90 Miles From Tyranny

Thursday, November 18, 2021

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #1541

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,

from the beautiful to the repugnant,

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,

you could be inspired, you could be appalled.

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.

You have been warned.

BEASTMODE: Boebert Lets Loose on Swalwell, ‘Jihad Squad Member’ Omar

Girls With Guns

As The Necromancer Grows In Power And Control, We Must Journey Out And Conquer This Totalitarian Evil.

As grey traces of dawn tinge the eastern sky, the three travelers, men of Willow Dale, emerge from the forest shadow. Fording the River Dawn, they turn south, journeying into the dark and forbidding lands of the Necromancer. Even now the intensity of his dread power can be felt, weakening the body and saddening the heart. Ultimately they will become empty, mindless spectres. Stripped of will and soul. Only a thirst for freedom gives them hunger for vengeance…

Silence shrouds the forest

As the birds announce the dawn

Three travelers ford the river

And southward journey on

The road is lined with peril

The air is charged with fear

The shadow of his nearness

Weighs like iron tears

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #68

Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #67

Kyle Rittenhouse Asked To Step Outside And Defend The Courthouse While Verdict Is Read...

Lol!:

If you haven’t figured it out yet, you are the final check in our Constitution’s checks and balances. Get up, there’s work to do!

Earlier this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a pre-dawn raid on the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the investigative journalism organization Project Veritas. The FBI was reportedly searching for a diary allegedly stolen from Ashley Biden, daughter of Joe Biden. The diary, which up until that point had not been authenticated, reportedly contained allegations of sexual improprieties within, and among, the Biden family.

Project Veritas had received the diary from an unknown source. After unsuccessfully attempting to authenticate the document, the organization decided not to report on the contents, subsequently turning the diary over to the police. At 6 a.m. on Saturday, November 6, the FBI raided O’Keefe’s home, handcuffed him in his underwear, and seized his cell phones and other electronic media. Less than a week later, the FBI leaked the contents of O’Keefe’s electronic devices to the New York Times, which is a defendant in an already existing defamation lawsuit brought by O’Keefe and Project Veritas.

Exactly why the FBI felt the need to conduct a pre-dawn raid on a journalist, then leak the contents of the material it seized, is unknown. O’Keefe was fully cooperating with law enforcement regarding the diary and was not a threat or a suspect in a crime. Instead, the predawn raid appears to be a blatant effort at intimidation and harassment of an investigative journalist who has repeatedly exposed the corruption of Washington’s ruling class. The raid violated O’Keefe’s First and Fourth Amendment rights and sent a strong signal to other journalists that crossing the Biden regime will have undesirable consequences.

Separately, in the ongoing saga of the January 6 political prisoners, on November 2 the U.S. Marshals Service said it would remove 400 federal inmates from the Washington, D.C. jail after a surprise inspection revealed the jail did not meet minimum correctional facility standards. These January 6 prisoners are in pre-trial confinement for misdemeanor charges—held without bail on the basis of their political affiliation. In some cases, prosecutors have claimed they are a threat to public safety because they are veterans of the U.S. armed forces. (Let that sink in—because they are veterans who served this country, they are being denied their constitutional rights.)

The U.S. Marshals and civil rights attorneys are now conducting a review of D.C. jail operations after District Judge Royce Lamberth referred the January 6 prisoners’ treatment to the Justice Department for a civil rights investigation. Earlier in October, Lamberth had placed top officials in the U.S. Department of Corrections in contempt for routinely violating the rights of the January 6 prisoners. Lamberth accused the officials of denying medical care to the prisoners and preventing them from meeting with their attorneys or reviewing legal discovery documents. The January 6 prisoners have claimed brutal treatment from D.C. jail corrections officers to include beatings, withholding food and water, and punitive solitary confinement.

Last week, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a federal court injunction against Biden’s vaccine mandate. Biden’s original vaccine mandate covering businesses with over 100 employees was the subject of a temporary injunction after Attorneys General from Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah challenged the statutory and constitutional legitimacy of the mandate. Following the injunction, Biden ordered businesses to ignore the court order and proceed with the mandate or face...

Culture Wars and the Degradation of Language

Like truth, the integrity of words is another casualty of war.

From Thucydides to George Orwell, the degradation of language during war and political conflict has been recognized. As Thucydides wrote of the brutal and violent civil war in Corcyra, “Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.” Like truth, the integrity of language is also a first casualties in culture wars.

The culture war that has been waged for over half a century––and is now reaching a destructive absurdity in “wokism,” “cancel culture,” and blatant censorship and suppression of free speech––has made debased language one of its most important weapons. So insidious has been this process that even conservatives opposed to the progressive left’s illiberal and unconstitutional excesses legitimize these transformations of language by using that ideologically corrupted vocabulary.

Take, for example, using the word “gender” instead of “sex.” First introduced in the Fifties by sexologist and suspected pedophile John Money, this change in usage was popularized in the Sixties to reinforce the dubious idea that sex-identity is not binary by nature, but comprises multiple variations, just as linguistic gender is not restricted to masculine or feminine, but can classify nouns by other qualities such as “animate” or “inanimate.” Male and female, masculine and feminine thus are not facts of nature, but social, cultural, and political “constructs” that serve the interests of the prevailing regime of power.

In other words, using the word “gender” to mean “sex” insidiously reinforces the constructivist ideology underlying as well Marxist theory and its antihumanist economic and political determinism. It also gratifies modernity’s fatal hubristic conceit: that human reality can be manipulated, changed, and reinvented at will by “technicians of the soul,” as Stalin called the self-proclaimed improvers of human nature.

One malign fruit of this bad idea is the transgender movement, the destructive consequences of which include...