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 By now, it should be obvious that the government-sponsored
E. Michael initiative to renew this country’s large cities which began in
The
Jones URBAN
RENEWAL
the 1930s and continued largely unabated in the East and Mid-

Slaughter
west through the 1960s and beyond has been a profound and
The Slaughter of Cities

devastating failure. More homes were destroyed than were

Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing

ever built, once-great metropolises like Detroit lay in ruins;

of
Cities
AS ETHNIC
CLEANSING once-thriving neighborhoods were overwhelmed with drugs
and crime; buildings that were built to last centuries fell to the
wrecking ball mere decades after they were built; an entire
generation of young people, both those who came to the cities
and those who were driven from the cities into the suburbs,
have grown up rootless, in a Hobbesian state in which man’s
life was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”
The traditional explanation, the one which no one believes
anymore, is that all this was done to eliminate “blight.” A
more recent explanation, only slightly less implausible, is that
it all came about because of faulty design, as if a nation of
260 million people, one which had already produced the Co-
lumbian Exhibition of 1893, couldn’t come up with anything
more inspiring that the average strip mall. The real story, it
Fidelity Press
E. Michael Jones turns out, is different from both previous explanations. What
began as the World War II intelligence community’s attempt
to solve America’s “nationalities problem” and provide work-
ers for the nation’s war industries degenerated by the early
post-war period and full-blown ethnic cleansing.
E. Michael Jones has followed the advice of Christopher Wrenn. Looking around, he saw monuments, but
monuments to the folly and malice of social engineering and a government that had declared war on large
segments of its cultural history.
You will see bloodshed and poisoning and have accusations of defendants, the slaughter of cities, and
genocide and the heads of leaders up for auction, torched houses and cities in flames and enormous
spaces of territory blazing with hostile fire. Behold the scarcely traceable foundations of the most em-
inent cities: anger destroyed them. Behold wastelands empty for thousands of miles: anger emptied
them.—Seneca, De Ira 1.21-2
E. Michael Jones’s tour-de-force indictment of urban renewal in the East and Midwest from the 1930s through
the 1960s offers an entirely new interpretation of what all historians have seen as a program of abject failure.
Instead of laying blame at the feet of misguided designs or good-hearted (though bad-headed) desires to rid
cities of blight, Jones finds fault in the plans themselves, plans whose goals had little or nothing to do with
civic improvement but all too much to do with ethnic cleansing.
Jones does not shrink from naming names, citing the letters and memos whose authors never thought their
words would see the light of day. His exhaustive research provides proof positive that urban renewal was not
a benign policy gone sour but an intentional program meant to prop up a dying ruling class and rid the cities
of inconvenient ethnics.
“Incorporating all the details into his sweeping narrative … Jones makes gripping drama out of urban
development. Unfortunately, the epic it recounts is tragic.”—Ray Olson, ALA Booklist

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LETTERS
links, and other cursory research I
PRIMARY WATER did online it seems to me that to- SURPRISING FAN
I was only vaguely aware of day primary water is not doubt- My name is Kamal Southall. I
primary water from my universi- ed anymore, even if they call it have gradually over the years read
ty days. This is not a topic that by another name (e.g. magmatic more of your work, listened to
conventional courses in ground- water). There are articles talking your videos on YouTube, and bit
water address. However, I had about it in well-known main- by bit purchased your books. Some
heard directly or indirectly about stream scientific journals. This of which are extremely expensive
it via other sources. is no guarantee of being true, but perhaps that is a filter of sorts.
The first is mentioned in the ha ha, as the current hysteria I started with Libido Dominandi a
article and is also controversial about the alleged anthropogenic few years ago, and have acquired
hypothesis of abiotic oil. That is climate change pushed 24/7 by more of your books as time, and
the possibility that oil is also gen- mainstream scientists and jour- finances, allow. Including, Bene-
erated deep down in the earth by nals tell us. But it is a sign that it dict’s Rule: The Rise of Ethnicity and
a process that has nothing to do is accepted by most people who the Fall of Rome, Darwinism, Ma-
with fossils (e.g. dinosaurs and are paying attention. More ques- terialism, and other Jewish Fables,
trees dying and decomposing tionable is how easy is to get this and Ethnos Needs Logos.
under the right temperature and primary water. Reiss was not just I plan on ordering Barren Met-
pressure, which is the conven- a learned professional but also a al and The Slaughter of Cities next
tional view). The abiotic oil the- sort of genius, and with his un- month. Finances permitting.
ory seems to have more followers derstanding of geology and other While Barren Metal is pricey on
in Russia and other European topics he was able to identify cer- Amazon, a sacrifice for books must
countries more than in the USA. tain locations where primary wa- be made. Particularly in this age in
If this were proven to be correct, ter could be found. But consid- which books and authors are disre-
the implications are huge. ering that it is generated deep in garded, and the marketplace is full
The second source of me being the earth mantle (hundreds km of cheap trinkets.
aware of primary water is Gen- down) and drilling so deep is not Please excuse some of this ram-
esis and the story of the deluge. possible with current technology bling letter. I consider myself a
Most people associate Noah’s (for reference, the best technolo- rather surprising fan and reader.
flood with rain only, but Gen. 7, gy can get you these days is 10 And I have to admit at first, when
11-12 says there was a big com- km down), then it is critical to I stumbled on your work I thought
ponent coming from below: find out where are these cracks you were a crank. I was surprised
”In the six hundredth year of No- and faults that convey primary at your erudition, and depth of
ah’s life, in the second month, on water further up, closer to the thought. I am a Muslim. The child
the seventeenth day of the month, earth’s surface. This does not of Muslim converts. My mother
on that day all the fountains of seem trivial and only well versed was raised Catholic, however, and
the great deep burst forth, and people can pull it off. I reckon still has immense respect for the
the windows of the heavens were that with today’s better technol- Church, and raised me to respect
opened. 12 And rain fell upon the ogy in seismic, geophysics, and it, and even put me in Catholic
earth forty days and forty nights.” drilling built around the oil and school for a year. St. Ursula Villa,
Because of this some people gas industry it should be easier in Cincinnati Ohio.
believe that water did came from to find it than in Reiss’s times 50 You may also be quite surprised
deep in the Earth’s mantle. And years ago. But still will require a to know that I’m Black. And be-
now we know that there is a lot bigger effort/cost and probably cause of my generation and age
of water there. drilling deeper compared to wells fundamentally more liberal than
In any case I did not know which tap into aquifers. your perspective. But I appreciate
about Reiss and his work in the Octavio Sequeiros your writing and thought, in fact it
American West and elsewhere. [email protected] increasingly grows on me.
From what I see in the article, its
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 I believe that you are funda- writing, typing, or even dictation there is an author who believes that
mentally right when it comes to ? I am increasingly of the opin- a Luciferian cult has all but taken
the origins and extent of the cul- ion that dictation, combined with over the Church. This theme is
tural subversion around us. And I longhand outlining and initial consonant with some of what you
also think that your views on race drafting was the preferred compo- discussed on your Vendee Radio
are sensible, much more so than a sition method of many of history’s interview (which was fascinat-
lot of the racialist thought in the greatest authors, at least before mo- ing). I trust that you are familiar
Right. And your ‘conservatism’, dernity. I am curious about your with William Kennedy. Charles
in a sense, makes far more sense opinion? Upton suggested that I examine
than anyone on the right today. I You are in South Bend. Not far William Kennedy. Though Upton
had read of some of the CIA fronts from Cincinnati. I’m curious if is a Muslim like myself he is mar-
in the Right. And read Francis you’ve come across some of the ried to a traditionalist Catholic
Stoner Saunders’s Cultural Cold rather spooky connexions with who rejects Vatican II. Thus Upton
War (Which is an amazing read. Cincinnati and the forces you has some real concern for the fate
Have you read it?). While it doesn’t study? You mention the city now of the Church because he believes,
fully answer the question of some and then. I live and partially grew as I do, that there is a providen-
CIA fronts, it’s well known that up there. tial role the Roman Church was
William F. Buckley was a spook, More substantive, on the idea of meant to play in the spiritual life
and all of these magazines, both actual subversion of the Church, of Western Christendom. William
liberal and conservative, appear to
have been, if not direct fronts, cer-
tainly indirect ones. Culture Wars welcomes letters to the editor.
I think your assessment of the
‘Austrian School,’ which led to
Preference will be given to letters which deal
modern Libertarianism, are cor- with topics discussed in the magazine. Letters
rect. I was actually seduced by
Libertarian thought at one point should ideally be limited to one single-spaced
in my life, as well by as Leftism. I page, but we know how difficult it is to fol-
suspect that you aren’t fully explor-
ing the topic, and that you know low ideals in this world. Letters can be sent
far more when it comes to the or- by mail to Culture Wars, 206 Marquette
igins of capitalism, ‘anarcho-cap-
italism’, libertarianism, and such Ave., South Bend, IN 46617; by fax to 574-
streams than you are saying. A man 289-1461; or by electronic mail to jones@
only has so much time in the day,
and so many enemies to fight. Your culturewars.com.
hints and allusions fit in a greater
picture, however.
May I ask a question as to your
work habits, as a writer how are
you so prolific? How do you orga-
nize your materials and not only
find the proper rhetorical struc-
tures but actually get your ideas
drafted? Do you mentally use the
method of locii, or do you prefer
index cards, or other methods for
retaining your materials in note
form? Do you favor longhand

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H. Kennedy was very concerned prised at who financed both sides, by Syriac Christians Daggal)
with the Church’s subversion. So indeed there is some interesting ev- Even though I am not a Christian,
I reached out to him and commu- idence as to the financiers behind rather I am a convinced Muslim,
nicated with Kennedy before his Isabella and Ferdinand. Though I as I read the Quran as literally
death, which shocked me. Because have much reading to do in that as possible, and read the Proph-
he died not long after we were last respect. And perhaps, in your eru- et’s covenants with the Chris-
in touch. Kennedy sent me a draft dition, you also have come across tian communities of the Middle
of his Lucifer’s Lodge. On read- hints to this. Moreover, I believe East (more on that shortly), and
ing it I began to realize there was that a careful reading of the history make a very careful reading of
something much larger going on. of the revolutions in Islamdom, in the hadith I believe that the only
Which led to more research. the middle east, would reveal some proper thing for a Muslim who
Why do I care? Because I believe interesting patterns... truly wishes to follow the Proph-
that there is so much in Catholic There are the Omayyad Revolu- et Muhammad is to protect those
morality and even aspects of theol- tion, Abbasid Revolution, and con- Christians and Churches in Mus-
ogy that are shared in Islam. And stant militant Shiite proto-Com- lim lands from subversion and at-
that the Church ordered Western munist (Qarmatian, Ismaili, Ha- tempts to destroy them.
Christendom in a moral order shasheen) revolutions through the I have to recognize that there
whose subversion has led to much middle east. The more I muck was something providential about
darkness falling over the world. around in those sources the more the Church of Rome’s dominance
Free market capitalism in the Lib- I come to realize there are echos over Western Christendom. There
ertarian sense has actually done of what you have been studying in are specific covenants, essential-
much to destroy the holistic and, terms of Revolutionary history in ly charges, documents from the
in my mind, divinely revealed eco- the West. Prophet Muhammad command-
nomic notions that the Church Look at the Saudi and Wahha- ing the Muslims to safeguard
maintained in Europe. bi Revolutions in Arabia? Are you and protect the Christians and to
Reading your work has helped aware or familiar with the probable protect their communities. I was
me clarify my thoughts and realize family and tribal background of the aware of a few of these from the
that the war against the Church is Al Saud family? Who come from literature, but had no idea how
actually part of a Total War against a part of Arabia that was actually extensive these were until Charles
the very values that make human Cursed by the Prophet Muham- Upton and John Morrow did ex-
life meaningful. I was surprised mad. You would be surprised to tensive research and uncovered far
at your position on First Things find out that the Al Saud, the an- more than academia was previously
magazine. But your work all fits to- cestors of the current Saudi Kings, aware.
gether, your command of the facts whose two revolutions against Ot- Reading these Covenants with
is impressive, and when I go and toman authority, come from the the Eastern Churches I am now
fact check what you say or write I same ethno-religious quarters that convinced that my understanding
am constantly surprised to find out concern your work. There is a lot of Islam’s role was flawed. That an
that there is a bigger picture than I of literature in Arabic (some is important part of the mission the
ever suspected or believed. making its way into English) about Prophet charged the Muslims with
You may be interested to know the Saudi clans origins in a certain was actually serving as a guard to
that a deeper own reading of Islam- Iraqi merchant family... protect the Church. And if this
ic history broadly reveals far more I do believe that the forces you is to be understood as part of the
subversion and revolution than the describe are intent on subverting actual mission of a Muslim in this
simple episode of Attaturk. Even in the Catholic Church and its spiri- world, then it behooves me to un-
Andalusia, obviously as a Catholic tual authority in the West. In fact, derstand the forces working against
your sympathies are with the recon- more so, that the one behind this the Church.
quista. Mine are with the Moors, is what you would see as the Anti- While I disagree with you to
particularly the AlMurabitun. But christ, whom we Muslims call the some extent on the issue of the
I think you would be very sur- Masih al-Dajjal (and who is called logos being specific to Greek

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thought, and I am teaching my- They have provided a completely out of print. Quick was a similar
self syriac and aramaic, which are new insight into the environment magazine of theirs, but a further
closely related to arabic, with the I grew up in Germany and I am Bauer magazine was called Bravo,
intent of examining eastern non- very grateful to you for that. I’m a which was aimed directly at young
Greek Christian teachings that 44 year old German/British Cath- teenagers, and was full of stories
may touch on broader aspects of olic living in Berlin. I grew up in that taught kids how to become
the logos, I believe there is much in Munich and then a small town sexually active complete with the
Islam’s philosophic tradition, and near Wuppertal before we moved familiar problem pages where an
not just the greek peripatetic influ- to Surrey, England. The things you agony aunt or agony uncle an-
enced aspects, reflecting the notion say about the organised sexualisa- swered kids sexual or romantic
of the divine mind, the universe as tion of Germany sound completely questions and problems.
an expression of the divine speech plausible to me when I remember I’m not aware of any publica-
and thought. I am very interested certain aspects of the environment tions in Britain at the time that
to see what semitic Christianity I grew up in. But it never occurred were so blatantly aimed at corrupt-
also has to say on it. to me, before listening to you, that ing youth or family life. That may
Please excuse my rambling, and there might have been a more omi- have changed now, but at the time
please accept my thanks for your nous plan behind it. I think Germany had travelled fur-
intellectual work, from a rather un- Apart from the hard-core filth ther down that road.
usual and perhaps surprising fan. that I did, via classmates, get con- However, on the example of the
Kamal Southall, fronted with in magazines, even at Bauer Verlag is where I want to
Cincinnati, Ohio a very young age, there were the question your view that post war
more acceptable magazines that German sexual culture was put in
A BETTER JEW I found on the kitchen tables at place by US/Jewish forces or at
friends’ houses. One weekly mag- least that Germans haven’t played
I enjoy reading Culture Wars. azine in particular called Neue Re- their part in it. All the informa-
I thank you for bringing me the vue had a large circulation in the tion I found online so far suggests
truth. I feel that I am a better Jew mid-'80s. If you run a Google Im- that Bauer have been a family run
and a better person by reading ages search on Neue Revue Magazin media empire from the beginning
Culture Wars every month. I look you’ll get the picture. Neue Revue in 1875. Of course there might
forward every month to receive would be picked up by mothers have been foreign influences that
my issue in the mail. I would like in any supermarket and had plen- remain a secret. But if an outfit
to make a little correction. On p. ty of society gossip stories to keep like this is entirely home grown,
33 of the January issue, in the last them entertained. But in addition is it not right to point out that
paragraph on the left-hand side, to gossip it was also filled with nu- the Germans have themselves to
there is a quote, “Consider, for ex- dity (just slightly less explicit than blame for depravity within their
ample, the terrible story of Rabbi Playboy), including a weekly dou- modern culture? Do the Ger-
Michael Dov Mandelbaum.” his ble page nude photographic fea- mans not have their demons that
name was Weissmandl, not Man- ture on a given couple and their are peculiar to them and can’t be
delbaum, and again I thank you for intimate story to share with the blamed on foreigners? Sexual de-
all the work you do, sincerely from nation. Who was that aimed at? viance and ECO-paganism on the
your Jewish fan. The husband at home probably or, one hand and an appetite for vi-
Yehuda Littman even worse, the children. I admit, olent racism/anti-semitism always
New York, New York even as a pre-pubescent boy, I was simmering below the surface, on
fascinated by it. Now, reflecting on the other side. Germans were re-
your talks, it’s sobering to think sponsible for the holocaust after
ORGANIZEDSEXUALIZATION
I was quite likely the target audi- all.
For the past year or more I have ence. On an every-day level I no-
taken a strong interest in your talks Neue Revue was published by tice a lack of neighbourly love
and conversations on Youtube. the Bauer Media Group and is now among my fellow Germans on the

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S-Bahn, at the Bürgeramt, at the SPLC have prevented that message
supermarket check-out. There is
AT ITS HEIGHT
from reaching the people who need
a lack of courtesy that you don’t I was a Gymnasium teacher in to hear it the most.
notice as much in Britain or I’d Germany when the sexual cor- I am against anti-Semitism, if
imagine the United States, Cana- ruption of young people was at by that term you mean that the
da, or even in Austria. Bavarians its height and remember seeing Jew’s behavior is determined by
also have better manners than posters for the latest Schulmaed- his DNA, which is what Wilhelm
people here in Berlin. These days chen Report on my way to school. Marr meant when he coined the
there is also a complete indiffer- Virtually all of my female students term. If by anti-Semitism you
ence to Christianity. These are read Bravo, which means they were mean criticism of Jews, which
gross generalisations of course, but getting advice from “Doktor Som- seems to be the current definition
my point is that Germans have mer,” whose real name was Martin of the term, no one has the right to
their own particular vices that are Weinstein. forbid that. Jesus Christ criticized
a risk to themselves, their society, If you read my e-book on Wer- Jews, and since I consider myself
and even the world at large. ner Heisenberg and Jewish Science, His follower I have the right to do
You say that the Catholic Church you would know that I never said the same.
is the answer to cultural decline that the publishers of the German E. Michael Jones
and I applaud you for it. In fact, illustrated magazines were Jewish. South Bend, Indiana
I wouldn’t have realised it without I said that every single magazine,
you and other online sources like book, film, or play had to get a FULL POTENTIAL
churchmilitant.com. But I think license from a Jewish psychiatrist
it’s Germans that need re-convert- from New York city by the name Just finished reading your three-
ing at least as much as the Jews. of David Mardichai Levy before it part article on Heisenberg and his
Isn’t a Jew closer to the faith than could get published or produced. struggles, and Germany’s, during
a pagan German? Unfortunately, The German penchant for inter- and after WWII. A lot of info and
I don’t see German bishops risk- nalizing the commands of their op- food for thought. He was a genius
ing their necks and taking a stand pressors, combined with concupis- who unfortunately did not manage
unless it is to condemn anti-im- cence, did the rest. All human be- to rise to his full potential and to
migrant rhetoric. Not enough, if ings have certain weaknesses, and what his country needed. Never-
anything is said against porn, pa- the Church has always demanded theless is a giant to be respected for
ganism, homosexuality, abortion curbs on freedoms like freedom of so many things, and also it is im-
or contraception. the press to ensure that those weak- pressive how Germany rose from
Given your expertise on the Jew- nesses don’t get exploited for prof- her ashes like a Phoenix in spite
ish problem and your insistence it. The Church failed to do this in of so many things against her. Yes,
that no harm should come to Jews both America and Germany, and it they are still handicapped for the
as long as they don’t harm us, I is impossible to explain that failure reasons you very well describe, but
miss an outright condemnation of without describing the role which I am in awe to how much the Ger-
anti-semitism or violence against Jews played in the moral subver- man people have suffered and yet
jews on your part. In none of your sion of both countries. keep going. They are a remarkable
videos have I heard a summary If you watched my video on the people and if they persevere God
of Nazi atrocities or expression of Pittsburgh shootings, it should be will help them to survive the pres-
disgust for the holocaust. Neither clear that I deplored the violence ent stormy times too. I think many
have I heard you refer to the Pitts- that took place there. Since the of them are waking up. There are
burgh synagogue shootings as mur- publication of The Jewish Revolu- signs of that.
der. Are you not indignant at these tionary Spirit over 10 years ago I Reading the subscribers' letters
things? have been saying that no one has I discovered you had had a debate
Oliver Klein the right to harm the Jew. By de- with Alt-right folks. I ran to the
[email protected] monizing me as an anti-Semite, internet and went through it all. It
organizations like the ADL and the was an outstanding exchange.

