In the US there have generally been two ways to deal with the ‘other’.
One is the Yankee/New England way of no toleration: Everyone from internal dissenters like the antinomians (Anne Hutchinson) and Baptists (Roger Williams) to later arrivals like the Irish Catholic immigrants were persecuted by them.
The other is the Southern way, a wide toleration of views so long as they did not upset the inherited agrarian Christian social order. Thus, non-Christian philosophers (Thomas Jefferson), Jews (Judah Benjamin), strict Protestants (Rev. Robert Lewis Dabney), French and Spanish Catholics, and others all got along quite well at Dixie’s big barbeque table.
This business about the Ukraine, however, is pressing many in the US and a great part of the West into the Yankee mold, and, because of that, taking us down paths we will regret getting onto.
Let’s take a look at some of them:
-The US federal government and the EU are barring their citizens from accessing Russian media sources and web sites.
Considering how these same governments have consistently lied and withheld information about covid from us, this should be alarming, especially so now that a new revelation has shown that media companies of the Left and Right were bought off with Biden bucks to push pro-covid vaxx stories to their patrons. Shutting off our access to information sources sets a dangerous precedent. We should be able to sift through ALL sources and make up our own minds.
-The Ukraine is a nest of corruption and Pres. Zelensky is part of the globalist cabal.
The West is giving aid to a very unsavory group of people. Pres. Zelensky is an admirer of Canadian tyrant Justin Trudeau and also has his own profile at the web site of the globalist World Economic Forum. He is also a liar. Chris Menahan put it bluntly enough; here is just a taste:
Zelensky is a serial liar and a con man who is doing everything in his power to drag this war on and get as many Ukrainian civilians killed for propaganda purposes to try to justify Western intervention.
Zelensky lied about the first nuclear plant incident, he lied about the second nuclear plant incident, he lied about Snake Island and he lied about Russia attacking a Holocaust memorial.
As many have pointed out as well, the Biden family has all kinds of corrupt business dealings with the Ukraine.
And there are also the neo-Nazi connections. Lev Golinkin writes,
Azov’s neo-Nazi character has been covered by the New York Times, the Guardian, the BBC, the Telegraph and Reuters, among others. On-the-ground journalists from established Western media outlets have written of witnessing SS runes, swastikas, torchlight marches, and Nazi salutes. They interviewed Azov soldiers who readily acknowledged being neo-Nazis. They filed these reports under unambiguous headlines such as “How many neo-Nazis is the U.S. backing in Ukraine?” and “Volunteer Ukrainian unit includes Nazis.”
Is this a country in which we want to heavily invest with our moral and material support?
-Due process is being eroded.
The anti-Russia hysteria being whipped up by the media and politicians violates the ancient English common law principles honored so highly here in the States that one is to be presumed innocent and not liable to punishment until a jury trial has been held. However, lots of innocent people, from Orthodox Christians in Calgary, Canada, to a music conductor in Munich, Germany, are being summarily punished (persecuted) without due process in violation of those principles for very flimsy reasons – because they are Russian or associated with Russians, and/or because they engaged in wrongthink regarding the war in the Ukraine.
Whatever violations we allow to happen to these civilians who are guilty of no crime at all will be used against innocent Americans in the future (just as the Patriot Act was presented as a tool to catch Muslim terrorists but has wound up being used as a way to silence anyone who’s political philosophy is to the right of Chuck Schumer).
-All the rightful anger built up at government officials and institutions over their mishandling of covid, pushing LGBT garbage onto school children, inflation, etc., is being redirected and spent upon Russia, to the great glee of the ruling class. The great GOP tsunami that was supposed to sweep across the States this fall may end up looking more like half-full creek after a short spring shower if folks aren’t careful.
Not so long ago, anyone who said ‘All Lives Matter’ instead of ‘Black Lives Matter’ was branded a racist. The fury of BLM has subsided somewhat, but the malevolent spirit behind it has come raging back to life in a new movement we might call ‘Ukrainian Lives Matter’. Now, if anyone says ‘Russian Lives Matter’, or claims to see any beauty and goodness at all in Russian culture and history, such a one is treated as an outcast from society.
The States went through a period similar to this one, of Yankee-led anti-French hysteria in that case, under the John Adams presidency, leading to the Alien and Sedition Acts, which, again similar to our own circumstances, violated long-standing English customs by outlawing the criticism of the federal government. Thomas Jefferson, writing to his fellow Virginian John Taylor, expressed his hope that the ‘reign of witches’ would soon end: ‘A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it’s true principles.’ We, too, should hope that this current wave of anti-Russian hysteria will end soon, lest we lose ever more of our good traditions and virtues to censorship, fear, hate, etc.
To hasten its end, we must try to pry open our cold, stony hearts so we can love everyone and retain what good customs remain to us. Father Zacharias, abbot of the St John the Baptist Monastery in Essex, England, exhorts us with these words:
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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2022/03/garlington-ukraine-war-response-is-helping-the-globalists/.
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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