Is Obama an Opponent or Enemy?

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Enemiesby John Walker

Opponents or Enemies?
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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 andstatist 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 ofthese 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 formass 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 itthat is the intent of those who spread thecontagion. 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 willultimately 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 yourprescriptions 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
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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

theirenemiesnot opponentsare implacable, bent on winning whateverthe 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 Rooseveltand 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 defeatcould 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 theirlong 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 ofinfantilized subjects dependent upon the largesse of their betters.

How does one deal with enemies? To survive and prosper, one does not

negotiate with themone defeats them. There is no reasonable,
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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 whoplay 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 usthey 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.

Reclaim the language from the enemy. We shouldhave a swear jar for every time we utter the words liberal or

progressive except in scornful irony. May I suggest statist,

collectivist, socialist, or communist as alternatives?

Do not trade with the enemy.Do not patronize businesseswhich support enemy causes; by doing so you support them yourself.While an individual choosing not to be a customer of a mega-corporation

has negligible impact, millions of like-minded people deciding to go

elsewhere can. On the local scale, telling the owner of the pharmacy who's

posted a petition supporting socialized medicine that he's just lost your

business and why does have an impactI did this two weeks ago myself.

Don't be taken in by enemy propaganda. Themainstream media are almost entirely in the hands of the enemy. Help to

make them the legacy media by ignoring everything they say, not

subscribing to their enemy propaganda. Rely instead on first-hand


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reporting on the Internet whose veracity you can judge based on a network

of trusted sources who comment upon it.

Do not entrust your children to the enemy. So-called public schools (the correct term is government schools, since inrecent decades the publicparentshave lost all control over them) have

been entirely captured by the enemy and become institutions of

indoctrination and moral corruption which fail at teaching even basic

skills. It is parental malfeasance verging on child abuse to send one's

offspring to these corrupt, corrupting, and nonperforming schools. If you

cannot afford a well-run private or religious school (most have per-pupil

costs well below that of government schools, but of course you have to

pay that tuition on top of your taxes supporting the failed government

schools), consider home-schooling your children, perhaps in conjunction

with other like-minded parents. Even if you can afford it, don't assume a

private or religious school supports your values; talk to parents of students

enrolled there and teachers: if they show signs of being enemies, don't

send your kids there.

Do not become indebted to the enemy.Highereducation is overwhelmingly in the hands of the enemy. One of the

greatest scams in recent decades has been the explosion in tuition and fees,

which results in graduates of four-year and postgraduate programs

burdened with six-figure debt they're forced to pay off in the key years

they should be saving to accumulate capital for starting a family, buying a

house, educating their children, and retirement. This is not accidental:byblocking capital formation in people's key earning years, they are rendered

dependent upon the state for their retirement and health care in old age,

which is precisely the intent.
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What lite universities and professional schools provide for the exorbitant

fee is a credential which offers entry into the ranks of the enemy, and the

education they provide is indoctrination in the enemy's belief system. If

you need a credential, shop around and get what you require at a price thatdoesn't sink you into debt throughout your peak earning years. Unless

you've bought into the enemy's credential game, where you went to

college will be irrelevant after you've had a few years of job experience.

Do not hire the enemy . Are you an employer? Why shouldyou pay those who support the destruction of your livelihood? In our

information-intense age, nothing could be easier than determining the

political affiliations and contributions of applicants for employment, as

well as their sentiments posted on public fora. If they are enemies, don't

hire them. You wouldn't hire somebody without a police background

check to make sure they weren't a crook, would you? So why should you

employ an enemy who will use your paycheck to destroy the values you

cherish and spread the enemy's perverted belief system among co-

workers?

Roll back the enemy's gains. One of the enemy's keyintellectual force multipliers is the concept of the ratchet: that any

movement in their direction is irreversible and that consequently the

debate is only about how rapidly one will arrive at their destination. Those

who view the enemy as an opposition fall for this completelyin effect,

their slogan becomes, We'll deliver you unto serfdom, but laterthan the

other guys. This is not how one deals with an enemy: they must bedefinitively defeated, removed from all positions of influence, and their

pathological beliefs cleansed from the society. Any politician who speaks

about reaching across the aisle or intellectual who grants any legitimacy

to the anti-human, liberty-destroying nostrums of the collectivists is a fool


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at best and a collaboratorat worst. Failing to acknowledge that an enemy

is an enemy is to preemptively surrender.

We do not compromise with enemy politicians; we defeat them, regardless

of the political party from which they hail. If they're enemies of freedomand the other party's candidate is worse, challenge them in the primary.

