What bothers me about America and Americans is that we just went through the pandemic hysteria, saw the ways in which our own local governments would side against the people in favor of the globalists.
Nothin' but a proud Texas flag on my vehicles anymore. Don't trust Her implicitly, but currently all I have to stake my claim to. Texas needs a damn revolution as well, and a stout Texan to guide her, not a crip elitist.
Ditto that. I sense that defense of one's personal space and thoughts may be the simple act of defiance required to spark that fuse. No bravery required, just rage at what of yours is being "re-distributed".
When my family's home is reappropriated to crimigrants, fer' instance....
Great article. I'm an old cripple now and I'm willing to die on the hill of private property and natural rights. What else is there?
Speaking of America's unique past...
'm reading a book my Texas friend Cindy sent me called "The Boy Captives." It's a true story of two brothers kidnapped by the Comanche in 1871 in Texas. They lived with the Indians for years, survived, and made it back to Texas society. They are the only boy captives to do so. The younger brother was sold to Geronimo of the Apache.
I'm amazed at how many whites this raiding party of 24 Indians, most of them Comanche, killed in Texas and on their travels back north with the captive boys to their main tribe of 2,000 Comanche. The Comanche were well armed and even had field glasses to check for pursuit and any trouble in the area.
The book is signed by the author, Clinton Smith, who was the eldest of the two boys kidnapped. Clinton Smith died in 1932.
People back then were tough; men and women knew how to shoot, make ammo, and load guns. It's quite a story.
In writing Into Exile, I had anticipated incorporating Comanches into it, but I like to tie it into historical events. I looked all over the place for some battle or something to use, but 1870 was a particularly quiet year due to some treaties made after years of fighting. It didn't last, but that time period was quiet. The Goodnight-Loving Trail made famous by the book Lonesome Dove, was odd, because it went south to the Pecos, before working its way northwest to Fort Sumner, then north to Denver. It did that weird U-turn, because the Comanche ruled the Texas Panhandle until the 1880s.
TLD: Clinton Smith writes that the boys weren't absolutely sure where they were all the time. They did head north but went as far as Montana where the Blackfeet turned back the Comanche.
Now, in the book, they are headed south along the Rockies. In Utah, the Comanche wiped out an entire oxen wagon train of settlers (men, women, and children). Maybe they were Mormons.
Thanks for the info on the Goodnight-Loving Trail. I think the Goodnight Ranch still exists.
If you can find a copy of the book "The Boy Captives", it might give you some research material for your books.
Hannah Dunston had her infant daughter killed by Indians during a raid in 1697. She and a couple of other women were taken captive and hauled off by the Abenaki. When the men returned, they found the horror and tried to get the women back, but the Indians were moving at speed. Hannah and two of the other captives managed to kill and scalp 10 Indians and make their way back to civilization. She is a real heroine and a tough lady.
T.L.D.: The two boys, "The Boy Captives" by Clinton Smith, were captured by the Comanche in late February of 1871. The Indians took them east, then north. The 24 Indians and the boys were pursued by the boys' father, relatives, friends, and Texas Rangers.
The officer at Ft. Concho sent out his troops into a fan pattern to catch the Indians coming north.
But when the Indians reached the Fort Concho area, they sent out spies and found that the US Army officer had a gap in his line at the fort. I guess the officer thought the Indians would be afraid to come near the fort.
At night the Indians crept by the fort. Clinton Smith said the boys could see the soldiers' campfires in Fort Concho.
The Indians escaped with the boys. The chase was given up by all but the boys' father, a few relatives and some friends.
The US Army makes a lot of mistakes.
I was surprised to see that Fort Concho is still around.
The issue, as always, is CHARACTER. There were the clandestine Federalists, Jay, Hamilton, etc, that hijacked the Convention to Amend the Articles of Confederation, to make an entirely new governmental structure ... BY DECEIT.
The ink was hardly dry on the ratification of the new Constitution, before nasties like Aaron Burr were lusting after illicit power. Then there was John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts, etc.
There are very few men/women, who can resist the urge to illicit levels of power, hence the checks and balances in the Constitution. Without those, rigorously applied, we will be right back where we are now.
Half our country's people are corrupt, lazy, dishonest, entitled, immoral, and stupid. They make decisions without any kind of moral framework, and usually on the basis of personal appetite, and nothing else.
