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Daily Broadside | Buffalo Killer Breaks the Stereotype The Left Pushes About The Right

Daily Verse | Nehemiah 1:11
“O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name.”

Monday’s Reading: Nehemiah 4-7

Monday and a horrific mass murder on Saturday evening in a Buffalo, New York, Tops Friendly Market in a predominantly black neighborhood. The alleged assailant, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, shot 13 people and killed ten of them, including retired Buffalo police officer Aaron Salter, who was working as a security guard at the store.

I don’t know anyone who doesn’t roundly condemn this atrocity. I unequivocally do.

It seems to have been a premeditated attack, violating the unambiguous sixth commandment: “You shall not murder.” Of course, that admonition no longer has much power in our increasingly godless and violent culture.

The teenager seems to have specifically targeted blacks, allegedly making “it known he was targeting the Black community” after his arrest. He also live-streamed his attack on social media, broadcasting his rampage for the world to see.

Most media outlets immediately attributed the attack to “white supremacy,” “racism,” “terrorism” and “hate crime.”

It seems clear that the young man did, in fact, target a demographically black neighborhood. He allegedly arrived the day prior and “conducted reconnaissance on the area and store the day before the shooting.” During his rampage he reportedly pointed his gun at a white person, then said “sorry” and didn’t shoot. So, even though he shot two white people, it seems almost certain that his targets were intentionally blacks.

This is deeply disturbing, of course, but not just because it was racially motivated. It’s deeply disturbing because it occurs in an era when the FBI and the DOJ have claimed, without presenting any specific evidence, that “domestic terrorism” is the greatest threat to the homeland. In an article titled “Far-right terror poses bigger threat to US than Islamist extremism post-9/11,” The Guardian US newspaper wrote,

Earlier this year an intelligence report warned that racially-motivated extremists posed the most lethal domestic terrorism threat. It said the menace was now more serious than potential attacks from overseas, and the White House published a strategy for countering the problem.

The FBI director, Christopher Wray, told Congress that the 6 January insurrection wasn’t an isolated event and “the problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a number of years”.

Wray added that white supremacists comprise “the biggest chunk of our domestic terrorism portfolio overall” and “have been responsible for the most lethal attacks over the last decade”.

Director Wray said that white supremacists and “racially motivated extremists” posed the greatest threat to the U.S. Now we have a white male who seems to have deliberately targeted a black community and indiscriminately killed ten people and wounded three others.

It would seem that the DOJ and the FBI now have a prime example of what they have warned about.

The problem, however, is that in a 180-page “manifesto” attributed to Gendron, he doesn’t identify himself as a “far-right” supremacist, as the title and the body of The Guardian article talk about (along with other publications, such as NPR’s “Wray Stresses Role Of Right-Wing Extremism In Hearing About Jan. 6 Riot“). Instead, Gendron describes himself like this:

“When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old high school and ask about me and you will hear that. From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist.”

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Later in the manifest, the shooter insists, “I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.” He also repeatedly attacks capitalists, and rejected the conservative label because, he wrote, “conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

If this is indeed the shooter’s manifesto, it’s hardly the writing of a “far-right extremist.” But the Left has a narrative to prop up and the mainstream media are all Democrats with bylines.

Without downplaying the white supremacist angle or the devastation Gendron visited on 13 people and their loved ones, this is hardly a slam dunk for what seems to be an all-out effort ahead of the November midterms to demonize not just the “far-right” but the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump, about whom Brandon, extending his hand in unity, said, “This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in recent American history.”

I don’t think it’s a stretch to predict that what happened in Buffalo this past weekend will continue to be spoken of as “white supremacy” and “racially motivated hate crime” (which it certainly seems like it was) but without the detail that Gendron described himself as being on the Left. In other words, the media will use the words that most Americans associate with the far-right but conveniently ignore that those words, at least in this case, actually describe someone on the Left.

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Daily Broadside | Big Brother is Carefully Circling the Wagons … Around You

Daily Verse | Leviticus 25:4
But in the seventh year the land is to have a sabbath of rest, a sabbath to the Lord.

