"Genocide," The Left's All Purpose Smear Term

George Orwell wrote extensively on how the Left abuses language to engage in thought control and further its evil agenda. A case in point is the abuse of the term "genocide." No doubt, it's an emotive word which contains much moral freight. As with the all purpose smear term "racist," the Left has hijacked the word to attack the object of its Two-Minute Hate. 

Thomas Nast: Our Standing Army

Recently I discovered a book due to be published this November 1. Written by a Robert Aquinas McNally, It's title is The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age. By the way, "Gilded Age" is another all purpose smear term directed at the glorious period of almost pure laissez-faire in the late 19th century. I haven't read this dreck and never will. The title alone demonstrates the author's fundamental dishonesty. 

The Modoc were a tiny tribe on the California-Oregon border. Since time immemorial, they had subsisted by raiding, robbing and murdering settlers who passed through "their" territory. During the latter half of the 19th century they numbered around 600 individuals. Apparantly, that's how many identified Modocs are still living in the area. We will leave aside the utter absurdity of imparting the status of nation-state to 600 marauding stone age savages. 

In any event, in 1872 the US government decided to force a renegade band of Modocs back to the reservation. This band numbered less than 200 people with an estimated 60 warriors. The Modoc War is one of the most colorful episodes of the American West. Obviously, it is not an example of genocide. 

Nevertheless, the academic Left has created quite the cottage industry (on the taxpayers dime, of course) of made-up genocides. The Ur Text for these creatures is David E. Stannard's American Holocaust: the Conquest of the New World. It was originally published in 1993 during a high point in pathological Columbus hate. Published earlier this year is another work that will undoubtedly be assigned in every course on Hating Whitey An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History) by Benjamin Madley and thoughtfully published by Yale University Press. Madley's book has the odor of a reworked dissertation. This is the sort of rubbish one needs to publish in order not to perish in the academia of today.

Thomas Nast: Food for Our Tricky Statesmen and Death to Our Honorable Army

For reliable work on the American frontier that is not filled with white leftist self-loathing, the gold standard is still Robert M. Utley. For authoritative and objective books on the American Indian consult the works of Francis Prucha. As with many subjects on History and America, use extreme caution when referencing recent products of academic presses. Many departments and scholars today are agenda driven hacks and should be avoided.  

Review: Edward Cline, China Basin, Patrick Henry Press, 1990, 2011

China Basin is set in 1928 San Francisco. Edward Cline presents an American city of cable cars, plain speaking and Prohibition. As the author observed in the book's forward, "The country was unhampered by political correctness in speech and manners, and uninfected with other cultural maladies, the seeds of which were just beginning to sprout in art and ethics, as the reader of the novel will see." Except for the Progressive hangover of Prohibition, Cline presents the country and city as the Founders largely intended it to be. 

Cyrus Skeen's San Francisco

China Basin could be identified as neo-noir detective story in the classic tradition. There is some truth to this judgment, but it's not the whole truth. The reason is the character of the detective-hero Cyrus Skeen. Skeen is a hero, not an anti-hero. He is a self-aware man of intelligence, breeding, and above all moral rectitude. He is also a man of action who places his life on the line in the pursuit of justice and truth. Skeen's moral compass places him a world away from such protagonists as Sam Spade or Jake Gittes. 

Roman General Agrippa: Skeen's Doppelganger

I've known Ed for nearly three decades. I remember talking to him on several occasions when he was plotting and writing China Basin. Two things have stuck in my mind ever since. First, Ed's explanation for the book's setting. He didn't much care for the world inhabited by Sam Spade of Maltese Falcon fame. It is a grubby world and Spade's is a barren, unexamined life. He wanted to present a happy detective of intellect. Skeen's perspective is much wider and grander. Unlike other neo-noir detectives, Skeen is a bon vivant who spends much time in the sordid world of crime, but doesn't become a part of it. He also wanted to recreate a bygone, and better, era. On both counts, China Basin is a roaring success. 

The book's plot is complex, but not overly so. There are no loose ends and the resolution is most satisfying. I won't go into details here and give anything away for people who haven't yet read China Basin. The story takes place in December 1928 after Skeen's return from a month-long trip to Europe. The plot revolves around Skeen's attempt to recover a lost artifact for a client. Of course, during the search both villains and femme fatales are encountered and dealt with.There is also a riot or rebellion against Prohibition officers at a local speakeasy where Skeen was meeting suspect: 

"Let me through, damn it!" shouted the lead Federal agent as he banged through the onlookers. Skeen did not get a good look at his face, and he did not think the man got a good look at his, for a shot glass sailed through the air and struck the agent on an ear. He cursed in pain and held a hand up to it, and with the other reached inside his coat for his revolver. But an arm reached out and yank it from his fingers the moment is appeared, while another jerked his shoulder around and ripped off the whistle and chain that was around his neck. A beefy ship's stoker turned him around again and pushed him, and the agent toppled backwards over the kneeling figure of a railroad fireman to the sawdust. A waitress calmly walked up a dumped her full tray of drinks on top of him. And all hell broke loose. (p. 155)

China Basin is the first of what are now twenty-nine Cyrus Skeen mystery and suspense novels. Their world of the late 1920s is believable with many interesting details of the period included. Ed did a prodigious amount of research for these books, and it shows. If you're interested in good stories, with memorable characters set in a colorful and exciting time, the Cyrus Skeen series is for you.

