Do They Understand The Possible Consequences?

Yesterday, Don Lemon and fellow anti-ICE revolutionaries raided a church in order to intimidate the local ICE administrator (who was also the pastor of the church). Today I came across other incidents showing that the anti-ICE people in Minneapolis are getting out of control: bulling and shouting obscenities at five white men simply because they were white; stealing equipment from a conservative reporter; attacking a man simply for wearing camo (and not the type used by military or law enforcement--it was like that used by duck hunters because the pattern mimics reeds and grass); and threatening and attacking a man with violence unless he took off an American flag hoodie and then stealing it after he had done so. 

    They want a revolution. Whether they get one or not is another question. But the point is that they are pushing to create some political break, possibly causing a civil war. I am reminded of Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" which starts out with a town overtaken with the thoughts of the glory of war, reflected by the prayer offered up by the minister of the town's church. But then a stranger walks to the pulpit to offer a very different prayer:

    “You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it — that part which the pastor — and also you in your hearts — fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ … When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory–must follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!

    “O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.

    (After a pause.) “Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire it, speak! The messenger of the Most High waits!”    

This is what the Leftist agitators secretly hope for anyone to the right of them.  

    But in a civil war--especially as one that falls along ideological rather than geographic divides--the innocent on both sides will be slaughtered and suffer.  Jack Lawson reminds us of this in his recent piece describing what an American civil war would be like. He writes:

    I’ve seen hundreds if not thousands of dead and probably more internal Human Anatomy than most medical surgeons. The blood thirsty revenge of black Rhodesian Army and Police torturing the Communists to death… for killing and torturing to death their children, siblings, parents and grandparents in their Tribal Trust Lands. God forbid you get between a Mashona or Matabele Warrior in his quest for vengeance. We soon had to be careful who we turned our prisoners over to.

    Bodies callously and without name, unceremoniously pushed into mass grave. I’ve witnessed the poverty, starvation, brutality. Enough killing, dying, barbarity and depravity for another twenty people’s lifetimes. I hope that never comes here. But such is the mad course of events that America’s ‘protestors’ are leading us to.

Beyond the killing, food will become a weapon:

    When it gets to food, you’ll quickly get ‘woke’ (up) to the Leftist’s (Communists) tactics. Because, food is a weapon and when you’re starving, you won’t care who is feeding you and your family. You’ll fight for the devil himself to keep eating. Again, food becomes a weapon. Read my essay “Store Food NOW!” on http:/JackLawsonBooks.Substack.com to understand how this weapon is used.

    The “I hate America!” Socialist stooges, enthusiastically continue, are funded by the background financial assistance and encouragement of the Deep State-Globalist-Elite-Leftist-Marxist-Internationals-One World Order-Woke & Whackos. They, along with the “Talking Heads” of the Main Stream News Media, will be persuading people to think… “Capitalism can’t provide for you, but Socialism (Communism) can!” …as their way to get total control of America. Socialism is Communism, without the gun barrel stuck up your nose.

    Then, how they’ll obtain supplies will be barbaric and they’ll supply only their own believers and those who support them. You’ll have to kiss many tushes to survive if you’re not one of them… and that will probably not work. Letting them rape your Wife, girlfriend or Daughters might get you somewhere.   

But this type of behavior will cut both ways. The Tactical Hermit has a couple recent posts on the Civil War that allude to the barbarity of it all. First, "The Burning of Alexandria," which relates how a Union army forced to retreat "devastated the countryside, burning every habitation. They stole everything that could be carried." The second relates some about a Southern guerilla fighter, "Bloody Bill" Anderson. 

William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson was quite the gifted psychopath. The deadliest Confederate guerilla leader of the American Civil War, Anderson led his ruthless mob of cutthroats on a reign of terror along the rugged Kansas–Missouri border and killed hundreds along the way. The path Bloody Bill took from a well-behaved, respectful child to an inveterate butcher and rapist is a study in human depravity.    

A better case study for what a second American civil war would be like is perhaps the 30 Years War:

    Before the First World War, it was known as the most destructive conflict in European history – responsible for the loss of as much as 40 per cent of the German population, which according to some estimates may have fallen in the years between 1618 and 1648 from around 20 million to 12 million. This immense human toll as a result of battle, famine, and disease would scar the continent for centuries – so that some historians describe it as the greatest trauma in German history.

    But as well as being horrific in terms of the sheer numbers of casualties inflicted and lives destroyed, the Thirty Years’ War was also horrific for the manner in which it was conducted. As the large number of surviving eyewitness accounts attest, this was a war of attrition, in which civilians often found themselves on the front line. Massacres such as that during the Sack of Magdeburg – the conflict’s worst atrocity, which left up to 20,000 of the city’s 25,000 Protestant inhabitants dead – were conducted without mercy. Huge numbers of refugees were also created, as neighbours were pitched against each other, and entire areas of the country were laid waste.