By Brandon Smith
In recent articles I’ve been discussing the ways in which the political left exploits the principles of a society as a shield to destroy that society. In other words, if a nation has a certain historic regard for freedom, they will try to destroy that nation while under the protection of those freedoms. If you point out what they’re doing and try to stop them, they then argue that you are “violating your own principles,” the same principles which they are trying to tear down.
It’s a form of psychological warfare designed to create a Catch-22: If the target population sits back and does nothing in the face of the cultural onslaught, their heritage and their beliefs are systematically dismantled. If people take action to disrupt the saboteurs, they are accused of being hypocrites who don’t actually value the freedoms they claim to value.
However, this little mind game relies on a certain false relationship. It requires that the population under attack continues to see the saboteurs as integral members of that society with the same freedoms and the same protections. They are Americans just like us, and therefore we have to treat them merely as citizens in disagreement even though they would like nothing better than to see our culture burn.
Globalists and woke leftists often openly boast about their agenda to deconstruct western society and replace it with their own ideological cult. They are not simply in disagreement, they have declared war.
They’ve been treating conservatives and patriots as the enemy for quite some time, while we continue to treat them as fellow citizens. They tried to erase all of our freedoms permanently during the covid panic (which they perpetuated through false information). They tried to create a government apparatus working with social media corporations for mass censorship. They tried to create punishments for people who spoke against the establishment narrative. They supported vaccine mandates that would have enslaved Americans for years to come. They almost got what they wanted, too.
They then twisted the events of the Jan 6th protests and declared war on us again. They fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowds, got a violent response, and then acted as if the reaction was an “insurrection.”
They have targeted our children with political and sexual indoctrination in an effort to groom them into willing servants to the woke cause. They have saturated our media from commercials to movies with an endless stream of DEI propaganda, all while claiming WE are “terrorists” because we refuse to spend our money on woke products.
When someone is actively at war with you they are no longer a part of your community or tribe. They can’t claim to be Americans while also planning to undermine everything that makes America what it is. When someone is working tirelessly to destroy the constitutional principles you hold dear, they don’t get to use those same freedoms as a buffer against retaliation.
An enemy in war is meant to be defeated; their “rights” are secondary to this goal.
Again, this is not a political disagreement. This is not a friendly debate among countrymen with the best of intentions. This is not a cultural speed bump on the way to mutual benefit. This division is irreparable. It cannot be salvaged. This is about survival. THIS IS WAR.
This is why I smiled when I read the story of Michael Cassidy, a former US Navy fighter pilot who destroyed a satanic statue of Baphomet on display at the Iowa State Capitol Building. The political left is in an uproar on social media, and as expected they argue that this incident is proof that conservatives are “authoritarians” hellbent on dictatorship. They say the statue has a constitutional right to be there if any other religious symbols are allowed to be there – But does this really matter to the situation?
My personal feelings about organized religion are complicated, but I still recognize the replacement tactics being used by the political left to undermine the west; they have been clearly targeting Christianity for many years. The satanic statue in Iowa may or may not represent satanism and evil to the people who paid to have it placed in the capitol, but it does represent their ongoing effort to wear down American foundations using any tool they can find.
Here are the reasons why what Cassidy did is absolutely acceptable under our current political conditions, even in the face of constitutional questions…
1) Do we really even live in a “constitutional society” anymore? Or does the 1st Amendment only apply when it’s convenient to leftists? As mentioned above, the political left and their allies have been working overtime to destroy freedom of speech through collusion between governments, corporate media and Big Tech. Mass censorship was the norm during covid and leftists defended it vigorously. These people are in no position to use the 1st Amendment as a tent pole for their ideological games. Sorry, but that ship has sailed; they have lost the privilege of wrapping themselves in the flag.
2) The political left has been aggressively attempting to demolish historic monuments and statues of Founding Fathers in an effort to erase our connections to the past. In 2021 they even removed a nearly 200-year-old statue of Thomas Jefferson from the New York City Hall building on the grounds that it was a “symbol of racism.” What goes around comes around. They tear down our statues, now we tear down their statues.
3) Michael Cassidy is not a government representative, just as most of us are not government representatives. Leftists seem to operate under the false assumption that constitutional rules are meant to restrict public behavior. They are not. They are meant to restrict the government.
The Iowa state government didn’t tear that satanic statue down (unlike the New York City government that removed Thomas Jefferson). Rather, it was just a man, a regular citizen.