We do not consent to enemy occupation of the media. These are

businesses, and we will withdraw our support from them by letting

subscriptions lapse and withdrawing advertising from them. This will

provoke a circulation collapse death spiral for them. All public funding

and subsidies for media must be defeated.We choose not to fund enemy occupation of our educational institutions.

All taxpayer-supported institutions must have their funding made

contingent upon abolition of tenure (from kindergarten through university

professorships) and retention based upon objective measures of merit by

third parties outside the academic system.

In the U.S., many state judges are elected; Federal judges are not, andhave lifetime tenure. But their courts are funded by the legislature, which

can abolish them with the consent of the executive. Abolish abusive and

misbehaving courts, and create new ones, and let that serve as a lesson to

those who would legislate from the bench.

Dealing with the enemyOver the last century, much of the enemy's success has been due to the

partisans of individual liberty being unwilling to acknowledge that their

opponents are implacable and ready to resort to any tactic that advances

their cause. I won't stoop to their level is simultaneously staking out the

high ground and then preemptively surrendering it to the enemy. Now, I
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am not suggesting that we do stoop to their level, but ratheracknowledge that the enemy's tactics have been working, and that they

must be countered head-on, not around the margins. We must do this in a

manner consistent with our morality and respect for the truth, but keepingin mind that the enemy operates under no such constraints.

With elected politicians, there must be no compromise whatsoever with

the enemy, and enemies in elected offices must be forced, through

strategic votes, to disclose their true beliefs and agendas, then defeated by

candidates who call them out on the pernicious consequences of the

enemy policies they advocate. As enemies are removed from elected

office, policies can be adopted to identify and replace enemies in thejudiciary, state-funded educational institutions, and taxpayer-supported

cultural institutions. Complete deregulation of all media will allow the

market to sort out the messages people choose to hear.

I am certain this paper will be denounced a strident and divisive.

Bring it onit is both, and that is precisely my intent! If I had changed the

introduction and globally replaced a few words in the body of the

document, this screed could seamlessly slot into what passes for politediscourse in the fever swamps of the collectivist slavers. You may find it

distasteful to look upon them as enemies, but that's how they see you,

and they have no difficulty whatsoever talking about silencing you,

removing you from positions of influence, and shutting down the means

by which you organize.

We believe in a multitude of voices speaking in a free arena, with the best

argument winning. The enemy believes in an echo chamber where only

their message is heard. This conveys upon them an asymmetric advantage,

where we're inclined to let them speak in favour of shutting us up. Fine:

we should not sacrifice our principles, but at the same time we must come

to terms with the fact that they are the enemy, and must be defeated and


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dispersed in disarray, not accommodated, lest we forfeit everything in

which we believe.

Enemies and alliesIn identifying the enemy, it is crucial to distinguish the enemy: the

collectivist/statist ruling class and its partisans in the media, academia, and

rent-seeking crony capitalist industries and financial institutions, from the

electorate who support enemy politicians. We should view those voters

not as enemies, but allies we haven't yet recruited. Most voters pay little

attention to politics and have little appreciation for the consequences,social and economic, of policy choices. This is not so much due to

laziness, but ratherrational ignorance: since a single vote has a negligible

chance of influencing the outcome of an election, a rational voter will

spend a negligible amount of time investigating the candidates and

researching the consequences of the policies they advocate.

Consequently, elections often turn on the amount of money candidates can

raise, the extent they can attack their opponents with negative advertising,their hair styles, and what party the parents of the voter preferred, as

opposed to substantive issues. You may find this dismaying, but there is

abundant evidence that this is the fact. In addition, enemy occupation of

education and media ensures that the bias of voters who do not choose to

independently inform themselves will be toward enemy candidates. This

was the premise of an underappreciated 2008 bookwhich breathlessly and

approvingly forecast the calamity the recent enemy resurgence has

brought upon us.

These uninformed and unengaged voters are not the enemy, but it is their

votes which bring the enemy to power. So we must approach them as

potential allies, to whom we must explain the ultimate consequences of the
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policies of the enemy to themselves and their families, and why it is in

their own self-interest to defeat the enemy. The present situation is

sufficiently dire that one need no longer appeal to long-term arguments

such as Hayek's in The Road to Serfdom: the apocalypse so ardentlydesired by the enemy, as it will present the ultimate crisis to be exploited

to secure their power, is now just a few years away, and this is evident to

anybody acquainted with the numbers.

Our goal must be to defeat the enemy. In a democratic society, this meansapprising those who vote the enemy into power of their true nature,

breaking the hold of the enemy media on the populace, and reversing

enemy infiltration of education. The enemy strategy depends upon anuninformed, unengaged, and passive electorate. We must turn this around

by communicating, by all means possible, the true nature of the enemy and

the cataclysmic near-term consequences of their triumph.

by John

Walker

April 15th,

2011

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