PS I think a major turning point in the march toward totalitarian leftism --- a.k.a. the ctrl-left (love that!) came in the early 70s with Herbert Marcuse's evil screed "Repressive Tolerance." I ran into this excrement in a poly-sci class I took in Jr. College. It laid the theoretical foundation upon which the "new left" built its policy of shouting down ideas it did not agree with. Since those ideas were (by definition) repressive, they did not deserve a hearing.

This is similar to the idea that "error has no rights." This is a category error: neither does truth have any rights. People have rights and one of them is the right to freedom of thought and expression (though they do NOT have the right to be heard, since that would impose an obligation on someone else to hear them). People have the right to use their own resources as they desire to attempt to communicate their ideas, as long as they don't infringe on the rights of others or purloin their resources.

Enough ranting. I realized even when I first ran across it that the idea of "repressive tolerance" stunk, and nothing that has happened since has changed my mind about it.

PS The Trojan Horse is the UN army for the next plandemic?

O/T-More Music News-Norsk Black metal legends Immortal return with WAR Against All, Sleaford Mods-UK Grim is out.

PS: As related to these 2 pieces (at least) of bleak news, let me point you all to the transcript of a speech by Roger Devlin at the Scandza Forum in Estonia. (This is the one that Jared Taylor looked forward - likewise, I'm sure - to speaking in front of, but he was prohibited from entering the Euro zone (Shengin?) He is too nice a guy, or is it really naivety to say that the extension of his ban was anything but "capricious" and "arbitrary", but, hell yeah it was!)

Back to Mr. Devlin, it's a long interesting talk that's also very bleak, but with some words of hope at the end:

https://vdare.com/articles/roger-devlin-at-the-scandza-forum-looking-ahead-to-2050/

PS: Mr. Hail, that news about the persecution of the Oath Keeper founder Stewart Rhodes, along with this stuff with VDare, shows that we are getting to the endgame of all this. I know I'm not ready, but how many are? What will the rest of the Oath Keepers do? This is way beyond that Claire Wolfe time of "being too early to shoot the bastards".

PS: Alarmist, the salary sum seems on the high side, but then I read that for the previous years, the Brimelow's didn't take a salary. Again, I don't pretend to understand the operation of these LLC's and all that, much less the legal stuff out of the Communist NY Prosecutor.

If Peter Brimelow were a single guy, of course the numbers could be much different. He has the wife and 3 girls and women especially hate to be in limbo as far as resources. OTOH, I do understand that you want the look of propriety, whether you indeed being proper and reasonable or not.

Yes, if they could live off of support from a number of steady well-off patriots, that'd be the best. You'e sure got to trust people with your future then. There are people like that, but then, they can just up and die.

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- On the 1970s and Africa -

Rhodesia vs. South Africa in the 1970s offered a contrast. Rhodesia was fighting for its existence and was deeply insecure in its geopolitical-diplomatic position, but was more overtly a pro-White government. South Africa seemed relatively more secure.

In the 1970s, anti-Rhodesia sentiment would far overshadow South Africa (and a few other related matters, like the various insurgencies in Angola, some of which were run by right-wing rowdies from Europe running off mercenary money). Once Rhodesia was off the scene by the early 1980s, all that attention would have nowhere to go but to South Africa.

As far as I recall the timeline, Rhodesia defeated the Black insurgencies throughout their period of independence, 1965 to 1979, a credit to the White man's efficiency and determination under favorable conditions (and a largely unrecognizable 'type' today in the mainstream-West virtually anywhere, except among dissidents).

Then in about 1979, South Africa stabbed its ally Rhodesia in the back by buckling to pressure to cut off oil flows to Rhodesia. Rhodesia had no other source of oil but through South Africa. At that point, the Rhodesian white regime had no choice but to try to either run a "green," oil-less counter-insurgency somehow, or transition to a moderate Black successor government. The former was a pipe-dream. The latter ended up failing and yielding the anti-white fanatic Robert Mugabe.

The fall of Rhodesia coming down to oil is something I've always found fascinating. Oil, the big thread weaving through the whole 20th century and early 21st century, but only occasionally mentioned directly in our history.

But as for Rhodesia vs. South Africa: activists or black-racialists would have a far easier time rhetorically hitting Rhodesia, which gave South Africa a pass. If I'm right that the critical-mass period against South Africa is some time after 1985, that is the better part of a decade after the end of Rhodesia.

South Africa alas did not benefit by its one-time moderate position.

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- Oath Keepers leader sent to prison by foreign judge -

Regime judge "Amit Mehta" -- who is, for some reason beyond my comprehension, a U.S. judge, -- says the Oath Keepers founder is a danger ("ongoing threat and peril") to the USA for promoting extreme-patriotism, constitutionalism, election-integrity, a closed border, other nationalistic views, and lending aid and comfort to the ultimate internal enemy: white terrorism, white-supremacy; and for being a conspirator in the supposed anti-Regime coup of January 6th, 2021.

Judge "Amit Mehta" sentences the man to 18 years in prison.

The latest of the ongoing prosecutions and sentencings by the Regime's courts against a wide-net of thousands of dissidents.

