Reader’s Links for Oct. 26, 2024

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

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Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

10 Replies to “Reader’s Links for Oct. 26, 2024”

    • I doubt that it could be done, most of the active duty and Vets would consider this an invasion and react accordingly.

      • Oh, a few more people than just the Veteran’s would…
        No, I don’t think that this is news to the readership here but… there’s gonna be a fight, just a question of when they want to take the first swing.

  4. WARNING BEWARE
    C-293. The Online Harms Act would give the Canadian Human Rights Commission new powers to prosecute and punish offensive but not criminal speech by Canadians if, in the subjective opinion of UNELECTED and UNACCOUNTABLE bureaucrats, they deem someone’s statement to be hateful.

    Anonymous complaints against anyone. Those found guilty by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal can be required to pay $50,000 to the government, plus up to $20,000 to the person designated as the victim of speech crime. The victim need not demonstrate having suffered any loss or damage, other than feeling offended by the alleged “hate”.

  5. Poll Finds Quarter of All Americans Think Civil War Likely After Election
    By Tom Knighton | 12:30 PM | October 26, 2024
    Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File

    Political rhetoric is heated, to say the least. I won’t say it’s never been worse because, well, it’s been pretty bad in the past, but it’s not exactly a race against two people with a deep respect for one another, either.
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    And this division isn’t new. We’ve been seeing it daily for years and it’s only grown.

    But we’re the United States of America. We don’t have to worry about anything more violent than the odd riot, right?

    Well, a new poll finds that a lot of you don’t believe that in the least and actually think far worse is likely.

    America hasn’t been this divided since the Civil War. But does that mean that if the election doesn’t go the way that either party wants, another civil war will break out?

    According to a poll taken by The Times, about a quarter of the U.S. population fears that civil war may break out after the election.

    Barbara Walter, a noted Civil War historian, wrote a 2022 bestseller, “How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them.” She said that measured against a checklist of the factors that could lead to civil war, “the United States … has entered very dangerous territory.” She added that “we are closer to civil war than any of us would like to believe because of “political extremism, cultural tribalism, the embrace of conspiracy theories, proliferation of guns and militias and the erosion of faith in government and democracy.”

    Only the final item on her checklist matters. Neither the right nor the left has faith in our institutions to govern us. The right doesn’t trust the vote-counting process while the left thinks Trump will “destroy democracy” if he wins. It’s an incendiary mix that doesn’t bode well for the post-election period.

    Fears that an eruption of violence is very or somewhat likely are shared across the political divide by 27 per cent of American adults, including 30 per cent of women and 24 per cent of men, YouGov found in a survey of 1,266 registered voters on October 18-21.

    Twelve per cent of respondents said they knew someone who might take up arms if they thought Donald Trump was cheated out of victory in under two weeks’ time. Five per cent said they knew someone who might do the same if they thought Kamala Harris was cheated.

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    That’s terrifying, right?

    Well, yes and no.

    The idea of a civil war should be scary. If there’s another one, it won’t be clearly defined geographically-bound political units engaging in traditional warfare with one another. As bad as the Civil War was, it at least had clear boundaries and battles for territory that often kept much of the fighting away from the civilian population, with notable exceptions.

    This time around, it’ll be neighbor versus neighbor in a far more literal sense. No one should want any such thing.

    But the survey asked if they knew someone who might take up arms. That’s an important point because it involves their perceptions of others versus what those people might actually do. If you’ve ever been accused of being something that you’re not, you can easily see how that perception may not reflect reality in the least.

    Moreover, while the survey found that 27 percent found the likelihood of a civil war as likely or somewhat likely, 32 percent didn’t. Again, a lot of this is framed based on what they think other people will do versus what they, themselves intend to do.

    Now, are we inching closer to a civil war? I personally have figured we had one coming for at least a decade now, but I also thought we’d have had it by now, so I might not be the best prognosticator on civil wars.
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    But while this is going to make a lot of people nervous, I don’t think that we need to worry about it this year. I think riots are definitely possible, even probable. That’s especially true with a Trump win, but I rule nothing out if Harris wins, particularly if there’s anything shady about it.

    https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/10/26/poll-finds-quarter-of-all-americans-think-civil-war-likely-after-election-n1226695

  6. How John Kerry’s Recent Attack On The 1A Also Targets The 2A
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    Mark Chesnut –
    October 26, 2024 12
    Joe Biden, John Kerry

    Former Obama administration Secretary of State and Biden administration “climate envoy” John Kerry’s recent anti-First Amendment rant during a World Economic Forum panel on “Green Energy” wasn’t directed at gun owners and gun-rights groups, but it could have been.

    According to a Fox News report, during the panel discussion Kerry lamented the fact that the government can’t stifle speech that doesn’t agree with those in charge. In doing so, he called the First Amendment—which was written partially to protect freedom of speech—a “major block” to hammering out what he considers to be “disinformation.”

    “You know there’s a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to guarantee that you’re going to have some accountability on facts, etc.,” Kerry told the audience. “But look, if people go to only one source, and the source they go to is sick, and, you know, has an agenda, and they’re putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence.”

    In this case, Kerry was talking about those who don’t espouse his theory on climate change and don’t embrace the radical policies he and others in the Democrat party claim are necessary to combat climate change. He wishes the First Amendment wasn’t there to hinder his ability to shut those up who disagree with his point of view on the matter.

    Interestingly, Kerry quickly turned the conversation into an endorsement for the Harris-Walz campaign, which he apparently believes might have the ability to “govern” such free speech.

    “I think democracies are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges they are facing, and to me, that is part of what this election is all about,” he said. “Will we break the fever in the United States? What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change.”

    While that’s nonsense enough, you might be asking what that has to do with the Second Amendment. And the answer is, everything.

    Stifling speech that doesn’t agree with the administration currently in charge isn’t limited to climate politics. There’s little doubt that Kerry and his ilk would also like to silence gun-rights groups that disagree with the government’s assertions that violent crime is a “public health crisis,” AR-style rifles are “assault weapons,” and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act gives gun makers “blanket immunity.”

    The Biden-Harris administration holds those three “facts” as among their utmost certainties as far as gun policy is concerned. Who believes they wouldn’t like to cut back on any dissent about those ideas if they were given the opportunity?

    In the end, any time you hear any politician—from either party—call the First Amendment a roadblock to anything except tyranny, you should sit up and take notice. Those who want to curtail First Amendment rights would also be stifling the ability for Second Amendment supporters to voice our opinion on the issue.

    https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/how-john-kerrys-recent-attack-on-the-1a-also-targets-the-2a/

  8. Holocaust Survivor: Kamala Comparing President Trump to Hitler “Worst Thing I Ever Heard In U.S.”
    Donald J Trump – October 25, 2024