Reader’s Links for Oct. 29, 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.

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15 Replies to “Reader’s Links for Oct. 29, 2024”

  1. The consequences of shutting down economies because of the plandemic continue to reverberate.

    No government was held accountable and none will be. In Canada the government blew $49 billion propping up small businesses through the lockdown. Now that these loans have been called in the bankruptcy rate is through the roof.

    The war in Ukraine is another planned operation that brainwashed people of the West into supporting yet more destruction. How many billions of dollars have been exported into that murderous black hole of corruption? Suicidal government policies continue to impact us. In Canada the carbon tax continues to hollow out the withering middleclass.

    The loss of cheap energy via the loss of the Nordstream pipelines has devastated Europe’s industrial capacity. Reality doesn’t take holidays for long. Huge layoffs have been announced in Germany. That workers’ paradise is getting it’s own reality slap, now obviously out-competed by communist China.

    New business models are forming out of this primordial neoMarxist soup. We just don’t know yet what they look like. Anecdotally, I notice my local Porsche dealership is pregnant with aborted high-end sports cars. We’re talking $100,000 to $300,000 cars.

    And our Dear Leader has not even announced we’re in recession. Yet.

    https://youtu.be/R-gP2ychcY4?si=6rGBFgzaleDGeh7u

  3. I can’t speak to the validity of the Georgian election outcome, but I think we can agree that any election in any country that does not turn left is deemed invalid, and is contested as yet another Russian “operation”.

  5. The Heritage of American Militias
    Ammoland Inc. Posted on October 29, 2024 by F Riehl, Editor in Chief

    Opinion
    Letter to the AmmoLand Editor
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    American Militias are as crucial to our Republic as is freedom of speech.

    The Second Amendment has two very distinct parts. The first portion states: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,” refers to Militias, not weapons. In fact, its preposition infers that the second portion of the amendment: “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed,” deals with weapons of war.

    In fact, the Supreme Court ruled as much in its 1939 ruling in United States v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939). That case involved a man who transported a shotgun across state lines with a barrel less than 18? long in violation of the 1934 National Firearms Act.

    SCOTUS found: “The Court cannot take judicial notice that a shotgun having a barrel less than 18 inches long has today any reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia, and therefore cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees to the citizen the right to keep and bear such a weapon.”

    In other words, the court found that only weapons that have a reasonable relationship to the effectiveness of a well-regulated militia are free from government regulation under the Second Amendment.
    Therefore, weapons of war are covered under the Second Amendment.
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    This writer is not an attorney or a constitutional scholar but rather a journalist who gathers facts and presents them to readers. You can interpret these facts in any way you wish; however, they appear to obviously indicate the importance of a militia in the United States from our founding documents up to 1939.

    In 1791, when the Bill of Rights was ratified, the militia was established to mutually defend against marauding bands of hostile Indians and gangs of thieves, to ensure that politicians upheld the Constitution, and to form an army to fight invading forces.

    In 1939, when the short-barreled shotgun was determined not suitable for militia usage, the same logic for a need for militias was seen by SCOTUS as necessary in each state. Not state guard units, but rather militias consisting of community residents to safeguard their own defense.

    In fact, militias were used as late as the War with Spain in Cuba and the Philippines. Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were a volunteer militia that was formed in part by Theodore Roosevelt. A standing army had been around for many years; however, militias were still very important to the security of the United States.

    By the way, they still are. Maybe even more so today than at any time in the past since the 20th Century.

    The thing is, laws have been passed in many states that outlaw any and all militias. In fact, there is a concentrated effort to make militia membership akin to being a terrorist. The mass media trashes the thought of militias daily, and the Biden/ Harris administration has actively worked to destroy any organization that could turn into a militia.

    In order for a militia to be of any value, it needs two things: access to military weapons and, most importantly, training to work together as a unit. Without both, a militia is nothing more than a fraternal organization.

