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RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Sovereign Authority. First: personal, unconditioned, derived from personhood. Second: local, state and national, conditioned, comprising fidelity of representatives elected to protect the sovereign authority of persons, whose sovereign personhood is the core reality under attack by imams and other oligarchs.
Groups of any size — to include nation states — are not persons, do not have personhood, and therefore do not have unconditioned sovereign authority.
Only a person, because of their personhood, has unconditioned sovereign authority. Collectivists — imams and other oligarchs — hate personhood, even their own, because it conditions their authority and thus their power over groups. At trial today is the residence of unconditioned sovereign authority.
The legitimacy of a nation derives from the sovereign persons who form her to protect: (1) their unconditioned personal sovereign authority, (2) the conditioned — by their unconditioned personal sovereign authority — sovereignty of groups citizens choose to form, to include the nation herself, and (3) benefits to themselves citizens accrue through interactions with others, domestic and foreign.
Globalism deliberately and necessarily traduces all structures of sovereignty and all benefits of interaction. The nations and lesser political entities are formed by sovereign citizens to protect themselves against that malignancy.
Update 1: It Is Not The EU Philosophy That The Crowd Can Decide Its Fate
Update 2: Michael Goodwin: [The Fraud’s] Tantrum A Striking Display Of Failed Leadership
Update 3: The Democrats have lynching in their political DNA, and they seem to be unable to evolve past it. They have talked RINOs into supporting them.
Related: The bearing of arms is a sign of citizenship, which is to say, of being a full participant in government who acts through it, as opposed to subjectship, the state of being a passive being who does not act through government but who is acted upon. In that sense, it is like the ability to vote or to be eligible for service in government. Frederick Douglass understood this linkage perfectly, inasmuch as these ideas were much better understood in those more literate days. “A man’s rights rest in three boxes,” he said. “The ballot box, jury box, and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.” The militias contemplated by the Second Amendment were armed citizen volunteers who could act to use the force of arms to keep the peace in an emergency; they are entitled to act in the peacekeeping role generally reserved for the state because, being the citizens of a republic, they are the state, the very seat of its sovereignty. The formal government is a provisional arrangement (hence regular elections) constituted as a convenience.
Update 4: Senator Jeff Sessions: Now It’s America’s Turn
Update 5: Michael Goodwin: Brexit Strengthens Global Effort To Unseat Unresponsive Elites
Update 6: Richard Fernandez on Brexit, and again here.
Update 7: The EU was the old Soviet Union dressed in Western clothes.
Update 8: Vox never disappoints: 3 Reasons The American Revolution Was A Mistake
Update 9: From Jolie-Pitt To The Jolly Pit Of Globaloney
Update 10: Glenn Greenwald, when he’s right, he’s right:
The parallels between the U.K.’s shocking approval of the Brexit referendum in June and the U.S.’ even more shocking election of Donald Trump as president last night are overwhelming. Elites (outside of populist right-wing circles) aggressively unified across ideological lines in opposition to both. Supporters of Brexit and Trump were continually maligned by the dominant media narrative (validly or otherwise) as primitive, stupid, racist, xenophobic, and irrational. In each case, journalists who spend all day chatting with one another on Twitter and congregating in exclusive social circles in national capitals — constantly re-affirming their own wisdom in an endless feedback loop — were certain of victory. Afterward, the elites whose entitlement to prevail was crushed devoted their energies to blaming everyone they could find except for themselves, while doubling down on their unbridled contempt for those who defied them, steadfastly refusing to examine what drove their insubordination. The indisputable fact is that prevailing institutions of authority in the West, for decades, have relentlessly and with complete indifference stomped on the economic welfare and social security of hundreds of millions of people. . . . Trump vowed to destroy the system that elites love (for good reason) and the masses hate (for equally good reason), while Clinton vowed to manage it more efficiently.
Update 11: Professor Roberto de Mattei: Resistance And Fidelity To The Church In Times Of Crisis
Update 12: The notion that refugees and immigrants should be admitted to a sovereign nation without caveat or demurrer is conjured by two essentials of Liberation Theology, itself a successful KGB subversion operation: precarity and what lately is called weaponized empathy (classically: scrupulosity). Both are perversions of Christian doctrine (aka experience) with the end in view of disabling Christian civilization by eliminating citizens’ ability to tell truth from fiction and thereby defend themselves. Moslems, Salafist and Shiite, have taken advantage of the KGB’s success removing from so many Europeans and Americans their ability to discern what is in their interest. Socialists have gone insane from self-induced terror upon learning that more than a few Europeans and Americans retain the ability to think clearly enough to defend themselves. The answer, as always, is hearty laughter.
Update 13: The Pope is with the Deep State, hard left and here
Update 14: But: Who Killed The Left?
Glenn Reynolds: Having won all the battles, the Left is losing the culture war.
Richard Fernandez: Because, God.
Related 1: President Trump Wins – G20 Concedes on Climate Treaty and Trade Provisions …
Update 15: Over the past two years the increasingly skeptical citizenry of the United States and Europe has been treated to a stream of op-eds and television appearances lamenting the looming collapse of the liberal world order, to be accompanied by a surge of illiberalism, nationalism, and fringe politics. Rarely, however, does such hand-wringing stray beyond shopworn comparisons of the “complex interdependence” of the glorious past and the parochialism and narrow-mindedness of the current era. In truth, we are not witnessing a dramatic systemic change driven by conniving external forces, but a meltdown of political authority in the West caused by the relatively straightforward indolence of its political class. Our troubles are less about liberalism’s decline or the ascendancy of left or right politics. Simply put, the citizenry in the West has been frustrated for decades with its elites’ inability to deliver workable solutions to the problems of slow growth, deindustrialization, immigration, and the overall decline of self-confidence across the West.
The legitimacy, and hence stability, of the international system rests to a degree on the ability of the leading powers to deliver at home—or, simply put, to govern. The increasing volatility of international politics is in part a byproduct of systemic dysfunction across the West at the level of domestic politics. Americans and Europeans alike are running out of patience with the governing class. In Europe, the government’s inability to control mass migration or develop effective solutions to domestic terrorism are two important drivers of the growing public discontent. In the United States the middle and working classes have been frustrated for decades with the government’s inability to remedy de-industrialization, urban decay, and declining economic opportunity.
Glenn Reynolds comments: And in both places, as the “elite” has grown demonstrably less competent and honest, it has also grown visibly more contemptuous of the people it purports to govern. That contempt is, I think, the most poisonous part of the whole equation.
My essays on the question of authority are here.
Update 16: Conservatives Need A Remedial Course In Sovereignty
Update 17: Why Trump’s U.N. Speech Was A Triumph
Related: To Be Great the U.N. Must Defend Democratic Sovereignty
Update 18: Spengler: The Bells Of Barcelona Toll For Europe
Update 19: As stated in the first sentence of this post, the question of authority and its location is the central one of this era. Here from Glenn Reynolds is more evidence of the accuracy of that observation.
Update 20: Foreign Policy magazine gnashes her teeth, good: Brazil’s Love Affair With Diplomacy Is Dead
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