Friday’s Reading: Numbers 1-4
Saturday’s Reading: Numbers 5-8

It’s Friday and the end of another week in the catastrophic hijacking of the American experiment in self-governance as the Brandon junta makes Wrongthink a crime. And not just a crime, mind you, but a specific kind of crime known as “domestic terrorism.”

MDM isn’t the latest flavor of fentanyl, produced by the Communist Chinese regime for sale to Mexican drug cartels, and now the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 to 45. No, MDM stands for mis- dis- and mal-information, the latest government acronym from which you must be protected.

DHS’ latest “Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland,” released Monday, has much to say about the dangers of American minds being polluted with MDM, and curiously little to say about actual terror threats.

MDM is a term developed by the DHS Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to replace the old-fashioned phrase “foreign influence.” Now let us caveat that the U.S. government does indeed have a responsibility to monitor and to identify foreign influence operations. This was the remit of the Reagan-era Active Measures Working Group, which worked tirelessly to identify Soviet lies being spread to undermine the United States’ global standing in the world, and then countered them with the truth.

But under the latest iteration, DHS is no longer concerned solely with enemy lies spread abroad, but increasingly with information spread by “domestic threat actors” (read: American citizens). And no longer are they merely concerned with disinformation, false material spread to manipulate an opponent, but with misinformation, which DHS considers information that is false but not intended to cause harm, and “mal-information,” which means information which is true but the government considers harmful anyway.

This raises the question of who put a government intelligence and law enforcement agency in the position of declaring not only what is true or false but also determining whether information is good or harmful for consumption by free citizens. Of course, no law prohibits American citizens of spreading information of any kind, whether true or false.

Speaking of terrorism—this is truly a terrifying step in the morphing gelatinous mass known as the bureaucratic state, which is embedded in unaccountable agencies created by acts of Congress and completely detached from our political system of checks and balances.

This strikes at the very heart of a free and autonomous people, especially in terms of our First Amendment rights to free speech or to peaceably assemble or to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

But think about what has recently taken place. We had thousands of people “peaceably assemble” in Washington last January to protest the 2020 election results and “petition the Government for redress of grievances.” A smaller number of those people foolishly entered the capitol building and did some damage to it; others went in and walked through like tourists; and still others tried to break into areas that were off limits.

None had weapons and the only citizens killed that day were two unarmed women who were part of the crowd.

For that the protestors who breached the capitol were accused of participating in a violent insurrection and were hunted down, arrested, kept in solitary confinement without being charged, and were abused by their jailkeepers. Hundreds still languish in their cells for doing nothing more than walking through the halls of congress.

In the wake of that incident, lying anti-American mouthpiece and former CIA director John Brennan crowed that,

“… members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion, to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength, and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists — so authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians.”

That was only one of several claims that the most dangerous threat we face is from political extremism and White supremacy.

Then, the Justice Department (recently) announced that it was “establishing its own domestic terrorism unit to thwart the rise of home-grown extremism. But national security experts and advocates say it’s still unclear whether this unit will make Americans safer.”

And let’s not forget that Barack Hussein Obama fired and then replaced hundreds of senior military leaders with the likes of General Milli-Vanilli whose greatest concern is “white rage” and outfitting his military with skirts and heels.

Do you see how all the pieces are being put into place? We are facing an unprecedented assault on our freedoms and the government, which is completely out of control and setting itself up for tyrannical rule, is being led by anti-American Marxists who are on the verge of not governing, but ruling, our country.

In the DHS bulletin, it says that,

… the country is described as being in a “heightened threat environment” due to factors such as online content featuring “false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors.”

The “threat actors” are accused of seeking to “exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest,” which could potentially lead to acts of violence.

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The bulletin also designates individuals and small cells “motivated by a range of foreign and/or domestic grievances often cultivated through the consumption of certain online content” as the “primary terrorism-related threat” to the country.

“The convergence of violent extremist ideologies, false or misleading narratives, and conspiracy theories have and will continue to contribute to a heightened threat of violence in the United States,” it states.

Both “unsubstantiated widespread election fraud” and the coronavirus are listed as examples of subjects in which “false or misleading narratives” are being proliferated online.

“Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021,” it claims.

