'If Only the Führer Knew…'
by Michael
Peirce
In 1944 the young German
fighters in the panzer divisions knew perfectly well that fighting under
the guns of the Allied fleet in Normandy was madness. On the Ost
Front they were equally aware that the order to "hold at all
costs" was grinding their elite units into dust and robbing them of
their unquestioned advantage, tactical flexibility. However, their faith
in Adolf Hitler remained undiminished – they blamed these suicidal
orders on the high command, on the regular army generals, and repeated
this slogan to each other, "If only the Führer knew…"
American conservatives are
much like that. They are quite aware that the United States government
is working actively against the best interests of the people of this
country. The failure to defend our borders, the draconian and
unconstitutional assault on our God-given right of self defense, the
mass murders of the unborn, the transformation of the public school
system into left wing indoctrination centers – conservatives are aware
of these things. But there exists this huge disconnect – constantly
one hears the same mantra, "Don’t worry, the adults are in charge
now."
If they had but eyes to
see they would see that it wasn’t liberals who recently announced a
plan to send fifteen billion extorted dollars to Africa, ostensibly to
fight the AIDS epidemic that is depopulating a continent. It wasn’t
the liberals who declared, "Islam is a religion of peace,"
ignoring history and common sense. It wasn’t the liberals who tried to
sneak through a general amnesty for illegal aliens and who failed to
take any action whatsoever to protect the unborn or the Second
Amendment. And it is certainly not Al Gore who has dreamed up this
horrific plan of attack against a third-rate country in the Middle East,
claiming that we will not forget 911, an action in which Iraq had no
part.
As Josef Goebels and Adolf
Hitler were well aware, a big lie works best. I’m astounded when
"conservatives" call me a wimp and a communist because I
refuse to face up to the imagined threat posed by Sadaam Hussein. Well
guys, it wasn’t Sadaam Hussein who used tanks to kill Americans in
Waco! You can take this to the bank – I’m against their wars of
aggression, their war on some drugs, and their attack on our
right to own weapons – how this is un-American eludes me. I’ve got
George Washington and all the founders on my side. None of whom were
wimps or communists!
Of course, I’m often
reminded that this business of a Constitutional Republic was decided on
the battlefield, in the "late unpleasantness" as they daintily
refer to the destruction of the South by government mercenaries. Then
why do we pretend to honor the history of this very same Constitutional
Republic?
Answer: we do not. These
same conservatives who cheer lustily whenever Señor Bush shows his face
must not be aware that he cooked up a deal with Ted Kennedy to radically
increase the budget of the Department of Education, which determines
what will be taught in the public schools. Hint: they won’t be talking
much about George Washington; you can count on that. Francis Marion,
Nathaniel Green, Light Horse Harry Lee, and those pesky French are given
short shrift in school these days. Just dead white males. Let’s Roll
eh?
It makes me physically ill
when I hear a "conservative" crack jokes about drug pushers
being sent to jail where they will encounter homosexual rape and other
horrors which make our prisons so disgustingly bad that we owe an
apology to the Inquisition. Yet these same folks deplore the Nazis who
after all, were only acting against "Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals,
political undesirables and other anti-social elements." They had it
coming right? Rule of law? Naw, too complicated to fit in a slogan.
Constitution? So what? To paraphrase Hitler, that is nothing but
"…a scrap of paper."
And the Führer knows all
about that…
You can always tell when
you are getting close to what soldiers call the "op area."
There is a stink of putrefaction, burnt powder and charred vegetation.
It is the stink of war.
It’s probably my
imagination but I seem to smell that dreadful stench again – like a
hint of the devil’s own cologne, as the war madness spreads and the
propaganda machine goes into overdrive. Even among those who support
this coming war I hear the same fears that I’m expressing. That this
is going to be more than we bargained for – that we are on the brink
of 1914, again.
Remember Clinton’s
crazed assault on Serbian Christians with all the poorly constructed
atrocity tales devised to whip us into a murderous frenzy in support of
his drug running Al Queda buddies in Kosovo. As many of us predicted, it
has led to the ethnic cleansing of the Serbs from that area, the burning
or destruction of some four thousand Christian churches and a major step
forward in realizing the goal of a "greater Albania," however
oxymoronic that may sound to civilized folks.
