FWIW # 7 Follow the Money July 2020

Over 1,500 years ago, an overland trade route called the Silk Road connected Europe and the Far East, perhaps the first evidence of globalism. Along this busy corridor of commerce was a community called Bamyan, in what is now known as Afghanistan. This thriving center for religion, philosophy, and art was home to a colony of Buddhist monks and believers.

Around the mid-sixth century, these peaceful religious believers decided to carve replicas of Buddha and a female buddha into the sandstone cliffs. These were not roadside grottos or shrines like those found on many pilgrim paths in Europe. No, the Buddha was approximately 174 feet tall. The female was 115 feet tall. After carving the basic body, these dedicated artists used mud, straw, stucco, wooden dowels, and paint to bring the replicas to life for all travelers to see and find peace. These were symbols of love and brotherhood. Time slowly aged the replicas, as it does everyone and everything. Nevertheless, more and more people seeking calmness in their own lives came to Bamyan to pray before the buddhas.

Three hundred years after the replicas’ creation, the area was conquered by Muslim armies from the west, and it has been ruled by Muslims ever since. For twelve hundred years under Muslim rule, the replicas stood, radiating their message of peace, love, and fellowship to all visitors. Time took its toll. The paint peeled away or was scoured away by the wind-blown sand. The wooden dowels rotted or broke as they aged. The mud and straw slowly decayed. Nothing, however, could degrade the message the buddhas sent to visitors. They stood tall among the cliffs, proof of their creators’ intelligence, ingenuity, and feelings of brotherhood with all people. Nothing, that is, except the Taliban.

In March 2001, the Taliban leaders, using the Koran as an excuse, blew up the replicas. At first, they said it was because the statues were idols. On an aid-seeking trip to the United States, a representative of the Taliban government was interviewed by the New York Times. He said, “Foreign delegations offered money to preserve the ancient works while a million Afghanis faced starvation.”¹ He claimed that was why they destroyed the statues. Which is it—a holy action, or an action of jealousy and meanness? The Taliban at the time was the government of Afghanistan. It was their duty to feed the Afghani people. They were also the protectors and enablers of Al Qaeda. Notice that this act of cruelty occurred six months before the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Radicals have always given excuses for their hatred and destruction of competing histories and views. It’s the same today.

In the last few years, anarchists have used race as a reason to target monuments to leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy across the southern United States. These monuments were not symbols of hatred. They were erected for the most part by mothers, sisters, daughters, and granddaughters of soldiers ranging from privates to generals who believed in and fought for their cause, sacrificing their lives and livelihoods during a difficult time in this country. As with many civil wars, both sides believed they were right and the other wrong. At a terrible price, this country’s union was cemented in blood and sorrow from both sides.

Just like the Taliban, today’s anarchists hide behind an argument that sounds noble. For fear of being branded racist, most people keep their mouths shut, figuring it’s better to see the destruction of molded metal designed to honor long-ago combatants of a civil war than to be called a racist. Just as with the Taliban, the anarchists take the country’s silence as an affirmation that they can do whatever they want in the name of their definition of social justice.

Now, we’re finding out the truth. The anarchists aren’t offended by the Confederate memorials; they are offended by all the leaders and history of this country, even the one who, as president, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the states rebelling against the Union. Our founding fathers, military leaders who fought for the Union and won, and past presidents who led this country to greatness are under attack. Anarchists want to destroy Mt. Rushmore’s monument to four presidents carved into the side of a mountain. Sound like the Taliban? The anarchists aren’t protesting racial and social injustice. They are protesting who we are and what we stand for.

Want proof? The July 4th weekend saw 102 shootings, injuring 181 and killing 33 in three cities: Chicago, New York, and Atlanta. The victims were Americans who did not want to be injured or killed. Some of them were children. Did any of these social justice organizations, foundations, and anarchists spring into action to protest this senseless slaughter? Of course not. Are they going to use the hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at them by globalist-elites-with-guilty-consciences to go into those low-income neighborhoods and root out the gangs doing the killing? Of course not. Are they going to demonstrate when a black police officer is killed by gang members? Of course not. It will be interesting to see if the New York Times, the Washington Post, or any of the electronic media excusing and praising these anarchists will examine the sources of the money going to the anarchists and how they use it for social justice. Why wasn’t the money given to organizations like the Harlem Children’s Zone, organizations that have demonstrated expertise in guiding young people out of poverty and into successful lives?