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 I have to confess a certain soft Jewish propagandist as well. It does any demonstration concerning the
spot for the so-called Alt Right in not necessarily have to be a Catho- preservation of Confederate stat-
the sense that they identify there lic author, but rather one without ues, with hundreds proudly carry-
is something very wrong with the an anti-Catholic agenda. I was told ing the Stars and Bars, would have
modern western liberal-democratic some time ago that History of the alienated most Americans, even
society. And they have courage to United States by Charles Beard and without the Nazi flag.
speak their mind in face of mas- Mary Ritter Beard could be a good John M.
sive opposition (something you one. I have not read it, so I cannot [email protected]
cannot say of conservative/repub- comment. In any case I am looking
lican types). Unfortunately, they forward to your suggestions. GREAT MINDS RUN IN THE
propose a bad solution. You were Octavio Sequieros
SAME CIRCLES
order of magnitudes above your [email protected]
challengers, not only in terms of Dr Jones says things I have said
knowledge, breadth, and depth, POWERFUL HISTORY for years as a Jewish convert to the
but also in delivery and presenta- traditional Catholic Faith.
tion during the debate. I noticed I cited Beard’s economic history A.J. Rovinsky
differences among your challeng- of the United States in Barren Met- facebook
ers. Spencer is clearly the most in- al. It’s a powerful history, whose
telligent and open, or at least he insigts into oligarchic rule in the
was in a more conciliatory mode. BEYOND THE BOMB
United States are still valid today.
He acknowledged your points once E. Michael Jones So much of what you just said
and again, and in fact agreed with South Bend, Indiana makes sense looking back on my
many of them. He seemed like a upbringing in the '70s in South
man open to learn. On the other Africa where they had strict censor-
INTERESTING READING
hand Goad and Brahmin seemed ship. The only place I could access
much more dogmatic types, very Mr. Hirsch’s article made in- naked women as a horny teenager
rigid, more ignorant and may- teresting reading, but contained was the school library where they
be a bit intellectually dishonest. I an important inaccuracy. Spen- had the world at war books with
admire your composure and ap- cer, during his post-election NPI full frontal pubic hair and breast
proach all through the debate. You speech, did not “allow” an audience of the concentration camps wom-
did not give anything for granted to erupt into Roman salutes and en running and getting shaved be-
and were respectful and witty at shout “Heil Trump”. At the end of fore the shooting or gassing. You
the same time. You did not mince his speech Spencer raised his cock- demonstrated the American gov-
words either. You brought in a lot tail, and toasting, said “Hail our ernment in the '60s getting by the
of insightful points connecting his- people, hail Trump, hail victory”. censorship laws by classification
tory and theology that must have Three young people, out of perhaps as documentaries. In South Africa
enlightened not only neo-pagan/ a hundred present, responded with they also had art to circumvent.
atheist types but also Christian/ the Roman salutes. Spencer should The only other place to get porn
Catholic listeners. Keep it up! have chosen a better toast, but nei- was the sailors in cape town docks
I also take this opportunity to ther he nor anyone else present was where the German porn was the
ask you about what book provides in the position of allowing or dis- most explicit. The next step was
a general/overall history of the allowing their action. Similarly, at when Mandela was president they
USA that you recommend. This Charlottesville, the presence of one suddenly made porn legal. And the
is a question I got from an young swastika flag, on a public street, country has been in decline ever
Argentine Catholic professor, who during a legal demonstration, by since. So please keep the informa-
is interested in learning a history of some unknown person, was not tion coming.
the USA other than the standard something that could have been le- Howard Petterson
Whig/protestant viewpoint. These gally allowed or disallowed, regard- facebook
days she should avoid also leftist/ less of the damaging optics. Finally,

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As far as I can see, there are only applied to that culture, the verdict three. Things being one and at the
two reasons to read Culture Wars would be that our society is a de- same time three is an example of
magazine: you either are a victim graded one whose human flour- paradox and a paradox is a seem-
of this culture seeking to under- ishing has been decisively checked. ing contradiction. Contradiction
stand why and how you and/or This is so because our civil institu- and paradox get used all the time
people you love got burned by the tions have been severed from their in our day as synonyms, but they
forces controlling our culture and roots in the moral order. Halt that are actually foils, as glass is a foil to
you want to overthrow it, or you severing and you overthrow this diamond and not another word for
are one of its victimizers playing a culture and restore social progress. it. That’s important in understand-
cultural support role and you want In order to understand both ing the nature of life and death and
to learn of potential threats which why that is so and how that is so, their respective hallmarks and au-
may lead to its overthrow. we first need to know and appre- thors. Life is characterized by par-
This essay is directed to both ciate something about the nature adox and death is characterized by
kinds of readers, in order to answer of God, namely that He is One the contradicting of God’s inherent
the former and convert the latter. God and in Him there are Three design of things by severing the
Culture Wars’ motto is “No social Divine Persons. Next, we need to life-giving connection in each and
progress outside the moral order.” appreciate that God is the Creator every thing that is.
This observation of Pope Pius XII of everything that has being and all Let me explain by putting before
both accounts for the present cul- that has being bears his trinitarian the reader a statement taken from
ture of the West and points to its stamp. That is, all things, like their the Book of Sirach: “All things
antidote. Its standard of judgment Maker, are things both one and go in pairs by opposites, the one

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consolidates the excellence of the tion between facts are, therefore, to pick apart. Sin is an act which
other.” ( Sirach 42:24) What Sir- rejectors of Christ. These seek to severs the connection between
ach is pointing up is the nature of divert our attention and keep facts complementary opposites and ini-
every living thing, whether physi- in isolation by calling the mak- tiates decomposition. The words
cal or non- physical, consisting in ing of connections between them heresy and debauchery remind us
the union of two complementary “conspiracy theories”. just how horrific the results of sin-
parts. Take any living thing: a tree, So, to repeat, all things that have ful actions can be. The word sin it-
for example. A tree is the fruit of life are the result of the joining self means to sever. It derives from
a particular seed being planted in a together of complementary oppo- the Germanic word from where we
specific soil. Seed and soil are the sites; they are trinitarian in compo- get our word sunder, as in “What
tree’s parents. The seed and the soil sition. They are composed of: God has joined together, let no
are complementary goods whose Element one (complement of el- man put asunder” (Mark 10:9).
union results in the tree’s concep- ement two) Do you hear the echo of Sirach in
tion. Sever the seed from the soil Element two (complement of el- the Gospel passage? The New Tes-
and you have severed their union. ement one) tament consolidates the excellence
Sever their union and you will Union of both of the Old Testament.
never get a tree. The soil will still God sees that this created thing I would like to explore some
possess the potential to give the is good. In this is Sirach’s “excel- more examples of things which go
tree life. The seed will still retain lence”. in pairs by opposites in the order of
its potential to give the tree life, So we know what gives a tree life things, in the hope that, what they
but the seed and soil will have to and if the conditions are right, the will reveal is the inner workings
be united in an unbroken bond for tree will grow and thrive and be of a culture of life and a culture
a tree to be given life. Sirach’s wis- a joy to behold. But what if you of death. Then we can’t be tricked
dom is confirmed: All living things want the tree to die? You would about their differences and we can
are composed of a pair of opposites have to sever the connection be- learn, simultaneously, how to re-
whose union gives them life. tween its roots and the nourishing vive our moribund culture. First
What is true of material things soil as with an ax which deals the though, we must pause to consid-
is also true of the immaterial. The tree a cutting blow. er the nature of Christ, for I am
intellectual life is characterized by There is a word in English for saying that another name for the
connection between all comple-
mentary opposites is, in fact, Jesus
“All things go in pairs Christ. And it follows, therefore,
that a culture which is thriving will
by opposites, the one be one with Him at its center.
The Second Person of the Blessed
consolidates the excellence of Trinity is a paradox. He is true God
the other.” and at the same time He is true
man. He condescended to unite
to his uncreated Divine nature our
human nature in order to become
making connections between facts. just that. The word is debauchery the bridge between the Family of
Facts severed from each other are and it comes to mean the worst God and the family of man whose
dead facts. It is the connections be- kind of vicious behavior. Debauch- perfect union Original Sin, that is
tween them which give life (Christ) ery, in other words, is another to say, the first severing of the com-
to the mind. The editor of Cul- word for sin because every sinful plementary opposites of God and
ture Wars is on our radar because act is an act of separating, of sev- man, shattered.
he knows how to connect the dots ering complementary opposites. A The Church is the union of two
which tell the truth about what is related word is heresy. Heresy is de- complementary opposites: the
going on. Rejectors of the connec- rived from a Greek word meaning Bridegroom Christ with his Bride,

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the lay faithful. Man too bears the Our culture of death uproots liv- unites them. Divorce seeks to sev-
trinitarian mark; he is the union ing things and plants dead things er this bond, and so divorce is the
of two complementary opposites: in their place, which turns the field seeking of the death of marriage.
soul and body. into a graveyard. Its rulers have up- Contraception means “against
The human family is the union rooted the Christian understand- conception” and consists in sever-
of two complementary opposites, ing of the nature and purpose of ing the union of a sperm and ovum
male/husband/father and female/ sex and money and planted in their by introducing a barrier in the sex
wife/mother, and their connection stead a denial of the existence of a act. Contraception is the seeking
in Christ, through marriage, which nature and purpose to anything. of the death of God’s lordship over
connection generates a life, giving This denial prepares the cultural the creation of human life.
love which you sometimes have to field to accept abuse by the ruling Fornication consists in a man
give a new name (the child). class, because if the people believe attempting to steal the role of a
The marital act is the union of that things “just are” and can be husband and a woman attempting
two complementary opposites: its used in any way one sees fit, then to steal the role of a wife and both
unitive and procreative aspects. On it follows that one is free to do as engaging in an attempt to steal the
and on, Sirach’s observation can be he pleases. And the practical effect marital act. But the roots of sexual
confirmed. of this will be that the people will intercourse are sunk in marriage;
Pope John Paul II observed that be free to do exactly as their rulers sever those roots and you kill off
we lived in what he termed a “cul- please them to do. And it pleases love. Just as there is no social prog-
ture of death”. How did he know? our rulers that they should have no ress outside the moral order, there
The answer to that question is that borders to their access to posses- is no love in seeking sex outside of
he knew in what death, as well as sions, power, and pleasure and the marriage . So, fornication seeks the
life, consisted and he knew what a rest of us to do what will not inter- death of love in the sex act.
culture was. Death, as in the exam- fere with their arrangements. Homosexuality consists in the
ple of a debauched tree, is the re- With respect to money, the cul- performance of inherently ster-
sult of the severing of the union of ture of the West is marked by the ile sexual acts by members of the
complementary opposites. Culture approved and widespread practice same sex. These acts consist of a
is derivative of what is adored in of usury; with respect to sex, our union of two people, but because
it and that, in turn, is determined
by its rulers. A culture of life is one
in which the rulers develop the
people’s morals and intellects. This
Man too bears the trinitarian
is the recipe for social progress of mark; he is the union of two
every kind. A debauched culture is
one where its leaders adore death complementary opposites:
of every kind: moral, intellectual
and physical, especially of human
soul and body.
beings. Let’s turn now to examin-
ing what our rulers adore to see if
what they adore are God’s living culture is marked by the approved the two people are of the same sex,
things or simply the rejection of and widespread practice of divorce, they lack the necessary element of
those living things, born of a rejec- contraception, fornication, homo- complementarity without which
tion of God himself. Those are the sexuality, and prenatal infanticide. a thing of God and of life cannot
only two possibilities to examine Divorce is state approval granted be. And lacking complementarity
because there is nothing that was to the idea of severing the marital in the sexes, homosexual acts lack
made which is not God’s handi- bond. Marriage is a living thing union because only “pairs of op-
work. ordained by God. It is trinitarian posites” can be joined. Therefore,
What is adored is seen in what in composition consisting of hus- in perverting the complementarity
is cultivated and what is uprooted. band, wife, and their vow which necessary for union, homosexuali-

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 and the Bride are split apart and
pit against each other.
The human person, according to
Satan, is neither male nor female,
nor human, for that matter, but
a “construct.” The biology of the
body is divorced from the mean-
ing inhering in it. Evil is diffusive
of itself just as good is diffusive of
itself. So the divorcing of goods
that go together (complementary
opposites) has its perversity com-
pounded by Satan’s concomitant
ty mocks the trinitarian mark of all one who first cut himself off from encouraging of the joining together
things as well as the excellence of God: the first rebel we call Satan. of things that were never meant to
the two persons engaged in the ho- Satan means “the great accuser” be put together: Like a “marriage”
mosexual act. and why is that name appropriate? that unites male and male; female
Prenatal infanticide consists in It is accurate because sin introduc- and female, or, to take another ex-
severing the life-giving union of es trouble, by way of introducing ample, the sewing of female parts
mother and unborn child by mur- disorder into creation and then onto mutilated male bodies and
dering the child in the womb. It is there is need for the Father of Lies vice versa.
an act of pure hatred of the human to place the blame. So, his accu- The seething hatred behind the
person. sations are never just; they are in- evil of prenatal infanticide rates
“New reproductive technologies” verted: the evil that he has done he only below the Crucifixion for
also split apart the unitive and pro- will lay at another’s door: the door chutzpah. Satan will never get over
creative aspects of the sex act as de- of the victim of his malice will do That Child, born of That Woman,
signed by God. In this debauched nicely. Now through the media who used that death to destroy
science we make babies and not megaphone today, we hear every- Death itself. Satan seeks Christ
love, whereas in contraception we where Satan’s inverted accusations: afresh in all minds and hearts and
make “love” and not babies. The Racist! Sexist! Bigot! and above wombs in order to do homage to
child conceived in a petri dish is all, Anti-Semite! applied to those Christ as Herod wished to do hom-
split off from his right to be born who love God and love their fellow age and left Rachel comfortless.
into marriage and may be split off man: Christians. Satan, who per- Contradictions are Satan’s stuff.
from either or both of his biologi- versely imitates God, whose title he The Cross on which our Savior
cal parents and even knowledge of vainly seeks, whose ways he invites hung is a Cross whose two contra-
their existence. And his biological mockery and thwarting of; Satan’s dictory beams are symbolic of all
parents’ motherhood and father- way is the way of debauchery. All the contradictions for which Christ
hood are divorced from their right- of Satan’s heresies boil down to died to free us. Satan’s ultimate
ful place in the marital act: the only one of two: Christ is not true God; malice Christ converted into the
act capable of love in begetting life. Christ is not true man. Both here- paradox of a “Happy Fault.” And
Usury consists in the splitting off sies thrive in our culture. so, for Satan, there’s no getting
from a thing lent the thing’s use in The Church is either only the over that rainbow. Hence, Satan’s
order to create a new debt. Usury clergy and bad (the “Clerical- recourse to a rainbow flag because
severs the bond between charity ism” of Cupich and Francis; the Satan can only attempt to subject
and justice in attempting to gener- “evil hierarchy” mantra of Frances God’s handiwork to what we might
ate a return from a nothing given. Kissling) or the Church is only the term the contradiction of “creative
It is perverse to treat a nothing as laity and “good” — as in “We are destruction.”
fertile when it is sterile in nature. Church!” How happy is Satan with Call it “the Satan Doctrine” of
Behind all this severing is the either, so long as the Bridegroom the Culture of Death, which states

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 The Church is going to be made
to face the Jewish Question. It is
inseparable from the question of
halting the Culture of Death. That
much is now clear, as clear as it is
now that the Church’s hierarchy
continues to be minded to put that
question away, and the Jews away
with it, as Joseph was “minded to
put Mary away,” whose pregnancy
he could not get his head around.
God had sympathy with Joseph’s
so minding; Joseph needed the Ba-
by’s Father directly revealed to him;
any other explanation would have
strained his credulity to breaking
that “Every ten years or so, [Sa- We must separate the weed of toxic point. But the Jewish Question?
tan] needs to pick up some small Jewishness from the wheat, where That one God has already an-
crappy little [good] and throw it the Evil One sows the weed into swered: “Repent and be baptized.”
against the wall, just to show [he] the wheat of innocent meanings in The heart of the Jewish Question
mean[s] business.” order to sow confusion. in our time is the attempt to jus-
Which brings us to the role of In Jones’s usage, Jewishness tify a Church policy of suppress-
the Jews in all of this. All of the does not denote one’s ethnicity, ing preaching the Gospel to all
above Satanic splitting apart of ancestry, or fidelity to God. The men when it comes to the Jews.
God’s goods has led to the desta- Jewishness which is toxic refers The Church policy appeals to ad-
bilization of Christian culture, also to one thing and one thing alone: herence to Nostrae Aetate for its
known as Civilization, and in these rejection of Christ, the Logos; the rationale. But is it born of love or
splittings, the Jews have played im- Word that went forth from the irenicism? Is it a response of peace
portant and even lead roles. Dr. E. mouth of God which created the — one which “surpasses all un-
Michael Jones has written a book, Universe. Toxic Jewishness is the derstanding” or something more
The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit rejection of the order inhering in closely resembling Neville Cham-
and Its Impact on World History, all things and born of the rejection berlain’s “Peace in our time!” And
and its thesis is that this revolu- of the Order who is God and took has not the hierarchy’s shelving of
tionary spirit is antithetical to “Lo- upon Himself a created nature preaching the Gospel to the Jews
gos”; that is, the order that inheres some two thousand years ago in an in favor of a purported dialogue
in the universe. Anti-Semitism (the unimaginable and unsurpassable with them been quite the instance
blaming of the Jewish Revolution- act of love. Jews became revolu- of sowing the wind and reaping the
ary Spirit on a Jew’s DNA) is as in- tionaries at the foot of the Cross to whirlwind? I contend that the hier-
compatible with Logos as anti-Jew- which they schemed to have others archy sowed the wind by a policy
ishness is essential to the Logos. nail Him. What calls itself Juda- of putting the Jews away; allowing
Jones maintains that Catholicism, ism, post-Christ, should call itself them a writ of divorce, as it were,
the vehicle of Logos in history, is by its right name, the movement through novelties like “dual cov-
anti-Jewish. Come again? To be of anti-Christ whose signature act enant theology” and proclaiming
anti-Jewish is not to be anti-Semit- is to decompose the things of God “No mission to the Jews.” Well,
ic? Have we not caught Jones in a through rejection of Christ, the the Jews have repaid the compli-
Satanic contradiction? No, it is a bond between the complementary ment of seeming indifference to
paradox and a mighty one at that. opposites which constitute each the state of their mortal souls by
As Aquinas would say, we have to living thing including societal cul- fast-tracking John Paul II’s Culture
make the necessary distinctions. tures. of Death. Hitler took cognizance

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of the Jewish Question and failed nizations would be represented by of her mind; do the Jewish people
by using force to argue his case; a the character of Maureen O’Hara’s give their Sanhedrin hell or is this
thing Scripture likens to “a eunuch elder brother. O’Hara’s’ character outrage projected onto the Church,
longing to take a girl’s virginity.” would be the Jewish people and which is a soft target and safe to
Hitler violated what Jones calls the John Wayne would be the Church. unload upon? The Jews, like the
Church’s modus vivendi: Sicut Iude- The major Jewish organizations O’Hara character who wants it her
us Non. Hitler harmed the Jew; he want no wedding between the Jews way or she’ll fly into a rage, present
did not convert them but convert- and the Church, they want instead the Church with a fait accompli:
ed them to ashes. Since then, the the Jewish people’s money and to they get veto power over Church
Church has laid heavy emphasis on control them. The Jewish people matters of interest to them, and the
the dignity of the human person, as are irate as hell because the Church Church in turn gets to “talk to the
witness the Vatican II document, won’t fight for them. They are full hand” when it comes to sharing
Dignitatis Humanae. Where Hitler of defiance and rebellious as can the Gospel. What the Jews really
imposed his will, the Church re- be, injuring themselves as well as want is for the Church to haul off
members that Catholicism propos- the Church, for, inter alia, the hier- and hoof them, as Wayne’s charac-
es Christ’s will. But with the policy archy’s refusal to take on this fight. ter does O’Hara’s when he wakes
of Sicut Iuedeus Non replaced with As in the film, when Maureen to find she has packed her bags and
the current policy of “No Mission O’Hara tries to walk away from her left him. A similar public rebuke
to the Jews” preached (in lieu of marriage and sever any connection of the Jews would clear the air and
the Gospel), the hierarchy might between her and Wayne’s charac- prove that the Church’s love for the
think it is insisting on the necessity ters, in like manner the Jews have Jews will not suffer to entertain a
of respecting the human will and demanded the Church leave the parting of the ways when it comes
not coercing it, but is it not, in- Jews alone and not “proselytize” to the topic of Christ and the need
for Baptism.
In addition, what the Jews really
want is for the Church to confront
Like the O’Hara character, the Jews their Sanhedrin and its oligarchs
are haughty and proud in making and demand they return the wealth
they’ve made off with through usu-
their demand that the Church take ry and other sharp practices which
injure their reputation. As Shake-
seriously their preposterous charges speare tells us, one’s reputation,
of anti-semitism. unlike one’s purse, is a thing, when
stolen, not trash. The Jews want
the Church, like O’Hara wanted
of Wayne, to demand the money,
stead, only withdrawing from the them. Like the O’Hara character, fight for it and then fling it be-
Jews the Bridegroom’s proposal of the Jews are haughty and proud hind (and to the poor it was stolen
marriage to them? Is it respectful of in making their demand that the from) to show that money never
the Jews to toy with the suggestion Church take seriously their prepos- mattered a damn to the Church
that Jews can attain the Marriage terous charges of anti-semitism. anyway; only the Jews themselves
Feast of the Lamb (Heaven) by The rage the Jews feel at being un- did. That would, I think, bring
rejecting the Lamb’s offer of mar- der the thumb of the major Jewish an end to the Culture of Death. It
riage? Who likes to be toyed with? organizations is exemplified by the would deprive of oxygen the rage
The Church has tried “Dia- mixture of affection and harass- of the Jews which also finds ex-
logue”. Perhaps she ought to try ment O’Hara’s character feels in pression in things like the “Ledeen
instead the way of “The Quiet the face of her brother’s lording it Doctrine” which has thrown (like
Man.” In this Hollywood movie of over her. But where the O’Hara millions upon millions of unborn
yesteryear, the major Jewish orga- character gives her brother a piece continued on p. 31

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 The Murder of Venezuela

By Franciso Fajardo, Jr.

