Nation Revisited # 197 March 2023

Bad Language

 

Vic Sarson wrote an article for European Outlook # 72 entitled 'Language and Thinking'. His key point was:

If peoples' thinking is determined by language, and if language is corrupted and debased, confusing their understanding of anything and everything, then it's easy to control what they think, especially when 'political correctness' is applied.

This view has been endorsed by many writers over the years including Ezra Pound (pictured) the award-winning poet, linguist, and economist who broadcasted for Fascist Italy during the war and was confined to a mental hospital for 13 years by a vengeful America. Pound's most controversial and allegedly anti-Semitic poem is Canto XLV, which is about 'Usura', the usurer, the destroyer of everything noble and beautiful. It never mentioned the Jews but they still took offence. 

Legal documents such as wills and contracts are written in precise language. We don't use such language in everyday speech but devious politicians and journalists take advantage of this to twist words to their own advantage. They have hijacked certain words and phrases to excuse criminals and demonize their critics. According to these twisters, if you prefer the company of your own people you are a 'racist', if you value the traditional family you are 'homophobic', if you criticise parliamentary democracy you are a 'fascist', if you question economic policy you are part of the 'anti-growth coalition', and if you condemn the Israeli occupation of Palestine you are 'anti-Semitic'. But tax evaders are now ''tax avoiders' and crooks are 'entrepreneurs'.

It's bad enough to be insulted without running the risk of prosecution. The fanatics of the race relations industry, including the police and the guardians of social media, will pounce on dissidents who say anything that could be considered 'racists', but they can't touch us if we choose our words carefully. We shouldn't have to submit to this kind of censorship but in today's climate of 'political correctness' it's important that we say what we mean and we mean what we say. 

The State is using anti-terrorist legislation to silence opposition, just as they did in 1940 when they used Defence Regulation 18B to detain peace campaigners without charge or trial. This Act was passed to counter the IRA but it was used against Britons who posed no threat to security.

Kris O'Donnellan

I have been in touch with Kris O'Donnellan for almost 20 years. We were both early Facebook fans who shared a passion for communication. Many people are suspicious of Facebook but it's what you make it. Kris is a long-standing European Nationalist from California with a clear understanding of world politics. He posted the following statement in October 2022:

Enemies on The Left and Right alike Neocons/'Conservative' apologists for bankers and the transnational corporations on one side and nutty, vicious, woke leftists who hate everything normal and traditional or Western/European. The disgusting scribblers of Silicon Valley and in Hollywood orchestrate and celebrate this 'transformation' of Somwheres into Nowheres. The main enemies of average Americans have always been domestic and not in Moscow, Beijing or Tehran. Know your social, and class/economic enemies.

The following dialogue is from November 2022.

Kris O'Donnellan. What do you think of Red Toryism and Blue Labour? While these are marginal currently in terms of influence do you think these might gain traction as conditions for average people deteriorate and wokeness gets crazier?

Bill Baillie. I dont know what to think. I am an old fashioned fascist who believes in God, King and Country. I detest both left and right. I only hope that they will destroy each other.

Kris O'Donnellan. I have been involved in Nationalism' since age 14 here in the US, so for about 40 years now. I was never much of a 'conservative' and indeed attracted initially to the far left though their anti-white, anti-western position and hostility to the white working class repelled me.

I followed the Nationalist scene in Britain for decades starting with Tyndall's Spearhead, which believe it or not, University of Los Angeles, California library had a subscription to in the 80s. I was also interested in the Political Soldier Wing of the National Front (Holland, Harrington, Griffin) and read their publications like NF News and Nationalism Today.

I always found Mosley, the BUF, and post-war Union Movement very interesting and appealing. Had I lived in the Britain of the 1930s would definitely have been a Blackshirt.

I have always been pan-European in outlook rather than petty nationalist so the ideas of Yockey, Thiriart and Mosley were very appealing from the time I discovered them in the 80s and still to this day.

