God, Man, and Tyrants

Dave Kopel

In the political upheavals of the High Middle Ages, as kings and popes vied for power, an idea was reborn: all earthly authority is conditional, and tyrants are to be killed.

Who said "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God"? Pat yourself on the back if you answered "Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin." They proposed placing the motto on the Great Seal of the United States. Pat yourself even harder if you knew that the phrase was created by John Bradshaw (1602–1659), the lawyer who served as president of the parliamentary commission which sentenced British King Charles I to death. But who thought up the idea?

The idea is implicit in much of the Old Testament, which is full of righteous Hebrews overthrowing tyrants. Certainly the histories of Republican Rome and classical Greece contain many similar stories. But in the first millennium of Western Christianity, Christians fell under the sway of the law of the Roman Empire, which emphasized absolute obedience to government, and claimed that the government was above the law. Cicero, who lived in the last days of the Republic, was the last great writer to articulate the right of revolution.

The man who restored the right to Western political thought was an English bishop named John of Salisbury. In 1159, he wrote Policraticus ("Statesman's Book"), which became the best-seller of the century. Although Policraticus is mostly forgotten today, it is one of the few books which truly changed the world.

In 1075, Pope Gregory VII had started the Investiture Contest, by claiming that the pope, not monarchs, had the sole authority to appoint bishops. He had further announced that he had the authority to depose monarchs.

In the decades of war that followed the assertion of papal authority, a variety of pro-pope writers articulated theories supporting the pope's position. For example, Manegold of Lautenbach, a scholar at a monastery destroyed by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, argued that the pope had the authority to release subjects from their obedience to a ruler, as Gregory VII had done. Manegold analogized a cruel tyrant to a disobedient swineherd who stole his master's pigs, and who could be removed from his job by the master. So:

"[I]f the king ceases to govern the kingdom, and begins to act as a tyrant, to destroy justice, to overthrow peace, and to break his faith, the man who has taken the oath is free from it, and the people are entitled to depose the king and to set up another, inasmuch as he has broken the principle upon which their mutual obligation depended."

But the book that changed Western political thought forever was Policraticus.

John of Salisbury was a cosmopolitan and very well-educated English bishop, and "the most accomplished scholar and stylist of his age." (David Knowles, "The Evolution of Medieval Thought").

Policraticus was perhaps the most influential book written since Byzantine Emperor Justinian's legal code had been compiled six centuries before. Policraticus "created an immediate sensation throughout Europe," explains Harold Berman in "Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition." Berman observes that "For over a century Policraticus was considered throughout the West to be the most authoritative work on the nature of government."

In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas, whose work displaced Salisbury's, consciously built on Salisbury's foundation. Throughout the Middle Ages, John of Salisbury's writings were carefully studied by political reformers, lawyers, priests, and scholars.

As an English bishop, John of Salisbury saw firsthand the tremendous church vs. state struggle then underway in England. King Henry II (1154Ð89) was determined to rule the church. Although Policraticus did not mention Henry II by name, the book was dedicated to Thomas Becket, the great English bishop with whom Salisbury served for many years.

Policraticus was published around 1159, as the English struggle was intensifying.

Policraticus turned the discussion to the rights and duties of government, and to people's remedies when the government exceeded its rights and failed to perform its duties.

In 1162 the king appointed Thomas Becket as archbishop of Canterbury, the highest position in the English Church. In 1164, King Henry forced Becket and other leaders to proclaim the Constitutions of Clarendon, which reasserted extensive royal authority over the church. The Constitutions of Clarendon were contrary to canon (church) law, Becket later asserted, and he repudiated the Constitutions. He publicly declared that King Henry was usurping power.

A bitter conflict ensued, and in 1170 an enraged Henry roared, "Will no one rid me of this pestilential priest?" Four knights heard the king's remarks, and promptly rode off to assassinate Becket, at Canterbury Cathedral. (The story is retold in T.S. Eliot's short play "Murder in the Cathedral.) Eleven years after Policraticus was published, John of Salisbury was present in Canterbury Cathedral when Becket was murdered.

The murder of Becket horrified public opinion, and Henry accurately saw that his throne was in grave danger. He did penance, allowing himself to be scourged by some monks. He worked out a compromise with the church in which he revoked the Constitutions of Clarendon, was allowed to claim that he never wanted Becket killed, but did take responsibility for indirectly inciting Becket's death by proclaiming the Constitutions in the first place.

Before Becket's death, Policraticus was already the bestseller of the century. The author's personal witness to the most infamous tyrannical crime of the 12th century doubtless caused even more interest in what John of Salisbury had to say about resistance to tyranny.

Policraticus broke away from the old Two Swords debate, in which monarchs and the church argued with each other about who had supreme power — that is, whether the temporal sword was supreme over the church's sword, or vice versa.

The Two Swords metaphor came from Jesus' Last Supper instructions to the disciples, telling them to start carrying swords. They responded, "Lord, lo, here are two swords." (Luke 22). Policraticus, though, turned the discussion to the rights and duties of government, and to people's remedies when the government exceeded its rights and failed to perform its duties.

The book was a direct shot at contemporary monarchs who oppressed the Catholic Church: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (the teutonicus tyrannus), Roger II (the harsh Norman king of Sicily), Stephen of Blois (who ruled England, more or less, from 1136 to 1154 after starting a civil war to usurp the throne from his cousin Matilda, and who plundered the church and imprisoned bishops), Eustace (Stephen's son, who was killed while pillaging the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds), and Henry II (Matilda's son).