The author of this article is using a pseudonym for There is no doubt that our political and social sys-
obvious reasons. He has good personal knowledge of tem had problems. There was corruption; there was
his country and he has thought a lot about what is the belt of poverty around Caracas. The worst con-
going on there. He asks the reader to excuse him for sequence of our corruption, caused by the big banks
not always giving his sources. This is due to three caus- which had received the oil dollars from the Arabic
es: his exile, the destruction of newspapers' electronic world and needed to give loans at a higher rate, was,
files by the totalitarian tyranny of Venezuela and the however, the external debt. But even here, Venezuela
shortness of time to find some of the sources which was on its way to paying off its external debt, as I just
are available. He also advises that if the readers are not said. Despite the visibility of the poverty around Ca-
interested in knowing the full history which led to the racas, we now know that it was not critical. Actually, I
current crisis, they may skip section two and go direct- am persuaded now that it was due mostly to the lack
ly to the section after the introduction. of discipline that the social democrats implemented
since the end of the 1950s in allowing the peasants
INTRODUCTION to settle themselves in the city seeking the mirage of

Venezuela was a fairly indus-

trialized country in many ar-
eas of production, with a very Where did this desire to wipe
powerful oil company which
had refineries, advanced re-
Venezuela from the face of the earth
search, investments in foreign come from?
lands. We had a very good
network of roads and excellent
hydroelectric plants with a pro-
duction sufficient for the country and able to pro- prosperity. I say this because those “poor” people had
vide electricity to Colombia and Brazil. In addition, running water, food, free healthcare, and free public
Venezuela had a very decent agriculture as well as education. Not a few entered the public universities,
advanced business skills, good universities, good and which were also free, and provided the students with
free public health and educational systems, a repub- good lunches at the incredibly low price of ten cents.
lican government with free elections, and in 1998 we In reality our so-called problems meant nothing
were in our way to getting rid of the external debt. more than that Venezuela wasn’t heaven on earth.
What happened, then? Why has the country sudden- The mess which followed came not from Venezue-
ly collapsed? la but from the oligarchic powers of international fi-

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 Specifically, the people of
Venezuela were told that
they had to get rid of the
Christian Democrats and
the very non-revolutionary
Social Democrats. Rafael
Tomás Caldera has said in
La respuesta de Gallegos
that the deepest problem
of Venezuelan culture was a
problem of hope. We tend
to be pessimistic or place
our hope in the wrong
powers. Our enemies took
advantage of this national
defect to make us believe
that everything was rot-
ten and needed thorough
change. This belief set the
nance, which roam around the world seeking to en-
stage for the tragedy I am about to describe.
slave nations through usury. These infernal powers
If Venezuela was the jewel of the Caribbean, how
need to be controlled by a political authority which
and why was it so suddenly destroyed? First of all, we
can bring them to respect order and justice. The situ-
should not forget Communism is good at destroy-
ation then did not mean that our system or our peo-
ing countries, and it can do its destructive work in a
ple were particularly evil or disorderly. After defeating
remarkably short period of time. The Communist
the Persians at Thermopylae and Salamis, Greek pa-
Manifesto is clear about that. As soon as the so called
triotism and courage created a political system which
“proletariat”, that is to say, the Communist Party (un-
has inspired people for centuries, but, in the end, they
der that name or others), takes power, it immediate-
could not withstand Persia’s financial power. Pausanias
ly imposes measures that are economically untenable.
was charged with treason for taking bribes from the
That is the normal modus operandi of the Communist
Persian king, and even Themistocles, who according
revolution, and Venezuela was no exception to that
to Plutarch did not betray Athens, had to flee because
rule. Historically, Communists are only too happy to
of his involvement in financial corruption. Great as
follow their destructive policies to their logical bitter
it was, the financial power of the King of Persia was
conclusions, as has happened in Russia, in China, in
nothing compared to the financial power of today’s
Cuba, in Vietnam, in Cambodia, in Korea, and now
international banking system. The study of history al-
in Venezuela.
lows us to understand how hypocritical it is to slander
But, even granting this, where did this desire to
a republic and to prepare its assassination because of
wipe Venezuela from the face of the earth come from?
supposed corruption when its own officials are feeding
In order to answer that question, we have to under-
at the troughs of the international banks. But this is
stand that the historically Spanish republics in South
precisely what those same financial powers did to Ven-
America have always been remarkably naïve in their
ezuela, as they had done with Russia both in the 19th
relations with Europe and the United States. Venezu-
century and after the fall of Communism.
ela thought that she could reason with the oligarchs of
The real cause of the revolutionary ambience that
the west and get what she wanted, even if that went
suddenly overtook Venezuela was the systematic slan-
against the interest of the oligarchs. This would prove
dering which the republic had to endure at the hands
to be a fatal illusion. Venezuela could defeat her ene-
of the media. Since 1980 at least, the media ceaseless-
mies on the battle field,1 but her people never under-
ly repeated the claim that Venezuela was an economic
stood the newer, more insidious forms of economic
disaster and that thorough-going change was needed.
warfare which would emanate from England and the

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United States during the second half of the twentieth his men as Catholic. Soon enough he showed his real
century. ideological leanings and became an open Commu-
The insidious beginning of Venezuela’s unmaking as nist. Like all tyrants, he persecuted the wealthy and
a country began in 1947 when she challenged British all those who could oppose his rule. To give just one
power by opposing the creation of the state of Isra- example, the famous teacher and school owner whose
el. During discussions at the United Nations, Britain, books are still used in the good schools of Latin
which had been allied to Venezuela during World War America, Aurelio Baldor, was scheduled for arrest but
II, made it clear that she wanted to use her protec- Camilo Cienfuegos, one of the commanders of Cas-
torate over Palestine in order to create a Jewish state. tro’s party warned him and saved him.4 By doing this,
Colombia opposed this idea. Its Ambassador, ex-Pres- Cienfuegos himself ended up getting killed in an acci-
ident from the Liberal Party, Alfonso López Pumarejo dent. After they refused to back the Cuban dissidents
held that Great Britain should retain sovereignty over in April 1961 during the invasion of Bahia de Cochi-
Palestine, dividing it into two zones, one Palestinian nos, John F. Kennedy and his administration betrayed
and one Jewish. On April 2, 1947, a few months after the Catholic Cuban people and virtually handed Cuba
Colombia had the temerity to offend Great Britain, into the hands of the Communist bloc. (This betrayal
Fidel Castro, a 22 years old student, entered Colom- repeated the American and British betrayal of Poland
bia to meet with Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, former Labor and the countries of eastern Europe after World War
Minister of López Pumarejo and Presidential Can- II when they were handed over to the Soviets, as a re-
didate for the Liberal Party. Castro may or may not ward for their heroic resistance against the combined
have been a CIA operative at the time, but, on April assault of the then allies Hitler and Stalin.) After April
9 Gaitán was assassinated, and his death initiated a 1961 Castro was able to act more openly as a Marxist
civil war in Colombia which has lasted to this day.3 totalitarian. Since Marxism is an ecumenic and mes-
One is reminded here of an interesting fact: in 1948 sianic pseudo-religion, he began to export his revolu-
George Orwell wrote 1984, his famous novel exposing tion throughout Latin America. He thought that the
the dangers of totalitarianism. The agent which in that Caribbean would be called the Mare nostrum of the
novel would impose this satanic State was precisely communists controlled by him in a few years. But he
English socialism. soon met a rock on which his hopes foundered.
By the 1960s, Venezuela had became very bother- The rock was Venezuela. Our president, Rómulo
some for both British and American oil companies Betancourt, a social democrat, was wrongly held by
and also for Israel, because she was instrumental in the the Castros to be a potential ally. In the 1950s, howev-
creationof OPEC, the or-
ganization that allowed oil
producing countries to ex- By the 1960s, Venezuela had
ercise real sovereignty over
their own oil reserves. I become very bothersome for both
am persuaded that this
is an important factor in
British and American oil companies
the current destruction of and also for Israel.
Venezuela. During sub-
sequent years, Venezue-
la continued to act in ways that the oligarchs of the er, during his exile in Chile, Mariano Picón Salas had
West found offensive and led to the current situation. persuaded him that Marxism is madness. So, when
In 1959 Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba. Contrary Betancourt became President of Venezuela he opposed
to popular opinion, Castro did not make the Cuban both the militarist and the communist parties, forging
revolution, which had been the work of the unions, instead an alliance with the URD party (Unión Re-
the colegios professionales, the universities, and so publicana Democrática) and with the Christian Dem-
forth. Castro just descended from the mountains and ocrats of Rafael Caldera, the party known as COPEI.
seized the reins of power. In order to do this, he had Now allied with the Christian Democrats, Betancourt
to deceive the population by presenting himself and waged war against the Communists, defeating both

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 insurgency, President Caldera threatened to confiscate
the lands which the Dutch had long ago confiscat-
ed from Spanish settlers, prompting Great Britain to
warn him that stunning military reprisals would fol-
low if he carried through on his threat.
The final provocation, the one which proved to be
the straw that broke the camel’s back, took place in
1994 when Venezuela led, in the words of Madrid’s
ABC newspaper “Hispanoamérica planta cara al plan
mundial de población” or in English, “Spanish Amer-
ica Challenges the World Plan for Population. The
showdown took place in Cairo during a meeting of
the United Nations, carefully prepared by the Clinton
administration, which intended 1) to establish rates
of population growth for the entire world, and 2) to
force countries into using birth control, sterilization,
and abortion to achieve those goals. The Clinton Ad-
the indigenous communist guerrillas and the Cuban ministration failed to achieve their goals at the Cai-
invaders. He then went on to orchestrate the war ef- ro conference because of the opposition of the Holy
fort in Central America, first cornering the Commu- See, which found support first of all in Latin Ameri-
nists in Nicaragua and then expelling them from the ca, then in the Islamic world, and finally in Helmut
country. In this war the group of countries known as Kohl, the German Christian Democrat. The efforts of
Contadora played an important role. We had import- Central America and Argentina proved to be pivotal in
ant losses. For example, one of the organizers of this defeating the oligarchs. Venezuela was forced to send
resistance against the Communists and a saintly man, a representative who was, according to all appearanc-
Arístides Calvani was killed in a helicopter accident. es, actually a mason and in favor of the agenda, Mer-
COPEI lost one of its main leaders. cedes Pulido de Briceño, but the country had a second
By the 1970s, it was clear that the Communist on- representative, Christine Vollmer, the wife of the Am-
slaught had been stopped. Castro then held a secret bassador at the Vatican, Alberto Vollmer, who strong-
meeting with Venezuelan guerrillas like Teodoro Pet- ly supported John Paul II. Shortly after this meeting,
koff Malek5 and representatives of all the Communist Kohl was driven from office, the Marxist invasion
forces in the world, including the Khmer Rouge, the of Spanish America re-started, the child abuse cam-
Viet Cong, and the Chinese Communists to establish paign was unleashed, and the Arabic “spring” was put
a common strategy regarding Venezuela. They decided in place. Not a single opponent to the global agenda
to infiltrate the Armed Forces with Communist youth survived. Chávez came to power during Bill Clinton’s
and to keep the pressure from Colombia, mainly with Presidency, and his mission was to destroy any rem-
the FARC. At the time when Hugo Chávez, who lat- nant of Catholic order in Latin-America.
er became president of Venezuela, was in the armed
services, there were at least three Masonic lodges con-
spiring against the Republic, one of them directed by 2. THE LONG-TERM SUBVERSION OF
Chávez himself and another by Francisco Arias Cárde- VENEZUELA
nas.
The subversion of our country started long ago.
In addition to opposing the creation of the state of
Great Britain was always involved in it. Francisco de
Israel, Venezuela further offended Great Britain and
Miranda was the first great British agent in Venezuela,
the United States by not only supporting Argentina
as far as I know, although there was clear Masonic ac-
during the Malvinas War but by backing that support
tivity before him. (Besides the open and overwhelming
by sending military equipment and personnel, includ-
activity in the Peninsula, which achieved the expul-
ing effective airplanes armed with missiles. As if that
sion and the suppression of the Jesuits in the 1760s. A
weren’t bad enough, once he defeated the Communist
Minister of Charles III, whose name was first Moñinos

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and later Floridablanca, was the person who forced study with scholarships provided by the Methodists of
Clement XIV to suppress the Order by threatening an California. The USA elite wanted to follow the poli-
invasion from Naples, as Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo cies of Great Britain by taking them to another level.
has shown in his Historia de los heterodoxos españoles). This kind of subversion spread quickly.
It took 18 years (from 1830 to 1848) for Venezue- At the beginning of the 1940s they had already es-
la to recover from its disastrous war of independence. tablished two parties in Venezuela, the Communist
During that period nefarious British influence, espe- Party (PCV) and the Social Democratic Party (Acción
cially regarding the allowance of usury and the orga- Democrática), both of which were entirely different
nization of the banking system, never ceased.7 But from our 19th century political parties. From the mo-
things went relatively well. After 1848, the liberal ment of their inception, these two forces tried to sub-
subversion with British influence grew and provoked vert the entire country. The PCV operated with the
great instability. Finally, in the 1860s and '70s, a lib- long view in mind. In 1941, they founded a newspa-
eral-positivist seized power and tried to abolish our per, Últimas Noticias, which started corrupting the
Catholic, theological, and philosophical traditions. mores of the lower classes of Venezuela. In 1948 Mi-
Antonio Guzmán Blanco ruled until the early 1890s guel Ángel Capriles bought the newspaper and later
and in that time he confiscated the rental properties established the Cadena Capriles, an editorial venture
of the universities (Central de Venezuela and of Méri- which constituted a powerful corrupting machine
da), removed the Rector of the Central University and which worked along with the Bloque Dearmas.
tried to do the same with the Rector in Mérida, ap- The other socialist party, the AD, operated with
pointed a new Rector at the UCV, which he brought more immediate goals in mind and took power in
from Germany (a radical positivist, Adolf Ernst), 1945 through Rómulo Betancourt, who orchestrated
suppressed the schools of Theology and Philosophy, a coup d’etat against Isaías Medina Angarita. In 1948
suppressed the seminaries, suppressed the religious or- the AD organized and won the elections with Rómulo
ders, expelled the foreign members of religious orders, Gallegos as its candidate. During these three years, the
forbade their Venezuelan members to use their hab- offensive against the Church and against Catholic ed-
its even at home (and to enforce that he established a ucation was so violent that a political party arose to
system of spies). Despite all this, and thanks to those counter it: the Christian Democratic Party (COPEI)
bishops who were not expelled, the Catholic tradition under the leadership of Rafael Caldera. In 1948, how-
survived: they founded a “School” in Valencia which ever, the military toppled Gallegos and a decade of
was a crypto seminary. But our philosophical and military rule began.
theological skills were greatly impaired for a long time. In 1958 the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was
Recovery began only in the 1930s when two young ousted, and soon the AD came back to power under
Catholic thinkers, Caracciolo Parra León and Mario Rómulo Betancourt. But, as I have already explained,
Briceño Iragorry, succeeded in restarting the School of Betancourt had suffered a profund change of ideas
Philosophy at the UCV. For decades, positivism domi- during his exile. That is how Venezuela became a lib-
nated the minds to many Venezuelans, even those who eral democratic republic with a Constitution which
were not materialists. was approved by popular consent in 1961 and was ob-
served and respected until 1999, when Hugo Chávez
SPREAD OF SUBVERSION insulted it and, despite all that, was given the power
of the Presidency of Venezuela out of respect to the
In the 1920s Venezuela began to grow culturally elections he had won.
once again. After the death of the long term semi-be- But already in the 1960s a new force began to func-
nevolent, semi-barbaric tyrant, Juan Vicente Gómez, tion as an agent for the deep corruption of the coun-
his military ministers and successors proved to be try: the Rockefeller family, who operated through the
patriotic and good hearted. Eleazar López Contreras Cisneros family. Diego Cisneros was a Cuban emigré
and Isaías Medina Angarita did a lot for the country, who organized an important economic holding. His
but, even so, they had to face growing socialist unrest. son, Gustavo, took control of the holding in 1968 and
As soon as the Bolshevik revolution occurred in Rus- became John D. Rockefeller’s face for Venezuela. Cis-
sia, the first Latin Americans were sent to Moscow to neros is a prominent mason, and in 2010 he attended

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that year’s meeting of the Bilderberg Group. Besides was not a Mason himself, he allowed the Masons to do
controlling the local Coca Cola franchise and many a lot of harm to the country when he was in power. He
beer companies, Cisneros controls many other indus- also dealt a severe blow to the guerrilla forces which
tries, including the most important television station, were reorganizing in the plains of Venezuela. Under
Venevisión, a network of radio stations, a recording Campins, Mercedes Pulido de Briceño was able to re-
industry (Sonorodven), and the beauty contest Miss form the Civil Code, which relaxed the discipline of
Venezuela. Cisneros’s TV station is the only private marriage by making it much easier to get a divorce by
network which has not been harassed by the govern- mutual consent or through fraud: de facto separations
ment. Beyond Venezuela, he controls Direct TV. He could be transformed into divorce if they lasted for
also saved Playboy TV from bankruptcy and expanded five years (art. 185A). Also, the Minister of Education
its business in the Spanish speaking world. Cisneros, (1979-1982), Rafael Fernández Heres, introduced a
more than anyone else, is responsible for the corrup- disastrous reform in education. Up to that time, any
tion of our mores. competent person of good will could teach as his way
of helping to form new generations, even though sal-
MUSICAL TRADITIONS aries were very low to nonexistent. Thus, engineers
taught mathematics, medical doctors or chemists of
Venezuela has always had very powerful musical tra- physicists taught science, lawyers taught history, etc.
ditions. Its folk music is one of the most interesting in But Fernández Heres, in order to transfer the whole
the world. It was Gustavo Cisneros work to try to cor- control power over education to the Ministry of Edu-
rupt that tradition. To accomplish that he promoted cation, established that only teachers who had gradu-
sensual songs, debased the traditional sense of rhythm ated from the Schools of Education or Pedagogy could
and harmony, and ruined any singer who did not sub- teach in basic, middle, or high schools. This was a
mit to his will. Some had to leave the country in order blow from which our educational system never recov-
to retain the quality of their music. When John Paul ered. All the public schools immediately lowered the
II visited Venezuela for the first time in 1985, a young level of the education they could offer, and the pri-
child, Adrián Guacarán, sang to him “El Peregrino” vate schools also felt the harshness of the blow. Some
to him in Guayana, one of our ethnic languages, with of my Venezuelan acquaintances remember how some
an angelic voice. The Vatican was so impressed that it of their professors had to leave their schools and how
offered to take the child to Rome and enroll him in others were subjected to a humiliating process of get-
the Vatican schola cantorum, but Cisneros had to ruin ting a pedagogical degree. Pedagogy can be well un-
that. He offered the family immediate cash instead. derstood, but it is often a highway for ideology and
The boy followed the easy path, and his voice was ru- a bar for normal knowledgeable people to teach the
ined. young.
But Gustavo Cisneros did even more than that. Af- The next two Presidential terms, which lasted from
ter the defeat of the Communist guerrilla and the Cu- 1984 to 1994, were very harmful. During the first
ban invasion, the AD proposed Carlos Andrés Pérez as one, Jaime Lusinchi signed a “refinancing” of the ex-
its candidate for the 1973 elections. This man became ternal debt, which was actually what in Roman Law
closely associated with Gustavo Cisneros. During his is known as a novatio. That is to say, Lusinchi and the
presidency the traditional discipline of our administra- international bank, under the pretext of lowering the
tion and of our armed forces was very much relaxed. interests, succeeded in transforming the illegal debt
He nationalized some of the basic industries (oil, iron, into a legal debt approved by the Congress. Of course,
aluminum). But he then got those state firms and the illegality of the original debt was never mentioned
many other state organs to acquire an illegal debt with to the public, and the media were very much manipu-
the International Monetary Fund. That is how our ex- lated to control public opinion on this issue.
ternal debt started, and that is how we lost our polit- Carlos Andrés Pérez came back to power because he
ical independence after the IMF began to interfere in was a charismatic leader, because there was a strong
our affairs. media campaign, and because people had a vague
In 1978 Copei won the elections in 1978, bringing memory of having more prosperity during his first
Luis Herrera Campins to power. Although Campins term. He assumed the Presidency in February 2, 1990