 Another Fine Mess

When Laurel and Hardy got into trouble it was always described as "Another Fine Mess." The UK is in just such a mess but it's no laughing matter. Nearly all our public service workers; doctors, nurses, firefighters, railwaymen, bus drivers, teachers, lecturers, and postmen are on strike for more pay. Our economy is shrinking, we have a desperate skilled labour shortage, inflation is running at 10%, immigration is out of control, the housing crisis is getting worse, the Northern Ireland Protocol has just been renegotiated, and people have lost confidence in our overpaid and incompetent politicians. 

Kier Starmer the moderate leader of the Labour Party expects to take over at the next general election but he can hardly be looking forward to it. Britain's long standing problems are the result of years of laisez faire government and poor decision making. They will not be put right quickly.

The recent turnover of Cabinet Ministers has added to the chaos. They are not in office long enough to get used to the job before they are sacked or reshuffled. The only good thing is their colourful private lives that are a constant source of amusement, and their dodgy financial dealings that keep the fraud squad busy.

Britain has gone through some terrible times. We survived the First World War, the Great Depression, The Second World War, the collapse of the British Empire and the transformation of our United Kingdom into a disunited dependency of the United States. But the stresses and strains of this brutal upheaval have left us broken and battered.

Whoever takes over at the next general election will need to balance the budget and make a determined effort to reduce our National Debt. There are no short cuts. Taxes will have to rise and public spending will have to fall. We will also have to negotiate a sensible trade deal with Europe instead of waving flags and spouting nationalist slogans.

Economic theories are good subjects for student debating societies but we live in the real world where we have to follow the rules of the game. We have to start paying off our £2.4 trillion National Debt in order to maintain Market confidence and sell the government bonds that keep us afloat. When we achieve national solvency we can think about social credit, or syndicalism, but until then we will have to work hard, keep out of foreign wars, and stop wasting money by pretending to be a great world power.

The billions of pounds of taxpayers' money that we are giving to the Zelensky regime in Ukraine would help to pay the nurses, and so would the billions we give away in foreign aid. All nations are corrupt to some extent but Ukraine, according to Ernst & Young, is the third most corrupt nation in the world after Colombia and Brazil.

History Repeats Itself

A few years ago my friend Brenda died. Her estate was eventually sorted out but at one time it looked like I would have to pay for her funeral. When a young man asked me why I should pay the bill, I told him that it was my duty to do so, but he didn't understand the concept of duty.

It's hardly surprising that the younger generation are so ignorant. The latest census revealed that Christianity is now a minority religion in England and Wales. Another anchor has gone. We have lost our Queen and it remains to be seen if her son Charles can maintain the ancient tradition of monarchy. As more and more immigrants arrive from all over the world we are losing our sense of identity, but instead of protesting our useless politicians are falling over themselves to 'celebrate diversity'.

When I was a kid most men had served in the armed forces and everyone was used to discipline. The British Empire was rapidly collapsing but we were still a major industrial power. People in those days understood 'duty' and few questioned our institutions. We respected our elders, our teachers, the police and authority in general. Unfortunately, those days are gone. Today, we have largely forgotten our traditions and embraced liberal capitalism; a sad and selfish mixture of greed and envy. 

Our national culture evolved over centuries. God, King and Country may be old-fashioned concepts but they served us well. I doubt that we will be any happier for abandoning them.

But history repeats itself. Just over a hundred years ago the Bolsheviks killed Tsar Nicholas (pictured) and his family. They confiscated the wealth of the country and attempted to wipe out the Russian Orthodox Church. They installed a dictatorship that was supposed to meet all the needs of the people, but just like the French Revolution, the Russian experiment turned into a bloody nightmare. At present the Russians are engaged in a fratricidal war with their Ukrainian cousins, but this unnecessary conflict will eventually be resolved.

Russia's elected leader, Vladimir Putin, who is very close to the Russian Orthodox Church, has apologised for the murder of the Romanovs. The trappings of the Russian Empire have been reinstated; the Red Flag has been replaced by the red, white, and blue tricolour, the national anthem has been re-written, the imperial eagle has supplanted the hammer and sickle and it's even possible that the monarchy might be restored at some time in the future.

With God's help we will follow in Russia's footsteps and return to our roots. I don't regret the passing of some of our traditions, and I know that change must happen, but we have lost so many of our signposts that we no longer know where we are or where we are going.

