The "War on Terror" Turns Inward

An administration takes aim at the American people.

Atlanta, GA

September 5, 2022

I started to write this Thursday night, on the heels of a speech I couldn’t believe I’d just heard. But because that address was so ominous and outrageous, I decided to put down my pen, and take time to reflect.

Having done so, I’ve decided that the conclusion to be drawn is even more disturbing than the one I’d originally reached.

In a scene reminiscent of an inter-war dictator or V for Vendetta, and set in Orwellian fashion before Independence Hall, the President of the United States declared war on Americans.

The diatribe was reminiscent of the insidious “With Us or Against Us” theme George W Bush used to gin up false pretenses for war and torture twenty years ago. The only difference is that the type people who justifiably condemned that speech now insipidly extol this one.

And instead of Middle Easterners, it’s middle Americans who are today’s targets. The “War on Terror” has been turned inwards.

Nebulous Foes

This has been happening for quite some time. It was the whole point of the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the TSA, FACTA, the Covid response, the coming climate clampdowns, and the pending imposition of central bank digital currencies.

The “War on Terror” and the “War on Covid”…like the “War on Drugs”…were never about eradicating those nebulous foes they pretended to attack. They were to accumulate power and control us.

Yet there are many stubborn Americans who still value their freedom, and remain disinclined to be pushed around. For the most part, these are people who prefer to do their jobs, raise their kids, go to church, and mind their own business.

But they deeply regret pushy politicians and maniacal meddlers who insist on minding it for them. If whack-job coastal elites want to defy nature, promote perversion, ignore science, annihilate their economies and destroy their states, that’s their prerogative. Just leave others out of it.

But these incorrigible world-improvers are incapable of doing so. It’s not enough for California, Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois to commit suicide with insane policies. These elite bastions of cultural enlightenment won’t rest easy till every other state does so too.

In the Cross-Hairs

For decades, the self-righteous Left has pressed the patience of traditional America. Now, in certain pockets, traditional America is pushing back…and the Left doesn’t like it. It demonizes the resistors, calls them names, and threatens their livelihood when they dare to dissent.

As the president’s half-wit press secretary put it the other day, this administration considers anyone “extreme” who isn’t in the majority. That’s rich coming from a black lesbian speaking for an executive with a forty percent approval rating. 

But none of that matters. The only objective is complete submission. As we were trained during Covid, “The Greater Good” demands our rights be reduced.

Throughout the brief tenure of his interminable term, the man who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution has openly advocated gutting the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments. Presidents routinely shred the Bill of Rights. But few have the gumption to be so blatant and brazen when doing it.

Aside from the Second, he doesn’t denounce any amendment by name. But they’re all in the cross-hairs. His previous press secretary admitted that the administration leans on social media companies to censor science and suppress dissent.

The president himself routinely denounces gun ownership, and derides individuals and states for guarding their rights. None of this is a secret, or a surprise.

A year ago, he unilaterally commanded a hundred million Americans to inject a drug. The Courts eventually revoked that sinister policy. But jobs were lost, lives ruined, and medicine injected under obvious duress.

And despite the unconstitutionality of that wicked order, no one who implemented it suffered. It’s as if a thief was told he could no longer steal, but he was still allowed to keep what he stole.

The president treats “Charlottesville” and “January 6“ as if the Maine were sunk at Pearl Harbor on September 11 rather than the relative footnotes they actually were. And, of course, he more recently sicced his secret police on his predecessor’s property.

Rhetorical War

But it’s not merely (or even particularly) party leaders and opposing politicians who are most under assault. It’s anyone who disagrees with the official party line. These are third-world, banana republic tactics to dispense with the rule of law, and annihilate enemies to consolidate power.

As part of the rhetorical war, “fascism” and “traitor” have become the new “racism”. They’re increasingly meaningless terms that say more about the intelligence (and likely instincts) of those who utter them than they do about the motives of those they’re meant to slander.

Yet if enough idiots can be made to believe that up to half of Americans are truly “fascist”, the Covid response proved that most of them will agree to whatever steps the government takes to defeat the menace. After all, should “fascists” be allowed to own guns, say what they want, or win an election?

The Administration announced that it is hiring more new IRS agents than there are people in the British army, and reasonable people were called crazy for being concerned.

These employees aren’t being onboarded to audit the returns of billionaire bankers or pharmaceutical executives. They’re primary objective is to come after us.

Coke and Pepsi

In his divisive speech the other night, the president carefully aligned “moderate” Republicans with his own party. This not only distinguishes the “respectable“ establishment who “work with” him from the “MAGA” Republicans he demands we resist. It’s also a subtle way of formally consolidating into single rule the one-party state that (like Coke and Pepsi) has informally existed under two different brands.

We don’t know what’s really going on, but none of it is good. Is the stage being set for false flags, targeted arrests, or martial law? I don’t know.

But if it were, this is how it would look. With midterms approaching, the incumbent party expected to get whacked, and the Covid precedent we’ve just endured, anything’s possible.

I’ve never thought any recent president is really in charge. Since Eisenhower gave his prescient farewell address (and probably before), we’ve known a shadow government has run the show.

Joe Biden may have been on that eerie platform uttering those unsettling words. But other people are writing the script and pulling the strings. We may not know exactly who they are. But they let the president know he will reap his rewards if he does what they say…among which is to let us know we will pay the price if we don’t.

JD