This is not a 1st Amendment issue because Michael Cassidy is not bound by the 1st Amendment in this situation. He might be guilty of vandalism under the law, just like thousands of woke activists across the country are guilty of vandalism for destroying monuments and government buildings, but that is all. This is not a legal battle, this is war.
4) Most conservatives are not even arguing the matter on 1st Amendment grounds. Instead, they argue the matter on moral grounds. Is it right to allow satanic symbols to stand in our institutions of law and institutions of heritage? Symbols that represent moral relativism, narcissism, chaos and psychopathy? Is it right to look the other way while a subversive activist movement works to demolish everything we hold dear?
5) Does every belief system or ideology deserve a place of “equality” within our society? Every death cult? Every terrorist or criminal philosophy? Are they ALL entitled to statues and monuments on public property? Or, is there a line? Should there be statues of Hitler, Stalin and Mao in the halls of Congress? Should there be a Pol Pot bust on the floor of the Senate? Should Charles Manson get his face on Mount Rushmore because of the 1st Amendment? There is such a thing as standards, but leftists think that when it comes to their ideological goals, there are no standards.
Never before in the history of the US has there been a time when a statue of Baphomet in a state government building would have been treated as acceptable, even under constitutional law. Suddenly, in the past decade we’re supposed to treat these destructive symbols as equal to other religions and give them places of reverence on public grounds? I think not.
6) Satanists like to play games with legal categorization when it suits them. When they want to argue for their presence in public schools they say they are NOT a religion and are merely a philosophical club. When they want 1st Amendment protections they claim they are a religion. If these groups are going to refuse to identify what they are in finality, then they should be restricted from access to public institutions until they make up their minds and the courts can establish a fair precedence.
7) We have to ask ourselves what really defines freedom? Does freedom mean being able to do whatever you want whenever you want without being subject to scrutiny or skepticism? Does freedom extend to hedonism at the expense of morality, truth, responsibility and order? Because this is what the political left is demanding and it’s leading to the self immolation of civilization.
I think we have allowed them to indulge themselves for far too long, to the point that they have become arrogant and presume themselves untouchable. They laugh at us because we play by a certain set of rules by which they see no reason to abide. We engage in a battle of ideas and facts while they go scorched Earth, rigging the fight using central government and corporate power to their advantage.
Maybe we stop playing by these rules? Maybe every time they try to tear down our statues and symbols, we tear down their symbols until there’s nothing left of them? Maybe we remove the enemy that has declared war on us, and then continue on with life as we did before? Would the populace really miss the antics of woke activists, or would they applaud if these people were shipped off to an island somewhere?
If they hate the cultural roots of this country so much then they can always leave. They choose not to, and instead scheme to upend everything we used to stand for. So no, I shed no tears for the progressives or the satanists (almost the same thing at this point) or the globalists when their mocking statues are cut in half. After years of trespasses they are finally facing some blowback. As the leftists like to say, freedom of speech does not guarantee freedom from consequences.
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Jude 4
King James Version
4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Great article! Well thought out and clearly explained. Thank you Mr. Smith for writing an article that portrays total sense in a world where almost nothing makes sense. Have a great holiday.
Great article Brandon.
Tucker Carlson recently defined Western Civilization as Christian Civilization. They are synonymous.
The leftists, satanists, progressives, islamists, wokeists, all have the same goal. They want to destroy Christianity entirely. I have mentioned in previous comments, that this battle has been going on for millennia. Since before the foundation of this earth was created. satan desires only chaos and destruction. He knows that his time is short.
We are given a period of time to individually choose which side of this war we will fight. do we choose God and his Christ, or do we choose satan and his destruction?
It is very clear who is fighting for satan.
Which side do you choose?
“…or would they applaud if these people were shipped off to an island somewhere?”
How about we ship them off to hell? Cheaper. Permanent. After all, this is a WAR!
“… the political left exploits the principles of a society as a shield to destroy that society.. It’s a form of psychological warfare… Globalists and woke leftists often openly boast about their agenda to deconstruct western society… they have declared war… Maybe every time they try to tear down our statues and symbols, we tear down their symbols until there’s nothing left of them?”
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Of course, the sensible gut reaction of a sane person to any kind of Satanic and ‘Dark’ display is to want to remove it and pronto. But isn’t that acting just like the court system in Colorado who removes Trump from the ballot because they don’t like the look of it? Do we want to act like those we see as wrong and failing persons?