Five Questions Answered # 22 John Beattie

We asked our readers five questions; Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could direct government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to be remembered?

So far we have had 22 replies from across the patriotic spectrum; John Bean, Robert Edwards, Bill Baillie, Michael Woodbridge, Eddy Morrison, Robert Best, Lette Baldacchino, Alexander Morana, Rufus, Pete Williamson, Claire Khaw, Jane Edwards, Vic Sarson, Jez Turner, Michael Walsh, Seth Tryssen, Ahmed, Nick Maybury, Jeff Wallder, Dennis Whiting, Gary Raikes, John Beattie.

Please send your replies to: nationrevisited@gmail.com 

John Beattie was born in 1942 in Toronto. In the mid-sixties he established the Canadian National Socialist Party which resulted in him being assaulted by 'antifascists' and imprisoned by the Canadian authorities. He studied law at Toronto University and qualified as a paralegal. In 2014 he stood as deputy reeve (chief executive) for Minden Hills. He said at the time:

"A person with my strong views for our race globally, especially those of British stock, why would I be pinning down to a little village? First off, this village is still Anglo-Saxon. Hidden away in cottage country, Ontario, Canada - 98% white, whiter than the driven snow.

I don't see any non-whites. I don't cater to the couple of Asian-descended stores so I don't see a non-white all winter. In the eight weeks of summer season, yes, you get the flood from the city of non-whites or whatever.

There is a big difference between being proud of your white British-Canadian heritage and being a Nazi." 

He now concentrates on his Dinosaur News website and his You Tube channel. 

http://britishpeoplesleague.com

Who are you?

British-Canadian White Patriot.

What do you believe in?

The basic decency of Our White Race.

If you could direct government policy, what would you do?

Equal but total racial segregation.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

Proud of my White Patriotic Activism / Regret being blindly suckered by Zionists losing seven years of my youth.

How would you like to be remembered?

Exposing Zionism.

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Nation Revisited # 156 October 2019

Propaganda

The word 'propaganda' is usually associated with tyrannical regimes but it was originally a function of the Catholic Church. It simply means information.

Dr Joseph Goebbels was the Minister of 'Propaganda and Enlightenment' who organised the world's biggest advertising campaign for the 1933 German general election. He used rallies, posters, cinema, newspapers and radio; and he would certainly have used television but it only started in Berlin in 1935.  His efforts were rewarded when Adolf Hitler was returned as Chancellor of Germany.

The success of the Nazi campaign ensured that propaganda would play a massive part in the Second World War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. It reached the peak of mendacity in 2003 when British prime minister Tony Blair warned that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had 'weapons of mass destruction'. It turned out that he had no such weapons. 

Methods of communication have improved over the years. Martin Luther nailed his thesis to the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg and changed the world. Benito Mussolini came to power at the head of a mass movement. He led the March on Rome and was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel 111. Meetings and demonstrations still have their place but the Internet is now our chosen method of propaganda. It's not completely free of censorship but Facebook and Twitter only ban persistent offenders. 

A young Bill Baillie (pictured) campaigning for John Bean's British National Party in the 1964 general election. We were not an insular nationalist party, we believed in European solidarity and social justice. I went overseas in 1965 and came home in 1970, by which time we had been taken over by the National Front and our progressive policies had been dumped. I therefore joined Union Movement and embraced Oswald Mosley's vision of 'Europe a Nation'.

Social media sites are very effective. President Donald Trump entertains his 55 million followers on Twitter and most politicians are regular tweeters.

Newspapers and magazines are expensive to print and distribute but websites are affordable and we can reach more people on the Internet than we did in the old days by putting leaflets through letterboxes or selling newspapers on street corners. The mass media shapes public opinion and the State uses repressive legislation to silence us but we can fight back by using the Internet.

Perseverance is the name of the game. Immigration used to be a taboo subject but, thanks to our persistence it is now openly discussed. So carry on posting on Facebook and Twitter. Let our voices be heard.

