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Enemies
by John Walker
Opponents or Enemies?
In any conflict, it is a deadly error to mistake or underestimate the
adversary's capabilities, will to employ them, or ultimate goals.
Around the globe, what was once confidently deemed “Western
civilization” is in an end-stage battle with champions of a collectivist and
statist ideology which, over the last century, has enacted programs of
redistributive taxation, borrowing, and spending whose unsustainability
has now become self-evident and which, unless the present course is
altered, will collapse in at most ten years. Further, the second- and higher-
order effects of these policies have led to demographic collapse in the
societies which have adopted them, crippled capital formation and the
creation of productive enterprises, and been used as a justification for
mass immigration from regions hostile to the culture and values of the
West which have been responsible for its prosperity.
Those who would destroy a society, destroy first its language. As Orwell
observed, when the terms of discourse are corrupted, the corruption
spreads into every domain the language is used to debate. So deep has this
language rot penetrated, that it is difficult to write an essay like this
without succumbing to it—that is the intent of those who spread the
contagion. The present-day culprits identify themselves as “progressives”
or “liberals”. Take a step back and ponder how manipulative this is: if
you're a “progressive”, then you must obviously be on the side of
progress, even though the outcome of the policies you advocate will
ultimately roll back all of the advances in individual liberty and prosperity
made since the Enlightenment; if you're a “liberal”, surely you must
advocate liberty, notwithstanding that the consequences of your
prescriptions will be descent of society into serfdom for the masses,
deemed property of the state, ruled by an unelected, unaccountable elite.
These so-called “progressives” or “liberals” are not advocates of progress
or liberty: they are enemies of them, and the sooner champions of liberty
acknowledge what they are, the better our slim chances for defeating them
will be. Libertarians and conservatives are inclined toward civil discourse
and respect for the rule of law. They must come to terms with the fact that
their enemies—not opponents—are implacable, bent on winning whatever
the cost may be, willing to use any means whatsoever to prevail and, once
triumphant, to deprive their opposition of the means to reverse or even
impede the implementation of their agenda.
They are enemies.
What is to be done?
In the middle of World War II, would it have made sense for Roosevelt
and Churchill to have arranged a secret meeting with Hirohito and Tojo to
try to “work out their differences” and “find a middle ground” where, say,
Imperial Japan would be allowed to keep half of its conquests in the
Pacific? Of course not: Japan was the enemy, and only its definitive defeat
could undo the damage its conquests had wrought.
Enemies of individual liberty control the high ground today in most of the
institutions through which they have made their long march in the last half
century, and they perceive themselves as winning: with every generation
they educate, inform, entertain, and rule, they create more dependent
subjects who acquiesce to their rule and groom a new self-perpetuating
class of elite. They are not people who have a different vision of how to
create a society in which the aspirations of the majority of the people for
themselves and their families will be achieved, but rather aspiring rulers of
infantilized subjects dependent upon the largesse of their betters.
How does one deal with enemies? To survive and prosper, one does not
negotiate with them—one defeats them. There is no “reasonable,
achievable compromise” between liberty and tyranny, freedom and
slavery. One must vanquish the tyrants and slaveholders and ensure that
their spawn cannot reinfect society.
We will never defeat them as long as we view them as “opponents” who
play by the same rules and share the same goals as we. They are enemies,
and must be completely defeated and removed from the political stage.
That is how they view us—they have no desire to compromise but rather
intend to destroy us. Until we take the battle to the enemy with an equal
fierceness, we shall have no hope of success. Here are a few things we can
do, starting immediately, once we come to terms with the fact we're
confronted with an enemy, not a well-meaning opponent.
by John
Walker http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/enemies/
April 15th,
2011
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