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Our Host has well outlined in detail reasons why a Satanic display should be removed. And no reasonable person would disagree with those reasons. But I suggest an alternate approach:
LEAVE THEM UP. Why? Let those who foster and promote such displays expose themselves to the World as being agents of the Demonic. Let the evil be seen in the full light of day. And then…
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Use such Satanic displays places to TEACH and RIDICULE. Take your kids right to the display and explain to them why such displays are evil and why they celebrate the Dark Forces in our Universe that must be resisted. Dig deep and answer their questions and concerns.
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And after you’ve done that? LAUGH AT IT. Ridicule it. Poke fun at it. Don’t make it seem so important – take its fangs away. Expose it for the ridiculous and mean-spirited and dark thing it is. And put the Demonic Display Lovers on the defensive without a good defense.
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Moral and ethical culture and people who honor true Divinity are being demonized and erased in various ways. This is the war between the Dark and the Light we were warned about many, many years ago. No person of faith should be the least bit surprised or caught unprepared for such Times as today.
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A ‘right and purposeful’ response to attacks upon us is critical. And as Sages have taught us… you cannot adopt the same spirit (or tactics) that inhabit those who are your enemies. You have to think and believe and do at a higher level and not drag your consciousness down into the dirt with them.
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By leaving those damned devilish displays up is a sign of our strength and courage. We are not so weak as to be afraid of such nonsense. Our faith and belief must be stronger than the evil that confronts us.
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Those who foster demonic displays are some very sick individuals. Jesus would tell us to pray for them. And so we shall… after we teach about this and LAUGH OUR ASSES OFF AT IT — and THEM.
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The more that evil is exposed… the quicker it burns itself out. (And then… maybe ‘burn’ some more somewhere else…)
“Of course, the sensible gut reaction of a sane person to any kind of Satanic and ‘Dark’ display is to want to remove it and pronto. But isn’t that acting just like the court system in Colorado who removes Trump from the ballot because they don’t like the look of it? Do we want to act like those we see as wrong and failing persons?”
No, it’s not the same at all. First, 1st Amendment restrictions don’t apply to us, they apply to the government. This is not a legal battle, this is a war. Second, we don’t have the luxury of these kinds of purist libertarian positions in the face of cultural destruction. It is time to accept that we are at war and the political debate is over.
Also, you absolutely CAN adopt the same tactics as your enemies in self defense. You don’t have to adopt their mindset, but ultimately, they started it, so I have no sympathy. It’s all well and good to wax philosophical in times of security, but again, this is a war, not a debate, and when you have psychopaths targeting your children and saturating your every waking moment with evil, it’s time to snuff out that evil. Exposing it is meaningless unless action is also taken to subdue and destroy it.
I get your passion about this and I don’t disagree with it. I identify that we are in that great war between the Light and the Dark.
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Jesus threw the Moneychangers out of the Temple because that was a Holy place. That was a form of tearing something down. And if a mainline church was installing Satanic displays on the altar or on the grounds around the church I’d be right there tearing them down because that is supposed to be a holy place.
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But private displays or government spaces are not seen as holy places but as common areas open to all – including those we don’t like. To me, what is more needed than ‘They’ desecrating our churches (as They have done) or ‘We’ tearing Their stuff down is the raw spiritual determined aspect of showing off the evil to All and calling it out – rallying minds and spirits that are in great need of inspiration. Where are the Churches calling this out? Where is the spiritual leadership? Where are the faithful?
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If someone wants to tear down a Satanic display that’s one thing. But that just obscures the evil lurking beneath and takes that away from the eyes. We need a full-on calling out of that evil in the court of words and thoughts and teachings that goes on far longer than a quick removal of an offensive display. We tear them down with our relentless passion for faith and the truth and fully exposing them and their agenda.
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We both agree that we need to snuff out that evil. We just have different approaches to strategy to do that.
The time for that is at an end. The placement of the statue is not really the point – The notion that we have to accept the proliferation of a morally relative cult is the underlying problem. They survive on our apathy. This is why we now have woke flags in public schools (and woke is basically luciferianism), because they think we are limited by our own concept of free speech and that they can use that as a shield to do what they please. Like all bullies, they will keep pushing and prodding and applying double standards UNTIL they get punched in the mouth. And frankly, all the rational debate in the world is meaningless to these people; they laugh at logic and reason and morality. They triple down when their evil is exposed because the only thing they respect is power. The biggest through-line of my recent articles is that it’s time for us to accept that the great debate is over. It’s done. Wars are not won with words, they are won with actions. I guarantee that if people knock down these symbols every time they put them up, they will not only stop, their agenda will retreat into obscurity again.