Those moral people should be there to check the conduct of the immoral. But leaders that are immoral rot the fabric of society, as a fish rots from the head down. Little by little, the people give themselves permission to emulate their leaders, and the rot grows. People like Mike Johnson, his "righteousness" cloaked in religious terms, is actually more destructive than Biden.
I don't know, have thought about this a lot. People feel powerless, so many are REALLY hurting. They don't understand basic economics, constitutional law, and now even the morality behind Christianity. They HAVE NO ANCHOR, NO CENTER, NO CORE. I don't know how to help. They don't believe that anything good works anymore.
I'm going to ramble a bit, so be patient. My son and DIL took their 9 yr old son, my Grandson, out of public school last Winter for reasons its not necessary to go into. My wife and I, along with his other Grandmother, have home schooled him since. He has some issues and is not the easiest child to teach. But we are doing our best. I sat with him yesterday to go over how our government is organized. You know, 3 branches and all that. But I discovered he knew nothing about the Founders, our founding documents, the Revolution... nothing. So I started from scratch with the Pilgrims and went up to the Constitution (written mostly my a local boy, btw). I had to explain the Declaration of Independence, The Thirteen Colonies, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We sat outside and I read all of them to him. I showed him how in the Constitution the federal government was organized. He hadn't been taught any of that in public school! I gave him a booklet to keep with all those documents inside to read for himself whenever he wanted. Me? I'm just a dumbass retired firefighter. I try to do right by him. I hope I did a little bit.
Caitlin Clark. Heard of her. Basket ball phenom. Set records throughout her college career and recently drafted by a WNBA team. All the 'sheboons' are upset and jealous. Caitlin is white and Christian. She is being sabotaged every game - fowls called, never gets the ball, she gets fowled but the refs never call fowls against her. On the flight to the games she sits alone. WNBA was dead. Caitlin has brought excitement to the league and fans are filling the arena to see her. But because of overt racism the league is showing it doesn't want her... Caitlin is good and she is WHITE. Can't have that. I bring that up because it demonstrates the racial hatred being allowed against Whites, and especially White Christians, with impunity. Half the populace has gone hate-filled crazy and there is no fixing it. It will run its course and get much worse.
Something is up. We have all heard of the single military-age males entering the country illegally. No families are with them. Men leave families behind only when going to war. A soldier knows a soldier, and if Michael Yon, former Green beret, says they are soldiers I tend to believe him. Chatter out of the UK is that they are UN soldiers smuggled into the UK. Is it the same here? Why? Is their gear already here waiting for them? What event would preclude them being activated, and for what purpose? I think we will find out at some point and that we won't like it much.
The US has a “double government”, one which is elected and runs a “clown car”, and a permanent - and actual - government which has existed since 1937 (see https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was ) and whose ambit and powers have been codified into law since the Great Coup of 1947, the year of the establishment of the US National Security State and the final overthrow of Constitutional rule - the appearances remain so as not to upset the general public (those who aren’t in the Club) but the substance has been hollowed out and replaced by an entirely alien structure - see https://sites.tufts.edu/fletcheradmissions/files/2014/01/National-Security-and-Double-Government-by-Glennon.pdf and the following video from 10 years ago - rest assured, nothing has changed:
This is an astonishing post, and rings so true. It answers a longtime question I have had about many things, especially what is form, and what is substance. Very, very deep. It's as if a light came on in my understanding.
T.L., This one begs the question. Critical mass is the element we must achieve if we are to take back America. Why haven't the majority of Americans awakened to the threat we're facing, and fought back? Even though I sense an awakening by many, we're still not there, we haven't achieved critical mass to effectively combat this evil specter. As you so accurately mentioned, the commies always move forward. They've been chipping away at the world since Marx and Engels first hit the stage, and they haven't stopped since. On the other hand, the freedom loving people of the world only fight to quell issues, but they (we've) never taken on the whole beast. It's time!
I am an old Confederate, and don't give a damn for the USSA or the District of Criminals.
Deja Vu. Comrades???
You don't like them, but they're certainly interested in YOU.
Nothin' but a proud Texas flag on my vehicles anymore. Don't trust Her implicitly, but currently all I have to stake my claim to. Texas needs a damn revolution as well, and a stout Texan to guide her, not a crip elitist.
