by Eric Peters
If we’re lucky, we begin to understand – even if incompletely. We will not – we cannot – know everything. Not in this life. But we may come to understand that not everything is as it seems. Or – rather – what we may have thought it was.
Nahhhhnnnnlevven was one such thing – and many of us came to understand in the wake of that thing that the “enemies of freedom” were real and that we elected them. “COVID” was another. A few of us understood almost right away what was going on and that it had as much to do with “stopping the spread” as the TSA has to do with preventing jihadis from flying airplanes into buildings. Because everyone knows jihadis can’t afford to charter an airplane (and thereby avoid the TSA since gate rape only applies to the cattle who fly commercial).
There was another thing. It happened 32 years ago – tempus fugit! – this April. In Texas, where a group of religious weirdos who weren’t harming anyone were immolated in their compound by federal thugs sicced on them by Bill Clinton’s attorney general Janet Reno. Her troops did a fine imitation of the troops under the command of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Jurgen Stroop who raised the Warsaw ghetto to the ground on the orders of his Fuhrer just before the advancing Soviet armies entered the Polish capital in the wake of the retreating Wehrmacht.
I watched – live, on TV – the Branch Davidian compound go up in flames – along with the cult’s leader, David Koresh and a large number of women and children. Not one of these people – including Koresh – had even been alleged by the government that burned them to death to have harmed anyone. They were guilty of being weirdos, though. And – the real crime – noncompliant weirdos. They sought to be left alone and retreated into their compound when the government refused to leave them alone.
The government always makes an object lesson of such people – but it takes awhile to understand that for most people. Centuries, sometimes. Almost from the moment of this country’s founding, people who just wanted to be left alone have been taught the error of their ways, from the so-called Whiskey Rebellion – which was rural farmers wanting to be left alone to barter among themselves rather than pay taxes to the government – to Waco and beyond.
I was a young editorial writer at The Washington Times 32 years ago this April. I sat in the conference room with other staffers and watched the government assault the weirdos with tanks and troops and then with fire when the weirdos had the effrontery to resist the attack. It was on that day – in that room – that I had an epiphany. A realization. An understanding that the federal government – that government in general – is always the same thing, wherever it happens to be.
It may seem to be something other than it is at first. No doubt the Americans who lined the streets to cheer George Washington as he traveled to his inauguration as the first president of the United States thought they were witnessing the birth of something different. They weren’t. Daniel Shays – a veteran of the war for independence (from one iteration of government) understood that soon enough. As did those rural Pennsylvania farmers.
As did I, 32 years ago this April.
It was a rude birth, cold and unpleasant. But it is better to exit the warmth of that cozy womb to know – and understand – the world as it is, outside that womb. It helped me to understand the events to come – including Nahhhhhhhhhnnnlevven and then “COVID.”
It will help understand what’s to come, too.
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