One thing interesting is how the Regime judge used the word "peril" to describe the American defendant. The word "peril" was associated with the nations of East Asia vis-a-vis the West since since the late 1890s, a translation of a coinage of the Kaiser of Germany in the phrase "Gelbe Gefahr." It stuck quite firmly in its English-translation ("Yellow Peril"), being still recognizable today to anyone with basic history knowledge. In the 2020s, Regime judges and prosecutors cook up reasons to jail us, and attach the word "peril" to us!

PS Best meme about GAE, fake and flaming version of the former CCCP from the same place that spent several trillion and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
Online pundit says Iraq is the new Graveyard for GAE empires but the internal Long March CPUSA quislings want humiliation and chaos.
Karl Otto Paetel's National Bolshevism comes to mind since destroyers destroy and creators create.
The demoralization is so complete, no pushback against a millions strong Trojan Horse and the goal is 100 million.

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Mr Mod asked, “Why did the S. Africa anti-Apartheid movement only get going in the late 1970s?”

With the war on Vietnam over and Tricky Dick run out of town, along with the socialists inroads being made in much of the rest of the world, White-run South Africa was as rich a target as a Leftist of the ‘70s could hope for.

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I feel for the Brimelowes. It is definitely a seek and destroy witch hunt.

But, Mr. Brimelow overpays himself and Lydia based not only on the size of the foundation and its reach, but also based on its physical location. In CT, $270k would be supportable, but in WV, he’s pushing it at $200k at gross revenues of anything less than $2.5m. Their private use of the rental cottage may be above board, but it gives the impression of self-dealing. And leaving an active foundation in a Blue state was like walking around with a “kick-me” sign.

Very few people would have imagined two decades ago what we have seen in the past few years with de-banking and de-platforming, but it has been foreseeable for at least the past five years. Doom on Peter for thinking he could continue to live a comfy life out of a very regulated entity while pushing what has become a controversial viewpoint. He’d be better off just asking for taxable, non-deductible donations/gifts at this point, and living off the kindness of other patriots, because it can only get worse.

PS: Yes, I read that whole article, Mr. Hail. I don't usually write about those kind of details because:

1) Just like you, I don't understand all the legalities. I'd be adding to confusion unless I just excerpted the whole story - it's one of Mr. Brimelow's (or writer on there's) longest posts.

2) That's not my type of post.

It is indeed Anarcho-Tyranny and "Lawfare", the latter a term that VDare and John Derbyshire have been explaining. Most of us get the general gist of that idea. As with an IRS audit, even if you don't cheat (just who the hell ARE you?), it costs lots of time, and money if you must get your own lawyers involved. Mr. Brimelow say they have had to do this or it goes badly.

I am still supporting them, of course.

PS: Mr. Hail, no, I also don't see the ctrl-left, the hippies, professors, black panthers, general anti-Vietnam-War protestors, liberal "free 'em all" lawyers, etc, as a unified bunch that was part of one organization. However, the people that have been encouraging and enabling all that since the 1930s (only a small bit they could reach at the beginning) - yes, I think there were plans and Communist backers who knew very well what they were up to.

Why did the S. Africa anti-Apartheid movement only get going in the late 1970s? There was the racial "justice" to take care of here that hadn't been "taken care of" here yet. I think anti-Apartheid was just another series in the left-wing causes - it was not ripe yet in the early 1970s, for example.

PS

(as you haven't mentioned the troubling VDare news yet, probably because of your busy travel schedule the past days, I'll toss this in for general consideration):

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-- Regime crackdown may terminate VDare's existence --

It has been revealed that the New York attorney general, a Black woman, is maneuvering to do the following to VDare, as part of a huge lawsuit she is bringing:

(1.) release the identities of significant donors to VDare;

(2.) release the identities of all paid writers associated with VDare who have used pseudonyms (the payments being made to real names, the lawsuit threatens to 'doxx' all of them);

(3.) shut down (bankrupt) VDare for spreading racism and white-supremacy;

(4.) seize VDare's assets, including the West Virginia "castle" bought a few years ago --- which is where one Steve Sailer and others will speak in a few weeks at the VDare conference. (As VDare legally owns this large site, the event cannot be canceled for racism.)

...all this over some technical matter that I didn't understand when reading the synopsis version.

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"By the middle 1960s in America, the ctrl-left had infiltrated some of the Institutions"

I don't know if this is a useful way of looking at 20th-century history, as it implies a unified conspiracy down through history by an unnamed, unseen entity -- an entity you refer to as the "Ctrl-Left."

It's a fun academic debate to have to try to find start-points for this-or-that social-political trend. My attempts at this game have often found that many strands of Wokeness, as we now recognize it, may have their origin-days in the late 1980s across some metrics, with minimal activity before that but strong momentum by the last years of the 1980s.

The successes or public-profile of the anti-Apartheid movement in the USA I think can be shown to date to that time (late 1980s), too; not primarily to the late 1960s, 1970s, or early 1980s.

If proto-Wokeness took over between 1964 and 1969, or so, as some like to claim, why did it take twenty+ years to come around to a vigorous opposition to South Africa's white regime? Some puzzle piece seems missing here.