July 18, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Trump-Putin Summit
Brouhaha Continues -
And It Comes On A
Nearly Missed But Extremely Significant Anniversary
Friends,
Literally
thousands of items have shown up in recent days regarding American foreign
policy, and specifically Russo-American relations, the just completed Helsinki
Summit, and the narrative that continues unabated like the Energizer Bunny. Even after President Trump’s latest press
statement of yesterday, the far Left crazies are doubling down on their
completely insane accusations: Trump committed treason (quoth former CIA director
John Brennan), he is worse than the Nazis (maybe he IS one?), his actions are
worse than the Holocaust, etc. etc.
My
earnest wish for them? May they all receive their just reward and eventually dwell
in Dante’s lowest circle of Inferno, where treachery, betrayal, and pure evil
are punished for all eternity. They richly merit it.
And
the Neocons are now breathing a breath of relief, because, it seems, some of
president’s advisors twisted his arm, persuaded him, as it were, to “clarify”
his statement about our national intelligence agencies and to affirm that he
believes their assessment about Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
I
am not going back and reconsider that question, as I have written about it
previously and at length in earlier installments in this series. I will say
that: (1) I understand why the president, under such severe pressure from his
own Neocon advisors, would have been compelled to make that “correction,” but
(2) I also believe that, given what he said and how he said it, fundamentally
he still, rightly, harbors some doubts, and even in his clarification he continued
to suggest that “others” might also have been involved.
While
I strongly disagree with his apparent about-face as it represents a kind of
retreat in the face of the unrelenting, anti-Trump opposition from the Deep
State-controlled Intel community, and while I am disappointed, given the nature
of the political and cultural war we find ourselves in, I also believe that the
president’s underlying sentiments and his strategy of rapprochement with Russia
will continue. Of course, the frenzied lunatic Russophobia of the far Left will
continue apace, and the Neocons will continue to worry and sweat about the next
time that President Trump will venture off the assigned reservation that they
have attempted to map out for him. And that, as I see it, is still a reason for
hope…and not a reason to excommunicate him.
Criticize intelligently, encourage what we believe to be his more
profound views (as he expressed them in the 2016) campaign, continue to
illustrate in a convincing manner the basic incompatibility between the essential
vision of Donald Trump as we understood it and the poisonous efforts by the
Neocons to alter and pervert it for their own ideological purposes –this is
where I come down.
At
the end of this installment of My CORNER I will give a list of links to some
excellent articles on this topics. Rather than trying to re-invent the wheel or
repeat what I’ve written, I urge you, at your leisure, to check out these
essays and their research, which, I believe, support the points I have been
attempting to make.
But
today, I wish to make a 180 degree change in emphasis (although perhaps it is
not that extreme a change in emphasis?).
Let
me ask: how many of you know what happened 100 years ago yesterday…July 17,
1918? And how fundamentally it affected
the subsequent history of the world?
On
that date Communist partisans in the city of Ekaterinburg, Russia, led by
former Talmud student Yakov Yurovsky, brutally murdered and mutilated Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia, his children, and his household, in one of the most
outrageous acts of regicide ever committed in human history. But it was not
just that act, per se, that is so significant, but what it represented. For its actuality and symbolism unleashed
over seventy years of direct
Communist revolution, and even after the demise of Soviet Russia finally with
the failed KGB coup of August 1991 (which, it must be pointed out again,
Vladimir Putin, then vice-mayor of Leningrad, suppressed), the bastardized Marxist
children of Lenin and Leon Trotsky still seem on the verge of accomplishing
what their Soviet half-brothers were unable to achieve after the murder of the
tsar.
Yet,
in Russia today the citizens have turned a momentous corner—Tsar Nicholas and
his family have been canonized as martyrs to the faith by the Orthodox Church
and Vladimir Putin, that former KGB agent stationed in Dresden (and let me
emphasize the word “former” for he has returned to the Orthodox Christian faith),
now pays his respects to and honors not only the tsars and pre-revolutionary
Russia, but charts a course for the Russian future which is decided
nationalist, pro-Christian, and anti-Communist. No wonder that the American
Left and our cultural Marxists despise him and post-1991 Russia…and no wonder
the Neoconservatives whose genealogy is largely Russo-Jewish (from the Pale of
Settlement) fear him and what they imagine might well be the recrudescence of
anti-semitism (after all, for them ANY Russian nationalism is equated with
anti-semitism and the bad old days of pogroms under the tsars).