It would make sense for the communities that have been damaged by the anarchists to send these organizations a bill for the damage they created. That’d make more sense than taxing the citizens who just get up every morning, go to work, feed their families, and do good for their communities. The politicians, however, won’t stand up to the anarchists. It is easier to tax the innocent.

The globalist-elites-with-guilty-consciences are the true hypocrites in this summer of anarchy. Make a list of who they are, the firms they run, and the foundations they control. You know what you will find? These are the elites who believe in globalism and all it encompasses. They proudly beat their chests about their concern for social justice while using their shareholders’ money to assuage their guilt. These are the globalist elites who took jobs from this country and moved them to countries where governments would allow them to pay almost slave-level wages to their citizens. The increased profits enabled the companies to pay the globalist elites big salaries and bonuses. They strut around Davos, Switzerland, every January, wringing their hands and gnashing their teeth about income inequality and climate change. Their private jet trips to and from Davos create more climate problems than the pollution from the millions of automobiles they worry about. In addition, they don’t tell people that the climate change they want is reduced pollution from factories and businesses in the developed countries, not the developing countries. By the way, India and China, two of the biggest economies in the world, are considered developing countries. What they really want is fewer jobs in the developed Western countries. They and their bought-and-paid-for advocates in both political parties in the United States and other developed countries are to blame for income inequality. Why? Because they want to destroy nation-states in favor of a single world government under their control.

Think this is hyperbole?

Go back to what you learned in high school economics about supply and demand. The greater the supply of a commodity over the demand for the commodity, the lower the price of that commodity. Think about the United States. The citizenry of this country is a mix of highly intelligent people, those with normal intelligence, and those with below-normal intelligence. There was a time in this country, before the 1980s, when an individual with lower natural intelligence could find a factory job that required rote skill learning, but not complicated skills. That individual could master the job over time, earn a livable wage, raise a family, and feel proud as a productive member of the community. They could hold their head high with self-respect and the respect of their neighbors.

Move on up the scale of factory work complexity to the individual who has what is termed normal intelligence. They could perform more complex manufacturing jobs. They, too, could be proud of what they’d accomplished. Now, make two adjustments: First, the globalists took the low-skilled worker’s job from this country and gave it to workers in a developing country. The supply of low-skilled labor in the United States remained the same, but the demand for that labor declined. Next, take the demand for higher-skilled labor and move it out of the country as well. Again, demand for skilled labor is reduced, while the supply of that labor stagnates, causing the price to decline.

But wait! The globalist elites were not finished. The elites got their Washington political puppets in both parties to reduce the barriers to illegal immigration. A wave of new low-skilled labor came flooding over the border, with the political leadership paying scant attention to what the illegal workers were doing to the many legal citizens already reeling from being thrown out of work by the actions of these globalist elites. On top of less demand for labor, the globalists and their cronies created an even greater supply of labor, increasing the number of people scratching and competing for the fewer jobs left. Many of these out-of-work citizens and illegal immigrants live in urban areas. When you see the globalist-elites-with-guilty-consciences throw their shareholders’ money at these social justice organizations and the foundations funding the anarchists, understand the truth behind what is going on. Illegal immigrants are not rich, well-educated people with MBAs and CEO experience who can threaten the jobs of the elites themselves. These globalist elites-with-guilty-consciouses aren’t worried about all these new bodies reducing their paychecks and bonuses. The elites know the increased supply of low skill labor will keep their payroll costs down, thus raising their bonuses.

The anarchists want to destroy America and what it stands for. Peaceful protesting will always degenerate into mob behavior if laws are allowed to be ignored. What is going on today is not liberal versus conservative, Republican versus Democrat; it is globalists, who have been actively trying to disrupt the United States political system since November 2016, versus nationalists, who believe America and its unique culture of opportunity allows all citizens to succeed if they put their mind and spirit into the effort. We had all better understand what is going on because the bedrock of this country is being undermined.

Someone or some institution must expose the real money and power behind these destructive mobs trying to erase the history of the United States. Let’s hope the truth will be made public and not called racism or hate speech just because it is the truth.

¹ Barbara Crossette, “Taliban Explains Buddha Demolition,” New York Times, March19,2001,https:www.nytimes.com/2001/03/19/world/taliban-explains-buddha-demolition.html

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