 

Delphin Enjolras, "La Lecture Pres De La Lampe"

Surprise! The Statue Jihad Began in California Decades Ago

Thomas Fallon was a leader of the Bear Flag Revolt in 1846. He is credited for raising the first American flag over San Jose, California on 14 July 1846. He later became mayor of San Jose. Back in the bad old days, it was routine to commemorate the services of patriots like Fallon. 

Thomas Fallon Building America

In the 1980s the city of San Jose commissioned a statue of Fallon that was to be placed in a prominent public place. The statue was completed. But, it was not put on public display. Instead, it was warehoused. The reason for doing so was because some la raza types objected to the existence of the United States of America.  

Protests from local Mexican American and Chicano groups derailed that plan. Latino activists argued that honoring Fallon, who raised the American flag over San Jose two months after Congress declared war on Mexico in 1846, was a symbol of oppression.
"In the 1990s, we went to the city and told them that this (statue) is a racial insult to people of Mexican descent," said Raul Estremera, a member of the group Pueblo Unido. "Last time this happened, the mayor backed down. We are hoping to do that once again."

Instead in April 2000, the city decided to take the statue out of cold storage and display it in an obscure park. They also commissioned three other statues to celebrate "San Jose's history and cultural diversity before the Fallon statue was put in place."

While the Fallon statue was in the cultural Marxist Memory Hole, the city commissioned another statue. The statue is of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Seriously. The symbolism is obvious. It puts on notice the few real Americans left in the San Francisco Bay Area that they and their culture are scheduled for replacement. Although, I doubt most of them care. 

Quetzalcoatl or A Steaming Pile of....

Symbolism matters. It's why the current statue jihad matters. It's why President Trump's wonderful proclamation commemorating Columbus Day in a purely positive light matters. Self-loathing is for losers.  

Review: Leo Hohmann, Stealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad, WND Books, 2017

Hohmann's Stealth Invasion is a comprehensive and readable explication of the ongoing Moslem invasion of the West. In fundamentals, there may not be much new here for those who have studied in-depth the issues raised. For concerned citizens who don't have the time or stomach to delve into this depressing topic, this volume covers the most important points.

The two central topics that Hohmann addresses are the ongoing, massive hijrah and the red-green alliance. The hijrah refers to the strategy used by Mohammad to invade and take over Medina in the 620s A.D. He brought in his own people from Mecca and began converting the tribes native to the Medina area. When a certain threshold was reached, Mohammad forcibly converted the recalcitrant. The Jewish tribes that refuse to convert were simply exterminated. For the last 1400 years the hijrah has been a model for Islamic takeover by non-military means.   

Can Your Rulers be more Explicit?

 As Hohmann recommends, 

We'll pay particular attention to a little-known Islamic concept called the hijra. Many Americans have heard of sharia and jihad, but few know about hijra, an Arab word that means "journey" or "migration." If you take away nothing else from this book, the hijra is key to understanding the mind-set of Muslim leaders when it comes to conquering new territories for Allah. (pg. 25) 

The global elite have made it clear that they are supporters of the hijra. The evil elite, and their self-loathing followers, generally cloak their agenda with appeals to "humanitarian" concerns while they bleat that the nation-state is obsolete (for them). Hohmann spends much time illustrating the nature of this diabolical alliance of evil. He names names and identifies the leading organizations involved from Muslim Brotherhood front groups to putative Christian churches making bank off the "refugee" scam.

The hijrah is just one part of the Davos Man's plot to destroy the nation-state, Balkanize the West, eradicate the American middle-class and rule as a global aristocracy over the ignorant peasants who don't understand the rudiments of liberty. Moslems share many of these goals. They just differ on what a one-world state should look like. Apparently, the cultural Marxists believe that once the Westphalian nation-state is gone, the Moslems will just peacefully step aside. Or, more likely, the elite will convert to Islam. As with the rulers of Saudi Arabia, adhering to the Medieval cult will detract little from their creature comforts and impart them even more power.
 

While these ruling elites may call themselves Democrats or Repulicans, Tories, Christian Democrats, or Social Democrats, they share one unifying trait. They work to implement secret trade deals and mass immigration policies that inevitably erode national sovereignty, divide national populations against each other, and cause civil strife. Open borders are a part of a political philosophy they espouse with religious fervor. The enemy is taking full advantage, building the ranks of its army a little more every day, every week, and every year. They're preparing the battlefield. (pg. xi)

The globalist border erasers are as evil as their Moslem allies. There are few innocents supporting the destruction of Western Civilization. They make their hostility to the West and their anti-White racism clear to everyone with ears to listen and a brain to think. 

Nearly thirty years ago, Leonard Peikoff wrote an analysis titled "Fact and Value." In it he argued that there are few innocently mistaken leaders or followers involved in today's almost endless nihilistic movements.    

The originators, leaders and intellectual spokesmen of all such movements are necessarily evaders on a major scale; they are not merely mistaken, but are crusading irrationalists. The mass base of such movements are not evaders of the same kind; but most of the followers are dishonest in their own passive way. They are unthinking, intellectually irresponsible ballast, unconcerned with logic or truth. They go along with corrupt trend-setters because their neighbors demand it, and/or because a given notion satisfies some out-of-context desire they happen to feel. People of this kind are not the helplessly ignorant, but the willfully self-deluded.

I would add those who champion the end of the nation-state by means of "multiculturalism," "open borders" and globalist "crony-capitalism" (however undefined) belong on the list of "inherently dishonest" movements reference by Peikoff.