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Hugo Chavez on TV during 1992 coup
(but not the super-rich, for course).13 This was the vis-
ible part of the root of the uprising of February 27 and
the following days. The unseen root was a carefully
prepared plan laid by Fidel Castro and the Commu-
nists of Venezuela, including his Jesuit buddies. Arturo
Sosa, the current General of the Jesuits, for example,
and the Jesuit controlled network of radio stations, Fe
y Alegría, did a lot to promote and keep the looting
and the uprising alive. The result of this uprising was
the death of around 2,000 people. Prominent among
them was Commander Felipe Acosta Carlés, who was
a very influential leader in the army and whose leader-
ship was assumed by commander Hugo Chávez Frías.
After these events, Carlos Andrés Pérez’s second
Presidency was considerably weakened. In 1992 he
suffered two coup d’etat attempts, orchestrated by the
young Communist officers who had infiltrated the
army in the 70s as part of Fidel Castro’s initiative. I
with more than 80 percent of the vote. But within
am persuaded that the then Minister of Defence, Fer-
a few weeks of his election, on February 27, he suf-
nando Ochoa Antich, was in on the conspiracy to
fered a very grave popular uprising in Caracas and, to
overthrow the republic. His brother, Enrique, was a
a lesser degree, in the rest of the country. What hap-
prominent member of the party “Movimiento al So-
pened?
cialismo.”14
Pérez wanted to amend what he had done in his first
The greatest mistake committed by the republic oc-
period. He surrounded himself with what he thought
curred in February 4th 1992, the fateful day of Chávez’s
was good advice. But, at this moment in time, “good
failed coup d’etat when the government allowed the
adviser” meant economist in general and Harvard
media to show Chávez on TV with his uniform and
economist in particular. So, Carlos Andrés Pérez ap-
with his presence, calling his comrades in arms to sur-
pointed as his de facto Prime Minister an economist
render for the moment. Ochoa Antich has tried to
with a Ph.D. from Harvard by the name of Miguel
explain away this “mistake” by saying that Chávez’s
Rodríguez Fandeo. He then appointed Pedro Tinoco
appearance on TV was necessary to avoid bloodshed.
Jiménez as President of the Central Bank and Moisés
Even if this were true, Chavez should only have been
Naím as Minister of Trade and Industry. With this
allowed to appear on TV looking defeated, disheveled,
“brilliant” team, he implemented the shock doctrine
humiliated, not wholesome, brave, and threatening.
to correct Venezuela’s balance of payments problem.
After the attempt to overthrow the republic in Feb-
By now it should be obvious that the real goal was dif-
ruary, a second attempt took place on November 27.
ferent, something that became apparent when he abol-
Even though every high-ranking politician and mem-
ished government control of food prices, immediately
ber of the secret services knew about the infiltration of
affecting the poor. He then lifted restrictions on the
the army, they did not take the appropriate measures.
amount of interest banks could charge. When inter-
During the 1860s, when Julián Castro rose up against
est rates skyrocketed, the middle class was hit hard.
the republic, Juan Vicente González had said that the
He then abolished the differential system of exchange
lack of just punishment against the revolutionaries was
which had been successful in promoting manufactur-
one of the worst maladies of a commonwealth. He was
ing. But then the same brilliant ministers, using the
right. But how is it that the same persons who defeat-
excuse that it had been used incorrectly by Lusinchi
ed the Communists in the 1960s were now so lenient
and his entourage (although it had), decided not to
with the traitors who had infiltrated our armed forces?
respect the government commitments to give the dol-
This is a point which is difficult to understand, but
lars at the differential rate, and many industries went
I think that I can explain several factors. First of all,
bankrupt when their payments terms expired. They
the fall of the Soviet Union had lowered the country’s
managed in this way to upset the well-to-do as well
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defense against Communism. The world was absolute- Communists. The Cold War made our elite think that
ly fooled, because in 1992 at least a fifth of humani- the USA were innate enemies of Marxism. This was a
ty was still under the Communist yoke, in places like big mistake. Before the Cold War, the USA promoted
China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Korea, Cuba, etc. Marxism in Ibero- America, as I have already point-
Secondly, there was an intense ideological campaign to ed out. Not surprisingly then, the USA went back to
lower these defenses. Francis Fukuyama played a key their former policies regarding Ibero-America after the
role in this campaign when he wrote his book The End Cold War ended. Even worse, the new ruling elite of
of History. Remember that he claimed that ideologies the USA was anti-Christian (not just anti-Catholic)
were dead. Remember as well that he was a member of and even anti-Western: we remember how they called
the Straussian school which has been unmasked in the a titan like Solzhenitsyn “a fascist” just because he was
last decades as a sort of secret society which promotes Christian; we remember how they destroyed the cit-
ideology.15 Thirdly, the intense infiltration of the Jesuit ies of the East Coast and Midwest just because they
Order led to a kind of paralysis in the immune system were Catholic;16 we remember how they removed the
of the Christian democrats, who had fought as stu- industry from the USA and brought it to China: if
dents with weapons on their belts against the threat of China today is a global threat to any republican rem-
Communism. The Catholic University Andrés Bello nant and to all Christians, it is so thanks to the new
was, and still is, a focus of Marxist propaganda. When elite of the USA (and Great Britain); we see how they
the Social Democrats converted to the neo-liberal doc- promote Marxism, Socialism and neo-Marxism (gen-
trine they provided the right soil for that propaganda der theory) in their colleges and universities around
to yield its fruits. Many reacted against Neo-liberal- the world. Normal people were unable to imagine the
ism by becoming lenient to the Marxists. The work of depths of evil which were going to seize power in Ven-
Luis Ugalde Olalde and other Jesuits (like Arturo Sosa ezuela: authentic demons obsessed with murder and
Abascal) was of paramount importance. The highest ready to launch a system of lies, nor were they able to
leader of the Christian Democrats, Rafael Caldera Ro- see that their lies were thousands of miles away from
dríguez, was very attached to the Jesuits, for example. the truth. When somebody spoke the truth they ac-
In spite of being a great fox, he was easily outwitted cused him of being a “radical.”
by the Marxists. Fourthly, when neo-Liberalism began On May 21, 1993 Carlos Andrés Pérez was oust-
to dominate the two main parties, they lost the sup- ed by the Supreme Court of Venezuela. Ramón J.
Velásquez was elected provisional President by the
Congress, until the end of the Constitutional period.
Chavez should only have In December 1993, Rafael Caldera won the elections
for the second time, this time without the support
been allowed to appear of Copei but rather with the support of many leftist
parties, and almost tied with a unionist leader, Andrés
on TV looking defeated, Velásquez. His second Presidency was a very complex
disheveled, humiliated, phenomenon. He had to navigate between many rocks
and shallows. I will focus on a few aspects.
not wholesome, brave Velazquez began his administration with a reaction
against the neo-Liberalism promoted by Carlos Andrés
and threatening. Pérez. But after a huge bank crisis and a ruthless attack
by the media, both national and international, and by
the IMF, he was forced to yield. I remember a week in
port of their constituents. It is not a coincidence that which the press and the media, instigated by the IMF,
many of the supporters of Neo-Liberalism, like Manu- insulted the country as a hopeless underdeveloped and
el Caballero or Teodoro Petkoff, were “former” Marx- corrupted enterprise, and then, after Caldera finally
ists. I think they knew that the way to the Revolution signed a commitment with the Monetary Fund, two
went through the promotion of economical liberalism. days later, the press and the Fund had headlines say-
Fifth, there was confusion about the role the USA ing: The Giant has Awakened. It was grotesque and
would play in a conflict between the republic and the disgusting.

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 At that moment, Teodoro Petkoff became the star from good sources (unlike the rest of the country)
minister, applying neo-liberal policies. Oil prices at Chavez’s connections and intentions. He asked Cal-
that time were very low (under $8 per barrel).17 De- dera to seize power and save the country. But Calde-
spite all this, Caldera was able to stabilize the economy ra thought that would lead to a blood bath and that
and to solidify the industrial and agricultural struc- the people were so used to living in a republic, that
tures, which were shaken by Pérez’s shock policies. Chávez would fail in his totalitarian project and would
Venezuela reduced its external debt from 30 billion be ousted. Caldera could not imagine the internation-
dollars to 27. Our oil industry had the leading tech- al support that Chávez would receive. He forgot how
nology in this area (for example, with the technology thorough the defamation of Augusto Pinochet had
to extract oil from the sands of the Orinoco, technolo- been performed by the global media (massively in fa-
gy which was stolen afterward by US companies), our vor of revolution today), the clever policies designed
industry was omnipresent in several islands of the Ca- by Fidel Castro or the thorough confusion sowed by
ribbean and in Central America. We had an intense the Jesuits and others concerning the legitimate use of
international commerce with Colombia; we supplied force. Thus, in February 1999, Hugo Chávez swore
electricity to Brazil and Colombia; we produced a sig- an oath of allegiance to the constitution and became
nificant percentage of our agricultural consumption. president of Venezuela. Chavez may have become
But then Caldera made a decision which would have president, but he swore no real oath, saying instead:
fateful consequences. “I swear by the dying Constitution." In hind sight,
which makes everything look clearer, I think that this
3. A SHORT HISTORY OF CHÁVEZ’S REGIME act and its immediate precedent should have led Cal-
dera and the armed forces to deny the transfer of pow-
During the 1990s, President Caldera followed the er. But sadly that did not happen.
model of his policies in the 1970s and, in order to pac- The immediate result was a ruinous decision by the
ify the country and also to deflate the “heroic” figure Supreme Court in January 19th 1999 which claimed
of Hugo Chávez after the attempted coup t’etat, he in- that the Constitution could be reformed following a
dicted him and his comrades. He even took Francisco procedure not established in it. How? The “Original
Arias Cárdenas as a collaborator and had him elected constitutional power” of the people had to be regarded
as governor of the state where the city of Maracaibo is as standing over and above the “constituted constitu-
located. I suspect that in these policies there was Jesuit tional power.” The people stood over and above the
influence. Right after the measure was taken, Chávez Law and the Ius. This decision, very cleverly criticized
indeed lost popularity, and everybody was calm and by Eduardo Piacenza, signified the beginning of the
glad. But when the next elections approached, since end of the republic, as any classical thinkers would
Chávez had not been condemned for the crimes he have known immediately. If there is no Law (or Ius)
had committed, including homicide, he was able to that limits the will of the people, if there is no Law (or
run as a presidential candidate. (Had he been convict- Ius) non-disposable by any part of the community (not
ed, he would have been unable to run.) AD and Copei even the majority), if there is no Divine Measure, then
grew nervous and chose bad candidates. Copei, espe- the leader of the people will have tyrannical power.
cially, guided by the mirage of media popularity, chose What was the cause of this decision? Some paramili-
Irene Sáez, a former Miss Universe, who had been tary groups had already been created and openly de-
competent as a major in Chacao. As the elections ap- clared their existence in the newspapers. They were
proached, Chávez’s standing rose in the polls, the par- trying to intimidate the country, but very especially
ties became very weary, and in a desperate movement, the Supreme Court. But I think that the main cause
they removed their candidates a few days before the was an anti-national and anti-political campaign that
elections and gave support to an independent candi- the liberal media had launched years before: every
date, Enrique Salas Roemer, allowing Hugo Chávez to institution was supposedly corrupted; there was sup-
win the elections with 56 percent of the vote. posed to be lots of poverty due to a bad distribution of
Caldera’s Chief Commander of the Army was his wealth and a radical change was viewed as necessary:
Son in Law, General Rubén Rojas Pérez. He did not these were some of the clichés that lead to the suicidal
want to transfer the power to Chávez because he knew craziness unleashed by the Supreme Court.

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 From this moment on, the revolution advanced with and leaders. The Jesuits joined in this anti-crusade.
accelerating speed. I will not go into all the details of Some NGOs were founded to this end, and several
this development, but rather explain the main land- promoters of these NGOs20 became important perma-
marks on the road to self-destruction. Within weeks of nent leaders of the opposition movement, the “Coor-
being elected, Chávez created a Constituent Assembly dinadora Democrática,” established in the beginning
whose election was designed by a Communist mathe- of 2001.
matician which was so crooked that it allowed Chavez
to claim 95 percent of the assembly after getting 66 NUMBER OF VICTIMS
percent of the vote. The assembly then dissolved the
Supreme Court and other authentically republican in- It is hard to calculate the number of victims who
stitutions and proposed instead the text of a new Pseu- died at the hands of the Communist revolution in
do-Constitution which was submitted for referendum Venezuela, but one can gain some idea of the actual
on December 15th 1999, the same day as the mudslide figure by indirect means. Before Chávez, there was
of Vargas, one of the greatest natural disasters in Ven- already a high number of homicides in Venezuela
ezuelan history. That disaster, which killed at least ten (4,500 per year). Some of those were the result of sub-
thousand people (and probably thirty thousand)19 was versive activities of the Colombian guerrillas (especial-
a bad omen for the country. At the same time that ly, FARC). A very good report by Francisco Olivares
the country was morning this tragedy, Chávez flew to establishes well this fact and some of its causes.21 But
Havana to celebrate with Castro. It is said that during during the first year of Chávez’s rule that figure went
the rescue operation many children were kidnapped up to more than 9,000. Why? Because the Commu-
by the government itself and brought to Cuba, but we nist regarded the common criminals as “low intensi-
will never know the truth of this matter. I think, how- ty revolutionaries.” So, they trained, armed and gave
ever, that it is true and that Castro made janissaries of ideological motives to the operating gangs. They also
those children. created paramilitary groups (known in the beginning
This Constitution gave Chávez much more pow- as círculos bolivarianos and now as the colectivos)
er, extended the Presidential term to six years with with diverse levels of discipline. Each year the num-
the possibility of reelection, and allowed him to run ber of murders grew. The government did not give any
again as presidential candidate in the next elections, official statistics. Universities, newspapers, and NGOs
arranged according to the new text in July 2000. It had to go to the different morgues every day and check
also contained a bitter trick. Castro knew that Salva- the numbers. In 2006 up to September, the number
dor Allende was ousted three years after his election. of murders reached 11,000. By 2007, the number had
So, the new Constitution established the theoretical climbed to 14,000. Today that number hovers around
possibility of ousting Chávez after three years of his 25,000. These figures do not include persons execut-
2000 election. In this way the people and the military ed by the police or killed in combat with the various
were deceived to wait for the fifth year of Chávez’s rule colectivos; it does not include either all those who are
to use peaceful means in order to save the country buried without going through the morgue or those
from tyranny. From another perspective, Chavez won who die in fake accidents, sicknesses, suicides, etc. For
four and a half years to arm his militias and destroy example, between August and September 2004 three
the regular armed forces. Militias were armed indeed, military airplanes crashed “by accident.” One of them
and trained, both in Cuba and in Venezuela. Political was loaded with generals and their wives. It is safe to
assassinations became more common (but barely visi- say, then, that the number of persons directly killed by
ble to the public). The first victims were opponents in the Communist tyranny in Venezuela is no less than
the army, the air force and the police. Controlling this 400,000 people. To this we must add the people who
police was necessary to secure power: murders could have died of hunger and lack of medicine. For lack of
be classified by the agents of tyranny (acting like po- very cheap medicines (aldactone) Adrián Guacarán,
licemen) as accidents, suicides,common crimes, etc. the same one who as a child had sang to John Paul
At the same time, Chávez launched a strong campaign II in 1985, died in 2017.22 There are probably many
in order to promote the doctrines of Gandhi and the more. If we now think that the tyranny has sterilized
most radical pacifism among the opposition crowds many women and that 5 million people have fled from

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the country, you can have an idea of the magnitude the Communists at critical times by causing confusion
of Venezuela’s sufferings. It is a miracle that the coun- in the opposition and using at times a very aggressive
try still resists the tyranny and that many institutions language. And then the government faked anger, and
still survive. The courage of the Venezuelan people is they closed the newspaper. But then Teodoro heroical-
admirable, but they are right now like lambs being ly restarted it. Both sides in this charade are masters of
led to the slaughter, as we shall see. When Chávez deception. In addition, leaders who rise to positions
was in prison during the 1990s, he said to a couple of power within authentic opposition movements of-
of chavólogos (Alberto Garrido and Agustín Blanco ten turn out to be agents of the tyranny. Some of the
Muñoz) that his aim was to exterminate the middle most prominent leaders of this kind are those who
class.23 We learned this much later. Well, he and his Luis Ugalde, S.J., has promoted, people like Julio
heir Maduro, are succeeding at this. Borges. And there has been a third kind of faux op-
It is important to know that, besides de militias, position leader, those who are threatened or actually
Chávez has systematically introduced Cuban agents. imprisoned and tortured and as a consequence begin
Many years ago he declared publicly that there were to work for the government. Henrique Capriles Ra-
30,000 members of the Committees for the Defence donski might be one of this latter kind, since he was
of the Revolution.24 Also the Cuban Secret Service, imprisoned during four months in the dark prisons of
G-2, controls the military. Any man or woman who the DISIP in 2002.27 Luis Castro Leiva pointed this
does something disturbing to the Communist forces of out already in December 1998, quoting one of the
occupation would be mercilessly killed. A famous case worst scoundrels among the Venezuelan Communists
is that of the privates who were burnt alive in 2004.25 and the real architect of the Chavista tyranny, José Vi-
Besides this, there are clear connections with Russian cente Rangel as proof that the tyranny will destroy the
and Chinese security forces.26 The traitor elites of the real opposition and then will create its own opposi-
USA know this. Why are they allowing the influence tion.28 Another important trace of the foundational
of the USA to dwindle? I would guess that because, years of Chavism was the destruction of all economic
as I have pointed out, they hate Christianity and the structures that the government did not control. Vene-
West. zuela had had agrarian reform and, for this and other
reasons, the State was the main owner of land. If one
NEW PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN 2002 wanted to give land to the peasants, there was no need
to expropriate (and much less to confiscate) the pri-
There were new Presidential elections in 2000, and vate property of others. But Chávez could not tolerate
Chávez won them. In those elections, already the most the existence of independent people, so he decided to
disturbing trace of the communist tyrannies was un- send informal crowds to invade the productive land.
folded before the eyes of those who were able to break In a few years he had virtually destroyed the entire ag-
through the mist of Communist propaganda and ma- ricultural production of the nation. He then did the
nipulation. The opposition candidate was no other same with industry and commerce. In this area, he did
than Francisco Arias Cárdenas, Hugo Chávez’s com- not use the legal tool of eminent domain (expropri-
rade in arms during the 1992 coup. These elections ación), but he just took over any desirable properties
were a joke. Very probably there was fraud, but Arias and then had his comrades buy them with the fruits of
Cárdenas immediately acknowledged his defeat. Some the country’s plundering. At this time the naïve who
years later, he was “reconciled” with Chávez, was ap- thought that Chávez wanted the good of the poor,
pointed Chávez’s ambassador at the UN, and has be- of the peasants, and of the workers tried to persuade
come one of the bloodiest revolutionary leaders. The him that in the long run he will bring their ruin. But
Communist strategy in Venezuela included similar Chávez just laughed at that. The atheist and the Marx-
infiltration of fake converts. Another instance of this ist do not want the good of the poor, they just want
strategy was given by Teodoro Petkoff. He founded to gain control over the bodies of people so that they
an opposition newspaper called Tal Cual. Its mission can control their souls.29 Also, as Hannah Arendt wit-
was to impregnate the opposition imperceptively with nessed, all totalitarians behave like foreign conquerors,
anthropocentric, immanentist, and ultimately Marxist and in Venezuela’s case, as we shall see, they were actu-
categories. He was also willing to intervene in favor of ally foreign conquerors.30

