Quote:Scotty, Beam Us Up
Captain Kirk has fallen
Quote:“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
The Second Coming (excerpt), by William Butler Yeats
I confess I knew little of Charlie Kirk, other than having heard his name mentioned a thousand times. I wasn’t his target audience. He spoke to Millennials and Zoomers, and his message was preaching to the choir for me. I was at his level back in the 1980s.
Following the news of him being shot, I went to his YouTube channel and watched a video uploaded hours before his death, of him speaking and debating with a crowd at University of California San Diego. He was clearly well read and articulate. He didn’t strike me as being mean, condescending, or ridiculing, even when the folks standing to debate him were clearly products of American public education.
What really struck me, even knowing how shallow and callous the GeezerMedia and SocMed (social media) are, was the inhuman glee and celebratory mood among the Wokians and Regressives (wrongly labelled Progressives in some circles). Like hyenas, they circle the camp fire, cackling and howling in a peculiarly animalistic way, waiting to pounce on the corpse and rip it to shreds when no one is looking.
The conservatives certainly have a martyr now, and a rallying point for concerted motivation and action. I seriously doubt, however, that this or any other shocking event will galvanize the movement. American conservatives are a shy lot, not prone to outrage and kinetic responses. There’s an infuriating “christian” pall over them that prevents any meaningful response. Rather, they recoil and pray and tell themselves there will be a reckoning in the hereafter.
Perhaps a more meaningful reaction is to recognize what is going on, who is doing it, and how it can be subverted. I don’t know if I can adequate answer all the questions, but I can make a good stab at it.
First off, the Kirk assassination was a professional hit. Everything about it screams teamwork. According to the Gateway Pundit, the FBI was tracking the shooter for an hour before the incident, and has clear video of the shooter before, during and after the shooting. Why they didn’t act should be obvious. In any case, amateurs use handguns at very close range (< 2 yards/meters), while professionals use rifles at 200-500 yards. Imagine shooting a log at the opposite end of two football fields, and at least 2-3 yards below your eye level.
Second, the FBI reports the rifle was found in the woods nearby, with various pro-transsexual, anti-Trump and anti-fascist slogans somehow etched on the bullet casings. This is clearly a red herring to rile MAGA/conservatives and turn them against specific groups. This is an obvious ruse, since all other facts but this point to a professional hit.
Third, Kirk appears to have been wearing a bulletproof vest. This means the killer either knew that and was going for a head shot, or the killer was trying for a heart shot and the vest deflected the bullet into Kirk’s throat and spine.
Fourth, Joseph Farrell is reporting that his sources tracked a private jet leaving Provo, Utah an hour after the shooting, and the plane “disappeared” from tracking shortly after take-off.
Putting all this together, it sounds as if there is a Fifth Column active within the US government, using the various agencies and departments to both execute and hide operations designed to cause division, rage and violent reactions.
The term “fifth column” comes from the Spanish Civil War (1936–39): during the siege of Madrid, Nationalist General Emilio Mola supposedly said he had four columns of troops advancing on the city — and a “fifth column” of sympathisers already inside Madrid, ready to sabotage and weaken the defenders. Since then, it’s become shorthand for traitors, infiltrators, or subversives operating under cover of loyalty.
This would explain judges who repeatedly release violent criminals in an effort to cause grievous harm and turn people against the institutions of government. The apparent incompetence of agencies like the Secret Service and FBI allow operations to be planned and carried out with minimal law enforcement interference or effectiveness—as in Trump’s attempted assassination.
Fascists/Socialists are well-known for employing fifth columns in taking over nations.
- Czechoslovakia (1938–39)
- The Sudeten German Party (led by Konrad Henlein) whipped up unrest among ethnic Germans.
- This gave Hitler a pretext for intervention, undermining Prague from within.
- Norway (1940)
- Vidkun Quisling and his Nasjonal Samling party openly collaborated.
- Quisling’s name became synonymous with “traitor.”
- Local Nazi sympathizers guided German troops and disrupted Norwegian defenses.
- Netherlands, Belgium, France (1940)
- Fascist and pro-German groups carried out sabotage and spread defeatism.
- The Nazis also planted agents to cut communications and mislead defenders during invasions.
- Yugoslavia and Greece (1941)
- Ethnic German minorities (Volksdeutsche) often supported German troops with intelligence and sabotage.
- Collaborationist factions later helped the occupiers administer the countries.
Psychological warfare gave the sense that enemies were already inside the gates demoralized defenders. Sabotage & intelligence helped cut railways, spread false orders, or secure airfields. Propaganda from Nazi radio and leaflets broadcast “you are betrayed from within” messages to sow confusion.
Does any of this sound familiar with regard to the current situation within the US?
Keep in mind that in the Far Side view, there’s hardly a whit’s worth of difference between Marxists, Leninists, Stalinists, Maoists, Communists, Socialists, and Fascists. These are all subtle variations on the same ideology with the same tactics and methods: fill up the schools, local and regional governments. They maximize discord, division and violence. They seek utter chaos in order to install their solutions, and those who refuse to submit are slaughtered my the millions.
From the end of the 19th century until now, we have seen the same playbook used over and over across the globe, and always with the same results: death, despair, collapse, and ruin.
In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk murder, it is absolutely vital that folks do not react emotionally and attack targets specifically chosen for them. Rather, step back, take a breath, and have a cold hard look at who is really behind all of it. There is a single, transnational and very well-funded organization that plays us like well-tempered claviers.
Charlie Kirk’s killer was a trained professional backed up by an insertion/extraction team. The murder was for the sole purpose of goading the MAGA/conservatives into violent backlash, so that it can be used as justification for authoritarian crack-downs, as well as propaganda to warn folks away from rugged individualism and non-reliance on the Almighty State.
The proper outcome in this matter should be a strong, united and decisive movement against this form of extremism, as manifested in Wokism, Progressivism, and similar ideologies. Those who are laughing, cheering and blaming Charlie himself for this horrific tragedy are the monsters behind the violence. They must be called out, isolated, shunned. Folks need to demand justice in a controlled and dispassionate manner.
Anything short of this plays directly into the hands of the bastards who are pushing this rubbish. We cannot empower them by being herded into their slaughter houses.
This is also a test. If government does not respond appropriately and apprehend, indict and convict these monsters, then we know that the government is no longer of, by and for the people. We cannot allow the same delay and misdirection tactics used in JFK/911/2020 Riots to derail this investigation. Results now, or the united people must act with firm and decisive action. We have seen the US Senate behave in the most reprehensible and depraved way. Let them know that a line is being drawn and they are on the wrong side.
No more fearful hope that the perpetrators will receive their due in the afterlife. That will not deter evil in the here and now. We must use cold, calculating and established due process, and upon conviction the guilty must be swiftly hung, shot and/or electrified (no soft chemicals). The fifth column must be identified and rooted out before the take-over is complete. No anger, just righteous indignation. This is an existential battle, but the good folks must not descend to the animalist level of the enemy. History is watching how we handle this moment.
Other than an assassination and Nepal in ruins, it was a pretty quiet week.
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There is only a single film that brilliantly captures the Zeitgeist: Judgement at Nuremburg (1961). Not only is it one of director Stanley Kramer’s best works, the cast is a veritable who’s who of A-list acting talent in the early 1960s, including Captain Kirk (William Shatner) himself. I just realized too that it was co-written by Montgomery Clift. This is a powerful message that needs to be heard again in our current morass.
ETA: JPF commentary on Charlie Kirk (14 min) - I did not know about this private jet that disappeared off radar.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell
