Yes, this is actually happening in Britain, but it’s not new or innovative
The Bolsheviks did the same thing
A short 🧵👇
First, as a reminder for those who don’t know what is going on, riots in Britain started after an Islamist butchered three young English girls and the government, currently headed by socialist Labour PM Starmer, did pretty much nothing
Years of frustration about immigration, legal and illegal, turned to riots
Starmer responded by cracking down on the English for protesting and now is locking up people for even retweeting posts siding with the rioters
So, now, Starmer is letting actual criminals out of jail so that Englishmen who simply don’t want their daughters murdered can be stuffed into prison
This is horrifying, but it’s not new
When the Bolsheviks acceded to power, they opened up the jails and freed all the violent criminals.
General Wrangel describes this happening in Crimea, and Gustav Krist, the Austrian prisoner of war who wrote Prisoner in the Forbidden Land describes the same thing happening in Central Asia
After the prisoners were free, the Bolsheviks established the Red Guards
The Bolsheviks weren’t freeing prisoners because they had kind hearts or disagreed with the idea of prison. They went on to kill tens of millions in prison camps, as we all know
Rather, it was about establishing control over the population. It’s a whole lot harder to think about the political system when you’re starving and having to deal with a huge crime wave, after all, the the freed prisoners create the anarchic conditions in which Bolshevism thrives
There’s not really much else to say about it other than that the Bolsheviks thrived on the anarchic conditions their prison policies created, then went on to fill the prisons right back up, only this time with political prisoners rather than real criminals
Solzhenitsyn described the communist attitude toward crime quite well:
So, that’s what Starmer is now doing.
Like the Bolsheviks, he’s letting real criminals go free do that the prisons can be crowded with political prisoners whose only crime is having a different opinion of immigration than he does
The state sees that as necessary because crime isn’t a threat to its rule, whereas an angry populace of competent people could be
Ok apparently the butcher was Rwandan rather than an Islamist
Whatever. He’s not an Anglo or Norman and so ought not be there
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Time for a very short 🧵with some of my favorite memes about the Rhodesian Bush War
First up, of course, is this about Operation Eland, the amazing raid on ZANLA in Mozambique in which 4 Selous Scouts were injured, and 2000 "terrs" left "slotted"
The rest 🧵👇
Up next: always remember what's possible
The Rhodesian security forces never had more than a few thousand first-line fighters, yet they fought a nearly successful, 15-year war against terrorists backed by not just the communist bloc, but the "free world" as well
Few things are impossible to those willing to go all out fighting for them, as the valiant efforts of the Rhodesians in the Bush War show, and thus even their loss is inspiring. If they, a small and landlocked country of ~250k whites and a few million blacks, could almost win a fight against the whole world, we can surely rescue our country
Then there's: your average Joe has no idea about any of this
People frequently ask what I do and I end up telling them I generally focus on the history of "decolonized" Africa, with a focus on the tragedy of Rhodesia. They're shocked to discover America aided communists destroy a free and prosperous state in the name of race communism.
Further, it seriously changes their view of not just the Cold War, but also the American Civil Rights Movement, which was backing Mugabe and Nkomo even as they launched terror attacks on Rhodesian civilians
Never forget that despite the mythology of the Cold War being that it was a global fight against communism, America aided communist terrorists who attacked free and prosperous Rhodesia
Thatcher shows what the Cold War was really about
A short 🧵👇
Why did they do that? Because Rhodesia stood for what they hated: hierarchy amongst men
Namely, though it had no apartheid, it had propertied voting; to vote, one either needed to be highly educated or have a certain amount (about $60k USD in modern money) of Rhodesian property
That common sense law screened the incompetent out of the voting pool
Only stewards could vote, and thus those controlling the direction of the country were better able to steward its prosperity and future
I'm often asked why I find the Rhodesian story so compelling
Much of the answer lies with this short clip, as I'll explain in the 🧵👇
The thing is, when faced with fighting the whole world in a desperate attempt to defeat "democratic" race communism, the Rhodesians took that plunge
They did what was honorable rather than easy, and spent a decade and a half battling nearly the entire West plus the entire communist bloc
Their enemies had Soviet advisors, Chinese training, brand new Communist-bloc weaponry, and total moral support from the democratic "free world" which meant the UN was on their side and the Rhodesians were cut off from world trade
But still the Ian Smith-led government didn't give in. Despite being surrounded on three sides by 1975, being grossly outnumbered, and having the South Africans stab them in the back in the name of detente, they didn't give in until all was lost in 1980
America isn't, and has never been, a Catholic country
We don't have to listen to the Pinko Pontiff as he attempts to push Gay Race Communism: Catholic Edition on the world, and have our ancestors' refusal to embrace Rome to thank for that
I remain shocked by how many people are like "this is good, actually, and America should listen to him"
Many of our Catholic brothers are great guys, I don't have anything against them and wish them well
But I find it absurd to 1) pretend America is a Catholic country, 2) say we should listen to what some communist in Rome says, and 3) describe Protestantism as heresy at the same time as the Catholic Church pushes race communism
Yes, some Protestant churches are full of heretics. But the Anglican Church of America, for example, is certainly far closer to accurate than whatever Francis is prattling on about
While a great many failings are to blame, one of the earliest and most insidious issues lying at the root of Albion's immense decline is free trade, which destroyed England and her Empire
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When the story of His Majesty's empire began, the reasons were clear:
England needed resources that potential colonies could provide. Cheap raw materials for its early manufactories, markets for those finished materials, an outlet for the surplus population, and existing wealth and geographic positioning to be exploited to the detriment of rivals
This mercantilist framing made sense for the home country, particularly the adventurers, industrialists, and capitalists within it who could make immense fortunes
Further, the framing was self-reinforcing
Protecting markets from external competitors while providing raw materials and ever-growing export markets for your finished goods made sense, and was generally positive
Manufactured goods could be cheaper, as markets were larger and raw materials less limited. Opportunites abounded for those who wanted to leave settled life, letting off steam from a long-settled society. National security-related sectors, from shipping to basing abroad, was advanced by having more reasons to and opportunities for shipping men and material abroad, watching and raiding rivals, and establishing forward bases
There were flaws, of course, but the system worked reasonably well for the Anglo world when paired with a focus on settlement