Crisis & Opportunity

The cancellation of the American Renaissance conference should serve as a wake up call to white advocates around the country. As the thuggish and chubbish Daryle Lamont Jenkins of One People’s Project so accurately points out, this was a conference whose proceedings once aired on CSPAN. Now it is shut down because of threats of murderous violence and we can assume that there will be no police investigation, no arrests, and no legal recourse. As Sam Francis outlined for us in his concept of anarcho-tyranny, the law simply does not apply to entire groups of people, even as it is ever more tyrannically enforced against loyal white Americans.

There are several conclusions we can draw from all this. One is the transformation of so called anti-fascists into de facto arms of officialdom. Far from being anarchists or even leftists, we see the spectacle of anarchists championing a government report that calls the mild-mannered Jared Taylor a terrorist and warning us that if we associate with him it will be difficult to get a security clearance. While I suppose we should thank our anti-system radical friends for looking out for our reputation with the Department of Homeland Security, it certainly shows the real nature of power in this society. College kids dressing up to play “antifa” risk nothing, and know it. Nor have they had any success in their self professed goals of socialism or economic justice, if they even really believe it. While they can certainly get in our way, their existence does not disturb the sleep of the political elites and financial barons they claim to oppose. In fact, they serve as an indispensable support. As One People’s Project recently featured Goldman Sachs frontman Barack Obama on their homepage, they to some extent know this.

All of those in our movement, who engage in any level, are taking tremendous risks. The strategy of anti-fascists is to increase the costs of involvement to the point that people fear not just to take action but to even think forbidden thoughts or associate with those who do. More importantly, as we saw with the attack on James O’Keefe, the target is not the person themselves but the political networks, institutions, and professional colleagues that provide activists with support. The objective was not to makes James O’Keefe stop doing what he’s doing but to make sure “respectable” conservatives run screaming from anything he touches. The actual facts of the allegation do not matter, but leftists simply throw enough mud and hope that it sticks. This is straight out of Rules for Radicals (p. 144 in fact). The point is that a person’s friends and colleagues will not want to be associated with him simply because of the trouble it brings, regardless of the truth or falsity of the assertions. As a result, the left can coolly disable and dismantle the right’s most effective activists, with hapless conservatives falling all over each other in their willingness to surrender, as long as they are left alone.

This kind of repression is also escalating at an official level, with the laughable inclusion of Jared Taylor as a terrorist by the state of Virginia and reports by the Department of Homeland Security warning of a dire threat by right wing extremists. For the first time, there is a real danger that British style police repression could be used against racial realists.

This occurs even as “implicit” white movements such as the Tea Parties are growing in strength and number, to the outrage and concern of the liberal establishment. Ignoring the actual content of the protests (mostly harmless fluff about fiscal conservatism), the leftist counterattack consists — predictably — of charges of racism, based on the grounds that the tea parties are made up overwhelmingly of white people. These days, that is sufficient grounds for suspicion. It can also be suspected that the Tea Partiers and conservatives will respond by allowing far left groups and antifa to set the terms of the debate for them. Certainly, there will be tremendous pressure from libertarians and others to keep the immigration issue out of any Tea Party rhetoric. This will allow the Left to keep white advocates isolated from their constituency and keeping the emerging populist movement toothless and wedded to a Republican Party establishment that will use their votes and discard them. As always, the Left understands the Right better than the Right understands itself.

White advocates are not just opponents of the system — we are the only opponents of the system. The real question is how we operate in such a challenging environment without falling into the dead ends of the past. The good news is that our objectives are actually quite clear. We must engage with the emerging opposition to the current political and financial order and resist any attempts to force us back into the familiar WN ghetto. We must build institutions that can engage all along the political spectrum and train our activists in effective political technology rather than in engaging in the amateurish efforts of the past. Every one of our activists must be doing something productive. Finally, we must support those institutions that already exist. I will return to this question of what is to be done in the days to come. For now, I stand with American Renaissance and will pledge what I can. I encourage you all to do the same.

Occidental Dissent, February 16, 2010