Wanting to tear down such thing is an instinct of a sane and honest person.
Actually tearing it is a noble consequential act and a normal response.
No Mr Shaman.
If a foreign enemy invades your country and hoists their flag over the land – THEY ARE IN CHARGE. The solution is not to leave their flag proudly waving in the air, jokingly pointing at it and telling your children what losers they are. Same goes if a foreign god invades your country.
Notwithstanding I have a few things AGAINST thee, because thou SUFFEREST that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
Rev 2:20
Davy Crockett: “No Mr Shaman. If a foreign enemy invades your country and hoists their flag over the land – THEY ARE IN CHARGE. The solution is not to leave their flag proudly waving in the air….”
I really do understand where all you guys are coming from. But here’s the thing…
So we go around tearing down things we don’t like (yes, I know there are ‘good reasons’ for feeling that urge). And then – being the irrational beings that they are – they respond in kind and begin to escalate. They start openly attacking churches. They break in and desecrate altars. They rip apart and destroy Bibles out of having a fit that their ‘flag in the ground’ was torn down. Where does this end? Fighting in the streets? Open warfare? Churches don’t have 24/7 security nor do churchgoers just trying to attend church functions.
Yes, we are aware that such street warfare is a real threat in these times. But do WE really have to go down that road and throw gasoline on that fire? Does anyone think that ‘they’ are simply going to allow their symbols to be attacked and not respond in kind?
We know the Lefties do not care about right or reason or being sensible. They act out like juveniles already going down a bad road.
That’s all I’m saying. I just don’t see where our acting in the same ways they are is going to get us anywhere or help the situation. It may feel good in the moment but that does not come without risking something much worse than a cartoonish statue or the like.
“You correct an error by bringing truth to it.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
“We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.” – Russell L. Ackoff
They already do all the things you described.
War is not polite or pretty. Fight to win, kill them all and let God sort ’em out.
Those seeking to subvert all that is moral and normative in a society do so by normalizing the amoral and abnormal. The ones that have already tacitly declared war against this society, this nation, AND the Constitution have done so by a process of gradual “normalization”. This process can no longer be “tolerated” (using the “old” definition) and they must be responded to with action AND words.
It is not our society that chosen to set aside the limits and restrictions placed on the government by the Constitution. It is those that seek the obliteration of the USA that have ALREADY discarded the Constitution and seceded from the Union. They do not have the right to shield themselves behind the protections of that which they disdain.
When you accept that we REALLY ARE IN A KINETIC WAR which is currently using different ammunition than that of the historical method, you will join the rest of us.
“I just don’t see where our acting in the same ways they are is going to get us anywhere or help the situation.”
There is a time and a place for turning the other cheek. That time has passed.
The aggressor has continued to throw punches at your face. Will you bow down and acceed your power to him or will you throw punches back at his face and other parts of his body?
What will it take for you to defend yourself? Are you even willing to do it? The “Church” has said no ( it makes more $$ via complaint.)
Now God’s people must stand up and do it just like our forefathers did.
The choice is clear: bow down or punch back – it has gone in this direction and it is up to us to stand up.
Roundball ya go on and pray while they’ll be laughin their asses off at us! Just a few years ago they took down all our public religious symbols. Ya know like crosses. And they used only one man who bitched about it publicly. Ya know his rights as a satanist was bein Offended. They” laughed their asses off at us I’m sure at the lack of push back we gave them. That’s here n ca. and ya know “they” say what happens in ca. goes clear to the eastern boarders. Just sayin.
Brandon I know this has little to do with the topic at hand but were you aware that Hollywood is making a Movie about an America Civil War? The trailer is out, supposedly due out in 2024.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDyQxtg0V2w
Precisely. We’re all being played , provoked and positioned into “sides” .
A Baphomet statue in Iowa – of all places …
Sadly, this nation may have been undermined from the get go by men behind the scenes using sophistry and obfuscation- Patrick Henry was well aware of this …
This blatant baphomet or the occultic layout of Wash dc or symbols that the Federal gov (and some states) display however is on a different level of understanding than most people can grasp.
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To grow and mature as an individual is the same as to grow and mature as a group of persons or a nation even. I don’t see many people or nations who exemplify this commitment.