    Yet, the Biden administration is so fearful of an organized militia in the United States that it has done everything in its vast power to stop even those fraternal groups that believe in the preservation of the Constitution. Under the guise of the January 6th protests, which they insist was an insurrection, our Department of Justice (DOJ) has, and to this day, are arresting every person who attended the Capitol after President Trump spoke. Some of whom never entered the Capitol building.
    During this unprecedented lawfare against mostly peaceful protesters, they paid special attention to members of fraternal organizations that advocated for the preservation of the Constitution.

    Groups like the 3 Percenters, who recognize that only 3% of the population of America took up arms against Great Britain. There were the Proud Boys, a group that stressed the importance of the man within the family, the Patriot Prayer group who were Christians, the Veterans for Trump whose only crime seems to being veterans who support Making America First Again, and others that are conservative in nature and don’t vote Democrat. All of these groups were harassed into near nonexistence by the lawfare of the Biden /Harris DOJ.

    And then there was the Oath Keepers. They were, they no longer exist, an organization that consisted of veterans, many combat veterans, police officers, and firefighters. What made them special was the fact that all were already trained in combat arms and needed very little training to become a viable active militia. While the left-wing mainstream media already call them, as well as all the other groups militias, only the Oath Keepers were truly almost a militia.

    They didn’t train in martial arts, but had already been trained and could easily revert to that training. So the DOJ under Biden were extremely frightened of them. It is why the corrupted FBI went to extremes to destroy them. It is why their leaders received decades long sentences in prison, even when some, like their leader, Stewart Rhodes, wasn’t at the Capitol on January 6th.

    The Oath Keepers were a clear and present danger to the Democrat Party in their attempts to transform America from a republic into a one-party-ruled tyranny. Think about it: how many times Biden remarked that those armed MAGA types better have F-15s or nuclear bombs if they think they can stop that would-be dictator from doing what he wanted? He understood that armed Americans were a threat and he was scared.

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    Along the way the corrupt FBI investigated and intimidated every group that didn’t follow the Democrat radical leftist philosophy to the tee. Catholics, all of them were suspects because they dared to advocate for the life of children. PTA moms and dads were investigated and harassed, and some were even arrested because they stood up for boys and girls being male and female.

    The scope of the lawfare against those Americans who didn’t follow the Democrat radical line is unimaginable to most of us. And yet it is still occurring today. So the need for the militia has not deminished since 1775 when used against the British who went to Concord, Massachusetts to confiscate those military arms from a local militia that trained to defeat marauding bands of hostile Indians, and gangs of thieves.

    Those trained militias were used against a political force that wanted total dominance over Americans. And Democrats learned the lessons from 1775, they have shut down all militias in America today. And we are more at risk as a nation for it.
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    No one or no group has stood up against local or federal laws outlawing militias in America, yet they are as important as the right to keep and bear arms. Those Second Amendment groups like the National Rifle Association, Guns of America and others are going to court over gun bans and concealed carry limitations, yet ignore laws enacted outlawing militias. Wake up…they are every bit as important as protecting gun ownership. People with guns aren’t militias and provide very little threat to a military or police organization.

    Having weapons doesn’t mean one knows what to do with them. The Second Amendment covered what is necessary to protect America. It included viable militias for the protection of our communities as well as our nation. That is what a well-regulated militia means within the Second Amendment.

    One also needs the weapons to carry out that mission. The militiamen were required to bring their own weapon and at least 60 rounds of ammunition with them when called out to repel outlaws or Indians, even when called out to stop an invading army trying to confiscate that militias’ stock of arms, powder and balls. As happened at Concord, Massachusetts in April, 1775.

    Minutemen met and challenged British troops on the greens of Lexington, a town standing in the road to Concord, where those militia supplies were stored. A company of Minutemen stood in the way to slow the British advance. Captain John Parker was commander of the 77-member militia that stood in the path of 700 British troops led by Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith.

