I’m going to struggle through one post this morning, because the subject is so important. The big “reveal,” if you will, that the State has gone totalitarian comes in parts. They don’t always arrive together, but once any one of them becomes visible, you may rest assured that the others will soon be upon you. …
Category: totalitarianism
Sep 03 2024
An Extraordinary And Chilling Statement (UPDATED)
I do not know who made the following, nor when, nor why. But it frightened and animated me. Perhaps it will do the same for you: UPDATE: I’ve found the original. It’s from a Russian bratva boss: Thoughts, Gentle Readers?
Aug 15 2024
His Mistake Was In Pleading Guilty
Here is what he allegedly gained from his admission of guilt. The judge arbitrarily decided to reduce his sentence from 30 months to 20 months “because you pleaded guilty to this serious crime.” Three Facebook posts criticizing UK policy is now viewed as a serious crime in a country where voter awareness of the consequences …
Sep 03 2023
The Drones Of Labor Day: An Unpacking
This tidbit should be inspiring more questions than it is at present: The New York Police Department will dispatch drones to monitor backyard parties and private social gatherings over Labor Day weekend in response to any complaints. However, some are saying that drone surveillance by police would be an invasion of privacy. …
Aug 27 2023
Can Everything Be Digitized?
From a recent essay by Leo Hohmann: Technocracy is much different than Marxism or communism. In a Marxist state you have government ownership of the means of production. But in a technocracy, which is the preferred model of self-appointed globalist elites at the World Economic Forum, the Rockefeller Foundation, Gates Foundation, Club of …
Aug 24 2023
Targets And Guards
If you’re a longtime Gentle Reader, you’ve surely seen this Clarence Carson quote before: [W]e are told that there is no need to fear the concentration of power in government so long as that power is checked by the electoral process. We are urged to believe that so long as we can express …
May 03 2023
The Plunderers Hunger
I remember quite clearly being taught that greed is one of the seven capital sins. It seems those bits of Christian teaching have been “redacted” for left-wing politicians. For them “greed” is something other people feel…for wanting to keep their earnings. Thus it comes as no surprise when an avowed socialist demands that some …
Apr 19 2023
Whence The Barbarians?
I do hope you like quotes, because you’re about to get a lot of them: The day will come when a multitude of people will choose the legislature. Is it possible to doubt what sort of a legislature will be chosen? On the one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for rights, …
Feb 08 2023
First Thought Of The Day
In Eric Drexler’s seminal Engines of Creation, the first book for laymen about the promise and perils of nanotechnology, he writes: States have needed people as workers because human labor has been the necessary foundation of power. What is more, genocide has been expensive and troublesome to organize and execute. Yet, in this …
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