Envisioning an American Duterte

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An old quote from Friedrich Hayek has been rolling around in my head for a little over a year: “Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. This was Hayek as quoted in 1981 after his trip to Pinochet’s Chile. He apparently liked much of what he saw, despite Pinochet’s autocratic rule. Pinochet enacted what I would term “liberty-oriented authoritarianism”, in the sense that a dictator holding consolidated power used this power to ‘impose’ freedom. I love it, actually. I love everything about this mode of government, and yes, I want it here. I have no faith in whatever this is that we currently endure.

Another quote has also echoed in mind, from the lips of Anton Chigurh: “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?” We’ve lived under Constitutionally-sound tyranny for decades. Every consolidation of power has been court-approved, every war, every new social program, every new spy agency. New taxes, new spending, lower standards of living, the future raped for present ephemeral benefit. We vote, we elect representatives, we listen to their godawful speeches and endure the sight of their ugly faces. Every single day. We tell ourselves that whatever happens must be alright, since it happened under the auspices of legal Constitutional action.

We have to admit that something has gone horribly wrong, and that maybe, just maybe, the solution doesn’t lie in the futile attempts to enforce the Constitution through our current form of government. Maybe, just maybe, an American Pinochet, a Yankee Duterte, would be more effective at enforcing the vision of our Founders. Imagine it, a 50-year term, an American hereditary royal dynasty, liberty as state religion. A handful of executive decisionmakers, rather than 535, who commit the worst sins while shifting blame to their colleagues.

America seems more than ever a world in waiting of genesis, if only someone would impose it. Not a past, but a future birth. An idea incubated but never fully realized.

Kirk’s security team changed into scrubs shortly after arriving at hospital

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I have it on good authority that it is unusual, bordering on impossible, that a hospital would give scrubs to anyone arriving at a hospital. So where did Kirk’s security team get the scrubs, and why change at all? There was very little blood in the suburban that drove Kirk’s body, and there was very little visible blood on anyone who carried him. What happened to their clothes, and why would they feel the need to get rid of them?

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Lost history: Between 1944-1948, 750 British soldiers killed in Palestine by Israeli terrorist groups

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Kind of amazing that this tidbit has been so utterly erased from the historical record. England operated in Palestine between 1920 and 1947 as part of the British Mandate to control what had been the Ottoman Empire, as well as ensure a Jewish State while protecting the large Palestinian population that had lived there for centuries. The 750 British soldiers and police were murdered at the hands of the Irgun, Lehi, and ‘Stern Gang’ Jewish terrorist groups over the course of 11 years, who became active towards the end of World War 2, and were intent on expelling the Palestinians and saw the British as an obstacle to that goal. Unfortunately, the seemingly unending terrorist attacks by the Jewish terrorist groups accomplished their goal, and the British left Palestine. It is no exaggeration to say that terrorism was first brought to the Middle East by the Zionist fanatics.

In one monstrous incident known as The Sergeant’s Affair, two British sergeants were kidnapped by the Irgun terrorist group and subsequently hanged from a eucalyptus tree as retribution for the executions of Lehi terrorists by the British.

Many of the worst terrorists went on to serve as the first Prime Ministers of the newly-created Jewish State, including Menachim Begin, who oversaw the Deir Yassin massacre.

To this day, England refuses to allow the 750 deaths to be officially commemorated.

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