December 31, 2018
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
2018 Reflections, Franklin Graham, and
a
Newly-Published
Essay at LEW ROCKWELL.com
Friends,
I take this opportunity
on this last day of 2018 to wish you all a very prosperous, healthy, and happy
New Year 2019! This year has been a tumultuous one, with all sorts of events,
some expected, many unforeseen. We have witnessed—even with the election of
Donald Trump in 2016—the forces of the Deep State advance and tighten their
noose around both individual Americans and American associations who are seen as not politically-correct. Fundamentally,
our access to free speech as guaranteed to us in the Constitution continues to
erode as giant mega-corporations such as Facebook and Google subtly—and not so
subtly—attempt to censor our speech and expression, if we are traditionalists
or dissent from the steadily-advancing Progressivist template on gender and
race.
The most recent example
is the Facebook expulsion and attempted censoring of the Reverend Franklin
Graham. His “thought crime”? He supported several years ago North Carolina’s famous
HB2 legislation which would have prevented men from using women’s bathrooms!
And, even though—after an outcry—Facebook reversed its position, the
unmistakable markers and symbols of what awaits us all in the future are
clearly visible: that is, if we ONLY TAKE A CLEAR LOOK at what is occurring.
No doubt Mark
Zuckerberg and his Silicon Valley friends, whose knowledge of our Constitution
and appreciation of the history of our republic is as minuscule as their knowledge
of computer technology is great, can sit back in their gated communities (yes,
he and his friends DO believe in walls when it concerns them personally!) and
sneer at the rest of us. They sit on their hoards of golden lucre and exert a
kind of virtual control over millions, especially our children who are, let us
face it, “addicted” to the shiny baubles of electronic technology. Indeed, what
is Zuckerberg but a contemporary make-over of the Wizard of Oz, but without the
grace and enchantment of the Hollywood creation of seventy-nine years ago? Perhaps
his immense power is so great that a more apt comparison might be with Darth
Vader or maybe the Dark Lord Sauron of The Lord of Rings?
The year 2018 has seen
a stepped-up and even more frenzied effort to find something—anything—with which
to damage, weaken, perhaps expel from office President Trump. The egregious
excesses and overreach of the Mueller Commission, the unleashed and vicious
venom of our media and Hollywood, the unbridled passion of the Democrats, and
the characteristic cowardice of too many Republicans and so-called “conservatives”—continue
apace and show no indication of slowing down in 2019. In 2016 Donald Trump was
the unlikely bull-in-a-china-shop, the uncouth battering ram that many of us
hoped would at the very least punch a hole, a small hole, but still a hole, in
the thickening wall and ceiling of authoritarian oppression that characterizes
our creaky and weary republic. Coming, himself, from the establishment Wall
Street class, extremely wealthy and not dependent on special interests, he was—quite
rightly—seen by the forces of the Deep State as a traitor to his class and all
the more dangerous.
But with those
advantages he also carried with him disadvantages as he assumed office: he was
largely unschooled in the treacherous game, the poisonous waters of Washington
politics and Potomac back-stabbing. Perhaps he was, as well, too apt to believe
those who came to him after his election, “former” Never Trumpers with crocodile
tears in their eyes, who begged for positions in the new administration…foul
chameleons who would change their colors for a high-ranking sinecure: Nikki
Haley, any0ne? Or, John Bolton. And most shockingly, Lindsey Graham.
None of these
self-proclaimed “conservative” leopards had changed their spots. In their elastic
ability to manipulate their allegiances and their willingness to “say the right”
things at the right time, these oleaginous creatures of the twilight convinced
the president of their bona fides and their loyalty. But they remained and
remain “fifth columnists” all the same, waiting for the right moment to strike.
That, perhaps, has been
the biggest weakness of the Trump presidency: President Trump appears actually
too ready at times to take a politician at his sworn word. And that is
something that in Washington you NEVER do.
This past Sunday, December
30, Senator Graham had lunch with the president to beg him to reconsider the
decision to pull American troops out of Syria, all 2,200. After the meeting,
Graham averred that he felt “reassured” that there would be no “precipitous
withdrawal.” Yet, the president’s ultimate
resolve to end our unwieldy, untenable, and unwise intervention there, one of
his major campaign pledges, continues. But we must watch and see just what kind of effect the plaintive cries of Deep State globalists like Graham might have. The
power of the zealously interventionist foreign policy establishment is still
very significant, and even a Donald Trump is subject to it.
Back on December 23 my installment
of MY CORNER applauded the president’s decision to exit Syria. That particular
column was picked up by the LewRockwell.com site,
the nation’s largest and most important Web site for libertarian thought. While
I do not define my thinking as strictly “libertarian” as I understand the term,
I do share in my view many points of convergence and agreement with old
fashioned, liberty-loving libertarians, especially on foreign policy questions
and on the defense of our Constitution and states’ rights. And the LewRockwell
site has been a leader in the defense of the basic rights of Americans: we
should be grateful for that voice.