"All tyrants reach a miserable end," John announced. To prove this, he pointed to contemporary examples, such as Eustace, Geoffrey de Mandeville (the plundering Earl of Essex, who was killed in 1144), and Ranulf of Chester (another participant in the Stephen/Matilda war, killed in 1153).

And then there were plenty of stories from the past: the anti-Christian Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate was said to have been stabbed to death with a lance by the martyr Mercurius "on the command of the Blessed Virgin." The Danish tyrant Swain, who imposed the Danegeld (a land tax) on the British was slain by "the most glorious martyr and king Edmund." And "Where is Marmion [another contemporary Briton] who, pushed by the Blessed Virgin, fell into the pit which he had prepared for others? Where are the others whose mere names would consume a book? Their wickedness is notorious, their infamy is renowned, their ends are unhappy . . . "

John of Salisbury lauded the military arts, and described Christian knighthood as an especially holy vocation.

John of Salisbury was the first Western writer to provide a detailed theory of tyrannicide. He went even further, and made tyrannicide a positive duty.

Citing Biblical examples, he explained that "one may frequently kill and still not be a man of blood nor incur the accusation of murder or crime." Citing King David and the prophet Samuel, he wrote, "This is indeed the sword of the dove, which quarrels without bitterness, which slaughters without wrathfulness and which, when fighting, entertains no resentment whatsoever." This is similar to what St. Augustine had written in the 5th century about the proper attitude for just war; in the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas would elaborate along similar lines.

Hunting, theatre, gambling, and music were all approved as forms of recreation, provided that they were pursued in moderation.

John explained that a good Christian should not be expected to obey the law or a superior's order in all circumstances, for "Some things are . . . so detestable that no command will possibly justify them or render them permissible." For example, a military commander might order soldiers to deny the existence of God or to commit adultery.

Similarly, if a prince "resists and opposes the divine commandments, and wishes to make me share in his war against God, then with unrestrained voice I must answer back that God must be preferred before any man on earth."

John argued that intermediate magistrates — such as local governors — had a duty to lead forcible resistance if necessary, against serious abuses by the highest magistrate — such as the king.

Interestingly, the theory of "inferior magistrates" not being bound, under all circumstances, to obey the supreme magistrate was also developing in canon law, as many bishops argued that they were not in all circumstances required to obey the Pope.

Policraticus drew heavily on Bible stories, and on examples from ancient Rome. John announced "That by the authority of the divine book it is lawful and glorious to kill public tyrants . . . "

John of Salisbury was the first Western writer to provide a detailed theory of tyrannicide. He went even further, and made tyrannicide a positive duty:

"[I]t is not only permitted, but it is also equitable and just to slay tyrants. For he who receives the sword deserves to perish by the sword.

"But 'receives' is to be understood to pertain to he who has rashly usurped that which is not his, not he who receives what he uses from the power of God. He who receives power from God serves the laws and is the slave of justice and right. He who usurps power suppresses justice and places the laws beneath his will. Therefore, justice is deservedly armed against those who disarm the law, and the public power treats harshly those who endeavour to put aside the public hand. And, although there are many forms of high treason, none is of them is so serious as that which is executed against the body of justice itself. Tyranny is, therefore, not only a public crime, but if this can happen, it is more than public. For if all prosecutors may be allowed in the case of high treason, how much more are they allowed when there is oppression of laws which should themselves command emperors? Surely no one will avenge a public enemy, and whoever does not prosecute him transgresses against himself and against the whole body of the earthly republic."

In short, "As the image of the deity, the prince is to be loved, venerated, and respected; the tyrant, as the image of depravity, is for the most part even to be killed." Thus, tyrannicide was "honourable" when tyrants "could not be otherwise restrained."

There were two important limits: First, poison could not be used. Second, a person could not rebel against a person to whom he legally owed fealty.

The political theory of the Dark Ages had insisted that obedience to God required obedience to any ruler, no matter how awful. John of Salisbury turned this theory on its head: "it is just for public tyrants to be killed and the people to be liberated for obedience to God."

At great length, Policraticus denounced tyranny and justified tyrannicide. A few passages did counsel patient reliance on deliverance by God, warned against taking drastic actions based on small or isolated offenses, and urged prayer as the method of ending tyrannical oppression. These cautionary lines, however, did not undermine the revolutionary impact of the book.

Going beyond political tyranny, John of Salisbury explained that tyranny could occur in many forms; "many private men are tyrants." "[E]veryone is tyrant who abuses any power over those subject to him which has been conceded from above." A father, a land-owner, or a merchant could be a private tyrant, to those over whom they abused their power.

An ecclesiastical tyrant was a priest, bishop, or other church official who abused his power, harming rather than protecting the people in his spiritual care.

One of the problems of the tyranny of petty officials was that it was illegal to resist their depredations, even though, according to Justinian's code of Roman law, "it is otherwise lawful to repel force with force without blame if one has safeguarded moderation." However, tyrannicide was appropriate for only actual rulers of governments, not for private tyrants.

Over the next half-millennium, the right of revolution would be defended by Scholastics such as Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez. Lutherans and Calvinists would initially adopt a limited form of the theory. Then the Calvinists, acknowledging that they were building on the Catholic intellectual heritage, would advance the full right of revolution. The "black regiment" of New England preachers would bring the right to its greatest fruition, exhorting their congregations to their sacred duty to overthrow King George and establish a free republic.

John of Salisbury never knew that there was a Western Hemisphere. But he did know that God wants man to be active and free, not passive and enslaved. All of us who enjoy civil liberty in the New World owe a debt of gratitude to the intellectual revolution set off by John of Salisbury.