But
for those not completely inundated in such ideological infections, the fact
that Russia is now formally and officially commemorating its older and
non-Communist history and past, and making reparations spiritually for that
incredibly and indelibly criminal act committed 100 years ago—an act that cries
to Heaven, “clamor ad caelum”— that so signaled the tenor and theme of the 20th
century, is indeed remarkable and a sign both of contradiction and of hope.
Thus
it is that while here in the United States the leaders of the Democratic Party
and GOP leaders rush to condemn the anti-democratic and anti-liberal course of
Russia and its “violations” of “human rights” (you know, no same sex marriage,
increasing restrictions of abortion, forbidding gay proselytization in Russian
schools, support for traditional Orthodoxy and the opening of over 28,000 new
Christian churches, etc.), the former Communist state and its people, having
seen what the Communist “future” held and was all about, and having suffered
under it for over seventy years, attempt to chart a new course. And all the while, the John McCains
(good-bye, John—Dante has a place for you), Lindsey Grahams, The Weekly
Standards, National Reviews, practically all the Democrats, most of the Fox
punditry—in fact, just about all establishment opinion in the USA, far left or
“(Neo)conservative movement incorporated,” seem bound and determined to eagerly
accept the failed template.
Recall
the words of I Peter 5:8: (Vulgate text) “Sobrii
estote vigilate quia adversarius vester diabolus tamquam leo rugiens circuit
quaerens quem devoret -- Be sober and vigilant, because your adversary the devil, like a
roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.”
It is always easier, it seems, to see the devil far from us
and not recognize the one within, closer to home, whether named paganism, “the Revolution,”
liberalism, Socialism, Communism, or cultural Marxism. Malevolence is like the Greek Hydra, many
headed and fatal—but the final results are always the same.
100,000 Pilgrims March in Memory of the Romanovs on
the Centenary of Their Deaths
The Moscow Times (Russia)
Early in the morning of July 17, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and
All Russia led a 22-kilometer long procession in honor of the Romanov royal
family on the 100th anniversary of their murder. Law enforcement agencies
reported that well over 100,000 pilgrims participated. Tsar Nicholas II, his
wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna, their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia
and Alexei, along with physician Yevgeny Botkin and three servants, were
executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries on July 17, 1918 ... In 2000, the Russian
Orthodox Church canonized the entire family as saints ... A recent survey by
the VTsIOM pollster found that a large majority of Russians consider the
shooting of the royal family a "monstrous and unjust crime."
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Patriarch Kirill I leads procession commemorating slain Czarist Family
YEKATERINBURG, July 17. /TASS/. As Russia
observed the centenary anniversary since the brutal slaying of the family of
the deposed Czar Nicholas II, which occurred in Yakerinburg overnight to July
17, 1918, the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I led a vigil
Cross-bearing procession of well over 100,000 pilgrims from the downtown Church
on the Blood to the Ganina Yama district, the initial burial site of the slain
family members.
Kirill I said before the beginning of the
procession he planned covering the whole distance of 21 km on foot. He is
leading a column of thousands upon thousands of pilgrims who have come from all
the parts of Russia, as well as from Ukraine, Belarus, the UK, the US, France,
Germany, and other countries.
Bolshevik revolutionaries executed Czar
Nicholas II, who had abdicated more than a year prior to the execution, Czarina
Alexandra, Crown Prince Alexis, Grand Princesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and
Anastasia, family physician Eugene Botkin, Czarina’s room-maid Anna Demidova,
court chef Ivan Kharitonov, and the Czar’s footman Alexei [Alois] Trupp
overnight to July 17, 1918.
The Russian Orthodox Church canonized the Czar,
the Czarina and their five children as holy regal martyrs for faith in 2000.
The vigil service and liturgy ended shortly
after midnight. The Patriarch conducted it right on the square in front of the
Church on the Blood in attendance of Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and all
Ukraine, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova, Metropolitan
Juvenal of Krutsitsy and Kolomenkosye, Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg,
Metropolitan Vikenty of Tashkent and other hierarchs of the Church.