Col. Allen West, we need you....
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Will not comply, and that's the beginning and end of it.
And I hope there are a LOT of us that think the same. It's going to get fugly this summer/fall.
I have a feeling there isn't going to be a lot of choice in the matter.
Ditto that. I sense that defense of one's personal space and thoughts may be the simple act of defiance required to spark that fuse. No bravery required, just rage at what of yours is being "re-distributed".
When my family's home is reappropriated to crimigrants, fer' instance....
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Great article. I'm an old cripple now and I'm willing to die on the hill of private property and natural rights. What else is there?
Speaking of America's unique past...
'm reading a book my Texas friend Cindy sent me called "The Boy Captives." It's a true story of two brothers kidnapped by the Comanche in 1871 in Texas. They lived with the Indians for years, survived, and made it back to Texas society. They are the only boy captives to do so. The younger brother was sold to Geronimo of the Apache.
I'm amazed at how many whites this raiding party of 24 Indians, most of them Comanche, killed in Texas and on their travels back north with the captive boys to their main tribe of 2,000 Comanche. The Comanche were well armed and even had field glasses to check for pursuit and any trouble in the area.
The book is signed by the author, Clinton Smith, who was the eldest of the two boys kidnapped. Clinton Smith died in 1932.
People back then were tough; men and women knew how to shoot, make ammo, and load guns. It's quite a story.
In writing Into Exile, I had anticipated incorporating Comanches into it, but I like to tie it into historical events. I looked all over the place for some battle or something to use, but 1870 was a particularly quiet year due to some treaties made after years of fighting. It didn't last, but that time period was quiet. The Goodnight-Loving Trail made famous by the book Lonesome Dove, was odd, because it went south to the Pecos, before working its way northwest to Fort Sumner, then north to Denver. It did that weird U-turn, because the Comanche ruled the Texas Panhandle until the 1880s.
TLD: Clinton Smith writes that the boys weren't absolutely sure where they were all the time. They did head north but went as far as Montana where the Blackfeet turned back the Comanche.
Now, in the book, they are headed south along the Rockies. In Utah, the Comanche wiped out an entire oxen wagon train of settlers (men, women, and children). Maybe they were Mormons.
Thanks for the info on the Goodnight-Loving Trail. I think the Goodnight Ranch still exists.
If you can find a copy of the book "The Boy Captives", it might give you some research material for your books.
It's on the list.
Hannah Dunston had her infant daughter killed by Indians during a raid in 1697. She and a couple of other women were taken captive and hauled off by the Abenaki. When the men returned, they found the horror and tried to get the women back, but the Indians were moving at speed. Hannah and two of the other captives managed to kill and scalp 10 Indians and make their way back to civilization. She is a real heroine and a tough lady.
T.L.D.: The two boys, "The Boy Captives" by Clinton Smith, were captured by the Comanche in late February of 1871. The Indians took them east, then north. The 24 Indians and the boys were pursued by the boys' father, relatives, friends, and Texas Rangers.
Word was sent ahead to Fort Concho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Concho
The officer at Ft. Concho sent out his troops into a fan pattern to catch the Indians coming north.
But when the Indians reached the Fort Concho area, they sent out spies and found that the US Army officer had a gap in his line at the fort. I guess the officer thought the Indians would be afraid to come near the fort.
At night the Indians crept by the fort. Clinton Smith said the boys could see the soldiers' campfires in Fort Concho.
The Indians escaped with the boys. The chase was given up by all but the boys' father, a few relatives and some friends.
The US Army makes a lot of mistakes.
I was surprised to see that Fort Concho is still around.
The issue, as always, is CHARACTER. There were the clandestine Federalists, Jay, Hamilton, etc, that hijacked the Convention to Amend the Articles of Confederation, to make an entirely new governmental structure ... BY DECEIT.
The ink was hardly dry on the ratification of the new Constitution, before nasties like Aaron Burr were lusting after illicit power. Then there was John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts, etc.
There are very few men/women, who can resist the urge to illicit levels of power, hence the checks and balances in the Constitution. Without those, rigorously applied, we will be right back where we are now.
