It’s always a special day when I get to use my Latin. The title phrase means “enemy of all Mankind.” It originally denoted the sort of predator who plies his trade where “the writ of law does not run:” i.e., a stateless region. These days, the principal stateless regions are the Arctic, the Antarctic, …
Category: anarcho-tyranny
Jan 23 2025
On The Lexical Warpath Again
I’m a stickler for good language, especially for using words in an accurate and precise fashion: i.e., according to their publicly understood meanings and not for any other purpose. Now and then, readers ask why I’m such a fanatic about it. The answer has always been simple: I value clarity. We cannot have clear …
Jan 13 2025
Preventive Measures
It will not surprise you, Gentle Reader, to learn that quite a lot of people think I’m “mad, bad, and dangerous to know.” Neither will it surprise you to hear that that doesn’t bother me. I’m a retired engineer. Most non-engineers consider my sort to be problematic company. Their reasons are fairly consistent. …
Jan 11 2025
“Essential Services”
The fires currently destroying Los Angeles have resurrected the old subject of “essential services.” Most Americans regard police protection, firefighting, and road maintenance as essential: the justification for the existence of state and local governments. Yet throughout this nation they’re the services most neglected by those governments. At the federal level, “essential services” would …
Jan 03 2025
The Real Terrorist Threat
The central, all-important question of our age is Cui bono? Who benefits from what has just happened, or what has just been proposed? There’s no more reliable way to trace the genesis of events. About ten years ago, I wrote a column delineating my fears as I was about to enter upon retirement. …
Dec 23 2024
Chronicle of the DC, 23Dec24: Preserving Agents of Murder
The puppet of the 3rd term of the Obama Regime just commuted the death sentences of some of the country’s most notorious murderers. It makes sense for a regime that is totally committed to reducing human lives. Being criminal themselves, perhaps they expect they’ll never be held account either to the level they deserve. It’s …
Dec 21 2024
Chronicle of the DC, 21Dec24: Inviting In Lethal “Viruses”
Richard Fernandez posted the following short pair of observations on FB. While he did not specifically call this out as a Death Cult operation, the effects of multicultural policy adopted throughout the Western World have been unmistakable. For added insight, Wretchard speculated on the Catch 22 that legitimate refugees face after escaping to the West.
Dec 20 2024
Now We Know
Apparently, a “Trump-endorsed” Continuing Resolution was introduced on the floor of the House of Representatives late yesterday. From the reports, it was skeletal, at least when compared to the 1500-page monstrosity that Speaker Johnson yanked before that. It funded the federal government through March, provided aid to hurricane-stricken areas, and some aid to farmers. …
Dec 20 2024
Choosing The Lesser Evil
With governments, everything is a matter of choosing the lesser evil. (Until you resolve to abolish them, that is.) Consider the following statistics: Charlie Kirk is generally reliable, so I’m disposed to accept his numbers. His point is obvious: the great majority of federal “workers” are not working, by the standards that would …
Nov 17 2024
The State Of Fear
“The State is based on threat.” [Illuminatus!] A great many people believe that government is there to “protect and serve.” After all, doesn’t it say that on the sides of the police cars? But the messaging on a package need not conform to its contents. In this case, the message is diametrically opposed …
Oct 16 2024
Localism And The Establishment
Among the things the late Clarence Carson deplored in his masterwork The American Tradition was the erosion of our traditional localism as the federal government has expanded into ever more areas of American life. Garet Garrett expressed a consistent view in The People’s Pottage. He quotes a governor of Kansas to this effect: …
Oct 15 2024
I Didn’t Want To Believe It
…but I no longer have the privilege of disbelief. It’s written in the sort of bureaucratese that’s intended to flummox persons outside those halls. But it does authorize the Secretary of Defense to deploy and employ elements of the armed forces against the civilian populace. From page 13: [3.3.2(c):] (c) Assistance in …
Oct 13 2024
Our Protector Against Memory Holing Under Attack 3 days — UPDATED
Webarchive Current Status In recent news, the Internet Archive’s WebArchive (also known as Wayback Machine) has been affected by a security breach. On October 11, 2024, it was reported that the organization’s authentication database, containing information for 31 million registered users, was compromised. The stolen data includes email addresses, screen names, password change timestamps, and …
Oct 12 2024
The Ratchet
Do you remember the year of 2020? Brandon Smith does: The events of 2020 were meant to initiate the ultimate coup against humanity. The globalists admitted to their plans over and over again. Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum proudly declared covid the catalyst for the “Great Reset” and the “Fourth Industrial …
Oct 09 2024
It’s In The Title, 2
Today’s title is explained at part 1. It may be found at It’s Right There In The Title. Let what follows stiffen your resolve about what needs be achieved. The readers of Liberty’s Torch are all so familiar with history that each will view the following as a string of clichés. And that adds to …
Oct 07 2024
Poor Performance Breeds Ugly Speculations
…some of which are looking mighty plausible right now: Early voting in North Carolina starts in just days, and Appalachian voters in the western, deep-red stronghold of the state are still desperate for help with basic necessities after destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene. A slow-rolled disaster relief response from federal and state government …
Oct 05 2024
It’s Right There In The Title
Federal Emergency Management Agency. To manage some process is to control it – to compel it toward a desired outcome. If that outcome is achieved, the manager has succeeded; if not, he’s failed. The desired outcome is prestige, personnel, and funding for FEMA. To attain those ends, FEMA must have the credit …
Oct 04 2024
Untitled
I can’t imagine an appropriate title for this. Start here: David DeGerolamo adds: What if the Deep State is planning on cancelling elections and finish the usurpation of the Republic that was started with the fraudulent 2020 Presidential election? The government knows that the area of the country hit by Hurricane Helene …
Oct 03 2024
The Scandal Of The Hour
I trust Glenn Beck: #BREAKING: @FEMA is reportedly confiscating private donations meant for disaster relief! Tune in as @glennbeck joins us to share shocking details from a phone call he received last night directly from one of the affected areas. Is this government overreach? pic.twitter.com/y60EjR3DaG — Pat Gray Unleashed (@PatUnleashed) October 3, 2024 …
Oct 01 2024
The Anti-Charity Forces Are Not Joking
As this poor lady found out: The Gateway Pundit reported on the arrest of an Arizona grandmother, Norma Thornton, 78, in 2022 for feeding homeless people in public, violating Arizona law. The grandmother said that she was so shocked about being arrested that she thought it was a joke. “Still, I thought it was …
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