    A frightened British solider fired a round striking Ensign Robert Munroe. Both sides opened fire, and eight Minutemen fell dead, including Munroe, while only one Brit fell in the confrontation. Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, after a brief but intense battle, those militiamen stood their ground until the British invaders moved forward, forcing their retreat.

    Although defeated at Lexington, their task was accomplished. They slowed the British advance enough that a larger force of Minutemen took the high ground around the bridge at Concord that must be traversed to get to the stores of militia equipment. Most of which was removed before the British arrival, in part because of the delaying action of Captain Parker, Ensign Munroe and the rest of those Minutemen on the greens of Lexington.

    Notice, while maybe not the greatest soldiers on the planet, they were trained and disciplined enough to stand their ground in the face of overwhelming odds. And the entire battle, from Lexington, to Concord, to the British retreat back to Boston, was coordinated, only because these militias trained and drilled together before the battle.

    Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have put a complete stop to the real need for a well-disciplined militia in America. We need to take back our Constitutional rights. After all, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

    If we ever want to regain our rights, vote Republican on November 5. We need a President and Congress that vote for America First.

    Joe Ragonese

    https://www.ammoland.com/2024/10/the-heritage-of-american-militias/

  7. Repost: Trump takes aim at Harris days before election: ‘Campaign of hate’
    Fox News – Streamed live 2 hours ago

  9. Teen accused of Southport murders charged after ricin and al Qaeda manual found
    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/southport-stabbings-suspect-faces-separate-terror-charge-after-biological-toxin-and-al-qaeda-manual-found-at-home/ar-AA1t8JRm
    Axel Rudakubana, 18, from Lancashire, had already been charged with three counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder following the mass stabbing at a Taylor Swift-themed dance workshop in July.
    At a briefing today, Chief Constable Serena Kennedy from Merseyside Police said the teenager now faces two further charges related to evidence obtained by police following searches of his home after the attacks.
    She said he now faces one charge of the “production of a biological toxin, namely ricin, contrary to Section 1 of the Biological Weapons Act 1974”.
    He also faces a terror charge of possession of information “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000”.
    She added that this charge relates to a PDF file entitled “Military Studies in the Jihad Against the Tyrants: The Al-Qaeda Training Manual”.
    However, police have not declared the events of 29 July a terrorist incident.
    “For a matter to be declared as a terrorist incident, motivation would need to be established,” Chief Constable Kennedy said.
    Health officials added that there was no evidence of ricin poisoning at the dance event where the attack took place, or that any members of the public were exposed to the toxin.
    “Following the events of Monday 29 July, searches of Axel Rudakubana’s home resulted in an unknown substance being found. Testing confirmed the substance as ricin,” Chief Constable Kennedy said.
    “We have worked extensively with partners to establish there was a low to very low risk to the public and I want to make that reassurance clear today.”
    Ricin was confirmed to have been found at Rudakubana’s home after scientists from the government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory carried out tests on the evidence.
    Dr Renu Bindra, from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said experts from the agency “immediately undertook a thorough public health risk assessment” after police alerted them to the presence of ricin at the property in early August.
    She continued: “There was no evidence that any victims, responders or members of the public were exposed to ricin, either as part of the incident or afterwards.
    “Our detailed initial risk assessment judged that the risk to the community, and to the wider public, was low.”
    Rudakubana will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court via videolink tomorrow in relation to the latest charges.
    The three girls who died in the Southport attack were named as six-year-old Bebe King, seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe and nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar.
    Eight other children were stabbed in the attack at The Hart Space community centre in the Merseyside town.
    Five of them were left in a critical condition. Two adults who were trying to protect the children were also left in a critical condition.
    Rudakubana, who was 17 at the time, was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the attack the same day.
    It was followed by days of far-right riots up and down the UK after misinformation online said the suspect was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat.
    However, it later emerged that Rudakubana was born in Cardiff in Wales.
    Nearly 400 people have so far been jailed for offences relating to the disorder, the government has said.