Nearly 2400 readers
have read my article based on that generated publicity. And several of my articles
on THE REMNANT newspaper Web site have been read by seven or eight thousand;
so, the word is getting out.
Perhaps the professional
hate-hunter Morris Dees and his Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) will soon
have to raise my “hatemonger” status? I
count his attacks as badges of honor—and I respond with disdain and contempt,
as I have done since he first attacked me and my reputation some fifteen years
ago (for a long, detailed account I published on his various malfeasances). In our topsy-turvy world sometimes it’s the enemies
you make that tell who you really are.
In any event, I pass on
the LewRockwell article, and I am pleased to join them in their stouthearted
opposition to American globalism and the imposition of a New World Order.
anti-state•anti-war•pro-market
General
Mattis, Syria, and the “Lost It” Hysteria of the DC Swamp Deep State Globalists
– They Now Advocate a Military Overthrow of President Trump
By Boyd
Cathey
December 24, 2018
Friends,
My
intention this morning was to begin a short series on what the Holy Feast of
Christmas means, and must mean, for us…and I still intend to write about that.
But a couple of very good friends, one of whom is a neighbor who stopped me in
the local Food Lion the other days, have inquired about the recent decision by
President Trump to pull our 2,200 troops out of the cauldron of the Syrian
“civil war” (AKA, terrorist rebellion): could I offer some additional
information and background on what just happened. I told my friend that I had
written an installment in this series that very day, December 21, for MY CORNER.
In that column I made reference to five other installments
which went into some detail on the background of the Syrian civil war…and why
we should never have been there. But the idea of providing a short, accessible
summary about what just happened this past week kept popping up as something
that might be very useful to my friends and readers.
So
this morning, without a lot of my commentary I want to pass on several items
that I think will place what just happened into some context and perhaps give
you ample background to begin to understand what President Trump did.
And, hopefully will offer perspective on why the near totality of the Foreign
Policy Establishment, and the political Deep State elites in Washington—All
Democrats and most Republicans in Congress (and on Fox News)—are beside
themselves, upset, angry that our president is fulfilling his promise regarding
Syria, and even calling for a “military coup against the president” [why, I ask, aren’t such pundits
being arrested for proposing treason?].
Various
politicians—from Republicans like uber-globalist Senators Lindsey Graham and
Ben Sasse, plus oodles of Democrats, ALL UNITED [what does THAT tell you about the
globalist nature of the Deep State cliques who not only control the US of A,
but wish to control the rest of the world as well?]—have harshly condemned
President Trump for his Syria decision, and even more so for the fact his
Secretary of Defense General James Mattis has resigned. Mattis, too, like
the globalists in Washington—now twenty-six years after the fall of world
Communism—wanted to continue to send American boys to die in foreign civil wars
in jungles and deserts where we have no business being, so that the fruits of
American egalitarianism and (pseudo) democracy could be inflicted on those
downtrodden states….not to mention expanding control of the American financial
global elites who would control their economies, their oil, and just about
everything else…oh, yes, all in the name of “democracy.”
Why,
just think of all the benefits we could inflict, say, on Syria: transgendered
Mullahs, same sex bathrooms replacing Shar’ia law in those madrassa Islamic
centers of learning, free abortions for those downtrodden Muslim women,
wonderful commercials everywhere on Syrian TV for Viagra and Preparation-H,
with same sex partners showing them all how it is done, and “democratic”
elections with maybe Karl Rove parachuted in to instruct them how to manipulate
votes. Maybe we could even encourage a few million Mexicans to move there to
bolster whichever side the new “Demo-Republicrat” globalist alliance supports?
And, why not get George Soros involved, too, if he is not already involved?
)Is
this not, in sum, what we’ve been fighting for? Not so much against ISIS (the
Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad and the Russians have done almost all the
fighting and defeating of ISIS), but for one more desert outpost of “American
democracy and equality”?
And
that, in reality, is why everyone from the Establishment left to the
Establishment “conservative movement” are all so upset, and why they now talk
of…actually…a “military coup” against President Trump. The resignation of Mattis was
just a pretext, the nail to hang their frenzied and putrid
ideological hat on. And it is that same unrestrained fervor, that vicious anger
still over the results of 2016, their resentment that “THAT MAN sits at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue,” that same Deep State lunacy that has even a few of them,
get this, “contemplating suicide”! [Let me wish they carry through with that
threat—the Dark Lord of Hell awaits them with open arms.]
So,
here, first, is a brief account of those unleashed reactions from the devilish
denizens of the Deep State: you must read these to begin to comprehend the
quasi-religious madness these folks exhibit. And, once again, I ask: can there
ever be any kind of “peace” with these votaries of the Dark Lord? Second,
Andrew McCarthy responds to a vitriolic anti/Never-Trump piece by National Review’s David
French. McCarthy is not ordinarily thought of as a staunch Trump loyalist and
the magazine he writes for is and has been an outpost of Establishment
Never-Trumpism, but he does make some good arguments about Syria, and why we
should not be there and why we should get out….
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