A new kind of revolution is sweeping the United States, and arguably Western Europe. Dr. Steve Turley calls it civilizational populism. His premise states that the people want their civilizations back, and refuse to submit to any one-world government. This revolution, thus far, is bloodless, and one can hope it will so remain. But it might reach much further and last much longer for that very reason.

Ideologies of revolution and reaction

Political movements always take these labels, in order of more “forward” movement:

• Reaction – changing things back to where they rested a short while ago,

• Conservatism – keeping things as they are,

• Moderation – changing things only a little,

• Radicalism – literally moving the roots of society and social custom, and

• Revolution – the most sweeping change of all.

Revolution and radical change can move in any direction; reaction is simply a short-term back-slide. Usually, reaction is a pushback against revolution. So a particular ideology always animates a revolution – and its diametric opposite animates reaction.

Today’s revolution has two animating ideologies now working hand-in-hand. Civilization or civilizationalism means developing, preserving, or returning to a culture that the revolutionaries desire. The civilizational movement seeks a thriving society, and a culture enabling it to thrive. Populism means trusting the people, not some cadre of enlightened engineers (technocracy) or other experts. Ironically, the Greek word for an expert is empeirognomonas – one who has gone to school to learn how to work out how the world works by testing it. (From the Greek peirazo I test, usually to failure). But today’s self-identifying experts have tested nothing and don’t want anyone to test their pretended theories (explanations). They want people merely to accept their word without question.

Today’s civilizational populists will no longer accept the word of those who claim to have a tested answer. More to the point, the world’s peoples have tested the one-worlders’ theories. And those theories have failed.

Steps and elements of revolution

Revolution is never a single event, but a progression of events, each one a step toward the goal. (The goal of any revolution is the realization of the ideology of those who make it.) History shows that these steps generally take place in this order:

• A social environment in which some of society’s members stand at a material or other disadvantage,

• Suspicion that this environment is not “natural,” but that some other(s) made that environment (and that it is unjust),

• Denial by those in power that they played any unjust role in shaping that environment,

• The discovery of evidence that those in power did play such an unjust role – or that they benefit materially from the injustice and refuse to address it,

• Outrage at this sordid state of affairs,

• Attempted suppression of the outrage,

• Revolt against the unjust system, and finally,

• Reconciliation of the injustice.

For example

For example, consider the War Between the States, which Philip Lee Ralph (World Civilizations, which saw its ninth edition in 1999)) calls “The Real American Revolution.” Its elements were:

• Environment: slavery.

• Suspicion: the first pamphlets advocating abolition, which arguably began with an early draft of the Declaration of Independence.

• Denial: actual defenses of slavery from the South, even to citing some of St. Paul’s Letters as tolerating slavery. Those denials also included suggestions that the slaves were happy in and with their lot.

• Evidence: credible stories from escapees and witnesses, including the “stationmasters” and “conductors” of the Underground Railroad,

• Outrage: increasing support for abolition. Arguably this included Nat Turner’s Rebellion of 1832 and the Harpers Ferry Incident of 1859.

• Suppression: three major incidents. They were:

  • The Supreme Court’s holding in Scott v. Sandford (60 U.S. 393 (1857)), that no slave had standing in federal court. According to that holding, once a slave, always a slave.

  • The execution of John Brown, the would-be revolutionary leader at Harpers Ferry, and finally:

  • After the election of Abraham Lincoln as President, the secession of the “slave States” and the Sack of Fort Sumter.

• Revolt: the War itself.

• Reconciliation: the Reconstruction Era, with its provisional governments, land expropriation (accomplished through tax sales), etc.

Group punishment leads to more injustice

As an aside, reconciliation can be a delicate undertaking. If it consists of “group punishment,” that could set the stage for a counter-revolution in later years. That happened after the War Between the States. Happily that counter-revolution was relatively bloodless: it consisted of the Compromise of 1876. Essentially the Democratic Party let Rutherford B. Hayes take office, though they (from their viewpoint) had reason to dispute twenty electoral votes and, with them, the election itself. But they demanded, as their price, the removal of all remaining occupying garrisons and provisional governments from the defeated South. The Jim Crow era succeeded to this, and would require another revolution to reverse it. And as it happened, more discontent resulted from the disastrous policy prescription offered for reconciliation: James Coleman’s desegregation busing.

