Assassinations

What to look for in the years ahead.

Familiar now, isn’t it?

Yet another man with a rifle has made an attempt on the life of a U.S. presidential candidate, once more unsuccessfully.

For all the self-evident weirdness of the individual who made the effort, and the immediate subsequent convoluted claims from would-be influencers about Black Rock and CIA involvement wrapped up with Rothschilds and Ukraine as somehow behind it all, the simple matter is that assassination is now a publicly accepted progression of political action in our Age of Militants.

Don’t say I didn’t tell you we were headed here.

If you don’t believe it’s commonplace, simply ask General Qasem Soleimani.

On the other hand, you can’t. The United States assassinated him, an act of dubious legality under the laws and customs of war (killing a state official as retribution, rather than self-defense against imminent attack, in a third country, without that third country’s permission).

But there’s little concern about legality these days, one might think. After all, you could ask sixteen-year old Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, an American born in Denver.

Well, you can’t ask him either. The United States assassinated him, too.

But we’re not here today to debate the legalities of U.S. drone strikes, nor for that matter the legalities of assassination itself. The reality is that heads of state, be they kings or prime ministers, presidents or dictators, generally are not restrained in practical power if they seek to order targeted killing.

There may be paperwork, quite a bit of it downstream from the order-receiver, but those are formality hoops rather than practical barriers.

Do you think there is anyone who can effectively tell an American president, “you’re not allowed to kill that person” and make it stick?

How about making that declaration to Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation or Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China?

You’re not going to get anywhere other than instant eviction from a room you clearly didn’t belong in. Ultimately, the decision to order a specific individual’s death is a treasured emblem of office - and, in reality, a necessary attribute of statecraft from time to time.

Some people need killing, and there’s no way around that.

Political assassinations of state officials within the United States have been ongoing since 1815 with the shooting of David Ramsay, former delegate to the Continental Congress from South Carolina, by a deranged individual.

Yet we can all feel the tenor change in the American nation, those of us who live here and have seen the continued rhetoric of the Left with respect to President Trump.

I’m not aghast at it. They really do sincerely want him dead, mostly because at this point they realize that’s the only effective way to stop him from not respecting them, and also mostly because they really do sincerely think he’s Hitler.

Not because he is, but because they need to feel like they are stopping a Hitler.

They have nothing else, you see.

The greater their adversary, the more virtuous they can feel. And when all you have going for you is economic collapse, medical insanity, collective social idiocy and a nigh-collapsed political infrastructure married to a ferociously enraged and polarized population, you’ll take anything you can get to make it go away.

Doesn’t work, but that’s the evident thought process displayed.

Where does that leave the national discourse?

It’s already shattered, blown apart into twinkling shards of ludicrous pronouncements by febrile talking heads, “influencers” who desperately yearn to ascend with viral recognition of their “strategic insight”, and of course your average filthy Congressperson who bears as little relation to the term statesman as a masturbating bonobo does to a genuflecting saint.

You, the American, the common man, the militant, perhaps even the insurgent in days to come - you had best get your head on straight about some real facts related to assassination.

First, it works.

When you kill them, they are dead, and what they brought to the table is over.

You can lionize or make martyrs of them, elevate them to worshipful memory, but their brilliance or intransigence, most likely both, isn’t present any longer to deliberately shape history through full explication of duty by conscious direction.

Second, it’s not terribly difficult.

There is a terrific video out there of an apparent former operator, with reasonably credible background and proffered credentials, who attempts to explain how the first would-be assassin of President Trump was able to penetrate the hardened perimeter, the high-tech surveillance, the scores of law enforcement and Secret Service and all the massive operational machines of expertise tasked with stopping him.

He shrugged, and explained the delightful truth with two lovely and simple words:

He tried.

And that’s all it takes in real life where the metal meets the meat, as the saying goes.

It doesn’t take massive competence. It doesn’t demand superb coherence, nor does it require much in the way of capacity.

You just have to try.