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 This destruction of Venezuela’s economic infra- THE DESIRE OF THE PEOPLE
structure reached its climax in 2003 when, in order to
crush a general strike, Chávez fired in one day more With this landscape as background one can under-
than 20,000 technical workers of the official and very stand the desire of the people to rise up against the
efficient oil company, PDVSA. Since the government tyranny. In April 2002, there were huge demonstra-
was unable to control this crowd, Chávez decided to tions, followed by an attempted coup d’etat organized
just kick them out at the cost of the slow decay of the by some Navy officers. Chávez foresaw the military
whole industrial structure: research centers collapsed conspiracy and prepared to crush it. But when the
immediately; the refineries lost slowly their ability to demonstrations, which had gathered in hundreds of
work, fires and malfunctions put them out of service. thousands in April 11 2002 marched disarmed to-
Venezuela was unable to keep its standards of produc- wards the palace of government to ask for his resig-
tion and eventually ended up unable to produce its nation, he panicked and gave the fatal order to apply
own gasoline. Once more, as in the colonial era, Ven- the military machinery against the civilians marching.
ezuela was forced to export raw material and import The private media were silenced by the government
finished products. at 3:45 pm, and a few minutes later the shooting of
An analogous strategy was followed with labor unarmed civilians began. Snipers killed anybody who
unions, universities, and other institutions. Univer- had a camera with a shot in the head. Chávez gave the
sities, however, proved to be the toughest nut to crack. order to the tanks to crush the march but the officers
Chávez and Maduro have been unable up to now to in charge, with the exception of Jorge García Carnei-
control them. They have resorted, therefore, to just ro, refused to obey. A power vacuum was created and
suffocating them by lack of resources and to founding Chávez was ousted for 48 hours. There was much con-
other institutions of teaching or rather of ideological fusion and in that confusion the Navy took the power.
indoctrination. The media have fallen gradually under But the Navy was not powerful enough to keep con-
government control by several ways: suffocating the trol. There were meetings in Fuerte Tiuna and the mil-
independent media, directly closing them, and by hav- itary attaché of the US Embassy was there on April
ing the tyranny buy them through third parties, etc. A 13th, when Chávez’s return to power was decided. 33
few electronic newspapers survive, but the people have Once and again, even during George W. Bush’s ad-
less and less access to the internet. ministration, the USA saved and supported Chávez’s
One episode shows the depths of depravity of the rule, despite the façade of opposition. In August 2004
current strong man in Venezuela. Among the officers there was finally a recall referendum. It is very clear
who followed Chávez in February 1992 was Diosdado that Chávez lost it badly and that there was huge
Cabello. In 2004 he was elected Governor of the state fraud. No matter. Jimmy Carter was there to support
of Miranda. As Governor, Cabello destroyed all the the fraud, and George W. Bush to acknowledge the
books in the public libraries which could be classified results in exchange for some oil concession to Texa-
as classics, of universal interest, or written by Venezu- co-Chevron. Carter’s intervention was particularly
elans. He also destroyed any books which contained shameful (or shameless) because his work was to make
“Capitalist ideology”. As a result, more than one mil- an audit of the election. The counting of the votes was
lion books disappeared. In a deeply symbolic gesture electronic (with the famous Smartmatic machines,
62,000 of them got recycled and made into toilet pa- used also in Florida, if I recall correctly) but had to be
per.31 subject to an aleatory audit, by comparing the physical
Chávez tried to attract to himself some bishops and, votes with the electronic results of a number of voting
when he failed, he tried to create the Reformed Cath- points. But Carter did nothing to ensure the validity
olic Church of Venezuela, by getting three secularized of the election. Instead, he proclaimed Chávez’s victo-
priests consecrated as bishops by an Anglican bishop ry before the polls had closed. All the legal rules were
from Los Angeles, California, who certainly achieved violated: for example, there was bidirectional infor-
much glory by engaging in this beautifully ecumenical mation from the voting points to the counting center
action.32 Right now, however, thanks to the subversion and vice-versa (there should have been only from the
coming from the Vatican itself, a few bishops are wa- voting points to the center), there was no audit and
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of days later in order to prevent a recount. An opposi- sor, Polar Foods, in December 2005. In January, Julio
tion leader, María Corina Machado, took exit polls in Borges promised that the “opposition” would never
which the anonymity was guaranteed and determined again engage in abstentionism and then threw his hat
that the official results were radically at odds with the into the ring for the presidential campaign of Decem-
real vote. In some places the mathematical results were ber 2006. The Supreme Court immediately declared
shown to be impossible. Carter really covered himself the confiscation of Polar Foods illegal, but the main
in glory with his endorsement of the tyranny, and I result was that Leopoldo López founded a different
hope that he will repent or pay dearly for this act in political party, Voluntad Popular, in 2009.
the afterlife. In 2007 new student leaders proved to be real oppo-
sition leaders as well, and the government proceeded
MEDIA ENTREPRENEUR to kill several of them. The one thing these leaders
had in common was their openly professed Catholi-
Marcel Granier, a media entrepreneur who was be- cism. The youth realized that under John Paul II and
hind Radio Caracas TV (a broadcast company closed Benedict XVI the only international force which was
twice by Chávez), was very much disturbed by the reliable in the fight against tyranny was the Catholic
support that the international Banking system gave to Church. But some of the leaders were close to Luis
Chávez. After he asked them why they supported such Ugalde, S. J., and because of this were unable to use
a tyranny, he was told that they supported Chavez for any other discourse against the tyranny except that of
economic reasons leading me to conclude that the oli- the Enlightenment. Even so, they were effective in re-
garchs are in reality revolutionaries who want to create jecting the fraud in the December 2007 referendum
a world in which big capital is in league with the worst to approve a constitutional reform which would allow
tyrannies, as in China. Granier claims: “they laugh Chávez to run again for the Presidential elections in
and say that the interest rates paid by Venezuela are 2012. This referendum was immaterial concerning the
five times higher than those paid by any other coun- distribution of power. One would have thought that
try in Latin America.”34 Venezuela is being plundered the government would allow a bit of the truth to come
by the new international order. After Caldera had put to the surface (by declaring its defeat by a supposedly
Venezuela on the road to getting rid of her external narrow margin) in order to give the impression of real
debt, Chávez, in spite of extremely high oil prices, in- democracy. But there was more to it than that. Raúl
creased the debt by a factor of five or six, with higher Isaías Baduel, a prominent mason who in 2002 was
interest rates. decisive in bringing Chávez back to power, disagreed
All elections since 2,000 were entirely fraudulent. As with the extent of the illegality and, being in charge
the same María Corina Machado has shown, even the of a considerable military force, imposed on Chávez
voter registration was entirely manipulated.35 It is hard the recognition of his electoral defeat. In the following
to know Chávez’s real popularity, but in 2005 there years Chávez and Maduro would strive to annul the
was a good indicator. Right before the congressional influence of Baduel, and Maduro succeeded two years
elections for the Congress, members of the real oppo- ago.
sition like Leopoldo López, decided to withdraw from In direct violation of the letter of the pseudo-Con-
the elections because there was no guarantee of trans- stitution of 1999, Chávez reintroduced the project of
parency. According to the initial official figures, only Constitutional change, so that he could be reelected
12 percent of the electorate went to the polls to vote indefinitely. In Venezuela, as in all totalitarian coun-
and of those who did vote 30 were declared invalid tries (Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Communist
despite threats to fire any public servant who did not China), there is no Law. The Law is the changing will
go to the polls and support the regime and despite the of the tyrant. Of course, the project was approved and
fact that people had good reason to think that their accepted by the Supreme Court.36
votes were not secret.
The government saw in this new strategy of the real ONE ATTACK
opposition leaders a real threat and immediately pun-
ished Leopoldo López and his party (Primero de Jus- In 2004 there was one attack against the whole Jew-
ticia) by confiscating the property of their main spon- ish community: the police searched the premises of

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the School Moral y luces and of the Hebraic Club, sup- ered a mysterious swelling in his knee. That swelling
posedly looking for weapons or explosives connected would be the first symptom of the supposed sickness
to the death of the public prosecutor Danilo Anderson which brought him to his grave. According to official
(who was killed actually by José Vicente Rangel Vale, sources, it was Fidel Castro himself who told Chávez
Chávez’s vice-president). Something similar happened that he had a cancer in June 18th 2011. Venezuelans
at the Club in 2007. Later, in 2009, an attack targeted have many doubts concerning these matters.39 It is
the Sephardic community and consisted in violating very strange that Chávez was treated in Cuba. Fidel
their Synagogue, Tiféret Israel, in Maripérez, Cara- always went to Venezuela for his surgeries and treat-
cas. Damage was caused to the areas of prayer and the ments because Cuban medicine was in ruins and very
administrative offices. That same year Chávez broke backward. Many think that Raúl Castro was responsi-
diplomatic relations with Israel. In June 2010 Chávez ble for Chavez’s death. It is safe to say, in any case, that
cursed Israel with these words: “I condemned from the he did not die on March 5, 2013, the 60th anniversary
bottom of my soul and of my entrails the State of Isra- of Stalin’s death (but much earlier), any more than Fi-
el: cursed be you, State of Israel!” This public attitude del Castro died on November 25, 2016, the 60th an-
was probably the origin of attacks against the mem- niversary of the departure of the revolutionary boat
bers of the Sephardic community by lesser Chavistas. Granma towards Cuba.40
I have not heard of any other attack against the Ash- When the elections approached in 2012, Chávez
kenazi community. The attitude of the Jewish commu- looked very sick. He announced his triumph over
nity in Venezuela towards de tyranny is very diverse. Henrique Capriles Radonski who, by this time, had
There are rabbis like Cohen who seem to think that become another tame figure of the pseudo-opposition.
one can be a good citizen of a Communist tyranny. Capriles immediately accepted his defeat. Chávez then
There are others who seem to be proud that Maduro appointed Maduro as his successor, and shortly after
is of Jewish descent.37 Some seem to think that Vene- that he disappeared in Cuba. The Communists did
zuelans must be anti-Semitic since now some Jewish everything within their power to ensure that Chavez’s
people have suffered verbal attacks from officials of the political power was securely in Maduro’s hands. When
government or from lesser Chavistas. Others suggest everything was ready, they announced that Chávez
with satisfaction that the Jews can now leave and go to had died in Caracas. It is said by Pablo Medina that
their ancestral fatherland, Israel. But I think that the at this time the Venezuelan gold reserves were brought
great majority love Venezuela and lament what is go- to Cuba.41
ing on and see their fate tied to that of the rest: Mari- On April 14th there were new elections and once
anne Kohn, for example, laments the fate not only of more Henrique Capriles acknowledged his “defeat”
the Jews, but of all the human beings who have to suf- by the tyranny, this time under the “leadership” of
fer the tyranny and have to leave their country.38 Nicolás Maduro. But the economic crisis was grow-
Chavez’s relations with the Catholic Church were ing, and some real opposition leaders were not ready
much worse. Many priests have been killed in false to just let the chance of freeing Venezuela pass. This
robberies and in fake sicknesses. But the worst case to is how Leopoldo López, who had broken with Julio
date of a cleric killed is that of Father Jorge Piñango, Borges and Henrique Capriles, joined forces with
Sub-Secretary of the Conference of Bishops, who in Antonio Ledezma and María Corina Machado. The
2006 was kidnapped, tortured, killed, and then slan- three of them began their attempt to bring about real
dered in horrible fashion. Catholic churches have suf- political reform. They had already had dealings with
fered all sorts of sacrilege. The Blessed Sacrament has officers who had worked with Chávez from the be-
been thrown to the ground, for example. Fernando Al- ginning, the most prominent of whom was Eliécer
bán, a saintly lay Catholic and politician, was tortured Otaiza. They also contacted many other officers who
and killed last year because of his faith. Moreover, as were in disagreement with the tyranny and a group of
I have showed already, Chávez promoted the founda- youth later well known as La Resistencia. The Confer-
tion of a national Church, following in the footsteps ence of Bishops helped them get started, because they
of the Chinese Communists. declared that Maduro had totalitarian intentions. The
In December 2010 the Commander’s health be- entire resistance movement was suffused with Cath-
gan to deteriorate. In May 2011 Chávez discov- olic language and symbology. In 2014 they started a

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huge rebellion known as La Salida (The Exit), which with two pots, one for water and one which serves as
almost toppled Maduro, but two factors intervened a toilet. According to one of the victims, these meth-
to save the regime: the false opposition leaders who ods make you feel the weight of the totalitarian state,
formed a front to “dialogue” with the Communists. which instills the idea that the individual is worth
(The Communists only engage in dialogue when they nothing. This state will not kill you, but it will crush
feel weak, and in order to crush their opponents. As you until you desire to die. It will annul your senses
soon as they feel strong again, the dialogue ends.) At one by one, until you desire to feel pain. Your only
this point, Pope Francis demanded a “peaceful” solu- escape is contemplation.45 This is going on in Venezu-
tion and forced the “dialogue” on Venezuelans. In re- ela, and Catholics, like Lorent Saleh, are broken and
ality, the pope’s call for dialogue openly undermined perhaps apostatize.
the authority of the Venezuelan bishops42 by declaring In the years following Chavez’s death, the econom-
through his Nuncio in Venezuela that with Maduro ic structure the country was deliberately degraded
the opposition could achieve the common good.43 He because Communists have always used hunger as an
also stated that the Communists in Venezuela and the instrument of domination. Like the potato famine
opposition “have a common faith in God and the will in Ireland, like the Holodomor in Ukraine, like the
to defend the dignity of the human person.”44 The massive hunger caused by Mao during The Great Leap
slavish attitude of the nuncio was met with stunned Forward, or the hunger in North Korea during the
incredulity. Pope Francis, the new pope from South 1990s, the communists use starvation to break the
America, had brought about the defeat of the leaders will of the people. In his article “Juegos del hambre,”46
of the authentic opposition. Leopoldo López and An- Boris Spiwak asked “what is causing Venezuela’s hun-
tonio Ledezma were thrown into prison, Otaiza was ger? Not a ‘neo-imperialist economic war’ […] as the
killed with a shot on his face by Diosdado Cabello, government states. Not the catastrophic managing of
and hundreds of students were sent to the totalitarian the State oil company and the resulting lack of dollars,
prisons and to work camps, all with the blessings of which has no effect over agriculture. Definitely not a
the new “messenger of [pseudo-]peace.” ‘failed State’ or public policies full of good intentions
but wrong, as many analysts out of Venezuela claim.
THE PRISONS The answer is that the main goal of the Chavista food
policies—since the regime came to power in 1999—
Two words about the prisons. We now have Gulag- has been to give the government the tools in order to
style work camps in Venezuela full of young people, as transform hunger into a political weapon. The enor-
well the prisons like the Sebin run by the equivalent of mous popular demonstrations of 2017 [and we could
our CIA, where people get tortured in the traditional add of 2014] made the government tremble and led
way: beatings, electricity to their genitals, burnings, Maduro to declare war against his own people by us-
suffocation, etc. But we have a new kind of prison, ing a weapon of social control which had been pre-
apparently imported from China or Russia which is pared during almost two decades. […] From the view-
called The Tomb. It is underground. Its inmates never point of the regime, these policies have been highly
see the light of day. Everything is white: the walls, the coherent and successful.” This is the truth. This is why
floors, the clothes, everything except the mirrors and the regime cannot allow any massive humanitarian
cameras. The inmates are awakened suddenly; their aid to come to Venezuela, and least of all aid that they
meals are served at random times rendering them com- cannot control or that can lead the people to desire a
pletely disoriented. Some claim that they know when change in regime.
it is day time because of the faint rumble of the sub- After some years of fake dialogue promoted by
way, which does not run in the early morning hours the Vatican, the real opposition was ready to rise up
or late at night. They get their blood extracted before again, despite the opposition of Julio Borges, the fake
being interrogated and are forced to sit in an uncom- opposition leader. The people poured into the streets
fortable position for days on end, with a strong white to demonstrate their oppression. The youth of La Re-
light shining in their face. They are subjected to jets sistencia had been preparing to shake the regime by
of water in addition to beatings which leave no marks taking to the streets with their homemade shields
and then returned to small, solitary, refrigerated cells to confront the guards and the tanks. They were all

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Catholic, brave and full of love for their fatherland. foreign embassies or did not leave the country imme-
Inspired by their courage, some real opposition leaders diately were arrested and tortured.
followed their example. María Corina Machado. Leo- The vote against the Constituent Assembly was
poldo López, and Antonio Ledezma, who had been unofficial but massive. The figures, however, were
under relatively lenient house arrest, were incarcerated distorted, diminished, by Borges himself and by the
again.47 Inspired by the massive demonstrations which international press. This referendum created the mi-
were sweeping the whole country, a group of guards rage that the will of the people and the papal peace
led by Captain Caguaripano who had been hiding plan had resolved things, but this was not the case be-
since 2014, courageously attacked military forts seiz- cause Communists only understand force. Moreover,
ing weapons. An agent of the judicial police who had although they were short on weapons and out of cash
been a Mason abandoned that craziness and returned both problems were solved by Michelle Bachelet, who
to the Catholic Faith. He took a helicopter and fired sent weapons to put down the uprising, and Gold-
some symbolic shots at the Supreme Court building man-Sachs, who bought $2.8 billion in oil bonds with
and then fled to the forest. With the weapons he had a discount of 70 percent,49 so that the Capitalists and
seized, Caguaripano started military training for La the Communist tyranny could join hands to oppress
Resistencia, but once again the fake opposition and the people, as George Orwell had predicted in Animal
the Vatican intervened to save the Communists. Farm.50
In the middle of the uprising, in January 2017, the
Vatican once again insisted on a policy based on dia- ANOTHER GHOST ELECTION
logue.48 On May 5, Pope Francis sent a letter to the
bishops of Venezuela, insisting on the need to avoid So, the government organized another ghost elec-
any form of violence and to solve Venezuela’s problems tion and declared that the outpouring of voter support
through dialogue. What is it that we are witnessing had been greater than the demonstrations of the op-
here? Just the inability of man to learn from past ex- position. In this way the Constitutional Assembly was
perience (one cannot negotiate with totalitarians) or installed in 2017, and Diosdado Cabello was elected
is it perhaps something more sinister? Could it be that its President in June 2018. At this point, the repres-
some of Francis’ advisers sympathize with the world sion became much worse. Hundreds of young people
revolution and desire the extermination of Christians were killed. Many others were sent to different kinds
or of Christianity from Venezuela? Is that possible? of prisons. The group which got hit the hardest was
From his position in the National Assembly, which precisely La Resistencia. Perhaps the only good result
is the name of the Venezuelan Congress, which is con- of this uprising was that Borges had to leave the coun-
trolled for cosmetic reasons by the opposition, Julio try, maybe because he was afraid of being killed by the
Borges promoted two things: the appointment of real opposition.
new Justices to the Supreme Court according to the By a stroke of luck, the regime arrested Captain Ca-
1999 text, and a referendum to reject a new Constit- guaripano, who was riding in a car within the city with
uent Assembly (not to be confused with the National six or seven comrades in arms. They saw a mobile po-
Assembly or Congress) which Maduro and Diosdado lice post and decided to disperse. Since the police was a
wanted to impose on the country, as in 1999. The town police whose boss was an opposition Mayor, and
first proposal was idiotic and the second harmful. The since Caguaripano was an acquaintance of the police
Congress should have removed the members of the chief, he decided not to shoot but just pass through.
National Council for Elections and appointed trust- When they stopped him he asked to talk to the chief.
worthy people. But Borges could not do that because But the chief betrayed him, probably following orders
he is a fake opposition leader and because that would from the opposition Mayor. After his capture in Au-
have struck at the heart of the democratic appearance gust 2017, Caguaripano has been tortured brutally
of the tyranny. If Borges had done any of these things, and ceaselessly.51 Later on, Óscar Pérez, the agent of
the regime would have killed him. Moreover, when the judiciary police who joined the movement against
the new Justices were elected, the Congress was unable the tyranny, gave an interview to CNN. This was a big
to grant them any protection, and they became easy mistake. After locating his hideout by a combination
targets. Those who did not take immediate refuge in of treachery and technology, the regime attacked with

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a missile which destroyed the house where he was lo- demanded his protection. In response, Maduro or-
cated with all the people in it, including a pregnant dered the expulsion of the US diplomatic personnel.
woman. Apparently the woman was not dead when Guaidó responded that US diplomats can remain in
the government forces entered the debris and finished the country since Maduro is not the constitutional
her off with a shot to her pregnant belly. This hap- President. The opposition has publicized the human-
pened in January 2018. itarian crisis and the famine which threatens to kill
thousands of Venezuelans. They ask for humanitarian
aid. Marco Rubio has supported the demands of the
HUNGER
opposition with several tweets and videos. On Jan-
Afterward, hunger has grown. Many people are dy- uary 19, US Vice-President Mike Pence demanded
ing for lack of medicines and of food. Discontent, the immediate liberation of Venezuela. The CNN
even within the armed forces is growing. The tyran- video can be seen here.52 Since Venezuelans under-
ny constantly needs to create new forces with deeper stand that the Communists will not abandon pow-
ideological indoctrination, so that they can be shield- er without greater power being used to oust them,
ed more effectively from reality and so continue to they interpret Pence’s statement as a serious military
impose the murderous will of the regime on the Ven- intervention. USAID sends humanitarian aid to the
ezuelan people. The former “Bolivarian Circles” have border between Colombia and Venezuela. The Com-
become the “Colectivos.” Slowly these take more munists do not allow the aid to enter the country.
and more direct and armed control of everything: Everything seems to indicate that there will be a mil-
the hospitals, the State markets. This is not enough, itary intervention, and the West seems to approve
however. The FAES (Fuerzas de Acción Especial) of this, while China and Russia seem to oppose it.
who dress like military personnel but are in reality But, after several weeks, nothing has happened. Well,
a criminal gang, have started to fulfill their bloody something has happened, but not the promised liber-
mission of killing and terrorizing the people of Vene- ation of Venezuela.
zuela. The situation was so bad that the main parties First of all, Goldman Sachs, which never loses, has
of the opposition refused to run any candidates in seen the value of its oil bonds go up.53 Second, many
the fake elections in 2018. They denounced the lack military and policemen and civilians, who are po-
of legitimacy of the process and declared Maduro a tentially dangerous for the regime, have manifested
usurper, which he certainly is. Previously, the Con- their discontent and so have been purged mercilessly.
stituent Assembly declared the Congress dissolved, News of the killings abound in the electronic media
but the Congress refused to be disbanded. The situa- of Venezuela.54 Third, the USA announced sanctions
tion is therefore explosive. against government officials, but that is precisely
At this precise moment, Luis Ugalde, S.J. proposed what a totalitarian tyranny needs in order to consol-
an alumnus of the Catholic University, Juan Guaidó, idate itself. Are these sanctions the result of a simple
who seems to be a good man, as the alternative to mistake of the US officials, due to their ignorance of
Maduro. However, following the advice of his Jesuit political history? Obviously not. It seems, then, up to
mentor, Guaidó claims to a socialist, not a Catho- this moment, that we are witnessing a treason simi-
lic. Unlike the uprisings of 2014 and 2017, the new lar to that of Bahia de Cochinos. The facts that Luis
uprising has suppressed all Catholic symbols. Per- Ugalde moved Juan Guaidó to step to the front and
haps this is one of the fruits of the Vatican diplo- succeeded in having Julio Borges as Guaido’s repre-
macy. Guaidó succeeded in getting elected President sentative in the USA, make me suspect that this is
of the Congress and then declared himself temporary the sought result, not by Guaidó, but by the secret
President of Venezuela, until transparent elections powers who are using him.
can be held. On January 23 the Congress declared In the meantime, Pope Francis, who is worried be-
him officially President, and the USA, Israel and the cause there could be spilling of blood in Venezuela
West with the exception of Mexico and Uruguay, (as if this hasn’t happened already), refuses to con-
followed suit. Maduro, of course, rejected Guaidó’s demn the tyranny and hopes for a peaceful solution
claims, but the self-proclaimed President seems to to the conflict,55 which indicates his boundless faith
be protected by international powers. The USA has in fallen human nature and his lack of understand-