And here is the “joker in the deck.” Certain groups of people, compelled to rule, will ensure that discontent always remains after every reconciliation measure that follows revolution. To do that in the United States, they must inevitably violate the Constitution. The Constitution of the United States does not allow group punishments. Article I Section 9 Clause 3:

No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.

Sadly the Supreme Court deviated from that, with their rulings on desegregation busing, then their split decision on “affirmative action.” Regents of the University of California v. Allan Paul Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978). But the modern Supreme Court has reaffirmed a commitment to justice for the individual, not the group. SFFA v. Harvard and U.N.C., 600 U.S. ___ (2023), slip opinion.

The civilizational populist revolution of today

We now come to the civilizational populist revolution, the revolt phase of which is now playing out. The environment is an overreaching administrative state that assembled itself beginning with the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Statutes like the Pure Food and Drug Act set the precedent for an “expert” regime. Such was the essence of progressivism – to step forward under the guiding hands of a cadre of natural, medical, and social scientists who would present tested theories by which to govern. By no accident, Dr. Abraham Flexner took the opportunity to abolish the old medical apprenticeship system (“reading medicine”) and replace it with formal schools of medicine, teaching hospitals, etc.

Central to the legitimacy of this expert class were the concepts of:

• An academic regime that would produce “experts” having recognizable credentials, and

• The incapacity of the non-educated “many” (the hoi polloi) to understand that which only students at elite schools understood.

With that incapacity came the incapacity of the people even to govern themselves. So people throughout the Western world accepted often outlandish notions, because “such-a-one went to Harvard (or Yale, Princeton, etc.), so surely he knows better than you do.”

The first suspicions

But then came the event that first provoked suspicion. After the Second World War, elements of the (Chinese) People’s Liberation Army captured and wrongfully executed Captain John Birch USA. This American missionary had proved instrumental in:

• Saving the lives of Jimmy Doolittle and his crews after they crash-landed in China after their raid on Tokyo, then:

• Creating the intelligence network that served the Allies in that theater.

The United States government covered up the circumstances of Captain Birch’s death. Outraged, Mr. Robert Welch honored Captain Birch by placing his name on a new political-educational society he created in 1958.

Welch was the first to suspect that a vast conspiracy was creating conditions that thwarted prosperity, and provoked war, at opportune moments for armorers, bankers, and the like. He considered the cover-up of Captain John Birch’s death part and parcel of a mindset that individual life was cheap.

The John Birch Society does not endorse candidates – and for the first decades, no one listened to them. But its members kept whispering into people’s ears: ever notice how convenient all this endless hostility is? That whispering might slow down, but it never stopped. And to this day, the John Birch Society encourages us to apply a time-honored maxim of criminal investigation. Seek whom the crime will profit. Which is right up there with Fleming’s Maxim:

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and the third time it’s enemy action.

Denial, evidence, and outrage

Of course the two Party establishments denied flatly that any vast conspiracy could start wars. But those establishments bought into the ideology of a conspiracy that does exist: the World Economic Forum. They carried the notions of academic elites, and the incapacity of ordinary citizen-subjects to govern themselves, to a high art.

To succeed, revolution requires the ascension of a person or persons who understand that all is not as it seems. Donald Trump was and is that man. From the moment he took over the Central Park ice rink and repaired it, he became famous, not only as a real-estate tycoon but also as one who succeeded where governments failed.

His election in 2016 put Trump in a position to see and gather evidence that the conspiracy of which Robert Welch’s John Birch society spoke, or at least a conspiracy as nefarious as any that Welch hypothesized (and trained his followers to search out), was and is real. Trump named that conspiracy The Deep State, which he defined as consisting of bureaucratic hangers-on.

Then the conspirators, with apologies to George Lucas, struck back. The Election of 2020 went for Joe Biden – in ways that utterly violated the Law of Averages. Violation of the Law of Averages is always prima facie evidence of cheating at games of chance. And so the people, waking up the morning after Election Day to see the result reversed, reacted in outrage.

Suppression and revolt – the end stages of the revolution

The Deep State had been suppressing the truth for at least two years before Election Day. Consider the Hunter Biden Laptop Story, and the 51 “spooks” who denounced it as a Russian lie. (Suppression always works best with the perception, real, exaggerated, imagined, or misconstrued, of an external enemy.) Consider also the coronavirus outbreak, and the worst mistake Trump made: letting the experts tell him to close the country down, as happens in Albert Camus’ novel The Plague.