The Future is Electric

Petrol and diesel cars are being phased out to reduce pollution. At present electric cars are too expensive but prices are expected to drop as demand increases. Pollution from petrol and diesel cars is killing us but legislation is being passed to clean up the atmosphere. Electric cars will not pollute the atmosphere with exhaust fumes but they need to recharge their batteries with electricity. We have been using coal to generate electricity for over a hundred years but we now know that it's a dangerous pollutant. I wrote the following optimistic piece for my duplicated newsletter 'Nation' in 1974:

" We are fortunate to have a vast wealth of natural resources here in Britain. Our coalfields, properly managed, would provide enough fuel to fire power stations and provide ample electricity for all our needs. It is difficult to get a true idea of the amount of coal in the ground of Britain. Most experts put this figure at about one hundred years supply, but recent finds might double this estimate. What's more, improved methods of burning coal more cleanly and efficiently are being developed".

Clean coal technology was perfected in the Eighties but it was too expensive. Nuclear power was supposed to be the cheapest way to generate electricity but since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the Fukushima disaster of 2011 it has proved to be the dearest and most dangerous method. When the cost of decommissioning and the storage of radioactive waste is calculated, nuclear power is unaffordable. 

We are using various methods to generate electricity, including; gas, wind, tidal, hydro, solar, and geothermal. And we are burning renewable fuels such as biomass. Coal is too dirty, nuclear is too expensive and dangerous, and wind power is unreliable. But our scientists will find a reliable way to generate power without poisoning ourselves.

Nations will be forced to protect the environment by international consensus. Brazil was forced to mobilise the army to put out the Amazon fires after France threatened to halt a massive trade deal between the EU and Mercosur, the South American Common Market.

President Donald Trump wants to burn coal because it keeps his coalminers working, but it damages their lungs and pollutes the air we breath. Even the Chinese and the Indians are starting to worry about pollution.


A Vision of the Future

The Nazis were as divided over Europe as the politicians of today. Regrettably, racism dominated the Third Reich. Adolf Hitler saw the Second World War as a conflict between the Nordic 'Master Race' and the Jews, but Joseph Goebbels, his down-to-earth Minister of Propaganda, saw it as a battle between ideas rather than tribes. In his remarkable speech 'Europe in the year 2000', he said:

"Europeans are more and more realizing that our differences are only family squabbles when measured against the vast problems that the continent must solve. I am convinced that just as we look back with some amusement on the narrow-minded conflicts between German provinces in the 1840s and 1850s, our posterity in fifty years will look back with similar amusement on what is going on today in Europe. They will see the "dramatic battles between nations" of small European states as family squabbles. I am convinced that in fifty years we will no longer think in terms of nations, but of continents and that the entirely different, and perhaps much larger, problems will concern Europe."

To make Joseph Goebbels' prediction come true we must embrace his vision of Europe. That may seem difficult at the moment but political systems do not last forever. The Soviet Union defeated the armed might of Nazi Germany but collapsed, almost without a struggle, in 1990. The European Union is a work in progress. The UK has voted to leave it but we will still be Europeans by race, culture and geography, and our future will still be linked to the mainland. Whatever happens, Europe will continue to develop and the current Brexit fiasco will be seen as just a temporary aberration. 

History Repeats Itself

The cyclical theory holds that history repeats itself. We know that periods of liberalism and prosperity lead to recession, which gives rise to revolutionary movements, followed by war and authoritarian regimes. This pattern has been repeated over and over again, from the Roman Empire to the present day.

We must, therefore, ask ourselves if there's any point in trying to make a better world? The answer is yes, because we are born with the instinct of self preservation.

To get where we are today we had to struggle; against the Ice Age, warring tribes, hunger, and disease. But instead of freezing to death we invented clothing, to overcome hostile tribes we formed ourselves into nations, to feed ourselves we developed agriculture, and to keep ourselves healthy we discovered medicine and hygiene. It's our nature to struggle against adversity. We must not allow political and  religious dogma to subvert our basic instincts.

Political  and religious leaders always start out with good intentions. They do not want to make life miserable for their people. But every political and religious ideology has resulted in Spanish Inquisitions, concentration camps, and Gulags. 