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ing of the actual situation. If we ask the question cui
bono? we find this question difficult to answer. Ven- QUIET MAN, CONT'D FROM P. 13
ezuela appears to be a party at which all the powers
of the New World Order are feasting. They are tak- children; victims of the most exquisite form of terror-
ing our gold, our uranium, our iron, our diamonds, ism the world has ever seen) the “crappy little” soldiers
our water supplies, our oil, our coltan. The big of the United States and the “crappy little” peoples of
Capitalists and the big Communists both favor the Iraq, Libya, and Syria (and hopefully the “crappy lit-
new “Corporative Socialism.” Ask yourselves: why tle” peoples of Venezuela and Iran) against the wall.
is Trump’s administration really building the wall at This Jewish raging has left the world radioactive,
the Mexican border, right at the time when Mexico is culturally and even literally. It is threatening to leave
being handed in to López Obrador, that is to say, to the Church, the Bride of Christ, radioactive as well.
a Communist tyrant similar to Chávez? Why? And The world today will remain unstable so long as the
when Communism grows in Latin America, when Jews remain unstable. And the Jews will remain un-
China stretches its tentacles everywhere, in all re- stable so long as the Catholic hierarchy entertains
gions which are Western and saw the USA as a model the loveless thought of accepting the insane demand,
of republic, the USA hands them over to the enemies made in the Jews’ name and the name of “dialogue” to
of the West, pretending to turn a blind eye. Woe to just accept the attempted Satanic splitting of the Jews
the USA and woe to of the whole Western world! away from Christ; to accept, as Amoris Laetitia wishes
Venezuela is just a test-tube in which the new glob- to accept, Christ-forbidden divorces of married peo-
al slavery is being incubated. The masses are walking ple and Christ-forbidden irregular unions, like sterile
like lambs to the slaughterhouse, just as Dostoievsky sodomitic ones. Christ will not have it for the Church
predicted in his inspired novel Demons. Let’s hope to agree that it is best for Him to go His Way and the
that at least men will wake up and convert before this Jews to go their way. And the Word that goes forth
happens. succeeds in what it was sent to do. That word is Fe-
cundity itself and in Him there is no sterile relating.
As for dialogue, there is only one worthy of the name.
POST SCRIPT St. Thomas More captured its nature with the words:
“Dialogue exists when two friends of Eternal Truth
If there were to be a US military intervention in
swear to each other they will yield only to the Light.”
Venezuela, we would have to wait for the outcome of
So, the Church must bell that cat; the shrew will
such an intervention, in order to revise our theses and
have to be tamed. We know that God will not be
conclusions. Juan Guaidó´s real quality as a statesman
mocked: mocked in the implicit spectacle of a Vicar
remains unknown. As the Greeks used to say, power
of Christ on earth who plays wife beater to his Spouse,
is what shows the quality of a man. Moreover, up to
the Church. If the Church exposes the Jews as the
now, he has said that he is a socialist and that he comes
man behind the curtain in laying waste Christian cul-
to claim Chávez’s legacy against Maduro. This would
ture and replacing it with the Culture of Death, it will
be disastrous. But it could be that he has said that in
have the salutary effect of inspiring the Jews to give the
order to obtain the support of the military. Another
Devil (behind the curtain of their misdeeds) the boot.
possibility is that China and Russia, in spite of their
Satan especially despises the Jews and makes them his
public support, want a different kind of regime man-
revolutionaries of choice in perverse imitation of God
aging of the country, so that the debt they claim Ven-
who loved the people he prepared to receive His Son,
ezuela has with them can be paid off. Greed has no
and whose Son took to Himself flesh of their flesh.
limits: all the powers of this world are extracting Ven-
So, the good of the Jews and the good of the Church
ezuela’s mineral wealth shamelessly, but perhaps they
are inextricably linked and the Gospel will have to be
want cash on top of that.
preached to them anew. That’s good news and there is
no Good News quite like it and none, as witness the
world today, without it.
ENDNOTES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
DANA PAVLICK

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Reviews when the Studebaker plant shut
down and the “slow decline that
followed” soon spread to other
Home Alone industrial cities in the Midwest.
Since the 1960s, South Bend has
lost 30,000 people and per capita
income sank to $18,805 or half the
national average by 2010.3 The les-
PETE BUTTIGIEG, THE SHORTEST WAY HOME: ONE
son Buttigieg drew from the bare,
MAYOR’S CHALLENGE AND A MODEL FOR AMERICA’S ruined factories that haunted his
FUTURE. LIVERIGHT, 2019. KINDLE FILE. youth is that South Bend failed
to innovate. Like the South Bend
watch company which kept on
producing pocket watches when
the world had switched to wear-
“What would my next-door Ford Motor Company, one of ing time pieces on the wrist, South
neighbors think of all this?”1 the last bastions of the Midwest Bend’s failure to get with the times
industrial powerhouse that had was “fatal.”4 Always the educator,
Reading The Shortest Way Home, been destroyed by the time May- Mayor Pete explains what hap-
I found myself searching for lit- or Pete came into this world. Both pened in terms that even Hoosiers
erary models that might have in- Adam and Mayor Pete grew up in can understand: “The easy lesson
fluenced the author, who is also a city where the hulks of the for- to draw from this is that you must
mayor of South Bend, Indiana, mer Studebaker plant loomed innovate to survive.”5 If Studebaker
where I happen to live. The con- large, both physically and sym- had only managed to do this,” the
nections between me and the may- bolically. Anyone who travelled mayor opines, “I might have grown
or of South Bend are actually closer south through town saw them as up in a different South Bend.”6
than just living in the same city at a reminder of what was and what As with virtually every other
the same time. The author grew might have been. Adam drew one claim in this book, the facts stub-
up three houses down from where lesson from the abandoned fac- bornly resist the paradigm May-
I have lived for the past 40 years
and spent his entire life up to his
18th year in close proximity to me
and, more importantly, to my five
“Practical leadership guided by
children. He is ten years younger progressive values could deliver
than my oldest child, with whom
he shares a remarkably similar ed- results in a part of the country that
ucational trajectory. Both he and
my son attended St. Joseph’s High
had simply been written off."
School, roughly half a mile north
of where we live. Both trod the
same path to high school every day. tories, choosing a job in manu- or Pete brings to bear to interpret
Both ended up first in their respec- facturing and not in finance, hav- them. Studebaker did innovate.
tive classes, becoming valedictori- ing learned his lesson by working The Avanti came out just one
ans, which entitled them to speak on Wall Street immediately after year before “that pivotal Decem-
at their respective graduations. graduation from Harvard. Mayor ber day”7 and two years before
And both then went on to attend Pete drew another. In his politi- the Mustang, and it could have
Harvard University. cal autobiography, Mayor Pete is been even more popular because
At that point their paths di- quick to draw lessons from “that it was a better car. It looked bet-
verged, Adam ended up at the pivotal December day”2 in 1963 ter, and it didn’t explode when it

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Mayor Pete Celebrates Dyngus Day
tells a story whose meaning has
already been established a priori
from the categories which get im-
posed upon it.
Mayor Pete attended South
Bend’s elite private grade school,
which he does not mention. He
does mention attending St. Joseph
High School, which is Catholic and
has a more proletarian reputation,
but only to let us know that he was
a victim of discrimination because
he lived “in the city,” a claim which
is calculated to endear him to the
maligned and disaffected ethnics
who were too stupid or too poor to
leave for the suburbs:
Later we moved to a brick house on
got rear-ended. Studebakers look the distribution of wealth, and Marquette Avenue, down the hill
oddly extravagant today, but that’s the consequences of technology.”8 from St. Joseph High and therefore
because styles in automotive de- Pete believes in the laws of physics, a convenient place for me to have
sign have changed, not because which is one of the main pillars of friends over after school. It came
they weren’t innovative. In fact, the Whig history which gets taught back to me later that some parents
during its day, the Studebaker was at Harvard and Oxford, where he hesitated to let their children come
the most innovative and distinctive was a Rhodes scholar: “Like laws to our house, because it was “in
looking car on the market. Both of physics,” he tells us, “these forc- the city.” (If there was a racial layer
to that phrase, I was too young to
the Avanti and the Studebaker es were animating our affairs all
catch it.) In fact it was a perfectly
Champion were designed by Ray- along—which should have been no
safe neighborhood, full of kids and
mond Loewy, who was the greatest surprise to people from a place like
dogs, with families who went back
modernist in industrial design in South Bend, a city wrestling such for decades keeping an eye out for
America. Just one look at the steam forces long before economists and each other.10
locomotive he designed for the newspapers gave us terms like ‘glo-
Pennsylvania railroad or their icon- balization’ and ‘Rust Belt.’”9 So the mayor makes it clear that
ic GG1 electric locomotive and Whatever. One thing is certain: he was a victim of racial discrimi-
you know that Studebaker occu- there was no lack of innovation nation, perhaps as a way of divert-
pied the cutting edge of modernist at Studebaker. Something else de- ing our attention from the fact that
automotive design. Why Stude- stroyed it. The same German who the grade school he attended is the
baker went belly up has remained a bought up factory equipment for local bastion of white privilege.
mystery to this day. While rowing Mercedes during the liquidation I forgot to mention that the ca-
down the Danube in 2001, I met sale at Studebaker in 1963 claimed reer trajectories of my son and the
a retired Mercedes executive who Studebaker lacked economies of mayor overlapped in a dramatic
told me after I told him I lived scale. Locals claim that collusion way even after Pete’s arrival at Har-
in South Bend, that he had been among America’s big three auto- vard. Buttigieg’s dorm made a big
there in 1963 to buy up Studebak- makers led to Studebaker’s demise. impression on the man who would
er’s factory machinery. Would Mer- As some indication this might be later become mayor of South
cedes buy up obsolete factory ma- true, the head Studebaker ended Bend. The “big green door of our
chinery? Probably not. Why then up working for the Ford Founda- Holworthy Hall entryway,”11 he
did Studebaker fail? Well, maybe it tion. But none of this is considered wrote, was like a portal opening
was “the dynamics of globalization, relevant to Buttigieg’s book, which on to American history, allowing
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Raymond Loewy (l) posing with the Avanti
Like Henry Adams, whose Ed-
ucation could have served as a
model for The Shortest Way Home.
Buttigieg claims that “if Harvard
College gave nothing else, it gave
calm.”12 Henry Adams was the sci-
on of John Adams, one of Amer-
ica’s founding fathers, but by the
time he came of age the grammar
of the American Republic had been
replaced by two irreconcilable sym-
bols: the dynamo and the virgin.
As an aspiring politician, Buttigieg
was confronted with a dilemma of
his own, one with roots that go all
the way back to the founding of
the Republic. America has always
claimed to be a democracy, but
him to “look into the faint fog of In what must have been one of
from the country’s inception, the
history that blankets Harvard Yard, his years at Harvard, Adam and I
will of the people has been viewed
knowing which dorms had housed were walking down North Shore,
with suspicion by the oligarchs,
which U.S. presidents, from Adams past the house where Mayor Pete
then known as Federalists, who
(Massachusetts Hall) to Kennedy now lives, when I recognized a col-
ruled the country through the ma-
(Weld). Subtle cues everywhere lege classmate approaching from
nipulation of finance. The people
linked history with expectation.” the opposite direction. Paul Bove
wanted paper money; the creditors
Mayor Pete was surprised to learn had gone on to succeed as a pro-
wanted to be made whole in gold.
that Ulysses S. Grant lived not just fessor of the English literature we
John Marshall, America’s first Su-
in Holworthy Hall but in his very had both studied as undergradu-
preme Court justice, understood
room. What he failed to mention ates at St. Joseph’s College in Phil-
the conflict, and in his writings
was that Adam Jones, who grew adelphia. I had taken a different
used terms like “the American peo-
up three houses down from him in path, but the short conversation
ple” every time he referred to oli-
South Bend also lived in Holwor- which ensued our chance meeting
garchic interests.
thy Hall. The fact that Mayor Pete motivated both of us to catch up
Ever since that day, success in
fails to mention this strikes me as on old times. Paul then told me
politics has meant that people who
odd because the whole point of that he was staying with Joe Butt-
aspired to public office had to give
his book is an attempt to bring the igieg, an English professor at Notre
the illusion of democracy while
two poles of his life, symbolized Dame and the father of the mayor,
delivering the reality of oligarchic
by South Bend and Harvard, into but would stop down to my house
rule. Since Mayor Pete is clearly
some sort of psychic alignment. in a few minutes. When the min-
the smartest guy in Indiana, it is
Since Adam Jones had done this utes stretched into over an hour, I
equally clear that he figured this
ten years before Mayor Pete, you gave him a call, at which point it
out. His destiny was to square the
would think that the mayor might became apparent that he was not
circle, uniting South Bend and
have been interested in meeting my coming over because—in so many
Harvard, the particular and the
son. But it never happened because words—Joe didn’t want him to. If
universal, in a plan that would pro-
his family simply did not associate this is how Buttigieg pere warned
pel him—no, I am not making this
with mine because the ideology of a colleague away from the ritual
up—directly from middle sized
political correctness had already impurity that comes from associa-
city in the provinces to the White
infected the South Bend neigh- tion with the unclean, we can only
House, without making any stops
borhood Mayor Pete describes as imagine the lessons he taught his
along the way.
quaint. own flesh and blood.
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 The Shortest Way Home becomes pearance on the talk show circuit is least drop in and at least say hello
as a result a farrago of lies, fic- a sign that money is being thrown. to Adam?
tions, and half-truths that tells Pete may or may not be the smart- The short answer to all of the un-
the truth in spite of itself from est guy in every room in Indiana, answered questions in The Short-
a man who wants to hide behind but he was smart enough to pick est Way Home is Pete’s radical
what he makes public. Is it possi- up the oligarchs’ formula for rule ambivalence to his father. Mayor
ble that The Education of Henry at Harvard and Oxford. From its Pete learned the philosophy of
Adams is the model for this book? inception the United States has political scheming at his father’s
In mulling over this question, I been a political entity in which knee. Mayor Pete is also a homo-
was reminded of how Oscar Wil- oligarchic rule had to be disguised sexual. During one of his many
de described Burke’s Peerage as by the democratic process. Any- talk show appearances, Mayor Pete
“the greatest work of fiction in the one who could do this successfully announced to Stephen Colbert
English language.” This is anoth- would be valuable to the oligarchs. that God made him a homosexual.
er way of saying that The Shortest The Rhodes Scholarship was cre- Well, as Sigmund Freud once said,
Way Home is a profoundly men- ated for those who aspired to staff God is an exalted Father. And, as
dacious book. It is full of lies and the empire in places like Africa, Sigmund Freud also knew, the
fictions which are told in the subtle where Rhodes made his fortune ex- cause of homosexuality is father
way that has come to be known as ploiting black labor. deprivation. So the same man that
hiding in plain sight. We get just For a man who seems deter- taught Pete everything he knows
enough information to be able to mined to link Harvard and South about politics is also the man who
say that we know something but Bend, The Shortest Way Home is failed to affirm his masculinity
never enough information under- full of curious lacunae. As I men- leading Pete to seek that affirma-
stand what we know. tioned, both Adam Jones and Pe- tion sexually from other men. This
Pete eventually gets to the heart ter Buttigieg resided at Holwor- fact goes a long way toward ex-
of the matter toward the end of his thy Hall during their respective plaining Mayor Pete’s radically am-
book: “practical leadership guided freshman years at Harvard. Pete bivalent attitude toward the people
by progressive values could deliv- mentioned the fact that some of Indiana, which would become
er results in a part of the country valedictorians at Notre Dame did apparent as soon as he took office.
that had simply been written off.”13 not get into Harvard. Why didn’t Pete refers to him as “a nonre-
Pete’s magic formula is “practical he mention the fact that one vale- ligious Mediterranean intellec-
leadership guided by progressive dictorian who did get into Har- tual.” He was also “a man of the
values.” Give the proles the impres-
sion that you are a man of the peo-
ple, but as soon as they get uppity
and start demanding things the During its day, the Studebaker was
oligarchs don’t like, like banning
abortion or defending themselves
the most innovative and distinctive
against the homosexual agenda, looking car on the market.
crush their initiative by invok-
ing “progressive values,” which is
Pete’s term for the desires of the
oligarchs. Needless to say, this is a vard lived three houses down the left,” which Pete characterizes as
valuable service. Anyone who can street from the house in which “no easy thing on a campus like
deliver the illusion of popular sov- he grew up? It’s hard to imagine Notre Dame’s in the 1980s.”14 He
ereignty along with the reality of that he didn’t know who Adam goes on to say that many of his fa-
oligarchic control will have the oli- was. Adam’s picture was on the St. ther’s “closest friendships among
garchs throwing money at him to Joe High School wall of fame as the faculty were sealed amid the
foster his career. This book and the valedictorian, and Pete must have protests of his early years, such as
mayor’s PR-firm-orchestrated ap- passed it daily. Why didn’t he at the time he spoke out against the

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Reagan administration’s covert world-class academic schemer; his who introduced the thinking of Mi-
support for human rights abusers implementation of Gramsci’s theo- chel Foucault, advocate of political
in Latin America during the pop- ry of cultural subversion at Notre correctness and homosexualism, to
ular president’s visit to campus.”15 Dame won him an endowed chair the University of Notre Dame.
Mayor Pete remembers dinners at in spite of the fact that his only
Because the postmodernist take-
the homes “of my parents’ profes- book in the Notre Dame library
over of academe took place during
sor friends,” where he would hear is a warmed over doctoral disserta-
the same period when the Soviet
“words and names that would tion on James Joyce, which was full
Union collapsed, Richard Rorty,
mean nothing to me then but in of the modernists clichés he would
one of its conservative critics,
retrospect make it very clear what later ridicule after his conversion
blamed the take over on “a new
was on their minds: Reaganite. to post-Modernism, whose main
American cultural Left … made
Intellectual. Iran-Contra. Lynne Apostle was Michel Foucault. In
of deconstructionists, new histor-
Cheney. Half the table talk was just a previous article, I characterized
icists, people in gender studies,
faculty gossip, and that was pretty him as:
ethnic studies, media studies, a few
understandable to me by the age left-over Marxists, and so on.” The
a former Jesuit of Maltese extraction
of ten or so because it wasn’t that local version of that takeover can
who got hired as an English Profes-
different from the talk at school.”16 be found in the book summariz-
sor at the University of Notre Dame
Curiously, Pete does not men- at around the same time that I was ing the symposium Buttigieg edit-
tion Antonio Gramsci or Michel hired at St. Mary’s. Buttigieg pere is ed: Criticism without Boundaries:
Foucault. This is curious because, best known as the editor of Antonio Directions and Crosscurrents in
as I stated in a previous article, Gramsci’s diaries. Gramsci is famous Postmodern Critical Theory, ed.
Buttigieg pere spent his profession- for redirecting Marxist subversion Joseph A. Buttigieg (Notre Dame,
al life editing Gramsci’s journals, away from the economy and focus- IN: University of Notre Dame
Press, 1987), which was based on
the Ward-Phillips Lectures held in
April 1984, which “differed signifi-
Buttigieg pere will now spend cantly from the previous series” at
Notre Dame because:
eternity with those he served in
The majority of the speakers are as-
this life, which is to say, half way sociated with the journal boundary
between Michel Foucault and Father 2 which since its inception under
the leadership of William V. Spanos
Theodore Hesburgh, CSC,. has provided a valuable and influ-
ential forum … analyzing the pos-
sibilities, the implications, and the
significance of postmodernism. The
presence of the boundary 2 “group”
and doing little else. Joe Buttigieg ing it on the culture instead, which helped in no small measure to give
died of lung cancer in February is precisely what Buttigieg pere did the 1984 Ward-Phillips Lectures
2019. Before he died, he confessed at Notre Dame. Buttigieg pere was their distinctive character.17
to one of our neighbors that he part of the recent failed coup d’etat
couldn’t stop smoking. He will which Candida Moss launched with In his introductory remarks,
now spend eternity with those he her martyrs book to wrest control of Buttigieg pere praises the writings
served in this life, which is to say, the University of Notre Dame from of Michel Foucault as containing
half way between Michel Fou- the Holy Cross priests and drive some of the most convincing ex-
cault and Father Theodore Hes- Bishop Daniel Jenky, CSC from the amples of the usefulness of spatial
burgh, CSC, former president of board of overseers by accusing him metaphors to any critical study of
Notre Dame University. Buttigieg of being an anti-Semite. More im- discourses that endeavors to retain
pere was no scholar, but he was a portantly, Buttigieg pere is the man
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Buttigieg, pere
mer of 1967, the hidden grammar
at that institution became political
power, not scholarship. After lis-
tening to “these aging professors
talk” at his father’s dinner table,
Pete became avid “to learn how
to decrypt their sentences, and to
grasp the political backstory of the
grave concerns that commanded
their attention and aroused such
fist-pounding dinner debate.”20
Mayor Pete begins the discussion
of his political career by claiming
that “My family had no Indiana
political connections.”21 In making
that claim he obviously excluded
academic politics, which Henry
Kissinger characterized as especial-
the processes of power. Foucault, and Foucauldian post-modernism ly vicious because the stakes are so
even more than Gramsci, enables of his father and his father’s Leftist low. His description of the Demo-
the professors “to capture the pro- colleagues at Notre Dame: cratic Party in St. Joseph County
cess by which knowledge functions is every bit as mendacious as his
as a form of power and dissemi- I would hear but not understand
arguments over the uselessness of
description of his father’s political
nates the effects of power.”18 Butt- scheming at Notre Dame. The cru-
post-structuralism or the relevance
igieg pere describes “the Foucauld- cial link between the academic pol-
of Hobsbawm’s historiography,
ian project” in a way that fits per- wondering what any of it meant itics which Buttigieg pere mastered
fectly with his position as professor and how anyone could be as pas- at Notre Dame and the corrupt
at Notre Dame because taking over sionate about it as the people seated Democratic machine which runs
an institution like Notre Dame at the dinner table who just a cou- St. Joseph County is the homosex-
from the inside: ple hours earlier were indulgingly ual mafia at Notre Dame and St.
asking me about my loose tooth or Mary’s, whose front is the LGBT
requires long, painstaking, re-
search—especially since the Fou-
my baseball card collection.19 clubs. Between 1980, when Butt-
cauldian project does “not concern igieg pere arrived at Notre Dame,
Mayor Pete may not have un- and 1990, when the Foucaudian
itself with regulated and legitimate derstood the nuances of Foucault’s
forms of power in their central loca- movement took over academe in
critique as a child but he was deter- the United States, the Holy Cross
tions” but rather “with power at its
mined to put the gist of what his seminary had become a hotbed of
extremities, in its ultimate destina-
father knew as an academic schem- homosexual activity. In 1985 one
tions, which those points where it
becomes capillary, that it in its more
er into practice when he became newly arrived faculty member had
regional and local forms and institu- an adult. In this, he was not unlike been warned to keep his children
tions” [i.e., Notre Dame and South Karl Marx, who announced that away from Holy Cross priests be-
Bend]. the philosophy, which had previ- cause of their homosexual proclivi-
ously attempted to understand the ties. Something this flagrant could
Pete gives the impression that he world, was now being called upon not go unnoticed, and it soon
grew up eating pirogies and play- to change it. This expresses perfect- became a crisis which certain am-
ing with kids on the block, but this ly the relationship between Butt- bitious faculty members were de-
is not the case. Pete spent his child- igieg pere and Buttigieg fils. After termined to exploit for their own
hood at the dinner table imbibing Hesburgh stole Notre Dame from benefit. The same faculty member
the Gramscian cultural Marxism the Catholic Church over the sum- remembers the late Father Rich-