The January 6 Event, and the ruthless – and unjust – prosecutions that followed, represented the worst single suppressive operation. That suppression continued with the Mar-A-Lago Raid and all the cases against Mr. Trump. But along the way, the people were preparing for revolt even then. (The January 6 Event does not count; that belongs strictly to the outrage phase.) People applied for, and won, postings as poll watchers and workers. Step aside, Little Old Ladies In Tennis Shoes! Step aside, Democrat operatives! The “election-integrity patriots” made only one error: assuming that someone was actually manipulating the scanner-tabulators that count most votes today. Gradually they discovered the real problem: voter rolls listing the dead, the move-outs, and people “living” in big-box stores, etc.

Then the Deep State tried to have Trump assassinated. And they failed. But that failure produced the iconic display of a wounded man standing up and exhorting his followers to fight.

The Election of 2024, with “rightward shifts” in every demographic, and every district, constitutes the revolt.

Reconciliation phase

America now is in the reconciliation phase – or the Truth and Reconciliation phase, to borrow a phrase from South Africa. Donald Trump now has the best cadre of executive officers any President has ever had – and they are his team. (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., won confirmation today as Secretary of Health and Human Services.) He also has a good “hatchet man” in Elon Musk – another genius who, like him, stumbled upon evidence of the conspiracy in his own endeavors.

Reconciliation always involves some sort of tribunal, and a cadre of gatherers of evidence. That is the function of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – to gather further evidence to use in revolutionary tribunals.

And members of the Establishment know how vulnerable they are. This morning, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) let slip their real concern:

We don’t know what all they have on us!

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1890025328996946096

Sen. Mitch McConnell (RINO-Ky.), the lone Republican to vote No on Mr. Kennedy, made a bitter concession speech. Like Rep. Waters, he expressed his real worry: the destruction of the Vaccine Regime. Yesterday he delivered a similar screed against new Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. He all but called her a traitor, and definitely called her a sympathizer with traitors. (His case in point: Edward Snowden.)

Sorry, Senator, but the people know better. The Overton Window has shifted, to the point whereat we need not consider vaccines, or endless wars, necessary. Nor programs from which Democrats get a cut, skimmed off the top, as DOGE keeps discovering.

What next for the revolution?

Some members of the Establishment are already talking of counter-revolution – on the level of actual physical violence. Yesterday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) continued in the vein of Rep. Waters:

BREAKING: Dem. Rep. Robert Garcia just called for “ACTUAL WEAPONS” to be used against Elon Musk in this “fight for democracy.” This comes after an ad popped up in DC today, CLEARLY calling for the assassination of Musk. Democrats are VlOLENT. The events of this week have made that clearer than ever! THEY MUST BE CHARGED!

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1889810449191113123

This is what Nick Sortor was talking about:

'ELIMINATE ELON' AD SPARKS OUTRAGE AS SENATOR DEMANDS INVESTIGATION. A disturbing advertisement featuring USAID's logo and calling to "eliminate" Elon has drawn congressional attention. Senator Tillis: “This disgusting threat was made against Elon for helping President Trump eliminate government waste.” Looks like someone's taking DOGE's fraud investigations personally.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1889818691984093235

But very few people are responding to these attempted calls-to-arms. Anyone who does, will answer to the new Attorney General and her staff.

Beyond that, the first judgments in the revolution extend not much further than firing, and disqualification from re-hiring. But prosecutions for embezzlement and similar corrupt practices should take place. Voters will have to render further judgments – which makes imperative Trump’s desire to have all federal elections take place on paper, with election workers trained to count actual votes by hand.

The United States has the means to carry out the revolution in a bloodless fashion. Whether it stays that way, depends on whether certain people can accept the judgment of the people.