Enough men try, and there you have it. “They” only have to succeed once.

It’s not a terribly high threshold for execution.

Most of all - and the rather sobering point I wish all of you to understand from this post - is that poorly capable, incoherent men who lack competence are all over the place and they do not represent a challenge for tipping into pursuit of immortal virtue signal.

They don’t even have to be deranged.

One looks at the recent shooter in Florida, hunting down The Donald on the golf course, and it’s quite obvious he’s not all there. But that’s besides the point, really.

There are quite lot more of them; they don’t really have the ability to think through the tumbling narratives of the day; and they wouldn’t want to if they could.

Why would they, when immortality born from a desperately heroic act to save the world is the stupidly envisioned prize?

Expect to see more of this, and to see it level downwards.

It’s easier to kill your local Congressman than the President.

It’s simpler to kill your town manager than your state representative.

Once there’s enough of the easy pickings, it degenerates into a free-for-all.

Antifa looks forward to it.

The Hard Right looks forward to it.

The various permutated ideological groups around the country look forward to it.

It is quicker and easier to kill, than it is to solve problems the long way.

Killing does solve the problem, you see, and also spreads warning and fear.

Stupid people bask in these things, for the sense of power that results is seductive.

Back to the glamour of the treasured emblem!

You’ve really arrived when you can order deaths, haven’t you?

Even when you’re only ordering yourself.

Everyone wants to arrive, today.

Be very aware how widespread that feeling is.

Be acutely cognizant of the democratization of wet work.

Look for it in your towns and cities.

Look for it in the eyes of your neighbors.

It is there, and they are thinking about it.

That’s just human nature.

You’ve thought about it yourself, haven’t you?

Don’t lie.

In your heart you have asked yourself whether.

In your mind you have contemplated how.

What is missing is the why, for that’s already long decided:

1. It works.

2. All you have to do is try.

And with this all said, it is very important that you not consider yourself an outlier; an unusual indicia on the human bell curve; or as special because you have thought of it.

So has everyone else.

They will be thinking about it more, in the days ahead.

They won’t be asking why.

They will be weighing whether, and contemplating the how with varying degrees of seriousness.

You know it, and I know it.

We all know it.

And to the degree that men of capacity, coherence, and competence make their decisions on targeted killing over the next several years in the affirmative, we’ll see history shift just like it always does, always has, when Fate goes bang and reaches out with an eviscerating finger.

I am Ivan Throne.

I tell you this day that you’ll see more targeted killing attempts, with less apparent reason, and less abashed celebration, for people have simply lost patience with civilization.

It hasn’t worked that well for the last fifty years or so, has it?

Hence our Age of Militants is in rapacious unfolding flower.

Simply get used to it. Start observing it without aghast consternation, and instead understand that it’s not just “narratives” or “rhetoric” that “inflame” the “passions” of “deranged” people.

It’s that dark and broken time again, and that’s how it’s going to play out for quite a long period.

Everything has its arc, its apsis, and you will do well to recognize where the pendulum moves at any point in time.

It’s not going to slow down any time soon.

Therefore be of good cheer!

It’s an equal playing table, an fair field of contest, and you’re going to get a terrific show as Men on Earth under Heaven seize power from rotted States.

I didn’t light the fire, start the War, or summon the Adversary.

But I am in it, just as all of you are, and therefore the Company exists to take advantage of the times, and lead men through the darker aspects with hope based on truth, and knowledge of truth.

That truth is that hierarchy, order, and beauty are real and will return.

You must place your conscience, freedom, and dignity as higher than your fear.

Survival, momentum, and triumph are yours to seize, just as the future is yours to seize by right if you will only get up and walk.

Watch for rifles in the windows.

They are there, and there will be more.

Recently the Company released our complimentary Militant Rank assessment.

I’d recommend you take it, and see how you perform on the survival scale.

And if you have existential gaps to close where you are concerned in these dreadful days of tumult and strife, remember our value:

Fuck you, fix it.

And that is all.

Grand rising!