheap, nasty, and disposable, their colleagues back at home could have
delivered classy, attractive, durable and sustainable products and production
capability, around which real communities would have coalesced.
Instead, Gates’ vision has
given us transient labor that flits between Wuhan and Washington, for, these
“global beasts with their vast balance-sheets” aren’t interested in the kind of
economic growth around which authentic, organic, enduring communities
congregate.
The attitude of American
business toward economic growth is rooted not in healthy, community-based
practices (stateside and abroad), but in some aberrant economic gigantism; in
an economic elephantiasis undergirded by hubris and greed.
Bill Gates, the point man,
the pinhead who pontificates about pandemic best
practices, was among the powerbrokers who decided, with his benefactors in
D.C., that the “new economy” would hum not in America, but in China and India.
And it’s not merely for profit.
Tech superstars like Gates are true believers in the borderless multicultural
state. These arrogant CEOs and their minions are social-justice warriors,
first; giants of industry, second. They are cosmopolitans who believe
consumption alone makes the world go round. Community? That’s when you press
flesh with George and Amal Clooney at the World Economic Forum in Davos!
No Multiculturalists in China
To the gilded globalists,
America is not a country to be bound by strictly controlled borders and to be
patrolled and policed against viruses and villains. Rather, Bill Gates’ America
is a territory for trade, not a nation.
A “shopping mall with nukes,”
as a reader put it.
Whereas China has positioned
its cohesive people for success, the American ruling class, Democrat and
Republican, have long since sold their countrymen out. It is American leaders,
left and right, who’ve convinced their population that Americans are nothing
unless strangers are streaming into their country at a rate of 2 million a
year, speaking in tongues and inaugurating wet-markets in New York City. This is who we are, they tell
us.
No such thing did the Chinese
government perpetrate on its people. It doesn’t welcome immigrants; the Chinese
don’t want immigrants. Several [Chinese] “women vow to leap off the Great
Wall rather than marry a foreigner,” reports The Economist with consternation.
Indeed, the Chinese people have no qualms or fear about expressing Han racial
superiority, this, as the West embraces a multicultural mess of pottage that is
now killing it and consigning us to years of penury.
Stupidity is not a virtue.
Ironically, and although almost
all reinfection in China involves Chinese nationals, “curbs on foreigners are tightening,” and the “border has been
shut to most of them.” Conversely, the American travel ban—I hope you know—was
nothing more than a rerouting of the Chinese influx to allotted U.S. airports,
where thermometers were pointed at foreheads, and tens of thousands of Chinese
were sent on their merry way, entrusted to go home and self-quarantine.
The outcome of future pandemics
hinges on the American people’s ability to strike fear into the hearts of their
leaders, irrespective of party affiliation—a fear that will make it
impossible for these shiftless characters to shift blame for their failings.
Where Accountability Goes to Die
The U.S. government and its
proxies would like to gull Americans into blaming China alone for the litany of
suffering Americans are enduring.
A free people takes
responsibility for its own welfare. Federalism dictates that this ostensibly
free people delegate certain responsibilities to the state, national, and local
levels. This is what the U.S. Constitution compelled. Defined duties have been
delegated to our governments. Repelling invaders is one of them.
Thus, the same free people must
saddle their own leaders, in D.C. and the Centers for Disease
Control, with mass deaths ongoing.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
has ordered that China be
investigated for concealing “information early on about the novel coronavirus.”
Fine. I’m not here saying there
is no merit in the allegation or the investigation.
Just so long as Americans
understand that government committees are where accountability goes to
die. Governments create committees to conceal their own culpability.
Just so long as Americans know
that the Chinese will continue to settle this country by the thousands, while
their relatives back in China supply Americans with essential goods.
Just so long as Americans know
that the federal government and its corporate cronies do not intend to
repatriate life-sustaining supply chains.
Hate the Chinese government if
you wish, but hold your own government responsible for hollowing America out
like a husk by inviting the world to invade it and infect it.
It all came
together last night. In less than ten minutes all the major points were
sculpted and fit, and the massive tomes of explanation and interpretation were
summed up in a few chilling words: it was the opening monologue of April 28
offered by Tucker Carlson in his primetime program, the one figure left on Fox
News who occasionally gets it right (as most of the others featured on that
channel have at least made peace with the Deep State, if not been co-opted by
it).
Carlson’s
monologue, like his riveting book, Ship of Fools,
pulled no punches: this present COVID-19 epidemic is being consciously used by
our major tech media—Facebook, Youtube—and government to greatly increase power
and control over us and stanch and suppress any dissent, even the most mild and
cautious. Hugely increased censorship, executive orders (many of dubious
legality) spewing out the wahzoo, newly enforced speech codes, and open calls
by so-called respected academics to, in fact, suppress free speech—that is,
speech which doesn’t fit the Establishment’s idea of “norms and standards”
(which are assuredly not those of traditional Americans): these exist
increasingly all around us and threaten to engulf and submerge us.
Finally, then, is
it not the full appearance of the sullen face of rank totalitarianism,
something that has lurked very near the surface for years, for centuries, but
always kept at bay by law, by common sense, by our constitution and its protections…and
by our civilization’s faith in God? Now it bids fair to emerge from its fetid
cave and ask, as English writer Thomas Carlyle’s “many-headed, fire-breathing
monster” in his volume, The French Revolution:
“What think ye of me?”
Once again Hilaire
Belloc’s quote about the “modern barbarian” from a century ago comes to mind:
“We sit by and watch the Barbarian,
we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We
are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and
our fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh. But as we laugh we are
watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is
no smile.” [This and That and the Other,
1912, 282]
Those large and
awful, unsmiling faces are the faces of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg,
of the media personalities at CNN, at The New York Times, in
academia, and in our Federal government and in our statehouses across the
United States.
You know Carlson
has hit a nerve, has hit his target when apparatchik card-carrying Deep Staters
like MSNBC’s Chris Hayes come out and slam him and avoid
almost totally Carlson’s point about censorship and totalitarian control. For
they cannot contest that, so they must dissemble and target something else:
instead Hayes attacks Carlson on his views on re-opening the economy, certainly
a major point but not at all the overall emphasis of the monologue.
As I wrote
recently, truth dies in the darkness…and so do our liberties. Our enemies—for
that is what they are—are trying desperately to keep the lid on while they
vastly increase their power. This present pestilence for them presents a
capital opportunity, and they are utilizing it up to the hilt, in every way.
It is up to us to
stop them.
*****
Here is the Youtube of the Tucker Carlson program for
Tuesday night, April 28; please watch at least the first nine minutes—before
the censors take it down.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
Copyright © Boyd D. Cathey
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