June 21, 2020
MY CORNER by Boyd Cathey
Two Perpetrated Frauds: George Floyd and the Race to
Compromise
NEW Essays Published by Reckonin.com and Chronicles
Magazine
Friends,
I pass on two columns I have just had published,
on the Reckonin.com site (founded by
Dr. Clyde Wilson) and on the Chronicles
Magazine Web site. Both are based largely on original pieces I authored in this
series of little essays, but with some updating changes and editing.
The first is a strong dissent from ongoing
canonization of George Floyd who died up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, back on May
25, and whose death has become a cause
celebre for rioting, looting, and open revolution…and the near complete
collapse of any reasonable questioning or opposition to the succeeding madness (by
so-called “conservatives” and Republicans). The case for Floyd as martyr is
built on a tissue of lies and ideological assumptions which, if followed
through, would almost totally destroy what is left of the nation.
Whether about George Floyd and his voluminous
criminal and drug record, or about the mythical “war on blacks by the police”
(utterly disproven by statistics), or about the inherent “genetic racism” of
white people which cannot be erased except through our own racial suicide, or about
a template presented now as undebatable that America is and has been since its
very inception mired deep in a suffocating “systemic racism” and “white
privilege,” it all amounts to the same: elements of an agenda that will
radically dismantle this country, violently erase its history and distort its
past, and essentially usher in a brutish totalitarian state, an authority
empowered to control our every action, our every word, our thinking, and who we
are. It will make the Soviet Gulag seem like a summer resort….
In short, the agenda is one of an ultimate
assault by those who would overthrow and ground to dust what remains of our
Western Christian civilization. Yes, in an indirect way it is also aimed at
President Trump and more particularly at those unwashed “deplorables” (you and
me) who have not been corralled onto the politically-correct reservation and
brainwashed yet (unlike our children who by the very fact of attending public
schools and universities invite such calculated indoctrination). But is more
far reaching and comprehensive than even that. It is indeed a massive attempt
to undo Creation as we have received it, overturn the laws of nature and of God
(e.g., same sex marriage, transgenderism, and the destruction of the sexes),
and enthrone a power and template which implicitly denies and rejects twenty
centuries of belief and continuity of
our civilization.
The second item was published by Chronicles Magazine, and it is shorter,
using a scene from the classic film, “Waterloo,” to make a serious point about
compromisers who in fact surrender our culture and belief to the Enemy in hopes
of not being called “racists” and not being attacked by the frenzied media. In
the end they do nothing but legitimize and enable the revolutionary zealots
while sacrificing our heritage and civilization. They are, in short, despicable
in their cowardice. And while we can at least give a certain grudging respect
to the lunatics who follow through with their convictions, the compromisers are
beneath contempt. (I sincerely hope the mob will pay them a “visit” in their
gated communities and walled mansions!)
Most recently in this parade of pusillanimous
compromisers are Brit Steve
Hilton on his program “The Next Revolution” (on Fox News) and another Brit,
nerdy young
Cameron Hilditch, a William F. Buckley Fellow (!) at the
formerly-conservative National Review
(which has become increasingly a mouthpiece for vicious and violent
anti-Confederate rhetoric).
My short essay has gotten some good comment, and
I offer it as I think it may cause—induce—some thought about the response of
far too many of our supposed defenders against the massive revolution which is
going on.
RECKONIN’
“Damn Lies” about George Floyd, Police
Violence, and Racism
By Boyd
D. Cathey
“Lies!
And damn Lies!” That’s what we have been drenched with for the past week or
two: lie after lie, bald-faced lies, insane and patently false assertions put
forth by almost the entirety of the media, assented to and propounded by nearly
all our politicians (including most deer-in-the headlight
“I-don’t-want-to-be-called-racist” Republicans and establishment
conservatives), and now taken as dogmatic, undeniable truth that makes the
claims of Infallibility by the Supreme Pontiff look like idle speculation.
“Never
let a crisis go to waste,” once famously said former mayor of Chicago, Rahm
Emmanuel. And certainly not this one which can be trotted out to accomplish a
whole host of things—advance the radical left/social justice revolution (that increasingly
dominates the Democratic Party) while furthering the template of the
ineradicable “first sin” of America: “systemic racism.” And, more, that can be employed to maybe,
just maybe, bring down President Trump, and more importantly, bring down what
he supposedly represents.
Now
everyone from most of the talking heads over on Fox News, the Martha
MacCallums, the Brian Kilmeades, the Marc Thiessens (who recently said that the
riots in DC were preventing his daughter from demonstrating peacefully against
racism!), to the more exalted types on CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and in The New York Time and Washington Post, has been herded onto
the reservation and you can’t get off of it without being labelled and formally
damned ex cathedra as a racist or
defending “white privilege.” And the list of “racist” offenses—even the most
innocent and rational comments which would have never drawn the slightest
demurrer two weeks ago—has grown and continues to grow exponentially, day by
day, it seems.