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The article:

https://cnav.news/2025/02/13/news/revolution-civilizational-populism/

Video:

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Salient Supreme Court decisions:

Dred Scott:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/60us393

Swann:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/402/1/

Allan Paul Bakke:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/regents_of_the_university_of_california_v_bakke_(1978)

SFFA v. Harvard and U.N.C.:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

John Birch Society:

Home:

https://jbs.org/

John Birch’s life:

https://jbs.org/about/john-birch/

Maxine Waters lets slip:

https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1890025328996946096

Robert Garcia’s call for violence:

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1889810449191113123

Anti-Musk ad:

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1889818691984093235

Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/

Conservative News and Views:

https://cnav.news/

Clixnet Media

https://clixnet.com/

Elon Musk has many names, not all of them flattering – nor just, either. The names that do apply are: hatchet man, enforcer, force of nature, and scourge of the bureaucracy. Add one more: champion of justice. He fights for justice as only one on the Autism Spectrum can – with single-mindedness of purpose. Frank D. “Heartland Diary” Miele sees that quality in Trump, especially after the first assassination attempt. Elon Musk might not have had someone try to kill him, but he has realized that certain people – all on the Left – lied to him. Chief among the groups who lied to him for years, are the Deep State. He is now their implacable enemy – and as he fights his war, he has drawn the fire of Democrats, legacy media personalities – and other similar enemies of the people.

Elon Musk cuts a swath through the bureaucracy

No doubt the American and worldwide Left had reason to fear Elon Musk even before the Inauguration. He bought Twitter (now X) and promptly uncovered and exposed its darkest secrets. Though he clashed with President Donald Trump in his first term, he gradually came to see justice in Trump’s claims. He gave generously to Trump’s election campaign, and then won the promise of a special post in government. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) originally was to have joint headship – but the other head, Vivek Ramaswamy, bowed out. (Joint headship was never a good idea anyway.) The only flaw in the DOGE plan was creating it by executive order, not an Act of Congress. (Speaking of which, Musk has threatened to “primary” anyone in Congress, Democrat or especially Republican, who opposes his mission.)

President Trump signed many more executive orders besides the one creating DOGE. How they play out, remains for the people to see.

Darrell L. Castle, once a Presidential candidate himself, looked forward to DOGE “downsizing government to starve the beast.” The “beast” in Castle’s mind is the burgeoning national debt. But that turns out not to be the real beast. The real beast is not only the spending but what the government is spending the money on. That spending includes not only waste but also fraud – and, more pointedly still, abuse.

The war begins

Ironically, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a 21-page letter to Elon Musk three days after the Inauguration. That letter was full of ideas of her own, including reform of:

• Pentagon procurement and contracting,

• Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C and its replacements), and

• Federal grants to private colleges, including the Ivy League.

That was January. Even so, that letter concentrated on typical leftist priorities, including raising revenue from disfavored high-end taxpayers (“the wealthy”). Since then, she has raised a shrill voice in opposition to Musk, along with several other Democratic Senators and Representatives. (In fact, Elon Musk does plan to audit the Pentagon, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Ironically, Musk has spoken of a volume of Medicare fraud similar to that which Sen. Warren mentioned.)

When Elon Musk attacked the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the war began in earnest. Its blatant support of Alphabet Soup ideology was bad enough – especially to Musk, concerned as he is with population collapse. (Alphabet Soup lifestyles are inherently anti-procreative.) But then came revelations that leftist media organs, including Politico, were deriving make-or-break revenues through the sale of premium subscriptions at absurd rates. USAID was one of several federal agencies (and Departments) whose bureaucrats were taking out such subscriptions. Politico literally missed payroll – and Elon Musk warned that other leftist media could face similar financial difficulty.

The Customs and Border Protection agency has literally taken over the USAID building.

From USAID to other agencies

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) came next. In addition to their political selectivity in aid to hurricane survivors, FEMA spent $59 million on hotel stays for illegal aliens. Elon Musk “paused” several FEMA payments that he suspects are improper. President Trump has since fired FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer and three other executives over the $59 million hotel stays. (Because those happened during his second administration, Trump considers that insubordination.) Yesterday Trump said the agency is “under review and investigation” and “should be terminated.”

Musk similarly has targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency most consider Sen. Warren’s creation. The CFPB is famous for warning banks and other lenders not to refuse credit to illegal aliens. Trump had already fired the Bureau’s Biden-appointed Director.

But his targeting of the Treasury Department has resulted in the most sensational revelations – and the most strenuous pushback. Why has the Treasury Department been funding terrorist groups? (David Lebryk, then the “top-ranking career official” at Treasury, resigned when Musk and his team came in.) More recently, DOGE investigators have found Social Security making payments to beneficiaries allegedly 150 years old. (Human longevity is the one world record most subject to fraudulent claims. The oldest verified living person today is 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka of Japan.) DOGE also intends investigating several federal bureaucrats who have become multimillionaires on six-figure salaries.

