I can’t remember if I have told this story, but I was sitting in a bar in Greenville, SC last December, roughly, talking to a guy from Ohio who was down there a lot on business. He told me that on a plane flight he took from Cincinnati or somewhere like that down there last March (2020) there was a sick, scared, and poorly dressed Chinese guy on his flight, who had apparently flown directly from China, and gotten on multiple connecting flights within the United States. He said that in his view there was NO WAY a guy who looked like that could have afforded a direct flight from China. He said he literally looked like somebody they had scooped off the street he slept on last night, and put him on a plane, with nothing.
Is this implausible? I don’t think so. The Chinese routinely use people’s families as leverage, as hostages, to force behavior they want. This guy easily could have been a farmer from some province you have not heard of, who was infected with COVID-19, and told to fly to America, and if he said a fucking thing, his family would be raped and murdered.
They do stuff like that there.
And we have seen Chinese people talk about how this whole disease has been a “victory” in an undeclared war with America. The specific lecture I had in mind I am not putting my fingers on–I should have posted it–but here is a former virologist from Wuhan saying OF COURSE this thing was created and released intentionally: https://www.foxnews.com/media/chinese-virologist-government-intentionally-coronavirus
Here is my question: if true, IS THIS NOT AN ACT OF WAR? Is the concept of “biowarfare” not a recognized thing? And if it was an act of war, does that not make supporters of this war in the United States traitors and war criminals who have murdered hundreds of thousands of American civilians? Yes, I think it does. This is new territory and a new concept. Nothing like it has happened before, but I think the logic is there.
Could the United States military not, perhaps, convene tribunals to examine the evidence of war crimes? I don’t know. I will simply suggest it is possible.
Further: when the CIA in the past has interfered with other nations elections, when we have supported coups, when we have directly opposed the will of the electorate, were these not in some respects acts of war? What is the purpose of a war? To control another nation. To install your people. When the Soviets invaded Hungary–certainly an act of war by any standard–what was their aim? To put their people back in power. When the Nazis invaded France, what did they do? They put their people in charge.
Logically, if you could so abuse and manipulate another nations election system that you could get your people in charge WITHOUT AN INVASION, would that not still be an act of war? Of aggressive hegemonic intent? Of course it would. That is my view.
Thus, if it can be shown that our election was corrupted by foreign influences–either directly or acting through American traitors–then that too would be properly a military affair. Election fraud is an act of war.
Now, my view of the military is that as they progress up the chain of command most of them lose any common sense they might once have had. They become political. As a friend of mine once put it, they become assholes.
I will bookend this with another story that begins “I was drinking in a bar once”, and talked with a retired Army Colonel. I may have shared this story, but can’t remember. He told me he voted for Biden because as much as he disliked Biden, he hated Trump even more. Now, I’m thinking “how can anyone be that fucking stupid.” Everything Biden has in fact DONE was predicted by me and a host of other people like me, because IT WAS FUCKING OBVIOUS. They were not going to cheat like motherfuckers then govern from the middle. How could anyone be that naive?
Well, this guy was. And as it happens, his second career was that of a school teacher. I think he taught middle school. And he said that his kids were traumatized by Jan. 6th, that it “felt like another 9/11”, and he apparently did nothing to dissuade them, and seems instead to if anything have encouraged this, to me, grotesque distortion of the reality. (and if you read www.thegatewaypundit.com they continue to come out with more and more mitigating–and to be sure incriminating, on the part of Capital Police–stories).
And, now that I get to this part, I DID mention at least part of this story. His mentioning of 9/11 got me talking about the OBVIOUS fact, if you evaluate the evidence, that 9/11 was a much bigger conspiracy, and that this fact was suppressed by our government. And he got, honestly, a bit womanish–if I might be indulged in using that term. He got offended. He didn’t want to hear it. He called me a Tinfoil Hate conspiracist. I offered my evidence, and he admitted it sounded reasonable, but I had no doubt whatsoever that he was going to dismiss it all, and hope never to see me again. I have not in fact seen him since.
He said “I have had men die in my arms. How can any such thing be true?”. Now, I will not claim to have ANY true understanding either of what it feels like to 1) command men in battle; 2) get shot at, and in turn to kill enemy combatants; or 3) watch friends die at close range. I admit that.
But that is STILL A NON SEQUITUR. To my mind, an adult mind is capable of admitting that things may be vastly worse than I fear, and certainly that I hoped and assumed.
Look at John Kerry. He has had a durable political career after assassinating the characters of our Vietnam warriors, using lies he offered opportunistically.
Look at the Vietnam War generally: it was pointless. At the end of the day NONE of those men needed to die. Not one of them. Why? Because politicians in Washington pissed away all of their blood, sweat and tears in an orgy of sanctimonious lies, and Satanic treachery. This is the reality.
And we nearly pissed away Iraq, too, Certainly much of the bloodletting after what I will term our first victory happened ONLY because Barack Hussein Obama armed and trained what became ISIS. He not only CREATED them, but did little to oppose them. On the contrary, until his last day in office, his goal remained using those sociopathic serial killers to overthrow Assad. Why? I don’t really know. Best guess is that he was bought by the Gulf States to put in a Syrian regime that would allow a gas pipeline across Syria.
And it remains true that the pipeline across Afghanistan was halted by the Taliban, and renewed by their replacements after we took control. Cause and effect? I can’t say. But I am more inclined to lend credence to such assertions now than I once was. Tower 7 was brought down by explosives. That much is more or less scientific fact now that Leroy Hulsey completed his analysis.
How much does our military recognize and value freedom? Sanity? A government of the people, by the people, for the people? If that colonel was any indication, not much. They are not different in kind than the executives at Coke and Nike.
But I always like to suggest possibilities here. So called “creativity”, as I have said often, is really just unpeeling latent realities which were always there. Everything you could ever think and know is already there. You are just too small to see much of it. We all are.
Edit: I am perhaps being too harsh on this Army Colonel. I really don’t know what it feels like to have the lifeblood of a friend splashed on me. I want to be clear that I understand–without really understanding–this large gap in my experience.
My comments come from a conviction that starts under my feet and goes through the top of my head that we OWE it to those who died to 1) Tell the Truth; 2) Learn. If it can happen once, it can happen again.
The lesson of Vietnam is that much of our intelligentsia hates this country, and sides willingly and easily with our enemies, which amounts to an alliance with violence, authoritarian rule, the suppression of human rights, willful deceptiveness, and the continual sabotaging of stable culture wherever they find it. One could easily argue that Islam, itself, has been perverted by these people into embracing a terroristic ethos in many quarters, and a ruthlessness and nastiness otherwise foreign to it. Middle Eastern terrorism was concocted in the Kremlin, as a way of pushing Arab nations away from the United States and towards their brand of Fascism, all in pursuit of what amounted to a goal of global conquest.
We do not honor those who died in Iraq and Afghanistan by LYING about the complicity of our own government in 9/11. On the contrary, we ENABLE these aspiring authoritarians by doing so, and in fact make the long term stable freedom most of them thought they were fighting for LESS LIKELY.
Life hurts. And no matter how much it hurts now, it can always get worse. For me, I would rather die painfully than develop the habit of lying about important things. As I have said often, that is a choice between a relatively easy death, and one made much harder by losing your soul, your integrity, and all self respect and the possibility of earned love in this world.