I don’t see many people or nations secure enough in themselves to be able to think clearly for themselves.
People and nations are taught to capitulate to an exterior set of beliefs and are nurtured into factions, my experience is God does not exist in these organized human subsets.
We are clearly in a period of crisis and the extremes of thought that come from this. Self defense of both individual and nation is a fundamental right, let us wield the sword carefully.
Yes conservatives and Christians have been too compliant for too long. We need to repent for not standing up using the provisions the Founders gave us in the constitution. The Legislators in Des Moines need to hear from citizens as does every other city county and state. 1A Petitions enable the citizens to fight back if we will do it.
As long as we’re removing satanic statues (great idea), we should remove satans obelisk on the Washington mall! And satans obelisk called the San Jacinto monument in deer park, Tx. Why is it that somehow, Satan manages to get all important U.S. monuments built to worship him?
That is easy. Have you looked at church steeples recently?
A previous commenter mentioned the movie “Leave the World Behind”. I just read this article and think it’s a great, very on-point review of the film. https://vigilantcitizen.com/moviesandtv/the-hidden-symbolism-in-leave-the-world-behind-a-disturbing-movie-produced-by-the-obamas/
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My tip: be ready with food stores. Be ready to shut off your WiFi. Be ready to shelter in place, but also be ready to help a friendly neighbor who may be able to return the favor someday.
I hope liberty wins. I’m just not completely optimistic about that like i was in 2017 and 2018
There is a difference between human rights and human duties.
Human rights lead directly to slavery.
I have the right to life – who will be forced to give me medical treatment?
I have the right to education – who will be forced to teach me?
I have the right to housing – who will be forced to build me a house?
Human duties lead to responsibility and freedom:
I need to get together with others and set up a voluntary medical aid.
I need to save up and pay someone to provide voluntary education.
I need to save up and build my own house.
The difference between “The Right to Life” and “Thou Shalt Not Kill”:
The right to life: Someone tries to kill you. Can you infringe on his right to defend your own right? You have to add in the unwritten premise that all the “rights” belong only to the innocent. You have to balance the weight of the “rights”. And the debate begins… Who is innocent? Whose rights are worth more?
Thou shalt not kill: Someone tries to kill you. Can you kill him to stop him from killing you? The concept of guilt and innocense is clear.
The difference between “The Right to Freedom of Speech” and “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness”:
The Right to Freedom of Speech: Someone lies, but hey, that’s free speech unless you can prove fraud. Or someone sets up a statue of a false god, cause hey, it’s free speech. And again, you have to add in the unwritten premise of truth and morality at a later stage – like Brandon is doing in this article.
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness: Morality – specifically GOD’s morality – is part of the equation from the beginning.
Human rights are NOT the same as the LAW of God.
Secular systems will always battle with morality – especially when dealing with the Devil. The sand of secularism will be washed away and only the solid rock of God’s word will remain.
If the God of the Bible exists (which I believe), He made it explicitly clear – and proved it in history – that the altars and images of the false gods WILL be destroyed. It seems this can happen in one of two ways.
1. WE do it and return to our cities in peace:
Num 33:52 Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
2Ch 14:3 For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
2Ch 14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
2Ch 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
2. We accept it, so HE does it and we are destroyed together with the images and pagans:
Lev 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Eze 6:3 And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
Eze 6:6 In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
This well thought out article is a milestone on they way to saving US from the satanic attack we are engaged in. It is an article I wish everyone would read.
Brandon – without a doubt, this is one of the best summaries you’ve written on the fact that we have ALLOWED this crap to happen, and it is not a coincidence – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2022/12/no-it-is-not-coincidence.html?m=0 – and DaLimbraw Library is available to anyone who needs more literary or historical ammo to back it up.
Keep writing!
Conservatives have acquiesced to leftists for way too long
Satan is the representation of everything evil. Of hatred, racism, abuse, murder, terrorism, rape, child molestation, totalitarianism, tyranny, intolerance, bigotry, pseudo-science, lies, slavery, and everything wicked that makes people miserable.
This alone makes it so nobody should tolerate such a thing or anyone who stupidly takes upon themselves the name “Satanists.”
Here’s a very, very relevant quote about human nature and “historical teachings”..:
“Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn’t been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison.” – Dr. Robert D. Hare.
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You’ve studied the subject brilliantly, Brandon. It seems to me…