Counterattacks against Elon Musk

Naturally the counterattacks have come, from Members of Congress and the legacy media. The New York Times disputes Elon Musk’s claims of waste and fraud. Similarly, NBC News accuses Musk of making nonspecific and unfounded allegations of waste, fraud and abuse. (Anyone who cites “independent fact-checkers is automatically suspect.)

CNN alleges that some Republicans, who represent districts where large numbers of federal workers live, are “pushing back” on those workers’ behalf. (Much of what CNN calls “pushback” is simply the usual constituent service the people expect of their Senators and Representative.) In another article, CNN said “President Donald Trump is playing with fire.” This is another booby-prize example of legacy media trying to drive a wedge between Trump and Musk. Time acted similarly, posting an electronic retouch of Musk sitting at the Presidential or Resolute Desk. Trump laughed out loud at the cover, during a photo-op interview.

Q: Mr. President, do you have a reaction to the new Time Magazine cover that has Elon Musk sitting behind your Resolute Desk?

A: No… Is Time magazine still in business? I didn't even know that.

https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1887923713443774522

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper tried to press that theme in an interview with former Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.). Sununu was having none of it, so Cooper called him an off-color name – for which he did, at least, apologize.

Conduct unbecoming a Senator…

Elon Musk’s activities have drawn court challenges, most of which will likely not survive Supreme Court scrutiny. In fact, one order directed that not only Musk but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stay out of the Treasury payment system. Another judge cleared Bessent, because he is a Senate-confirmed appointee. Whether the distinction between him and Musk will hold up, remains for the Supreme Court to determine.

In any case, the Trump administration appears ready to ignore rulings that obviously violate separation of powers. Sen. Warren took note of that and suggested Trump and Musk are provoking a Constitutional crisis. But her recent remarks contrast sharply with her decrying the Supreme Court after it issued a primer on Presidential immunity. After that and other cases, Sen. Warren often called on the Biden administration to ignore the courts.

At a recent hearing in the Senate Finance Committee, Warren complained bitterly over the shutdown of the CFPB. On that occasion she referred to Musk as “Co-President.” Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) sharply reminded her Massachusetts counterpart that Donald Trump is fulfilling campaign promises. Then she savagely reminded Warren of Democrats’ covering for President Biden when he clearly couldn’t run the country.

And it’s interesting that none of you had anything to say over the last four years when it is clear that our commander-in-chief was not in command. And if we’re going to use the term “co-President,” then let’s go back and say “Co-President Jake Sullivan,” “Co-President Ron Klain,” “Co-President Jill Biden,” [et al.] … Some of the biggest decisions were made during the President’s afternoon nap time.

https://x.com/GlockfordFiles/status/1889433596160815347

Sen. Charles M. Schumer (D-N.Y.) set up a “

Before even taking office, then-President-elect Donald J. Trump worked behind the scenes to negotiate a cease-fire in Gaza. From the beginning, many expressed doubts the deal would last – or wishes that it would not. Now, it would appear that this deal will not last. What passes for a government in Gaza, now refuses to release any more hostages, thus reneging on the deal. In response, Trump has made an indirect threat that full-scale war will break out all over again.

Elements of the Gaza cease-fire deal

As CNAV said after the announcement, the deal called for the immediate release of 33 hostages, all women, children, men 50 years old or older, and any younger man considered a “humanitarian case.” Talks on the release of more hostages, and withdrawals of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from parts of Gaza, were to begin in February.

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Arabic Harakah al-Muqāwamah al-Islāmiyyah, abbreviated HAMAS) were releasing hostages, but only two or three at a time. Some who have come out, were as emaciated as any inmate of the Nazi concentration camps of Holocaust fame. President Trump remarked on this after three particularly emaciated hostages returned home over the weekend.

I watched the hostages come back today. And they looked like Holocaust survivors. They were in horrible condition. They were emaciated. It looked like many years ago, the Holocaust survivors. I don’t know how much longer we can take that….

At some point we're going to lose our patience when I see that scene that I saw today with people coming out of helicopters and airplanes that are emaciated, that look like they haven't had a meal in a month. No reason for that, and I don't know how much longer we can take.