"O people of God, how foolish is it to fear the faces of men who shall soon be faggots in the fire of hell!"
~ Charles Spurgeon

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Whom The Gods Would Destroy

They would first give us democracy. Still think voting works? Still think your voice counts? Well, millons of Whites are (again) getting a real life lesson in what Judaized Democracy is all about. And really, it' not just Demoncrats but Republicants too. Did anyone want the jewish wars in the Middle East? No, they wanted an end to it so badly that they put in Communists who promised to end it. Did everyone want the Bankers and the other filthy thieves punished for their crimes? Oh yes, They wanted change. Well, the masses of asses got it. Now, in frustration, they are willing to turn around and elect the same people they threw out! Ever see a dog chase it's tail? Hey, I'm so glad to be an American, where at least I know I'm free! Free to be called a minority by uppity negros in the government! Anyone catch that latest talking point by the demoncrats? Haha, that's too much!

The nation wreckers will get their bil passed and the mongrel, surrounded by his jewish masters, will sign it. The bill will probably pass with around 218-220 votes. Has anyone read this thing? I have to admit, the opponents of this bill, despite some hyperbole, have been telling the truth about it. Among the highlights:

A whole new bureaucracy will be created, with a Health Commissioner to oversee it. Wonder who will head it? Any bets that it will be a jew or a negro?

This new bureaucracy will use the IRS to enforce compliance. They will make sure that you have purchased government approved insurance or else you will be subject to the usual IRS tactics of fines, penalties or garnishments. Ever had to deal with the IRS?

The ZOG will have real-time access to individuals' finances. They will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer. (ZOG: zionist occupied government, in other words damned jew run government)

A National Health Card will be issued. In the future it will probably be biometric. This is an end-run around opposition to a "National ID Card".

Everyone, Illegal or not, will be covered. There is also a mandate for linguistic services.

Remember the hysteria about "Death Panels"? It's in there, check out pages 425-430 of the bill. They might not call it that now, but the foundations for such is there, especially as costs spiral out of control.

There's lots more, just google "Health Care Bill Online" and check it out. Not that it matters for revolutionaries as this is what we want. Anything that will cause more division, strife and rebellion is good. And really, the fight is not here yet. Wait until the amnesty bill comes up. That's where we should stake our guns.

If you live as a slave you will die a slave. There can be no freedom without redemption. Blood is required. Everyone desperately seeks other ways out, but it's an exercise in futility. Just watch the Tea Partiers.

Access St. Louis

Waning Freedom Wherefore The Dilemma

The Covenant News ~ March 20, 2010

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“From right to left, secular to God-fearing, what so few people know is that in the last half century, United States administrations have overthrown 50 governments — many of them democracies. In the process, thirty countries have been attacked and bombed, with the loss of countless lives. Bush bashing is all very well — and is justified — but the moment we begin to accept the siren call of the Democrat’s drivel about standing up and fighting for freedom sought by billions, the battle for history is lost, and we ourselves are silenced”. John Pilger

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is concerned about domestic terrorists (that's me and you folks)and her potential targets are making a hero of Texas suicide pilot Joe Stack who crashed his private plane into an Internal Revenue office. There is a resentment tsunami rising in America that threatens the established terra firma.

It is a complex dilemma. The two puppet political parties are still sources of intense interest even for individuals who should know better. The media promotes their significance through constant publicity. Ron Paul is a hero for his straightforward approach to political issues and his sensible solutions, but he remains in the Republican Party and that organization will never allow his ascent.

Propaganda in United States would have Joseph Goebbels dancing in the street. Every television show is hosted by a person who wears a small American Flag, who has accepted the legitimacy of 9/11 attacks, and who depicts our government as righteous and the war as just. Our political leaders have the same mindset. No one ever publically questions the legitimacy of the government’s propaganda. Entertainment is not immune. Exciting, well written, popular Fox Network television show “24” starring Kiefer Southerland exalts humanism, cruelty, torture, and question-less devotion to the government. Torture is standard procedure in every interrogation and with the exception of the Counter Terrorist Unit’s inhuman agents, who are impervious, it is usually successful. Of the three United States Presidents involved in the story the Black president and the Female president are moral, the White president is a scoundrel. Patriot groups are terrorists. Many viewers fail to see through these insidious distortions.

The destruction of our wealth and power has been going on for several decades. The textile industry was one of the first to go. From New England it moved South and from the South it moved overseas. Now it is hard to find a set of durable bed sheets of the quality Americans used to produce. Over fifty years ago, in 1957, Toyota and Datsun shipped the first Japanese cars into the United States. This incursion by Japanese manufacturers forced domestic producers into a distorted competition and slowly eroded the auto industry’s upper middle class jobs. During these years the electronics industry also succumbed to the Japanese. Little by little American television manufacturers, RCA, General Electric, Philco, Raytheon, Hallicrafters, Hoffman, and Pacific Mercury (Remember those names?) bowed. In 1977 President Jimmy Carter divested our nation of the Panama Canal ceding hegemony over a project that cost millions of dollars and the lives of 21,000 workers. The Clinton Administration brought us NAFTA, GATT, CAFTA, and the WTO. These treasonous treaties opened American markets to unprecedented exploitation. First is was Japan and now in little more than a decade China has become bloated with U. S. dollars. In a recent column Pat Buchanan wrote that since the year 2000 we have lost 5.7 million manufacturing jobs, one-third of the entire manufacturing sector. The exact figures are difficult to find but it is apparent that the standard of living in United States has been purposely decimated.

