Like many others, I had no kind or charitable thoughts for America in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. I was shocked but not surprised, and to me it seemed that an inevitability had come to pass that flowed naturally from the policies of the American government. Despite my lifelong love affair with the idea of America I had little idea of what America is, and like every other European I was deeply cynical about American sincerity, American generosity, American faith, American self-confidenc...

There's a useful history of terrorst strikes against America and her interests in the copy of Human Events for the week of July 31st 2006. ( Link ) I won't force those suffering from an aversion to Ann Coulter to read the article - these are the relevant details - but technically speaking this is not an actual quote. I've edited what she has to say in the interest of what I have to say; but I'm very happy to give the Diva of the Right full credit for everything enclosed in quotation ma...

Here's a couple of things you won't find on Fox or CNN: ( Link ) and ( Link ) Why are we fighting a war on two fronts at once, in Iraq and Afghanistan (ask the Germans about that - they tried it twice in the last century and failed miserably and catastrophically each time), and at the same time allowing Israel to stir up a hornet's nest of rage and racial hatred in a region of vital interest to us? I believe some comedian or other recently pointed out that America has poured milli...

Rightwinger, with whom I normally sympathise, recently posted an article ( Link ) concerning the current conflict in Lebanon. What follows is the comment I posted on that thread. Since I took a profoundly anti-Israeli, anti-Christian stance, I fully expect Rightwinger to delete my response from his thread (as he has every right to do). However, I am so incensed, so angered and revolted by the gist of what he had to say, so profoundly and utterly disgusted by the responses of KFC in parti...

Abu al-Zarqawi died, George Washington met him at the Pearly Gates. He slapped him across the face and yelled, "How dare you try to destroy the nation I helped conceive!" Patrick Henry approached, punched him in the nose and shouted, "You wanted to end our liberties but you failed!" James Madison followed, kicked him in the groin and said, "This is why I allowed our government to provide for the common defense!" Thomas Jefferson was next, beat al-Zarqawi with a long cane and snarled "I...

Sometime back in the late 70s or early 80s it was decided by then UK premiere, Margaret Thatcher (that bag of vile middle class prejudice) that the best way to halt the violence of the IRA and the 'loyalist' paramilitaries was to deny them what she called the 'oxygen of publicity'. In practice, this turned out to mean that Jerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein (the political organ of the IRA) could be shown on British TV, he could be shown to be speaking to the camera - but his voice could not ...

I've always believed, profoundly, that the principles of natural selection apply as much to the evolution of political societies as they do to the evolution of biological organisms. War is the architect of human society, and has been for at least the last ten thousand years of human sociability, since the first villages came together to defend crops and herd animals from nomadic hunter-gatherers - and from those of other villages who were not averse to supplementing their wealth, their presti...

Let's start with a few basic points. This article is written from the point of view of a Civil Authoritarian - not a fascist, not a communist, not a socialist - a Civil Authoritarian. In my view the State has primacy over the individual and is subject to no law but it's own. I reject out of hand any counter-arguments made on the basis of some mythical body of 'international law'. 'International Law' is a myth because the only supra-national body with even a remote claim to being able to enfor...

Let's imagine that a World Revolution has taken place (unlikely I know). And let's further imagine that, as a consequence, I have been made Universal Dictator and Lord Paramount of All Creation (even more unlikely, but still, let's imagine...). Here I am, on the first day of the New Era, snug as a bug in a rug on my Throne of Perpetual Rule contemplating what to do next. The first thing I'd do is annihilate, dissolve, and forever do away with any ordinance whether local, national, or inter...

What is the State? The State is an instrument of wider society. It's defining characteristic is possession of a monopoly on all forms of violence. The State has no morality, it has no purpose other than the perpetuation and extension of its own existence, and it has no conscience. Neither has it any rival. The State is not the government. In American terms the government is best described as 'The Administration'. The State is composed of Offices and Institutions. 'The Administration' is co...