Following
the Dylann Roof episode in 2105, recall it was those offending Confederate
monuments: symbols of slavery and racism, squawked the social justice warriors
that had to come down in the name of “equality and justice.” And their cry was
echoed by the “conservative establishment” in the pages of the
once-conservative National Review
(e.g., Rich Lowry) and on Fox News (e.g., Victor Davis Hanson and Brian
Kilmeade). Just get rid of those “monuments to slavery” and everything would be
okay, we were told.
We
warned that destroying the symbols of our heritage was only one more step in a
concerted program to disavow and dismantle our Western civilization. Removing
the symbols had far more profound meaning.
We
were right. Now it’s the fierce frontal attacks on police and law enforcement,
one more step in the ongoing revolution.
Oppose
defunding or abolishing police forces? Why, you’re obviously a bigot and a
racist. Just consider the president of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, city
council, Lisa Bender. When asked what would happen if there were no police
force and someone called 9-1-1 to report an emergency and violence, she
responded that asking such a question most likely implied white privilege.
After all, she
reiterated, fumbling with her answer, “…community trust in
this existing [police] department is so low that there is an urgent need for
change now…we need to dismantle this department.”
Or
consider what happened in upscale Cary, North Carolina, filled with rich
transplanted Yankees who’ve come South to escape the high taxes and mess they
made up North. They brought that mess and mentality with them. Facing fierce
demonstrations in that city of 80,000, the police knelt down in obeisance
bowing to the mob and proceeded in
ritual fashion to wash the feet of twelve of them, a Holy Thursday
mockery if there ever was one.
But,
then, with no backing from authority, with utter cowardice from the city
fathers—who fear in their bones being called “racist”—is it any wonder that law
enforcement reflects that same pusillanimous behavior?
While
what happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis was a tragic occurrence, what has
ensued has been a virtual canonization of a man who, by all accounts, was an
habitual criminal, something of a drug addict, with a long record of criminal
charges.
But
in the frenzy to proclaim Floyd’s sainthood—the untouchable “new martyr” of a
radical civil rights movement mired and based in falsehood and lies about
equality—just about everyone has signed on to a fake narrative: a simple case
of perhaps an excessive police action (although there has been no trial and the
evidence and motivations are in dispute), but no one is allowed to dissent or
raise questions, even very reasonable ones. Thus Texas Governor Greg Abbott—a
“conservative” Republican—who joined the disgraceful huckster Reverend Al
Sharpton in Floyd’s funeral exequies,
spent time with Floyd’s family declaring
that they would hopefully be a “centerpiece of helping America bridge our
racial divide & ensure equality, justice & fairness in America….”
But,
if you read the response to Abbott’s Twitter message you will also see a
response from someone who knows
George Floyd’s criminal record: “[Governor Abbott] did you spend any time with
the family of the pregnant woman he [Floyd] held a gun to for drugs and money?”
And
it took a black woman, Candace Owens, on June 4, 2020, to blow the whistle on
Floyd and his dark and seamy criminal past, and to do it fearlessly while
almost all white conservatives and Republicans shivered in fear in the tall
grass or hoped to somehow convince the farther Left social justice mob that
they, too, were fighting even more strenuously against racism in memory of the
sainted George Floyd. Owen’s eighteen minute podcast was still up on Youtube
the last I looked, including the account of how Floyd pointed a gun at a
woman’s unborn fetus and threatened to kill them both. Here is the access
link. It’s a riveting commentary. But who knows if the zealous and
fanatical “woke” censors won’t take it down and ban it? (It had over six
million views as of June 13, 2020.)
Notice,
also, in particular her precise and correct use of statistics, official
government stats which even appeared in The
Washington Post, which give the lie—another big one—to the rampant view
that somehow the police have engaged in a “war” against blacks, in particular
black males. That charge, propagated in every news outlet, from CNN to my local
leftwing garbage dispenser, WRAL-TV, is now established truth: you cannot
question it, you can only accept it and accede to the new religious cult that
makes the frenzied Jim Jones and the Jonestown Massacre
seem like child’s play. But
there is very little evidence to
support the assertion of never-ending racist attacks
by police on innocent blacks—just ten cases documented for 2019.
On June 5, Dr. Heather
MacDonald, author of the book The War on
Cops, appeared on Fox to discuss the narrative
that there is a huge wave of police murdering unarmed black people, stating: “The irony is it is The Washington Post's
own database [which] collects the statistics…[that documents] a police officer
is 18 and a half times more likely to be murdered by a black male than an
unarmed black male is to be murdered by a cop, or killed by a cop.”