When George W. Bush was appointed president in 2000 his visit with Mexican President Vincente Fox was closely followed by hoards of illegal Mexican border crossings. Western societies around the world are being challenged by immigrants that seek equality and more. In a couple of decades United States Christian European society will be no more.

News, literature, art, and entertainment are controlled by a tightly knit, mostly Jewish group. It was far better for the consumer when the motion picture writers were on strike. The material they produce is not only vile, sadistic, and pornographic but bereft of a story line, tedious, and prosaic. Movie after movie abruptly terminates leaving the audience wondering if Hollywood has lost all its storytellers. Drugs, violence, fornication, adultery, sodomy, murder, robbery, rape, torture, and tyranny infest the bulk of Hollywood’s products. (this is the jew mindset, evil)

In a 2007 lecture in Chicago John Pilger, an experienced Australian Journalist, talked about the failures of the United States press corps. He is a Socialist and the setting was Socialistic but the lecture contained truths that are seldom expressed. Fascism, Communism, and Socialism are abhorrent systems of government but the radicals that support these aberrations sometimes carefully chronicle the failures of our present system and are sources of truth others fail to discern. This truth teeters on an unsteady platform but while the platform is deplorable the truth, as always, is precious.

Pilger describes the advent of corporate advertising and the creation of the “Professional Journalist”. He details the institutionalization of journalism which then began using “official sources” to back up stories. He says “a mythology of liberal neutrality was spun around the professional journalist” which engendered a system that is “entirely bogus”. Pilger informs us there were 50 corporate owners of the media in 1983, in 2002 only nine, and more recently only five. Rupert Murdock (Fox News and a host of others.) predicts it will soon be reduced to three. Pilger writes that studies have determined that the BBC provided only two percent of its coverage to Iraq War detractors while reserving the bulk of its space for correspondents, like those in Washington, who described American intentions as being rooted in “democracy and grass roots development”. He reveals the never reported U. S. support for Pol Pot in Cambodia, notes the contrived propaganda that has always been directed at the Palestinians and, maintains that though the press hammered away at the Vietnam War the situation was far worse than the media reported. “There were 649 reporters in Vietnam on March 16, 1968 — the day that the My-Lai massacre happened — and not one of them reported it.” With sharp insight he writes “One of the oldest clichés of war is that truth is the first casualty. No it’s not. Journalism is the first casualty.”

We gave away the Panama Canal; we gave away access to our markets; our government began to allow mergers and buyouts that consolidated industries and created fewer and fewer larger and larger corporations; we allowed, even encouraged, these international corporations that had been spawned in the United States to become international entities with no obligation to the nation or the people that built them. Our government made it easy for corporations to move manufacturing operations out of the country and the attraction of lower taxes and fewer hampering legal codes provided an additional strong incentive.

The Bush II Administration used the 9/11 disaster as a reason for beginning an open-ended military offensive in the Middle East against an obscure enemy called “Terrorism”. A massive propaganda campaign designed to create a phantom threat was successful enough to force our legislators to pass laws that encroach on our freedoms and nullify our Constitution. While our government tells us we are fighting in the Middle East for our freedom they are busy passing laws that create tyranny. The Middle East offensive is not approaching a decade in duration at a disastrous cost in money, reputation, and liberty. Our elected officials lured by financial incentives and cowed by a compliant press are too timid to question the authenticity of the policies of the Executive Branch so everyone is acting as if the facts are as they have been presented by our Neo-Con taskmasters. We are living in a sea of contrived mendacity.

Our citizens are complicit in this disaster. In George Orwell’s “1984” Winston writes in his diary that “He knows that if once the “proles” rose up in rebellion, the Party could not survive. But the ‘proles’ seemed incapable of organizing themselves into any concrete entity. All their immense energy was dissipated in trivial grievances; they had no concern to expend on larger issues. The Party itself did not interfere too much with the ‘proles’; they were ‘below suspicion’. So long as they were willing to breed and labor they were left largely to their own devices. According to the Party ‘Proles’ and animals are free.” The United States has a large segment of potential “Proles” who are not yet restrained by absolute tyranny. They support the war effort and believe that the United States is a lily white entity that deserves to rule the world. They support our armed forces and pray for victory in foreign battles. They hate Arabs and believe Iran is our enemy. Civilian residents of other nations who seek to maintain their independence are expendable and bloody campaigns like the North waged in the Civil War, Dresden in WW II, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the Korean War and the War in Iraq are celebrated with cheers. Defeats and disasters are always blamed on the other political party and they work hard to unseat it in the next election. When they should be repenting for their monstrous sins they are ebullient with pride and the expectation that the next election will solve all of their problems.

The problems facing the world today will not be solved through politics. We have been disobedient to the Creator and disobedience must be repented from. This is God’s decree: What is yours?

“Now it shall be, if you will diligently obey the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the Lord your God: ‘Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you go in and blessed shall you be when you go out. The Lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they shall come out against you one way and shall flee before you seven ways. The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you. The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you will keep the commandment of the Lord your God, and walk in His ways. So all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to you fathers to give to you. The Lord will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord shall make you the head and not the tail, and you only shall be above, and you shall not be underneath, if you will listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully, and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right of the left, to go after other gods to serve them.’” --Deuteronomy 28:1-14

If peace and prosperity is ever to return to our world, Christians must understand that God’s primary requirement is obedience. When we ignore His Law and devise our own law we disobey Him. He requires “careful” obedience. When the people obey and their government obeys the nation is blessed; when the people obey but the government disobeys, the nation is judged; when the nation obeys and the people disobey; the nation is judged. Today, neither the people nor their governments regard God’s Ordnances!