"If only the Führer
knew?" Well, last I looked Señor Bush has failed to pull so much
as one soldier out of the Balkans since he took office two years ago.
This despite his public performances where he routinely talks of
tracking down Al Queda and wiping them out. He certainly would not have
to look far if that really was his purpose – they are right there in
Kosovo, laughing at us.
It was hard to miss the
sounds of silence emanating from the caring and nurturing antiwar
alliances of the left – those who claim to simply want an "…end
to war and racism," because in their opinion no war ever solves
anything. Unless, one assumes, that war is directed against Christians
or former allies of the United States. I wonder why they can’t make up
their minds about this latest foray into madness? After all, there are
Christians in Baghdad – we can at least kill them…
The process of
deconstruction usually proceeds at a faster pace when the Marxists
control the "smart bombs." Or so I thought – I should have
known from then-candidate Bush’s reticence on the issue that he was
unlikely to take a principled stand on wars of aggression. Events have
proven that Bush’s thirst for blood not only exceeds Billy Jeff’s
but there is that added down side that he is more focused – no Monica
to distract ole Dubya while he yaks on the phone with his generals.
Isn’t it interesting
that both these two groups work so well together? The Left might be said
to include the Democratic Party, the Teacher’s Unions, Big Media, the
Socialist Workers Party and all the various front groups behind which
they hide. You can identify them easily – they want more laws, higher
taxes, a ban on private gun ownership (big one for them) and they
blather constantly about the wonders of murdering unborn children and
openly endorse sexual depravity. They scorn the religion of Christ. How
this differs from communism eludes me.
How this differs from the
Republicans is the real question. Let’s see how that works.
The Neo-Conservatives, who
are the vanguard of the Republican Party these days, are for tax cuts, yet
want greatly increased government spending. Don’t worry about
where the bucks are coming from tough guy – we’ll just print it up!
They claim to believe in smaller government but endorse
monstrosities like Homeland Security and the Education Department.
They are for gun rights they claim, yet call for more enforcement of
blatantly unconstitutional gun laws.
If you doubt my word how
do you explain their assistance to statist icons like the now legendary
Chief Moose in his post-sniper assault on gun owners in Maryland –
even supplying manpower in the form of goons from the BATF and FBI in
their trendy SWAT costumes. I guess ole Moose assumes that if they
arrest enough decent citizens they’ll eventually catch those white
militia types he remains convinced are behind the sniper shootings.
Everything you ever wanted to know about affirmative action is there in
Chief Moose – incompetence, racism and a loving relationship with the
central government.
"If only the Führer
Knew", eh? Unless he somehow missed it, I’d guess that it is very
unlikely that he was unaware of this. Should freedom-loving Americans
trust this man? You be the judge.
Have you noticed that our
heath care systems continue to get worse? My doctor informed me recently
that government agents arrived at his office unannounced to demand that
he shell out thirty grand for a new government mandated bank / insurance
company setup that is not optional and then had the audacity to
charge him for their visit. Health care is deteriorating rapidly and
more government intrusion is exactly not what the doctor ordered!
Are the adults really in
charge or is Bush nothing but Hillary Clinton in drag?
The Neo-Cons have until
recently pretended (at least to their conservative base) to stand for
the rights of unborn Americans but now even the pretence is gone. It
remains possible that they will throw a bone to decency by eliminating
that "special procedure" (as the government media hacks call
it) that pro lifers refer to accurately as partial birth abortion.
Don’t hold your breath though – it was promised for January of this
year. Meantime the babies are still getting their little heads broken by
vicious beasts in doctor suits.
Sexual depravity? Sure, if
it votes Republican. After all, it is not the government’s job to
monitor what goes on in our bedrooms. Unless it is something they
don’t like of course. Just don’t take a pistol to your next S/M
session.
The beloved leader of the
Neo-Cons, Señor Bush, has put together a track record that makes Jimmy
Carter look like a statesmen. He has managed to alienate our European
allies, destroy an already shaky accord with Russia (second most
nuclear-armed power in the world by the way), increased government
spending to levels that have the Democrats gasping with delight,
increased the size and power of government to dictatorial levels and has
presided over the worst economic downturn since the late seventies.