Half our country's people are corrupt, lazy, dishonest, entitled, immoral, and stupid. They make decisions without any kind of moral framework, and usually on the basis of personal appetite, and nothing else.
Those moral people should be there to check the conduct of the immoral. But leaders that are immoral rot the fabric of society, as a fish rots from the head down. Little by little, the people give themselves permission to emulate their leaders, and the rot grows. People like Mike Johnson, his "righteousness" cloaked in religious terms, is actually more destructive than Biden.
I don't know, have thought about this a lot. People feel powerless, so many are REALLY hurting. They don't understand basic economics, constitutional law, and now even the morality behind Christianity. They HAVE NO ANCHOR, NO CENTER, NO CORE. I don't know how to help. They don't believe that anything good works anymore.
I'm going to ramble a bit, so be patient. My son and DIL took their 9 yr old son, my Grandson, out of public school last Winter for reasons its not necessary to go into. My wife and I, along with his other Grandmother, have home schooled him since. He has some issues and is not the easiest child to teach. But we are doing our best. I sat with him yesterday to go over how our government is organized. You know, 3 branches and all that. But I discovered he knew nothing about the Founders, our founding documents, the Revolution... nothing. So I started from scratch with the Pilgrims and went up to the Constitution (written mostly my a local boy, btw). I had to explain the Declaration of Independence, The Thirteen Colonies, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We sat outside and I read all of them to him. I showed him how in the Constitution the federal government was organized. He hadn't been taught any of that in public school! I gave him a booklet to keep with all those documents inside to read for himself whenever he wanted. Me? I'm just a dumbass retired firefighter. I try to do right by him. I hope I did a little bit.
Caitlin Clark. Heard of her. Basket ball phenom. Set records throughout her college career and recently drafted by a WNBA team. All the 'sheboons' are upset and jealous. Caitlin is white and Christian. She is being sabotaged every game - fowls called, never gets the ball, she gets fowled but the refs never call fowls against her. On the flight to the games she sits alone. WNBA was dead. Caitlin has brought excitement to the league and fans are filling the arena to see her. But because of overt racism the league is showing it doesn't want her... Caitlin is good and she is WHITE. Can't have that. I bring that up because it demonstrates the racial hatred being allowed against Whites, and especially White Christians, with impunity. Half the populace has gone hate-filled crazy and there is no fixing it. It will run its course and get much worse.
Something is up. We have all heard of the single military-age males entering the country illegally. No families are with them. Men leave families behind only when going to war. A soldier knows a soldier, and if Michael Yon, former Green beret, says they are soldiers I tend to believe him. Chatter out of the UK is that they are UN soldiers smuggled into the UK. Is it the same here? Why? Is their gear already here waiting for them? What event would preclude them being activated, and for what purpose? I think we will find out at some point and that we won't like it much.
If their gear is already here, I'd find it and move it somewhere else, just sayin'
The US has a “double government”, one which is elected and runs a “clown car”, and a permanent - and actual - government which has existed since 1937 (see https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was ) and whose ambit and powers have been codified into law since the Great Coup of 1947, the year of the establishment of the US National Security State and the final overthrow of Constitutional rule - the appearances remain so as not to upset the general public (those who aren’t in the Club) but the substance has been hollowed out and replaced by an entirely alien structure - see https://sites.tufts.edu/fletcheradmissions/files/2014/01/National-Security-and-Double-Government-by-Glennon.pdf and the following video from 10 years ago - rest assured, nothing has changed:
https://youtu.be/BKsItbj49K0
and https://youtu.be/EYS647HTgks
This is an astonishing post, and rings so true. It answers a longtime question I have had about many things, especially what is form, and what is substance. Very, very deep. It's as if a light came on in my understanding.
T.L., This one begs the question. Critical mass is the element we must achieve if we are to take back America. Why haven't the majority of Americans awakened to the threat we're facing, and fought back? Even though I sense an awakening by many, we're still not there, we haven't achieved critical mass to effectively combat this evil specter. As you so accurately mentioned, the commies always move forward. They've been chipping away at the world since Marx and Engels first hit the stage, and they haven't stopped since. On the other hand, the freedom loving people of the world only fight to quell issues, but they (we've) never taken on the whole beast. It's time!
For all too many the only mark they leave on the world is a brown skid mark.