Entrance into a contemporary promised land will involve resisting some giants. The forces seeking world domination are in control of the money, they control the media, and they control the military of the world’s most powerful nation. “Proles” must understand that the only remedy for globalism involves God’s dominion over His creation. As long as God’s people are willing to allow evil humanist laws to rule us victory will be evasive. If we continue to allow them to control our money, our medical care, our peace, and our freedom the battle is lost. But if we repent of our evil ways, read God’s Law, agree to obey His Commandments, fearlessly face the evil powers of darkness, and proclaim God’s right to dominion, He will defeat our enemies and the battle can be won.


Al Cronkrite is a free-lance writer from Florida.

He can be reached at fmsinfla@hotmail.com

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Transformations in the Heartland: Life and Race in Oshkosh

Downtown Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Oshkosh is a city in East-Central Wisconsin, celebrated on websites as "Oshkosh on the Water" with pictures of lakes Winnebago and Butte des Morts, a college-town that is home to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and its 11–12 thousand students. The city is most famous or best known for the EAA, the Experimental Aircraft Association, whose week-long "fly-in" each summer attracts 200,000 to 300,000 enthusiasts and other attendees, many of them from other nations. In bars and stores and restaurants, I've heard Australian, English, Irish, German, and French accents. I moved to Oshkosh in June of 2005 and also lived there for a few years during the 1970s and 80s.

According to a 2008 estimate, as reported in City-Data.com, the population is now 63,679. In 2000, according to the census, Oshkosh was 91.8% "White non-Hispanic," 1.7% Hispanic," 2.4% "other Asian," 1% two or more races, 0.8% American Indian, 0.5% other race, and 2.2% Black.

City-data.com is rife with comments describing and comparing cities and giving advice to people who plan to relocate. In dozens of comments, Oshkosh is compared to Appleton, almost always unfavorably. Appleton, a city of 70,305 some 20 miles north of Oshkosh, is cleaner, newer, "nicer," a far better downtown, a large mall for dining and shopping, more restaurants, stores, sources of entertainment. By contrast, Oshkosh is older, dirtier, more blue-collar, more "riff-raff," more "ghetto." By "ghetto," the commentator is referring not to Blacks but to a "central city" with "tons of dilapidated houses."

Though almost as large as Appleton and home to the state's third largest university population, Oshkosh doesn't have a mall. And the downtown is so small and old that an entire block on main street, lined with old stores and an ex-bank that opened in 1927, was closed to traffic for five days in April of 2008 to film a robbery scene for Public Enemies, a depression-era movie starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. The largest new building in the downtown area, and in some ways the most impressive architecturally, is the jail, euphemistically called "the City of Oshkosh Safety Building."

"Racism" and Diversity

And, of course, diversity and race are also discussed. Questions are asked. Is Oshkosh "racist"? Is it "welcoming" to and "safe" for Blacks and other minorities? Predictably, many commentators decry the "lack of diversity" in Oshkosh and the "racism" of its White population. Everyone agrees on the "lack of diversity" but some dispute the charges of intense and pervasive "racism."

No one comments on how non-Whites, especially Blacks, have made the city less safe for Whites. No mention of gangs and crime and Black-on-White violence. Given the zeitgeist, explicit concern for the interests of Whites as a group in relation to Blacks and other minorities is ipso facto "racist" to everyone but a small minority of race realists and "White nationalists." Did anyone say there is too much "diversity," or that Oshkosh is a worse place to live because it has roughly twice as many Blacks as Appleton? If so, their remarks were either blocked or summarily deleted. But not this comment by a Black female and ex-student at UW-Oshkosh.

Please keep away from Oshkosh. It's just full of rednecks who think Black folks are the devil. I was shot at my first week there while going to college just because of my skin tone. Most people in Oshkosh have missing teeth and try to recite the Bible to you as soon as you walk in a restaurant or store. (city-data.com, 5-21-2009.)

Someone replied: "This person is obviously mentally unstable."

Perhaps she heard the engine of a car "backfire" and, given her anti-White sentiments and hallucinations, thought "rednecks" were shooting at her? If a Black coed were "shot at" during her first week at UW-Oshkosh, her ordeal would have been on the front page of the New York Times and featured on NPR.

But it's far more likely that she's lying in order to demonize Whites and Oshkosh and to advance the myth of "systemic racism" and Black victimization, the paranoid illusion of an America in which Blacks are in constant danger of being assaulted and murdered by Whites. In reality, of course, exactly the opposite is true for tens of millions of Whites and has been so for the last 50 years.

More typical is this lament by NicePolishBoy: "There is little diversity. Racism is quite common but on a subtle level."

Ironically, a population whose "lack of diversity" so vexes and saddens NicePolishBoy and many others now includes every race and sub-race on earth with the possible exception of Aborigines and New Guineans. And dozens of non-White ethnicities.

In my travels around town, I see many Blacks, mulattos, mestizos, Amerindians, Latinos, Native Americans, and sundry Asians. The Asians include not only people who were once called "Orientals" — Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Laotians, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Hmong, etc. — but also those of Indian and Middle Eastern descent.