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Protester at South Bend Trump rally, May 2016
ocratic machine in St. Joseph
County, Buttigieg tells us with a
straight face that “it was clear as I
left headquarters that we would
have to outmaneuver the party in
order to win.”23 He was referring
here to Butch Morgan, chairman
of the Democratic Party in St. Jo-
seph County, who made it clear
at a face to face meeting “that he
was not going to support me for
mayor.”24 This would prove to be
a fatal mistake for Butch Morgan,
who already had one strike against
him for being a pro-life Democrat.
Buttigieg had already been anoint-
ed by the oligarchs, who took a
ard McBrien, the chairman of the use the university as their hide-
dim view of Hoosiers who got up-
theology department who lived out, from which they could issue
pity by standing up for what they
with a concubine for his entire ten- forth to take over the community
believed in. It was okay to be a
ure at Notre Dame, pounding on at large, which is what happened
pierogi chomping Polack from the
the desk in his office, saying that when Pete got elected mayor.
west side as long as you supported
the Church had to allow priests In keeping with his strategy of
things like abortion and sodomy.
to marry because if she didn’t “the hiding in plain view, Buttigieg fils
Local Democrats who opposed
faggots were going to take over describes Bob Urbanski as a pierogi
the oligarchs’ agenda on these is-
the Church.” McBrien then pro- munching Polack from the west side
sues soon found themselves out
duced a list of Holy Cross priests without divulging the role he plays
of a job, as the late State Senator
who were homosexuals, which he in the Democratic machine in St.
Burnie Bauer did when he opposed
used to blackmail the university. Joseph County. The same goes for
the Indiana version of the femi-
Mark Jordan, the homosexual pro- former mayor of South Bend and
nist Equal Rights Amendment, or
fessor at Notre Dame who outed governor of Indiana Joe Kernan:
in prison, which is where Butch
the late Rev. James T. Burtchaell,
who still lived in town and had Morgan ended up after Joe Kernan
CSC, when that man got uppity
taken a liking to me during my turned on him.
and wrote a book deploring the
doomed run for treasurer, perhaps In South Bend, the general elec-
secularization of Catholic higher
out of affection for me as a fellow tion is a formality which follows
education, used the same tactics
Navy man. If I were a serious con- the Democratic primary, which de-
get an endowed chair. This may tender for a job like mayor, I should termines who is going to get in of-
explain why endowed chairs are lit- be able to look a former mayor in fice. With Morgan out of the way,
tered with so many nonperforming the eye and tell him I was thinking Pete went on to win the Democrat-
professors, but it also shows how about it—and his reaction would ic nomination in a hotly-contested
sexual liberation got used as a form tell me a lot about whether my can- five-way race that divided the vote
of political control and how an in- didacy might be taken seriously. I
up into pluralities so narrow that
quiring young mind like Mayor asked him to lunch, and he agreed
the winner could be determined
Pete could, with his father’s help, to meet me at Joe’s Tavern, a smoky
by the local machine. Even so,
“decrypt” its meaning for attaining neighborhood dive bar on the West
the campus LBGT crowd played
political office, for homosexuali- Side not far from the minor-league
baseball stadium.22 a crucial role when they endorsed
ty was only a liability if you were
Buttigieg’s rival Ryan Dvorak, who
a priest, and, therefore, had to re-
After meeting with two of the came out in favor of the gay rights
main in the closet. Those homo-
kingpins who controlled the Dem- ordinance which had been vot-
sexuals who were not priests could
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ed down by city council six times moral convictions and oppose the rally as a threat to public safety:
before. This effectively disguised things like abortion and homosex- “For the first time in the modern
Buttigieg’s homosexuality and al- uality, South Bend’s ethnics stop life of South Bend, a mayor had
lowed him to run as a squeaky being quaint and become danger- to approach the arrival of a major
clean graduate of the local Catholic ous right wing fanatics and reason presidential campaign in his city
high school. Pete’s political career to call in the police. primarily through a sobering lens:
was the spawn, in other words, of If you think I’m exaggerating, not that of civic pride, or even par-
the two main sources of corruption read Mayor Pete’s account of the tisan politics, but rather the possi-
in St. Joseph County: the Demo- 2016 Presidential campaign as it bility of political violence.”29
cratic Machine and the homosex- impacted South Bend. When Hil- Buttigieg’s claim is more than
ual mafia at Notre Dame and St. ary Clinton’s campaign came to mendacious; it is a preposterous
Mary’s College. As if to show his South Bend, the local UAW work- distortion of what really happened.
belief that the strategy which once ers sat on their hands, forcing May- I was there. I stood in the hall and
got him elected by association with or Peter, who organized the rally, to watched the deplorables as they
Catholicism might work again, acknowledge “her campaign’s fatal waited patiently for an hour. To
Pete tells us that he spent elec- lack of enthusiasm among work- see the pathetic group of left-wing
tion day having breakfast with his ers in the industrial Midwest.”26 protesters standing outside as po-
parents followed by “a visit to the Instead of admitting that Trump tentially violent was equally ludi-
Grotto on [Notre Dame’s] campus, ignited the enthusiasm which Hil- crous. This report was confected to
to light a candle.”25 The image of ary dampened when she referred instill fear in the NPR crowd, lest
Buttigieg pere, Foucault’s apostle to Hoosiers and others in fly-over their plane might crash in darkest
to Notre Dame, lighting a candle country as “a basket of deplor- Indiana on a flight from New York
at the Lourdes grotto with his ho- ables,” Mayor Pete portrayed the to Los Angeles, but there was an el-
mosexual son was sure to give the Trump rally as something sinister, ement of truth in it. I am not deny-
Gender Studies program goose or, as he put it, “one of those edgy ing that Mayor Pete felt threatened
bumps, but it was so preposterous parties where you’re not totally sure by the rally, but the threat emanat-
that it inspired a burst of cynical if a fight will break out.”27 He goes ed not from the crowd that waited
laughter in everyone else. After
telling us that he won the elec-
tion, Pete introduces his “husband”
Chasten. This is a clever rhetorical The threat emanated from
move which disguises the fact that
he deliberately withheld any men-
Pete’s homosexual psyche.
tion of his homosexuality in the
first race for mayor.
The mayor spends a lot of time on to say that he “passed a hud- patiently for two hours for Donald
in his book explaining how he dle of fully-geared-up SWAT offi- Trump to appear; the threat ema-
loves to mix with the people of cers, there just in case.”28 In case of nated from Pete’s homosexual psy-
South Bend, but, as will become what? I was there. There was noth- che. Pete felt threatened because
apparent later, he likes to do it on ing remotely “edgy” about the rally. this was the crowd that supported
his own terms. So Hoosiers are fine It was, however, full of the sort of Governor Mike Pence, who was
people as long as the confine them- people whom Democrats like Butt- now Trump’s running mate, and
selves to eating pirogies and cele- igieg had been taught to hold in his Religious Freedom Restoration
brating Dyngus Day, but as soon contempt. Unlike Hilary Clinton, Act, which pricked (if you’ll par-
as they espouse something that Mayor Pete was smart enough to don the expression) the conscience
violates Hilary Clinton’s rules on refrain from calling them “deplor- of homosexuals nationwide.
how decent, non-deplorable people ables,” even if that was what he felt. Indianapolis was in the grip of a
should behave, in other words, as Instead of being as honest as Hil- “hard right social ideology,” wrote
soon as they start acting on their ary was, he had to mischaracterize Mayor Pete, referring to the Reli-

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gious Freedom Restoration Act. He Perhaps because misery loves Pete’s allegiance to the identity
then goes on to describe “Pence’s company, South Bend’s homosex- politics which boomeranged and
fanaticism,”30 conveniently over- ual mayor was also worried about brought Trump to power evidently
looking the fact that RFRA was a students at the local high school excludes Christians who are willing
defensive action on the part of a being turned away from a life of to act on their beliefs in the public
state trying to defend itself against homosexuality because of RFRA. square, which means he has alien-
the fanaticism of a homosexual Or were there other reasons why ated the majority of voters in the
agenda emanating from Wash- the mayor was interested in pro- state of Indiana in the name of an
ington, which at that moment in moting homosexuality among ideological purity which kicks in in
time was telling Americans which high school students? Mayor Pete an especially virulent way when-
rest rooms they could use. “Pence,” was clearly not interested at all in ever “Christians” criticize homo-
we are told, “was fixated on social the threat which the oligarchs and sexuality. Pete goes on to say that
issues.”31 At this point, it’s worth their anti-RFRA minions posed “business Republicans changed the
asking who is more obsessed with to the exercise of representative course of this [i.e., the RFRA] de-
homosexuality? Pete, who wrote government in Indiana, which is bate.”36 Business Republican is his
that RFRA “had impacted me as an odd position for an elected of- word for oligarchs like Marc Be-
a mayor—and as a person”32 or ficial to take. But then again Pete, nioff, who flew in from San Fran-
Pence, who signed a bill into law as we have come to understand cisco to tell the legislators of Indi-
which had been passed by the by reading his book, was no ordi- ana that they had to change their
elected representatives of the state nary elected official. He had been law because rich people from the
of Indiana to protect the people anointed to make oligarchic rule outside of the state didn’t like it. At
of Indiana from the homosexual seem palatable to the people of In- this point, Pete reveals his political
agenda? Pete went on to compare diana, whose views fill him with philosophy: he supports the velvet
RFRA’s defenders to: contempt. glove of democratic window dress-
ing drawn tightly over the iron fist
demons of our state’s past, hear- of oligarchic rule at the hands of
kening back to the days a century DIVERSITY
CEOs like Benioff and their ho-
earlier when the Indiana branch of
Pete loves diversity, especially mosexual proxy warriors. These
the Ku Klux Klan became the most
when it coincides with the agen- oligarchs have anointed Buttigieg
powerful political force in our state,
with half the members of the In- da of the oligarchs, as formulated to impose Foucault’s pact with the
diana state legislature on its rolls, by the Democratic Party under devil on unsuspecting Hoosiers.
largely based on a message that em- Hilary Clinton. Pete savored the The unarticulated terms of the deal
phasized social issues like gambling, “diversity” of a local group, which are “Give us sexual liberation, and
adultery, and prohibition.33 just happened to be demonstrating we won’t ask for a raise.” Mayor
against RFRA, which Pete did not Pete, who told us that the good
Is this hysterical outburst simply like: paying jobs were never going to
a piece of political pandering or come back to South Bend, is fol-
is it a piece of political pandering The diversity of the group spoke lowing in the footsteps of Berlin’s
based on the mayor’s homosexual for itself; an activist with dyed-or- gay mayor Klaus Wowereit, who
behavior? Either way, Pete seems ange hair, a Navy veteran, the pres- claimed famously, “Wir sind arm
more concerned with the image In- ident of our baseball team, a Jewish
aber sexy.” If you want to take
diana projects to the elites than the grandmother, and the CEO of a
your mind off the fact that you
wishes of the people of Indiana. “If locally based insurance company,
all stood at my side as I sought to
have thousands of dollars of stu-
Memorial Hospital needed to at- dent loan debt but can’t get a job,
reassure members of the LGBT
tract a specialist in pediatric cancer, go to the gay disco! Take a walk
community that they were safe in
or I needed to get a brilliant policy South Bend, and called on the state along the banks of the St. Joseph
specialist to come work for the city, to reverse … prejudice in the name River under the garish but strange-
the state’s reputation would be a of Christianity.35 ly soothing glow of South Bend’s
new hurdle.”34 $700,000 gay disco lights as they

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flash out the rainbow hues that sig- the truest statements in his book. going on. All he could see was vi-
nify that you are now a conquered His association with those brands olence. His image of himself was
nation which is ruled over by gay caused some locals to doubt “my being threatened. Pete described
commissars like Mayor Pete. Lest commitment to local government Trump’s speech as containing:
we think that associating the riv- in South Bend.”40 Some even felt
er lights with the gay disco is my that he was using the city as a all of the greatest hits that he would
repeat throughout the summer and
fantasy and not his, Pete lets the “stepping stone”41 to higher office.
fall. He promised to build a wall,
homosexual cat out of bag when The fact that he is now using the
and that Mexico would pay for
he describes lights along the St. Joe mayor’s office as the platform for it. He took jabs at his rivals, from
river as having “a charismatic qual- his campaign to become president Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz. He
ity that invites people to come up of the United States would seem to attacked free trade and globaliza-
close to it, and to mix with others lend credence to that accusation, tion, and vowed to deliver the most
not like them”37 in a way that ap- but as elsewhere in his book Pete successful presidency ever: “We’re
proximates the mayor’s arrival at a adverts to the truth only to dismiss going to win so much you’re going
gay disco in Chicago. it. to beg me, Mr. President, please,
In a revealing sentence which please, it’s too much winning.”42
gives us some insight into how POLITICAL CAPITAL
Mayor Pete feels about the city By deliberately omitting the issue
where he grew up, he writes that If he had paid more attention which resonated most with Indiana
getting accepted at Harvard made to the meaning of the Trump ral- voters, Mayor Pete may have been
him feel “like [sic] the establish- ly in 2016, Mayor Pete might have dishonest, but it’s more likely that
ment had thrown its doors open been able to make political capital he missed a political opportunity.
and beckoned me inside. All I had out of a genuine local grass roots He likes to characterize people he
to do was leave South Bend.”38 movement. Unfortunately, his ho- doesn’t like as blinded by ideology,
Buttigieg has been trying to leave mosexuality made that impossible. but Pete’s homosexuality blinded
South Bend from the moment he Mistaking his guilty homosexual him to the plight of the people
got elected mayor. Within months conscience for political judgment, who could have been his constitu-
of getting elected, he shipped out Pete completely missed the sig- ents if he were able to see beyond
to Afghanistan for nine months nificance of the Trump rally. The his own sexual compulsions and
to add military service to his re- Trump movement in Indiana was a the way the Democrats had mobi-
sume. After his return, he wasted grass-roots uprising of the sort that lized them politically. The people
eight hectic weeks traversing the Foucault had fantasized. Buttigieg who bellowed their approval when
nation in his failed bid to become pere had passed that fantasy on to Trump attacked Carrier Air Con-
chairman of the Democratic Na- his son, who expected it to come ditioning were all victims of the
tional Committee, and now his from the Left and was unable to de-industrialization of the Mid-
full-time job is running to become perceive it when it came from the west that had been orchestrated by
the first gay president of the Unit- opposite direction. Trump got the Democrats like Bill Clinton, who
ed States. The mayor gives us some biggest reaction of the night when forced NAFTA and GATT on his
indication of the plan he has been he criticized Carrier Air Condi- union supporters, and Republican
following when he writes that “at tioning for moving their Indiana vulture capitalists like Mitt Rom-
virtually every juncture in my life plant to Mexico. This was a pro- ney who used Bain Capital to load
there was a powerful brand name letarian uprising against the iden- viable companies down with debt
associated with whatever I was do- tity politics which Hilary Clinton they could not repay. Pete tried to
ing. Harvard. Rhodes. McKinsey. would go down to defeat defend- portray the conflict at the heart of
United States Navy. When you are ing and the gender ideology of the the 2016 presidential campaign
connected to an institution with sort Pete’s father represented at No- as Democrats vs. Republicans, or
that strong a name, people use it tre Dame, and Pete was too blind- good vs. evil, but the deplorables
as a shortcut for understanding ed by the homosexual dog he had in the audience were cheering for
who you are.”39 This may be one of in that fight to see what was really Trump because they knew they

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Mayor Pete and his “husband.”
placement was another. Buttigieg
describes Teachman as “an outsid-
er from Massachusetts,” when in
fact he was working in Tajikistan
as a mercenary at the time of his
appointment. His job was to mix
“the symbolic and the substantive”
while sitting around “a big square
table at the West Side’s Martin Lu-
ther King Center” in an attempt
to convince local black elders that
he had their best interests in mind.
Buttigieg also tried to undo the
damage which firing the black po-
lice chief had done to his admin-
istration by unveiling a statue of
the moment when Martin Luther
King “stood arm in arm with No-
tre Dame’s president, Father Ted
Hesburgh in 1964 [sic],” which the
lived in a country where two par- Rising to the occasion, Mayor mayor saw as “all part of a symbol-
ties represented the interests of the Pete was able to overcome his aver- ic gesture revealing what is import-
oligarchs, and no party the inter- sion to the opposite sex and give ant to our city.”45
ests of the people. this lady a reassuring hug. Accord- First of all, the Mayor got the
Notre Dame conducted a be- ing to the conventional Democrat- date wrong. Hesburgh went to
reavement service in the quad ic Party narrative, homosexuals Chicago in 1966. Secondly, he
outside O’shaugnessey hall after and Negroes were co-combatants went there to support King’s ill-
Hilary lost. In keeping with the fu- in the struggle against white priv- fated housing crusade, which
nereal mood prevalent among local ilege. Pete had the distinction of was intended to drive Lithuanian
Democrats, Pete spent the imme- having destroyed that fiction with- Catholics out of neighborhoods
diate aftermath of Trump’s victo- in weeks of taking office by firing like Marquette Park. So by col-
ry consoling terrified black ladies, the local black police chief and laborating in an attack on fellow
who were convinced that the night putting the choice of his successor Catholics, Hesburgh revealed the
riders were heading toward South into the hands of a consulting firm true symbolism behind the statue.
Bend now that Trump was in the which specialized in the Israelifica- It was a monument to social en-
White House. One of those ladies tion of local police forces and sell- gineering, which meant that Pete
described, in Mayor Pete’s words: ing them expensive hardware like once more told the truth in spite
South Bend’s notorious ShotSpot- of himself when he said that it was
the experience of trying to reassure ter. Mayor Pete listed that expen-
her daughter that it would be safe “part of a symbolic gesture reveal-
sive piece of hardware as one of his ing what is important to our city.”
to go to school that morning. When
administration’s greatest achieve- The symbolism was clear enough,
her daughter showed her KKK-
ments because “when we installed but the black community wasn’t
themed social media memes that
her classmates were sending her that
ShotSpotter technology using mi- buying it. Pete’s attempt to reform
night while joking about Trump’s crophones to acoustically pinpoint the police department ended up
victory, she thought of her own gunshots, we were enhancing our being one of his most spectacular
upbringing as an African-American ability to deal with gun violence.”44 failures. Buttigieg fired the local
woman and realized it wasn’t just The ShotSpotter was one part of guy Boynkins, who happened to
her daughter she was trying to reas- the plan. Hiring Ron Teachman be black, but more importantly re-
sure—it was herself.43 as fired police chief Boynkins’ re- moved any local talent from con-

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sideration by bringing in a consult- bearing on my job performance in Thanks to Mayor Pete’s perfor-
ing firm which gave the city three business, in the military, or in my mance in office, we now know that
choices, none of which were local, current role as mayor,” I wrote. his claim that “being gay has had no
eventually settling on the merce- “It makes me no better or worse bearing on my job performance” is
nary from Tajikistan. at handling a spreadsheet, a rifle, not true. Virtually every public act
During one of Teachman’s meet- a committee meeting, or a hiring he has made in office—from play-
ings at the Martin Luther King decision. I hope that residents will ing Gershwin with the South Bend
club, a fight broke out, and instead continue to judge me based on my symphony to funding the gay dis-
of breaking it up, Teachman head- effectiveness in serving our city— co lights on the St. Joe River—can
ed for the men’s room, where he things like the condition of our be traced back to the pathological
remained until someone else broke neighborhoods, our economy, and narcissism which is the invariable
up the fight. This did nothing our city services.”46 companion to homosexual activ-
to enhance his reputation in the Even so, Buttigieg had agonized ity. His main considerations were
Black community. He then tried to about the political consequences of “will people be impressed?” and
bribe a local black pastor who had coming out of the closet. He was “can I add it to my resume?” Vol-
demonstrated against the mayor heartened, however, by seeing a unteering to play Gershwin with
after he came out of the closet to pro-homosexual display on a bul- the South Bend symphony was
break up resistance to homosexual- letin board at the Defense Intelli- one more symptom of his homo-
ity among the black clergy. Eventu- gence Agency: sexual narcissism and need to be at
ally, Teachman made one too many the center of attention. The mayor
mistakes and resigned, taking a job Neither Indiana nor the uniformed inadvertently tells us he fell asleep
services were going to be on the
with the firm that manufactured standing up because of all the time
cutting edge of social change, but,
the ShotSpotter which he had he had spent practicing the piano,
as I looked at this rainbow-colored
purchased for the city. This move exhibit in, of all places, the halls of
without understanding that his
caused consternation among the the DIA, it now seemed being open practice time might have detracted
city council members, but by then about my sexual orientation might from his ability to stay awake at his
there was nothing anyone could not be the career death sentence it day job as well.
do about it. Oddly enough, May- had been less than five years ear- The most visible example of this
or Pete doesn’t mention this in his lier.”47 public works narcissism was Smart
book. Streets. In a remarkably frank bit
Unfortunately for hizzoner, ho- of understatement, Mayor Pete re-
mosexuality is still a “career death fers to his Smart Streets program
PETE COMES OUT sentence” in Indiana. That’s why as “not the most popular thing I’ve
In June 2015, five months be- Pete is running for President of the done,” but goes on to claim that it
fore facing re-election, Mayor Pete United States. He couldn’t be elect- “improved traffic flow.”48 Far from
announced in the local newspa- ed as dog catcher in Kokomo. He improving traffic flow downtown,
per that he was a homosexual. As could not have gotten elected as Buttigieg singlehandedly reinvented
I said before, the only election mayor in South Bend in 2011 if the the traffic jam in downtown South
which counts in South Bend is the electorate had known that he was Bend after a hiatus of roughly 40
Democratic primary. Since Pete a homosexual. Pete would go on years. To give him credit, the four-
was the incumbent, he was assured to claim that he was re-elected in lane, one-way streets in and out of
of re-election even if he were pho- 2015 with “80 percent of the vote,” town were a disaster for local retail
tographed in flagrante dilectu in failing to tell us that his “mandate” and typical of the megalomania
front of the statue of Martin Lu- consisted of 80 percent of the 11 which traffic engineers displayed
ther King and Father Hesburgh. percent of the eligible voters who during the era of untrammeled
In that op-ed piece he opined showed up at the polls, which trans- highway building. But Pete’s Smart
that his homosexuality had no lates to 7 percent of the electorate, Streets left the highwaymen’s de-
bearing on his ability to function a result which the UN would dis- structive reconfiguration of down-
as mayor. “Being gay has had no qualify in places like Bosnia. town streets in place, simply cutting