All
of this, of course, is not really important to pro-demonstrators Mitt Romney,
George W. Bush, Colin Powell, and General “Mad Dog” Mattis…or to ambitious
anti-Southern Nikki Haley (AKA, Nimrata Randhawa), who would just love to
replace Donald Trump at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue supported by a “delivered”
GOP, saved from all those uncouth “deplorables” and once more back in the
manicured, secure hands of the Republican/conservatives elites. So, they
harshly condemn “systemic racism” or march like Romney with the “peaceful rioters”
in Washington DC.
Like
all compromisers and cowards historically, the Romneys and others of his ilk
think they can temporize and “engage” with the radicals. But the radicals have
sheer and unbounded conviction on their side, while Romney is little more than
a cipher for intellectual and moral decrepitude and cowardice, an embarrassing
example of those who will—as all others of such praxis in history—perish just
the same at the hands of the revolutionaries, despite their craven surrender.
The
words of Irish poet William Butler Yeats (in his poem, “The Second Coming”)
come once more to mind, words written shortly after the end of the Great War,
the horribly destructive conflagration of 1914-1918:
Things fall apart; the centre
cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
I
am not at all sanguine about our prospects, about the future of the American
republic. There can be NO compromise with pure evil, with the forces which openly deny Natural and Divine
Positive Law, which destroy our civilization and now parade fiercely in the
streets in opposition to everything held dear in Christian and Western
tradition.
Our
prospects look grim. Yet, we hold fast to our God-given and inherited
convictions. As President Jefferson Davis said eight years after the end of the
War for Southern Independence: “Truth crushed to earth is truth still
and like a seed will rise again.”
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"Please Only Eat Half of Me!"
By Boyd Cathey June 18, 2020
The
American news media with hardly any exceptions is propagating a falsehood, a lie which is fatal to what remains of
the old American republic. Practically all our political leaders, including
most Republicans and establishment conservatives, have bought into it.
America at its core, goes the narrative,
is a racist society, drenched in historic systemic racism, and the white man is
eternally stained with the onus of that guilt. And, in fact, there is really
nothing he can do except renounce his whiteness and the entirety of Western
civilization, and maybe disappear into the dark recesses of history, itself.
His imputed supremacy is at an end.
The real object of this ongoing effort
is ultimately power and control of society.
The response of those supposed
conservative defenders of American traditions to the fanatical tsunami of
violent revolutionary lunacy reminds me of the scene in the film Waterloo (1970),
when the illiterate private in the Welsh Guards who has engaged in plunder and
stolen a young pig, cautions the pig not to squeal, not to alert those around
him of his plunder (a capital offense under military law). “Be quiet,” he tells
the pig, “and I’ll only eat half of you!”
Confronted by shrill and seemingly
overpowering demands of a noisy nucleus of woke leftists, the authorized
conservatives and Republicans respond to the revolutionaries in the same way:
“Only kill us halfway, but please, oh please, don’t call us racists!”
In other words, let’s compromise: you
basically get what you want, and you’ll not call us that nasty name—that is,
until the next phase of the ongoing revolution against Western
civilization, when the process of slow surrender will begin all over again.
Soon there won’t be anything left to
compromise.
Has this not been the way with those
establishment, opposition forces for Heaven knows how long? Surrender—get
killed—just a bit, and continue the desultory and disastrous retreat: voting
rights, gun rights, affirmative action, same-sex marriage, transgenderism and
gender fluidity, banning free speech, and so on.
The template is built on fabrications and
falsification of statistics. Indeed, is this not an example of the “big lie”
technique? Tell an untruth long enough, inculcate it into the curricula of
school children and via the boob tube over decades, and soon most people will
believe it.
Perhaps the most useful lie has been
about the death of unarmed black folks at the hands of police. But that lie is
exploded, and we know the precise number of those killings thanks to a
detailed Washington Post database. According to the Post’s
own reporting in 2019 police actually killed 25 unarmed whites and just 15
unarmed blacks. Indeed, the chances of being unarmed, arrested, and then killed
by the police are extremely rare: Just one out of 292,000 arrests for blacks
and one out of 283,000 arrests for whites. This is hardly a “wave of racist
police killings,” as the media incessantly claims.
Never mind, say the social justice
warriors. Whitey is still guilty with the ineradicable stain of racism, and not
just those Confederate symbols, but all symbols of so-called whiteness and
essentially of Western, Christian civilization must be erased, torn down, and
smashed to smithereens. The past…indeed, history itself…must be abolished. And
so too inherited historical memory, the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of the
past is to be totally inverted or effaced.
And all the while the establishment
conservative voices promoted to us on Fox News, the Brian Kilmeades, the Jonah
Goldbergs, and the Chris Wallaces—all whine “please, only eat half of me!”