With millions of Americans
unemployed he has steadfastly refused to guard our borders against
illegal migrant labor, all the while pretending that we are involved in
some stupendous war against shadowy terrorists. The airline industry is
reeling and many Americans (including this writer) simply refuse to fly
rather than be subjected to arrest by the morons "guarding"
our airports against some non-specific threat that apparently includes
Medal of Honor winners and Granny. A threat that goes unnoticed on the
southern border where sinister Arabic figures are an increasingly large
percentage of the "visitors" he stubbornly refuses to crack
down upon.
Meantime, back at the OK
Corral he has managed to get us into pending conflicts on two separate
continents, both of which may go nuclear (if you are naïve enough to
take his word about Iraq). And of course he is managing to ignore Korea,
the truly dangerous situation to focus on bringing democracy to a region
that doesn’t want it and won’t tolerate democracy imposed upon it.
The one area where
democracy has been successfully imposed upon people who didn’t want
it, by force of arms of course, is the United States of America, an
erstwhile Constitutional Republic.
Yessir, the adults are in
charge all right.
It gets even weirder:
minus the few hundred thousand outright kooks who rejoice in "takin’
it to the streets," most of the left wing socialist types are quite
as warlike as their supposed enemies on the Neo-Conservative right. That
this is confusing strikes me as deliberate – both sides wage their
ideological wars with slogans rather than facts – us plebian types can
choose the slogan we prefer and thus pretend that we have some sort of
association with other folks who chose that slogan and at least get a
little kick out having a place in the pack. All others are shouted down
as un-American from the right and "racist" from the left.
Since both slogans mean the same thing this is the best of all worlds
for the enemies of freedom. And mark this very carefully – both
sides are enemies of freedom.
Like Adolf Hitler before
him, Señor Bush is betraying his supporters left, right and center, but
it doesn’t seem to impact his popularity polls one bit. Similarly to
Hitler, he finds it expedient to keep the populace in an uproar about
various enemies who threaten all that is good. To fight them, we must
become more like them. Didn’t we try that in the Cold War? We ended up
becoming our enemies, fulfilling Khrushchev’s prophecy that he
would bury us. You have only to compare individual freedom in America
before the Cold War to what little we have left today. Dare we risk
trying this again?
How is it that folks who
proudly proclaim their patriotism cannot see these things? Or is it that
they simply will not see them. It certainly feels better to
believe that things are just fine in good ole America. Yet things are
most certainly not fine, this much is obvious.
Collectivists who wish us
to be a member of the group rather than a hardheaded bunch of
individualists, who coincidently happen to be harder to govern, rule
over us both in the bureaucracies and the un-elected branches of
government. When we are a collective, issues like rule of law are moot.
The folks in charge, rule. Compassionately they claim, but history shows
no instance of collectivist governments ruling with anything but an iron
fist.
"If only the Führer
knew…?" Are we not smarter than heavily indoctrinated
seventeen-year-old Nazi conscripts? I have my doubts.
How can we give those
people even more power than they already have, and claim that we are
patriots? Supporting this war is a way of voting more power to the
government. Remember, these guys are not defending America. If they
were, our borders would not be wide open. It really is that simple.
When we still had a
sizable plurality of people who believed in the concept of rule of law,
rather than rule by men, we had an America where kids took guns to
school but never shot anyone; where cops where your friends. An America
that enjoyed commerce with all selling our own products in a wonderful
reversal of our current role as the world’s butler and arms producer
– "Do you want fries with that Mr. Abdullah?" Finally, and
perhaps most importantly, an America with no entangling military
alliances. That final statement, as "un-American and racist"
as it may sound, was another of those controversial ideas put forth by a
Mr. G. Washington, someone about whom our modern generation could care
less.
That America is gone, dead
and buried. It contracted a fatal disease during the Second Secession
War and eventually that malady proved fatal.
February 13, 2003
Mr. Peirce [send
him mail] fought with the Rhodesian freedom fighters (the Ian Smith
side, of course).
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