Here's an example of how my life in Oshkosh has been enriched by diversity: For two or three months in 2009, a family of Muslim Arabs or Persians(?), lived in the first floor apartment directly beneath me. I could often hear them praying or chanting or whatever during the night and playing music in a strange foreign language. The husband was always slamming the door and going outside to smoke or getting into his car and driving away and then soon coming back. I never saw the wife, and only once did I see the children. Then, suddenly, they were gone. I didn't even see and/or hear them leave. I was so happy I felt like kneeling and bowing to Mecca. (hahahaha)

According to the 2000 census, there are nearly as many Latinos as Blacks in Oshkosh. And there are more "Asians" than Blacks. Most of these are Hmong. Almost every day, I see dozens of Blacks but far fewer Latinos and Hmong. And almost every day I see Blacks I haven't seen before.

Almost 2,000 Hmong are estimated to live in Winnebago County. This figure is not for the city of Oshkosh but the entire county, including the cities of Neenah and Menasha. Many days I don't see a single young male or female who is saliently Hmong. The Hmong I see most often are old ladies. They're always tiny, at time quasi-dwarfish, and often faintly simian, their faces leathery and wizened, spotted and freckled, prematurely ravaged by years under the tropical sun in Cambodia and Laos.

"Little diversity"! The irony of denigrating Oshkosh for a "lack of diversity" is that the city could hardly be more diverse, though it could be far less White and, inexorably and increasingly, will be so in the future. What "NicePolishBoy" and others are deploring is not a "lack of diversity" but the still relatively small numbers of non-Whites What bothers them is that Oshkosh, according to the 2000 census, was still over 90% White and, a decade later, may still be almost 90% White.

And what most guilt-addled and self-hating Whites desire is not so much diversity per se but the displacement and dispossession of Whites by non-Whites. Their ultimate goal is not so much a diverse Oshkosh, which already exists, but a non-White majority Oshkosh. How many Blacks and White leftists complain about the "lack of diversity" in East St. Louis or Detroit?

As for the view that "racism is quite common but on a subtle level": Perhaps this is referring to those people who are less than ecstatic about an invasion of ghetto Blacks and don't want more of them "enriching" the city and their neighborhoods — people who believe there's too much "diversity" of the most dangerous kind but only express their disapproval " in "subtle" ways. "Racism" is a synonym for realism and White self-interest, even if subtle and implicit. And, objectively, precisely how is a city "enriched and made a "better place to live and work" by 1500–2000 Blacks, most of them from the ghettos of Milwaukee and Chicago?

In reality as opposed to mythology, even relatively small numbers of Blacks can critically degrade the quality of life in a city of 63,000 for its White population. This is especially true for poor and lower-class Whites who generally live in closer contact with Blacks and whose lives are more limited and miserable than they would otherwise be in a virtually all-White community: The people who must ride the buses with Blacks and must often live near Blacks in low-cost apartments and old houses in decaying and impoverished neighborhoods. These Whites are in competition with Blacks who benefit from quotas and affirmative action and preferential treatment for menial jobs and social services. These Whites are also far more likely to be the victims of Black-on-White violence and criminality. To a lesser degree, it’s the same story with Latinos and the Hmong.

Crime

Most seriously, even an infestation of "only" a few hundred young Black males and even fewer "Hispanics" and Hmong will inevitably result in marked increases in violent and predatory crime, both gang-related and free-lance. A White resident complains:

I've lived in Oshkosh for about 18 years now. When I moved here there was relatively low (violent) crime. Now you hear of murders, not real often, robberies quite often, and people jumping others at night. I'm not a racist...However, am I the only one who sees since there's been a nearly 150% rise in the Black and Hmong populations, the crime has basically skyrocketed. These people move up here from Milwaukee, Chicago, and various other cities and bring their lifestyle with them. (topix.com, 10-13-2008.)

Before the diversity onslaught, murder was unheard of in Oshkosh. It’s quite different now. There were four murders in 2006 and three were committed by Blacks. And at least two of the victims were White. A White junkie named Joshua Meyers was shot and killed over a "drug debt" by Keith Lee, a Black "chronic criminal" and drug-dealer from Milwaukee. Stereotypically, the murderer and his accomplice fled the scene in a Cadillac.

Gangs

Like Green Bay, Oshkosh is now "enriched" by a racially-driven and hydra-headed gang subculture which didn't exist only yesterday, historically speaking, but which will now blight the city forever. Remarkably, it takes only a few hundred inner-city Black males in their teens and 20s and lesser numbers of "Latinos" and Hmong and other "Asians, a comparatively tiny fraction of a minority population of 6-7 thousand, to plague a city with dozens of gangs with ties to Milwaukee, Chicago, the Twin Cities, and even California, Texas, and Mexico.

According to law enforcement, Winnebago County is now home to 56 gangs. This includes not only the city of Oshkosh but also Neenah and Menasha, a city of 16,527 whose "Hispanic" population has "grown exponentially over the past 5 years" (i.e., an "extremely rapid increase"). I quote from a report entitled "Northeast Wisconsin Gang Assessment":

Oshkosh Police Department … reports an increase in gangs and gang activity in the past 5 years. There has been an increase in drug-related complaints … and an increase in people with possible gang associations moving to, or through, the area. OPD has linked gangs to crimes such as battery, criminal damage to property, drug trafficking, graffiti, intimidation/threats, and theft. OPD reports that violent crimes, particularly robberies, homicides, and aggravated assaults, have increased in Oshkosh since 2004. An estimated 10 to 15% has been attributed to gangs and gang-related activity.... The OPD reports that many gang members have moved to the area from Milwaukee, Chicago, and the Twin Cities. There may also be ties to Hispanic gang members, and migrant workers, in Texas, as well as Asian gang members with ties to gangs in California.