Loseb Jughashvili (pictured) was training to be a priest until he quit the seminary, changed his name to Joseph Stalin and became a ruthless dictator. He was an 'idealist' who wanted freedom and justice for the down-trodden subjects of Czar Nicholas Romanov. He transformed the old Russian Empire into the Soviet Union and he almost caught up with the West in scientific and  industrial development when in 1941 his country was attacked by Adolf Hitler; another 'visionary' with a head full of nonsense. Joseph Stalin's achievements were formidable; he modernised the Soviet Union and led its people to victory, but he ruled by terror and murdered millions. 

If the cyclical theory of history is correct we are in the terminal stage of liberal capitalism and approaching economic disaster. President Donald Trump and prime minister Boris Johnson may figure in this Divine Comedy. Only time will tell.

Another Myth Exposed

The 'Morgenthau Plan' to exterminate the Germans is part of the far-Right's mythology. Henry J Morgenthau (pictured) was the US Treasury Secretary during World War Two. His plan to de-industrialise Germany to stop them from starting another war, was never taken seriously. It was the anthropologist Prof Albert Hooton who proposed selective breeding to pacify a belligerent German nation.

Colin Liddell writing for the 'Affirmative Right' website exposes the myth of the Morgenthau Plan. 

Yes, a plan to breed out the Germans (and now all Europeans) dreamed up by a non-Jewish American "race realist" is casually attributed to a Jew, whom we are told was driven solely and exclusively by genocidal hatred for the Germans. This is the kind of sloppy, lazy, dishonest, Jew-obsessed nonsense that has made the Rump Alt-Right the intellectual laughing stock it is today.

Having dealt with the Morgenthau plan, Colin Liddell should turn his attention to the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan which is just as far-fetched. Count Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894-1972), was the half Japanese founder of the Pan Europa movement who advocated a multiracial Europe ruled by a Jewish aristocracy. This bizarre plan was never adopted by the European Union but it remains a canon of the far-Right.

Another far-Right myth that needs exposing concerns the Bank of England which has been state-owned since 1947. The BOE does not belong to the Rothschild family. The Governor of the BOE is appointed by the British Government. He sets the interest rate but fiscal policy is decided by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Also, Mark Carney, the current Governor of the BOE is not Jewish, he is a Canadian of Irish ancestry.   

https://affirmativeright.blogspot.com

Europe of 100 Flags

In an e-mail to me explaining his political position Eddy Morrison states that he believes in a 'Europe of a Hundred Flags'. This idea was promoted by the Breton Nationalist Yann Fouéré  (pictured) in his 1968 book 'L'Europe aux Cent Drapeaux'. He wanted each nationality in Europe to have its own state. France would be divided into separate regions for Bretons, Basques, and Corsicans, Belgium would be split between Flemings and Walloons, Spain would be split into four states, Italy into three states, and so on.

If this model included the UK we might see separate states for Cornwall and Yorkshire. They have already got their own flags and anthems but such little states would struggle on their own. Fouéré envisaged a federation of self-governing states, like Switzerland which is divided into twenty six self-governing cantons speaking four different languages; German, French, Italian, and Romansh. Each canton is autonomous but the country has one flag, one army, one currency, and a central government for defence and foreign affairs.

When Britain ruled a mighty empire on which the sun never set, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales kept their own languages and traditions but they were essentially British. And so were the White Dominions whose flags bore the Union Jack and whose currencies bore the image of the British monarch. We extended our patriotism to embrace the British Empire.

A similar extension of patriotism would be required for a European federation, be it of twenty-eight or one hundred states. At present we are fixated with Brexit, but the problem will be resolved in the light of economic reality. For myself, I am happy to be British and European. But if we have to be divided into separate little states I nominate Eddy Morrison to be the Gauleiter of Greater Yorkshire.

The idea of pretentious little states was covered by GK Chesterton in his 1904 novel 'The Napoleon of Notting Hill', in the 1949 Ealing comedy 'Passport to Pimlico', and in the 1959 film starring Peter Sellars, 'The Mouse That Roared'. They all depicted the futility of petty nationalism.

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