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them from four lanes in each direc- Valley CEO a tour of the town, it west of where we live, but not be-
tion to one lane in each direction, had become a dormitory for the fore John Nagy wrote an op-ed
all but guaranteeing traffic jams homeless, who have a penchant for piece criticizing the mayor’s deci-
during rush hour. sleeping under bridges. Nowhere sion to automate trash collection,
The extra-wide bike lanes which in his book does Mayor Pete men- another achievement Buttigieg
took up two lanes of traffic go un- tion South Bend’s homeless prob- trumpeted in his book. The mayor
used (I am still the only person rid- lem. In spite of one of the most justified purchasing “partly auto-
ing my bike into town at 8:00 am) luxurious homeless centers in the mated trash trucks that can pick up
and the new intersections are now nation at their disposal, the home- a bin with a robotic arm” because
more dangerous for cyclists than less prefer to congregate under they “eliminated the need for a hu-
the old ones, but the circles he bridges, including under the Nor- man ‘picker’ on solid waste crews.”
created are extremely visible and a folk-Southern railroad bridge on This, we are told, “meant savings
sign that the mayor has done some- the main road leading into South for the city” largely because it al-
thing, even if what he did made Bend, where they erected a massive lowed the mayor to fire the black
the situation worse for both mo- tent city, to the consternation of trash men who collected the trash
torists (who now get stuck in traffic the mayor who was claiming that in a fraction of the time which it
every afternoon in rush hour) and he had turned the city around. now takes the robotic arm to ac-
cyclists who now run the danger of Rather than tackle that problem, complish the same task. In addi-
being hit at intersections because the city simply closed off Jefferson tion to that, South Bend’s residents
drivers invariably look in the op- St. pedestrian underpass, further now have the privilege of dragging
posite direction before pulling out disrupting the same riverside path trash bins into the street twice or
into traffic. that was one of the great achieve- sometimes three times a week,
The same narcissism can be seen ments of the previous generation through the snow in the winter,
in the gay disco lights on the river. of urbanists. week in week out, when before the
They are nothing if not visible, trash bins simply sat in alley where
but the expense of their installa- SMARTEST SEWERS IN THE the trash men emptied them. The
tion combined with the money the service alley where trash was pre-
WORLD
Smart Street cost corresponded to viously collected, Nagy opined in
the degradation of the infrastruc- In his book, Pete brags that his editorial, was designed specifi-
ture already in place. The wooden South Bend has “the smartest sew- cally for out-of-sight trash removal,
walkway on the west bank of the ers in the world.”49 In February something which kept the streets
St. Joe river between LaSalle and 2018, during what was being called clean and uncluttered by bins and
Colfax got overturned by the big the flood of the century, the smart- fallen trash. Now a lone man drives
flood of February 2018 and it still est sewers in the world backed up the truck with the semi-automated
hasn’t been repaired, probably be- discharging raw sewage into the arm down the street, stopping and
cause money is only available for basements of the homes in the maneuvering the truck back and
high visibility projects associated North Shore Triangle. Trying to forth until the arm lines up with
with Mayor Pete. assess the cause of the damage, the the bin and escapes hitting one of
Similarly, the pedestrian under- locals called a meeting, at which the inevitably parked cars near it in
pass which goes under Jefferson Pete showed up uninvited with the a ballet that takes at least five times
Street is bathed in the multi-hued man in charge of the water works, as much time as what it took for
glow of the gay disco lights but who made a confused attempt to two men on the truck in the alley
no longer passable for some rea- explain what happened but, more to accomplish.
son. Both ends of the walkway importantly, absolved the city of But if the arm of the city’s partly
have been boarded up and posted any responsibility for the damage automated trash truck dents your
with no trespassing signs. This un- that caused a number of people to car or if the driver completely miss-
derpass is above the dam and was move out of the neighborhood. es a pick up, you can always call the
not damaged by the flood, but, as The Nagys eventually moved out city’s 311 line, which he refers to as
I found when I was giving a Silicon of their flooded home one block “a mechanism for public service”

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and listen to a 20-something oper- pose. Anyone who thinks that the the editor of Culture Wars maga-
ator tell you that your problem is anus is a sex organ is going to have zine. To call him a political “activ-
basically your fault because you are a hard time figuring out why alleys ist” is nothing short of preposter-
resistant to change. Or, as my wife were designed for trash removal. So ous. If he had one political bone
was told, “We know change is diffi- homosexuality does affect the may- in his body, Jones would still be a
cult.” Change is good, according to or’s ability to run South Bend after professor at the local feminist col-
the mayor, but when it came to the all. First, because he doesn’t under- lege. Since Mayor Pete claims to
livelihood of the largely black trash stand the concept of design, but, be a man of the people, he should
men, Pete wipes away his crocodile secondly, because every project presumably be concerned about
tears and says “buying the technol- must fit into the mayor’s narcissis- the opinions of someone who lived
ogy was only worth it if we were tic fantasy of himself as the smart- on his block. He did after all won-
prepared to eliminate the jobs.”50 est guy in Indiana and, soon to be, der at one point in his book “What
So, if the trucks didn’t fit down the first gay president of the United would my next-door neighbors
alleys in the first place and you had States. think of all this?”53 However, the
to eliminate jobs that paid money allegedly populist mayor of South
into the local economy and helped THIN-SKINNED Bend is only interested in what his
men to raise families, why did you neighbors think when they rein-
buy them? Well, because change When it comes to criticism, Pete force his narcissistic fantasies. The
is good, or perhaps because mon- can be remarkably thin-skinned. If minute they raise any objection
ey changed hands. “The city,” hiz- his homosexuality is greeted with to the homosexual juggernaut as
zoner tells us, offered “the workers anything less than universal ap- it rolls over Indiana they become
other jobs, provided they earned a plause, he becomes irritated and “fringe-right-wing activists,” rather
commercial driver’s license.” Then lashes out at his critics. Describing than neighbors or editors or writers
he adds laconically, “Half the af- the aftermath of his coming out, or anything else smacking of reality
fected workers did so, and half left the mayor writes: outside of the mayor’s narcissistic
city employment altogether.”51 So, bubble.
to the unfortunates who “left city Around the community, people re- So why then was I standing there
employment altogether,” we offer acted in different ways. Inevitably, addressing the press? Well, because
our condolences. Tough luck, guys. some of it was ugly—local TV sta- the Black Clergy of South Bend
tions covered a press conference by
But don’t feel bad. Even if you lost had seen me stand up to the ho-
a newly invented group calling itself
your job, you can still go to the gay mosexual agenda at a city council
the South Bend Leadership Coali-
disco and dance away your trou- tion, led by a fringe-right-wing ac-
meeting and wanted me to do it
bles, thanks to the Buttigiegs, pere tivist who happened to live on my again.
et fils, mainstreaming Foucault for block. “The mayor’s announcement On the afternoon of July 13,
Hoosier losers. has created a crisis that goes to the 2015, I received a call from City
Pete’s determination to buy auto- heart of our political system,” their Councilman Derek Dieter, who
mated trash trucks which he knew statement said. They went on to in- informed me that Mayor Pete’s
were too big for the service alleys sist that this was a matter of grave homosexual supporters were go-
behind the houses where trash was political importance: Is homosexu- ing to be out in force at that eve-
traditionally collected resulted not ality now a consideration in hiring ning’s city council meeting. Dieter
only in the firing of trash collec- or in the granting of government told me this because he knew I was
tors, most of whom were black; it contracts? Is support for the homo- planning to address the council
also forced elderly people like his sexual agenda now a requirement that evening on the matter of our
mother to drag trash bins down a for employment or for the receiving mayor and his newly announced
slope and into the street in front of of government contacts [sic]?52 sexual identity. Councilman Dieter
the house twice a week. But how The “fringe-right-wing activist had contacted me by phone short-
does this relate to the mayor’s ho- who happened to live on my block” ly after seeing the show that Peter
mosexuality? As Nagy pointed out, is none other than E. Michael Helland and I did on the mayor’s
the alley was designed for this pur- Jones, your humble servant, and announcement on Israel, a local ca-

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ble access TV program. After see- debriefing on the press conference wake of the mayor’s announcement
ing the same program, the South at Sweetwater Church. During the was the crime of claiming that sod-
Bend Leadership Coalition, a local course of the meeting, Rev. Erskine omy was wrong. Anyone who takes
group of Black clergymen, met to Jones, pastor of the church and a public stand against sodomy in
express their outrage at the mayor’s attendee at the press conference, South Bend, Indiana can now ex-
announcement and at the end of announced that he had received a pect a call from the police chief,
the meeting asked me to speak in call from Police Chief Teachman. or worse, even if we don’t know
their name at the press conference Jones prefaced his remarks by say- exactly what worse means at the
which they held at Bethlehem Mis- ing that he had spent three years moment.
sionary Baptist Church at 10:00 vainly trying to get Teachman on If you’re a good proofreader,
AM on the morning of Friday, the phone. The press conference which I am not, you may have no-
June 26, 2015. had finally gotten Teachman’s at- ticed that I misspelled a word in
tention, but Teachman was not the statement above. If you didn’t
happy, claiming that I was trying notice it Pete, or his editors did,
THE MAYOR’S STRATEGY
to “hi-jack” the SBLC. Jones de- They put a [sic] after the word
Part of the mayor’s strategy in- murred, claiming that the issue was “contacts,” which should have been
volved co-opting the civil rights sodomy and whether sodomy was “contracts” as it was before and
movement—something I de- wrong. Teachman then claimed after the sicced word. This means
scribed at the press conference as that I called him a homosexual. that the team that produced The
“identity theft”—by asking that “But is that bad?” I found myself Shortest Way Home read the original
he be judged by “the content of wondering when I heard the news Culture Wars article, which means
[his] character,” as if his character from Rev. Jones. That question was that the book was written as dam-
was not affected by his homosexual just one of many that I posed at age control in reaction to that cri-
behavior. In citing this quote from the press conference two days earli- tique. So, instead of listening to his
the writing of Dr. Martin Luther er. As I said, the mayor’s announce- neighbors, Mayor Pete has doubled
King, the mayor was claiming that ment raised more questions than it down in his attempts to demonize
there was some moral equivalence answered: them. Trying to square the circle
between being Black and being a in dealing with ideological fringe
In his statement, the mayor an- figures (like me) who also happen
homosexual. At the press confer- nounced that he knew he was a
ence, I stated: to live on the same block and are
homosexual in high school. If that
therefore constituents if not neigh-
We emphatically reject this com- is the case, why did the mayor de-
liberately withhold this information
bors, Pete goes on to say: “If our
parison. God made us black. God first response toward anyone who
made us white. God did not make from the voters during his first cam-
paign for mayor? struggles to get onto the right side
us homosexuals, or liars or alcohol- of history is to denounce him as a
ics. We did that to ourselves by our
Teachman’s phone call to Rev. bigot, we will force him into a de-
bad decisions. It is nothing short
Jones showed not only that sup- fensive crouch—or into the arms
of blasphemy to blame our sins on
port for the homosexual agenda of the extreme right.”54
God. Buttigieg’s announcement
is now a consideration in hiring Apparently this does not apply
that he was a homosexual only
but, further, that opposition to ho- to fringe people. I say this because
confirmed that he and Teach-
mosexuality was now a matter of the reporter from the local paper
man and his other appointees
concern for the police. Teachman at the press conference asked me
were working for the Evil Em-
clearly understands that his job is how it felt to “be on the wrong
pire and not for the people of
more than just fighting crime in side of history,” and Butch Mor-
South Bend. That hunch would
South Bend. As we suspected from gan’s successor Jason Crichlow, the
receive independent corrobora-
the beginning, Teachman was hired current head of the Democratic
tion during the next few days.
to fight thought crimes in South Committee of St. Joseph County
On Monday, June 29, the South Bend. And the main thought crime then called me a “racist,” oblivious
Bend Leadership Coalition held a on the police chief ’s mind in the to the fact that the Black Clergy of

46 / Culture Wars
South Bend had asked me to speak quired.”55 The primary example in South Bend three years ago, just
at the press conference, and many of one of those “new ways of life” announced that “a global campaign
of them were standing behind me was Pete’s “wedding” at the Epis- to end criminalization of homosex-
as I spoke. copal Cathedral of St. James to uality in countries were homosex-
Why then did he make the state- his “huband” Chasten. Those of ual activity is illegal …. The cam-
ment? The chairman of the Demo- us who watched Chasten’s perfor- paign is being led by US Ambassa-
cratic Party of St. Joseph County mance at the impromptu North dor to Germany Richard Grenell,
leveled charges of racism against Shore Triangle sewage meeting an openly gay official in the Trump
me and the Black ministers stand- were shocked to learn that the ob- administration.”56
ing behind me because he wanted viously effeminate Chasten was Since his career as an elected of-
to distract the voters of St. Joseph the “husband” in this relationship. ficial in Indiana has now come to
Country from the real issues which Every comment he made was stu- an end, and since it seems unlikely
the mayor’s coming out statement diously ignored by everyone in the that he will get elected as our first
raised, namely, the homosexual room, including his “wife.” But gay president, some serious re-
hijacking of the civil rights move- now that we’re on the topic, how thinking is necessary for the man
ment, the destruction of represen- do homosexuals determine who with the most impressive resume
tative government in the city of the husband is and who the wife? in the state of Indiana. My unasked
South Bend and State of Indiana, No, wait, let’s not go down that for suggestion is that Mayor Pete
and the moral transvaluation of all road. But while we’re on the topic switch parties and apply for the
values that is the enabling device of fantasies, let’s talk about homo- ambassador’s post in, say, Ugan-
for this takeover. sexual narcissistic fantasies. Who da, where homosexuality is still a
The Democrats like to portray is living in a fantasy world, your criminal offense. This would prob-
themselves as the friend of the honor? The black ministers who ably make him as popular there as
Black man, but after the mayor got said homosexuality was wrong, it has made him among the black
elected under false pretenses, the or the mayor who is using South population of South Bend. Perhaps
Buttigieg administration engaged Bend as the launching pad for his he can then tell Uganda—home
in the deliberate marginalization career? Hasn’t the city of South of the shrine to the Ugandan mar-
of the Black community in favor Bend become a hostage to your tyrs, all of whom chose death over
of other groups whose existence we homosexual narcissistic fantasy of sodomy—that they too should
didn’t know about until the mayor becoming America’s first gay pres- ratify Michel Foucault’s pact with
made his announcement. The ident? the devil. How do you say “Wir
dumping of the local Black police Like the Gay Pride Week which sind arm aber sexy” in Swahili? I,
chief to make way for the merce- followed the mayor’s “wedding.” for one, would be willing to make
nary from Tajikistan was just one Every parade is a gay pride pa- a significant contribution toward
instance of a pervasive pattern of rade now, which may explain why buying him a one-way plane tick-
“benign neglect.” The Black com- South Bend no longer celebrates et—not out of malice, of course—
munity is still frozen out of govern- the Fourth of July. There was no but for his education if not his
ment contracts. celebration in South Bend this conversion and the raising of his
summer because America in any consciousness to the point where
THE CONFLICT coherent sense worth celebrating he understands that the first victim
has ceased to exist. It has been re- of the regimen of sexual liberation
Mayor Pete resolves the conflict placed by celebrations of identity as political control which he perpe-
between local politics and oligar- politics of the sort that Hilary Clin- trated on South Bend was the man
chic ideology by claiming that any ton and other Democrats pursued he sees in the mirror.
who opposes the homosexual jug- to their defeat at the polls in 2016.
gernaut in South Bend in living in America has become a gay disco. E. MICHAEL JONES
a fantasy world where “time itself Lest you think this is an exaggera-
can be reversed, all losses restored, tion, the same Donald Trump who Endnotes Available Upon Re-
and thus no new ways of life re- appeared as the working class hero quest

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 JAMES G. BRUEN, JR.
Bullets [email protected]
* Jussie Smollett is the gay criminalization of homosexuality,
Tawana Brawley. led by Richard Grenell, the homo-
* Sec. of State Mike Pompeo sexual ambassador to Germany.
accused Russia of “shamelessly” * Muslims and the Jew Taboo.
violating the 1987 Intermedi- House GOP leader Kevin McCa-
ate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, rthy’s investigating two Muslim
adding the U.S. will withdraw Members of Congress, Rashida
from it in six months unless Rus- Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, over their
sia addresses its concerns. Dollars criticisms of Israel. “It’s all about
to donuts it’s a pretense to justify the Benjamins baby,” noted Omar.
building and deploying more mis- Accused of anti-Semitism, Omar
siles. was challenged to say who was
* While in Poland, Pompeo sa- “paying American politicians to be
luted Frank Blaichman, a Polish pro-Israel.” Her reply: “AIPAC!”
Jew who immigrated to the U.S. So she got roasted as an anti-Sem-
after WWII and became a real es- ite, though her reply was truth-
tate developer in NY, as “a testa- ful. “Swaggering and influential,”
ment to the resilience of the Polish wrote historian Doug Rossinow in
people.” This is dark humor at its the Washington Post last year, “since
best. In addition to resisting the Pope Francis in a joint statement the late 1970s, [AIPAC] has in-
Nazis, Blaichman also worked for with The Grand Imam of Al-Azhar formally directed substantial cam-
the communist secret police and Ahmad Al-Tayyeb. Insert the word paign contributions toward chosen
ran Stalinist prisons in Poland. “permissive” before pluralism, candidates for Congress.” Why else
* America’s Unending War Is please. did Bibi get so many standing ova-
Ubiquitous. According to Brown * The Fig Leaf. McCarrick was tions from Congress?
U’s Costs of War Project, the U.S. defrocked. Big Deal. He’d be- * Running from Reality. Andraya
is fighting its GWOT in at least 80 come an expendable liability. But Yearwood, a male “transitioning”
nations on six continents. “Con- his roomie, Cardinal Farrell, was to female, recently placed sec-
trary to what most Americans be- named Camerlengo; James Martin ond in the girls’ 55-meter dash at
lieve, the war on terror is not wind- continues to prance; and, the Je- the Connecticut high school state
ing down—it has spread to more suits revel. What about those who open indoor track championships.
than 40 percent of the world’s aided, abetted, and covered-up Who finished first? Terry Miller,
countries.” for McCarrick? The slogan Drain also a “transgender.”
* A pro-abortion stance is a sine the Swamp applies here. Until the * Imagining. Echoing John Len-
qua non for Democratic candi- homosexual mafia’s ousted, it’s all non’s predicted demise of Chris-
dates, but who’d have guessed that show. tianity, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte of
wearing blackface was also a pre- * Maybe the swamp is the wrong the Philippines predicted that the
requisite for white men running as metaphor, perhaps more apt is the Catholic Church “will disappear.
Dems for statewide office in Vir- rabbit hole. While a high percent- In almost 25 years, it will disap-
ginia? That situation stymied them age of sex abuse involves “male pear. No more, people will forget
when the question became how on male sex abuse,” says Cardinal it.” Like Lennon, Duterte will be
to oust the state’s Lt. Governor, a Blase Cupich, “homosexuality it- proven wrong.
black Democrat accused of rape, self is not a cause.” Is the cause het- * Is commercial child rearing su-
without appearing to confirm ac- erosexuality, Cardinal? perior to parental care?
cusations that they’re racists. * U.S. foreign policy now aims to * Is Trump’s fixer Michael Cohen
* “The pluralism and the diver- establish a Worldwide Gay Disco the stereotype of the Jewish lawyer
sity of religions … are willed by as the Trump Administration or is he instead a caricature of that
God in his wisdom, through which launched a global campaign to end stereotype.
He created human beings,” said

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John Cardinal Krol and the
Cultural Revolution gives
a comprehensive picture
of what happened to the
Church during the Cultural
Revolution from sources
that have been unavailable
up until now. It also gives
the best historical account
of the revolution that
changed this country to
what it is today.

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within the Catholic Church and from those outside the Church. In particular, the confronta-
tion between Catholicism and secular humanism makes for fascinating reading. With this book,
E. Michael Jones solidifies his position as one of the leading students of American culture.”
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