By CHRISTOPHER MANION
These days, Joe Biden’s disastrous collapse in Afghanistan a year ago is already ancient history. After all, what else is new? The United States has lost every war it’s been in since the last time Congress actually passed a Declaration of War in 1942.
But wait, what about the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s Florida home last week? Is that “history”?
Well, that belongs in a different category. Unlike freedom, war, prosperity, and peace, the topic of “Trump!!!” is timeless. If it doesn’t dominate the media’s toxic airwaves today, the sun will refuse to rise tomorrow.
So brace yourselves for more “Trump!!!” Our beloved Alphas must always have a steady supply of Soma to feed the Deltas and Epsilons in our brave new media world. . . . Or, if you’re more fond of Orwell than of Huxley, how about “the mass of imbecilic enthusiasms”?
But moving on from Trump — wait a minute! Dare we?
Let’s shed the shackles long enough to ponder some other August anniversaries that come to mind.
I have one here.
Thirty years ago this month I was in the Idaho panhandle, close to the Canadian border, when a couple of hundred federal agents were trying to arrest a fellow named Randy Weaver. The Weaver family lived on Ruby Ridge, a few miles north of our cabin on Gold Ridge.
The operation was a disaster from end to end, and it marked the beginning of the end for the “professional” image of the FBI. It bottomed out when FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi, a home-schooling Catholic supertrad from Virginia, shot Weaver’s wife Vicky in the face while she was holding their infant daughter Elisheba in her arms by the cabin door.
The gruesome facts are on the record, but the tawdry tidbits are equally revolting. Some 400 federal agents were in Sandpoint, the nearest town, for weeks. Local waitresses told us how the pompous federal toughs would strut their stuff, bragging, “We’ll get’em on our shift” — whatever that meant.
Public servants indeed. And it was just a warmup for Waco, where the same crowd — including Horiuchi — firebombed 76 Branch Davidians, including 25 children, a few months later, courtesy of Attorney General Janet Reno.
So the rot in the FBI has been festering for years. And it’s irritating, I admit, because in the 1980s I worked with several FBI teams in the U.S. and abroad, and the agents I worked with — including those who protected me when I had death threats from the Cali Cocaine Cartel — were terrific.
But Friedrich Hayek was right. “The worst rise to the top,” he wrote, because when the best can’t stand the rot, they bail out.
That’s how we got here.
Of Flag Wavers
And False Flags
But other instructive anniversaries also come to mind. We recall how Poland invaded Germany on August 31, 1939.
Only Poland didn’t. In “Operation Himmler,” Hitler’s SS, Gestapo, and Abwehr seized the Gleiwitz radio station in Germany’s border with Poland, and broadcast news of the Polish “victory.”
An unsettling component of the operation came when the Germans showed pictures of the invaders. They were German concentration camp prisoners dressed in Polish uniforms, killed by the SS and shown to the world as “proof” of the Polish attack.
The next day, Hitler invaded Poland, and welcome to World War II.
Fast forward to 2022. According to Merrick Garland, Joe Biden’s attorney general, “white supremacists” are “the most dangerous threat to our democracy.”
Would Garland ever dare use the FBI to stage a “false flag” operation featuring a band of “white right-wing extremists” wearing MAGA hats?
It worked for Janet Reno. She stayed in office for eight years after Waco.
To this day, Garland refuses to affirm or deny reports of FBI agents and assets involved in the January 6 events at the U.S. Capitol.
Nancy Pelosi wants us to “forget history,” but August 1939 offers us just one more reason to remember it. Today, the Democrat Left, joined by a chorus of neoconservative opportunists, trumpets the mantra that conservatives want “civil war.”
As usual, the opposite is true — those shouting the loudest are desperate to stage an August 1939 of their own, and the prospects of such a staged “attack” will undoubtedly increase as the Left’s defiance of the law is unchallenged.
Last week we noted the lavish praise that Oklahoma City Archbishop and USCCB committee chairman Paul Coakley heaped on Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden for raising taxes, changing the weather, and making life more difficult and less affordable for America’s poor.
Last Friday Pelosi returned the gesture, crediting Pope Francis for the “values” that inspired the $700 billion bill.
Speaking of “values,” another anniversary: Last August, Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington published his “Catechesis on the Human Person and Gender Ideology.” Why hasn’t Archbishop Coakley made that excellent document a core ingredient in his discussion with the Biden administration?
Well, he hasn’t. And the archbishop’s favorite bill has the IRS all excited about hiring those 87,000 new, armed agents who would only plague the top one percent of American millionaires, Scout’s Honor.
It’s funny — a Wisconsin priest is canceled because he said that voting for radical pro-abortion Joe Biden was a sin; meanwhile, the USCCB hierarchy, who eviscerated Donald Trump, the most pro-life president in history, now bows down in gratitude to the Biden-Pelosi agenda that expands abortion, forces “gender-neutral” facilities on thousands of schools, and impoverishes the working class.
That’s apparently not a sin.
In reading the recruitment ads for the new IRS agents — totaling ten thousand more than would fit in Notre Dame’s football stadium — one gets the impression that the agency is looking for tough-guy wannabes, lackeys, and losers who have always longed to boss other people around.
Just what we need to keep those violent right-wing extremists in line.
And naturally, they’ll follow the lead of our socialist counterparts up north who froze the bank accounts of supporters of the truckers’ convoy when they shut down Toronto earlier this year.
So our bureaucracy’s latest additions must agree to “carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force, if necessary” — and the IRS will boast more employees than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and the Border Patrol combined.
As for the millionaires, “Americans who earn less than $75,000 per year are slated to receive 60 percent of the additional tax audits,” according to the House Republicans (all of whom opposed the bill).
That’s not a promising sign for what will be the most massive paramilitary unit in the country.
I wonder, did Lenin have to advertise for Cheka agents?
The Junkyard
Liz Cheney won’t have to pretend she lives in Wyoming anymore, having suffered a historic loss in her primary election the past Tuesday. While the victor, Harriet Hageman, ran against the Joe Biden Democrats, Cheney ran against Donald Trump.
And just in time for the Feast of the Assumption, Atlantic magazine, a revered leftist journal founded in the nineteenth century, has published a claim that the Rosary is a symbolic AK-47.
“Just as the AR-15 rifle has become a sacred object for Christian nationalists in general, the rosary has acquired a militaristic meaning for radical-traditional (or ‘rad trad’) Catholics,” the breathless exposé reports. “On this extremist fringe, rosary beads have been woven into a conspiratorial politics and absolutist gun culture….The ‘battle beads’ culture of spiritual warfare permits radical-traditional Catholics literally to demonize their political opponents and regard the use of armed force against them as sanctified.”
Yes it is ignorant, but that’s not the point: the fears of the docile, dimwit Left must constantly be stoked, because they don’t think, they feel.
Anti-Catholicism is “the deepest bias in the history of the American people,” wrote Arthur Schlesinger Sr. in 1956.
Looks like it still is.
Just another reminder that the Church and the family are the ultimate targets of Satan.
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