In all about 40 bishops, including some of them
representing the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia took part in
chanting the vigil and the liturgy. Sources at the diocese of Yekaterinburg
said about 30,000 people took communion out on the square and the priests had
brought more than a hundred communion chalices for the purpose - a record in
its own right.
Moving ahead of the column is a group of
clerics carrying a big icon of Nicholas II decorated with flowers. This is the
main icon of the Monastery in the Name of Holy Regal Martyrs on Ganina Yama.
Anzhela Tambova, the press secretary of the
Yekaterinburg diocese told TASS the check-in lists of the camp for the pilgrims
showed people had come from practically all the corners of Russia.
"Moscow, St. Petersburg, Pskov,
Blagoveshchensk in the Far East, Murmansk," she said naming just a handful
of cities as an instance. Groups of pilgrims also came from Serbia, Bulgaria,
Kazakhstan, the US, the UK, Germany, Austria, France, and even from as far as
New Zealand.
About 150 volunteers were seen escorting the
column. They were split into 25 small mobile groups, which also included
priests and nurses, who had taken a special training course at the regional
branch of the Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense.
The pilgrims who get tired have an opportunity
to take seat in special busses. Installed along the route are freshwater
stations.
Duke Pavel Kulikovsky-Romanov, a member of the
Romanov Family Association, and members of his family are taking part in the
march, too. Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna, the senior successor to the
Romanov dynasty, and her son attended the patriarchal liturgy.
Walking among the pilgrims is a group of about
a hundred young members of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. They
have come from the parishes in Australia, the US, Germany, France, Israel,
Georgia and other countries.
Young Orthodox Christian activists have a very
extensive program in the Urals. Apart from visiting the commemorative places
linked to Nicholas II’s family, they also take part in the services and plan
giving a concert of spiritual music in Yekaterinburg.
An international forum of young Orthodox
Christians has been timed for the anniversary.
One of the veterans of the Cross-bearing
processions to Ganina Yama, Dr. Vladimir Bolshakov, who supervises research
activities at the Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting and Sculpture, was
the organizers of the first such procession in 1992.
"As if it was upon someone’s prearranged
plan, the bulk of flights to Yekaterinburg were cancelled then," he said.
"We had to take a train. The weather was quite horrible then, too, but
decided to perform the Cross-bearing procession all the same. And imagine there
only nine of use on the march back in 1992."
"Ever more new people are joining the
columns after 2000 when the Holy Regal Martyrs were canonized," Dr.
Bolshakov said.
Two young women from the southern Stavropol
territory, Anna and Vera, told TASS they had to spend four night on a bus and
went through the heatwave of more than 40 Centigrade on the way to
Yekaterinburg. In addition, the bus went out of order several times.
"Still we feel a new surge of energy now
and we hope to pray to the regal martyrs," Anna said.
A group of pilgrims from western Ukraine had
some unpleasant surprises during the trip to Yekaterinburg, too. Not far from
Yekaterinburg, the bus got into a road accident. The wreck was rather bad and
the pilgrims said it was a miracle no one had been injured.
"Our route to Sverdlovsk was more than
4,000 km long and we really felt the Holy Regal Martyrs were helping us,"
said Xenia from Ukraine’s Rovno region. "People in Ukraine venerate to
regal martyrs passionately."
Foer some of the pilgrims, participation in the
‘Czarist days’ has taken the shape of family tradition. For instance, Tatiana
from the West-Siberian city of Tobolsk said she comes to Yekaterinburg for
anniversaries of the Czarist Family execution for than fifteen years already.
They began to take part in the commemorative events when the Church on the
Blood did not exist yet.
"The Family wasn’t canonized by the Church
yet and we simply ordered a remembrance service," she said. "The
children would run around us and take blessings from the head of the diocese,
Archbishop Vikenty."
Links on the Russiagate Scandal:
Binney
and McGovern are former high level intelligence officers (both have appeared on
Tucker Carlson’s program); Karlin is a Russia authority; and Buchanan has long
been a prescient observers of Russian-American relations. Check these links
out:
Dr.
Paul Craig Roberts, https://www.unz.com/proberts/is-president-trump-a-traitor-because-he-wants-peace-with-russia/
Patrick
Buchanan, https://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/trump-calls-off-cold-war-ii/
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