COVID measures such as vaccine and mask mandates are stated to “have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020” and can potentially continue to inspire them “to target government, healthcare, and academic institutions that they associate with those measures.”

We are being encircled by our government, which is setting up the mechanics of a system that could be used to arrest anyone who voices dissent against the ruling policies or official narratives under the pretext of inciting violence.

Unfortunately, while we may take back the White House and the Congress in the next two years, a lot of damage is being done in these four years that will be tough to undo.

All I can say is arm yourself and buy lots of ammo.

Have a good weekend.


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Daily Broadside | I Hate Abraham Lincoln or Something

Daily Verse | Genesis 31:24
Then God came to Laban … and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Friday’s Reading: Genesis 32-36
Saturday’s Reading: Genesis 37-40

Friday and the end of the week. Anybody know if we’ve flattened the curve yet?

In preparation for this morning’s post, I came across a pithy sentence that sums up our current system of government rather succinctly (author apparently known but remains anonymous):

“The problem is not that the system has become corrupt, but that corruption has become the system.”

That’s it. That. is. it.

The reason we see so much corruption “in the system” is that the system has been displaced by a corrupt counterfeit so that it no longer functions like it was meant to. It’s not a system with some corruption in it; it’s corruption with some vestige of the original structure still holding it together. It’s like a Crusader’s sword that fell into the sea, only to be found 900 years later encrusted in minerals, shells and marine organisms. You can see the sword’s shape but that’s about the only resemblance it has to its original design. It’s been fully corrupted.

There are dozens and dozens of examples of corruption to choose from, but let’s look at one of the most recent.

Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona requested the infamous letter from the National School Boards Association comparing protesting parents to domestic terrorists, emails published Tuesday revealed, demonstrating even further the Biden administration’s entrenched efforts to smear its political opponents as threats to national security.

Wut? A senior official solicited a fake dossier letter to gin up opposition to their political enemies?

That letter, which smeared concerned parents who showed up at school board meetings as domestic terrorists and urged the Department of Justice to use terrorism laws against them, was cited by Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland as the reason he directed the FBI and state attorneys to take action against “a disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.” The NSBA later apologized for the letter, but that wasn’t enough to keep dozens of state school board associations from distancing themselves from the national organization over the debacle.

The idea that a member of the president’s cabinet secretly planted a political message in an outside organization, then acted on the request with the force of law under a pretense of neutrality, is scandalous.

Scandalous? Sure. But why act surprised? This is what our “system” produces and has produced for many years now. Decades, even. But we couldn’t see it as plainly as we do now. Trump blew all the circuitry running through the swamp and exposed it for all to see.

But the Democrats and Leftists and media monkeys don’t even care if we see it. All that matters to them is holding onto power long enough to retool the “system” to keep them in power. If that means tearing down the Senate filibuster like a statue of Robert E. Lee, then let’s do it. If that means labeling parents “domestic terrorists” for opposing the Democrat’s agenda, by all means, let’s do it.

And, if it means Brandon smearing half of all Americans as racists by offering a bizarre choice between racists and anti-racists all the way back to the mid-1800s, let’s do it.

Every official in America, [Resident] Biden said Tuesday, has a choice: “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. [Martin Luther] King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?” Seriously, he said that grandiloquent nonsense.

Mr. Biden’s speech in Georgia was a call to bulldoze the Senate’s filibuster to pass a rebranded version of H.R.1, a bill that would impose a federal election code on all 50 states, including forcing them to count late mail ballots that lack postmarks. If you happen to think that’s a bad idea, or that it’s unconstitutional, or that nuking the filibuster would hurt the Senate, well, then apparently you’re against Abraham Lincoln.

Not to make too fine a point of it, Brandon, but Bull Connor, George Wallace and (most likely, from the correspondence we have) Robert E. Lee were all Democrats. Lewis was a Democrat and King supposedly had Republican sympathies, but his party affiliation remains unknown.

Only Lincoln was a Republican—and you claim his mantle for your Marxist administration that engages in lawfare against innocent citizens?

The whole edifice is rotten. It needs to be torn down and the earth where it stood needs to be salted.

Have a good weekend.