The gathering storm

 

America, earlier today (1819)

The first volume of Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the Second World War was entitled The Gathering Storm, and the phrase seems eerily appropriate for what is happening across America - and the rest of the West, perhaps to a lesser extent - as we approach the end of this century's first quarter.

America seems to have a death wish, which can be good neither for itself or the rest of the West. It used to be said that when America sneezed, the world caught a cold. What happens if, rather than sneezing, America tries to blow her brains out or, rather more accurately, slowly apply the garrote to her own throat?

Where Trump was not allowed to govern, hobbled by the deep state, Biden has been helped in his administration's ruinous policies - which are more like dereliction of duty than positive steps to save a nation - by a compliant media, a puppet FBI/CIA, and dark game players such as George Soros. This cannot end well, and I have written previously about the apparent imminence of American Civil War 2.0. The gathering storm, indeed.

Crime is not treated as such and punishment is an insult to victims. Take this very recent case of a Dominican bodega worker in Harlem who fatally stabbed an assailant who was beating him up for the apparent crime of not selling his girlfriend potato chips (she also drew a knife). After the criminal (who, as you might expect, had a long criminal record) died in hospital, the bodega clerk was charged with murder. Message from the government? You can't defend yourself, and that's before we come for your guns.

The police have been defanged by the almost surreal campaign to defund them after the BLM riots, and also opposed by Soros-funded Democrat DAs, who give sentences so laughable and insulting you wonder if they are testing the bounds of how far they can go.

The British police have been similarly neutered, but not by defunding, far from it. No, British cops have plenty of money to spend on policing gay pride parades, painting their patrol cars in rainbow colours, and arresting people and handing out 20-week jail sentences to ex-cops for mean Tweets about George Floyd. The British police are unlikely to visit your home if it has been burgled, but Tweet that a woman is an adult human female, and you can expect a visit and possibly court and jail to follow. We have gone back to the future, and it is dated 1984.

So, we have all the elements of classic anarcho-tyranny, and the question is, at what point to people fight back against the state?

Consolidate your relationships and the cadres you are with, because if the current rate of social dysfunction continues, you may well need them. The storm is indeed gathering.