Surreally, all "Hispanic" criminals and gangsters are classified as "White" when they commit aggravated assaults, rapes, "sexual assaults," robberies, and murders. Nevertheless, as reported in The Color of Crime, it’s clear that gangs are a non-White phenomenon: "Only 10 percent of youth gang members are White. Hispanics are 19 times more likely than Whites to be members of youth gangs. Blacks are 15 times more likely, and Asians are nine times more likely." So virtually all criminal gangs, properly defined, are non-White.

In Closing: Another Racine? And No Escape?

I could live another 30–35 years. Will I see Oshkosh turn into another Racine? Racine was once the third largest city in Wisconsin with a population of almost 100 thousand. By 2000 the population had fallen to 78,805. Racine is 20.3% Black, 14% Latino, 7.1% other race, and 63.5% "White non-Hispanic." There were 16 murders in 2005 and 10 murders in 2008. During the last decade, the crime-index was in the low to mid to high 400s almost every year. The exception was 2001, when it was 537.7.

Perhaps this is unlikely. But even a city half as Black, half as Latino, and half as bad as Racine would be dreadful and intolerable — not a place where I would want to live and grow old in relative poverty. Will thousands of Blacks move to Oshkosh from Milwaukee and Chicago and elsewhere during the next 10–20 years? Will meat-packing plants and other businesses attract thousands of Latinos? If Menasha, a city 1/4 the size of Oshkosh and 15 miles to the north, has experienced an exponential increase in its Latino population over the past five years (which was already 3.6% of the city's population in 2000), then why not Oshkosh, and on a much larger and more ruinous scale? Will Oshkosh become in 10–15 years what Green Bay is today, a city that is now 20–25% non-White, and in which the number of crimes increased by 209% from 1989 to 2006?

You're old and poor and have no car. You want to escape the joys and riches of diversity and multiculturalism: crime and gangs, chaos and clamor, black and Latino "neighbors," overcrowded buses on which you can't find a seat and have to stand and hold the rails for 15–30 minutes and endure the noise and disorder and ugliness, including assaults and fights and shootings(?); an overcrowded library where one can rarely find a computer to surf the net for an hour or a place to sit down and read or write in peace and quiet. But you don't want to live in a hamlet or small town in the northwoods. You want to spend the rest of your life in a city with a university library or, at least, a large public library conducive to reading and writing.

What can you do? Move to Eau Claire if the city is still 85-90% White and not blighted by a people-of-color invasion from Minneapolis-St. Paul and possibly even Milwaukee and Chicago? Move to Fargo or Bismarck, ND, assuming they're still 90% White?

It's a bleak picture. And why should we have to be always running away?

Simon Krejsa (email him) is a free-lance writer living in Oshkosh.

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Knock, Knock — Telegram For The GD Jews!

Western Union Telegram STOP Who the HELL do you think you are? STOP America has had enough STOP You SUCK STOP GET OUT JEWS!


THAT’S RIGHT, JEWS: You SUCK big-time and America is now rapidly waking up to the fact. We hereby deliver a message to you Jews and that message is: GET THE HELL OUT! There, is that clear enough for you?

Where you go is not our problem: The island of Madagascar, the jungles of Brazil, Tierra del Fuego — we don’t give a flying flock where you end-up, just as long as it’s not any of our White countries — that’s all we really care about. Of course, wherever that may be, the same GD thing will happen should you manage to snooker another race to implant yourselves among. If you do find a spot without a worthwhile host to suck on, you wouldn’t last a lousy 10 years, if that.

Do I have an issue with the Jews? Uh… hell yeah, I do! Does the rest of the planet? Ditto! Millions of newly awakened are now getting around to learning all the sordid details about you people. Trust me, the more they look into the matter, the more they’ll end-up just like me. Angry and pissed as hell. Read on Jews, if you got any guts, or you’re the usual masochistic type who gets off on the whole Jew victimhood/Nazi schtik. You know who you are

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Incog you're on fire!

A Thin Veneer

One of the things my grandfather taught me long ago was how to build cabinets. I learned a good appreciation for real wood and what all is necessary, in time, effort and money / material to produce something that is substantial and solid ... a work that would last. But in dealing with folks it quickly became obvious - most are only concerned with the bottom line they are willing to settle for. They want it to look good, they want it cheap and they want it now. And if that is all they want, all that they're willing to invest - perhaps what they get is good enough for them.

For those who know what veneered furniture is, you have to admit - it looks pretty good to the eye. It is less costly than the real solid thing and you can obtain it here and now. It's a popular alternative. I've been snagged on that hook before myself. But don't we eventually learn how shifty it is, how unstable and unreliable. That pretty, thin micro layer of veneer hides some inferior material and sooner or later we realize - you get what you pay for.

I've often made the statement (as I'm certain many have) ... we vastly underestimate our enemies, and in particular the enemies of Christ. We oft quote Jesus's own words when He warned us of wolves in sheeps clothing, but have we really taken His words to heart ? Wolves are a very cunning sort and to lower your guard will only invite chaos into your camp (what happened to eternal vigilance ?). Can we not in all honesty admit that it is not always so very easy to spot them, especially so when we've allowed them for so long to roam among us and grown used to certain of their unshakeable ways ? Do you really suppose they would act by and large like the wolves they are whilst wearing the sheepskin overcoat ? No, they would learn the way and mannerisms of the sheep and strive to blend right in. But the wary sheep can catch a scent if they stay tuned to their program.

Sure, there those who concentrate on the younger (in the faith) sheep on the outskirts of the flock, those who have not grown enough to be wary of the predator who lurks. But the bigger prize, the greater reward in the long run comes to those who can infiltrate and steer the greater portion of the flock to the killing zone where they will have uninterrupted time to consume them at their leisurely pleasure ... all out of the watchful eye and protective reach of the Shepherd. This is the alpha wolf - he is dedicated to his goal and skilled at his task.

We can plainly see how the carnivore has moved into the judaized churches and most aspects of what we term the white movement, sowing discord / destruction and generally muddying the waters so that a clear picture cannot be grasped. Why would we underestimate or doubt his ability, coupled with his ingrained hatred, to creep into our very inner midst ? Do we not consider him dedicated enough to his cause or devious enough to undertake such ? It's often been stated and I believe so myself, Christian Identity is the starting point that turns many of us back to Christ and is quite integral to our core. Knowledge of our true identity is NOT the whole of the picture and salvation unto itself. It should stir us into seeking a deeper understanding of our God and our duties unto Him.

What was Christ's first words unto His disciples when they sought clearer answers as to what would come - Matthew 24:3-5

"Take heed that no man (didn't say some devil and now would have been the time to do so) deceive you,

"For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many."

They would say that HE was the Christ (not themselves), hence, they were "Christian" imposters. To an extent, they would walk the walk and talk the talk - or else He would not of so explicitly warned us. (TE-jews proclaiming to be Christians, e.g.Weissinger)

Fact of the matter is, YOU don't really know who I am and in all honesty, I should be treated at least initially as all others who profess to be spreading Gods Word - does it stand up to Biblical scrutiny ? Whether or not the message is pleasing to you, whether it contradicts what you personally believe, whether it is the popular stance currently held in CI circles ... should have absolutely no bearing on how you regard it. Have you truthfully searched the scripture to see if these things are so ?

I've been rebuked with the reply that I must think myself better than some of our forefathers who didn't profess such beliefs (and I say that's debatable as to what extent they held some views). Are we conscious of the fact that we may be pursuing the broad path even though we have been warned that many thought with all their heart it was correct ? Is that not the message, the warning given by Christ Himself in Matthew 7:20-23 ? Read the entire chapter leading up to this. I cannot gauge my actions / reactions according to what others might of done, and I am not judging them here and now for their deeds, but who are we following ? What I (or you) may perceive as being righteous or fair, by our standards, has no bearing on this. What does God require ?

Matthew 23:13 (Luke 11:52 / Hosea 4:6) tells us there are those who actively work to keep us out of the kingdom - yes, it can be done.

I'm not an eloquent writer and I don't worry too much about my rough edges ... content is what we should be concerned with. I don't compile long flowing compositions that are pleasing to the ears, or to the emotions, such as in goading our soldiers with the "kill 'em all" chant many of us live to hear and are prone to fall for without due preparation or an overall understanding. I take Christ's warning of casting a stumbling block before His sheep very seriously and strive to use all care in posting what I think is necessary for our growth and guidance. I do not print out each scripture quoted and it is your decision whether or not you take the time to search it out. I will not mock another who quotes scripture in striving for the same understanding I do (as some are prone to do), but will try to be of the "come and let us reason together" mindset. God is not the author of confusion and any lack of grasped continuity of the whole of the Word is shortcomings solely our part.

Luke 6:46-49


" ... and why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say ?"

In Season-Out of Season

"I Pledge Allegiance to the Star of David...

"I Pledge Allegiance to the Star of David...


and to the Racism, Bigotry, Hate, Theft, Murder and Apartheidism, for which it stands."

Yep, the shit's getting ready to hit the fan. Israel has been shooting up Palestinians, stealing more land, sending troops and tanks into southern Lebanon and now this. All of which never get reported on CNN or FUX or the NYT..and getting ready to tear down the Salman Al-Farsi mosque that's in the Occupied West Bank.

When they finally fight back, then CNN and FUX reports on it as the Palestinians or Lebanese being the aggressors. Israel's got a BIG drinking water shortage and they want an excuse to invade Lebanon, AGAIN and steal that country's River Litani, which is located in southern Lebanon.

By the way, Israeli gunboats entered Lebanese water and fired at Lebanese fishing boats yesterday. Not a single word in the Western or Saudi press.

Wait, there's more! Why should Israel get all shot up, blowing the hell out of Iran when their #1 private Army, Uncle Sucker, is on call 24/7?

Hundreds of powerful US “bunker-buster” bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.

The Sunday Herald can reveal that the US government signed a contract in January to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island. According to a cargo manifest from the US navy, this included 387 “Blu” bombs used for blasting hardened or underground structures.

Yep, those Hellfire missiles red glare and the smart bombs bursting in the air ought to distract Americans from their country getting ransacked by Wall Street gangsters and sucked dry by vultures.

And shut up those who got suckered into voting for "Change." When we're fighting and dying for Israel, you'd best STFU or else you're unAmerican and if your one of those, then you're also a vile anti-Semite.

Nothing like CNN and the NYT ginning up a war against one of Israel’s ‘existential’ enemies to take the heat off the Goldstone Report and the Corrie trial.

They’ll whip Americans into a Muzzie hating frenzy so we’ll be cheering the death and destruction when those smart bombs start blowing apart people in Iran and Israel sends in the IOF to invade Lebanon, AGAIN and steal that nation’s River Litani.

NEVER AGAIN!
NO MORE AMERICAN BLOOD FOR ISRAEL!!
NEVER AGAIN!!!

And while we're at it, no more American money for that nation of murderers, liars, thieves, bigots, false-flag experts, assassins, racists, con artists and corrupters.
 
GOON SQUAD