They are in really bad shape, they have been treated brutally, horribly. Even the ones that came out earlier, they were in a little bit better shape, but mentally they were treated so badly. Who could take that?

https://x.com/HowardMortman/status/1888718581292040411

The Daily Mail released some disturbing details on the treatment those three hostages received. Separately, The Times of Israel released these statistics on hostage release:

Seventy-three of the 251 hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7 currently remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.

Hamas has so far released 21 hostages – civilians, soldiers, and Thai nationals – during the current, ongoing ceasefire. The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that.

Eight hostages have been rescued alive by troops, and the bodies of 40 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors.

Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the body of an IDF soldier who was killed in 2014. The body of another IDF soldier, also killed in 2014, was recovered from Gaza in January.

Actually, most media list seventy-six hostages remaining. This could reflect confusion over whether the seventy-six included, or did not include, the three released Saturday.

On Sunday (January 9), Trump returned to a theme he sounded last week: that the United States would redevelop Gaza. During that time, Trump would not allow residents to return to homes or apartments that are now rubble. As to where they would live in the meantime, he told Fox News’ Bret Baier:

We’ll build beautiful communities for the 1.9 million people … we’ll build beautiful communities, safe communities … we’ll build safe communities a little bit away from where they are where all of this danger is.

He clarified that the redevelopment process would take years, to clear away live ordnance and rubble, and to build permanent structures. Last week he’d talked about filling in the tunnels HAMAS has dug over the years.

Breakdown

But yesterday (January 10) the cease-fire deal seemed already to be breaking down. HAMAS accused the IDF of breaking the cease-fire by not allowing some “civilians” to return as fast as they wanted, and by holding up some relief supplies. As ever, one should never rely on a HAMAS account, and Israeli officials have denied it.

HAMAS then posted to their Telegram account the following threat:

The handover of the Zionist prisoners who were scheduled to be released next Saturday, February 15, 2025, will be postponed until further notice and until the occupation commits to and compensates for the entitlements of the past weeks retroactively.

Reporters asked President Trump about that, during one of the many informal press conferences he’s held in the Oval Office. In response – with a deceptively casual air – he gave HAMAS a deadline.

If all the Gaza hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 p.m. – I think it’s an appropriate time – I would say cancel it, and all bets are off, and let h**l break out. I’d say they ought to be returned by 12 o’clock on Saturday. And if they’re not returned – all of them, not in drips and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two – by Saturday at 12 o’clock. And after that, I would say, all h**l is going to break out.

Any decision to resume full hostilities rests with Israel, not the United States. As to what Trump meant by “all h**l [breaking] out,” he suggested that HAMAS would soon find out.

More IDF elements have already taken positions on the Gaza border, according to The Wall Street Journal. The IDF is also canceling leaves for soldiers currently deployed in the region.

Analysis

The Fourth Arab-Israeli War began horrifically and is still going on. The condition of the three latest released hostages illustrates why no deal with HAMAS can possibly hold. Why HAMAS released those men, instead of simply executing them, is impossible to determine. HAMAS is full of sadistic men who have taken to heart the bitter resentment of Muhammad, after the Medina Jews rejected him.

No one of good heart can sympathize either with HAMAS or with those who voted them into power in 2006. Not without complete ignorance of the atrocities they have committed throughout their existence, or desensitization to actual war crimes. HAMAS has never lacked for recruits – because they run the school system. They kill pets in front of children, to desensitize them to the suffering of others. They cynically “repurpose” any humanitarian aid for use in active warfare. Worse, they actually teach that Jews are not human – that they are at best simian, at worst porcine or canine. Small wonder, then, that they committed the atrocities of October 7, 2023 – and thereafter, in their treatment of hostages. That treatment violates every known rule of warfare.

Many who call themselves Christians will protest that one shouldn’t judge every individual by the actions of a group’s leaders. “Covenant theologians” actually insist that the HAMAS atrocities did not occur, or have sufficient provocation. But they are too well documented to deny, and too severe to ignore or excuse.

Wither Gaza or its people?

Those who commit atrocious acts in war, do so either in the supreme confidence of total ultimate victory, or out of a spite profound enough to produce total indifference to any possible consequences. For good reason, most societies do not trust those who have tasted human flesh. Neither can we trust any member of HAMAS – or any of a number of irregulars who accompanied them on October 7, 2023. The only “Palestinians” who are fit to share a civilized society, are those who got out of Gaza long ago. They rejected the blatant conditioning of HAMAS, and refused to inculcate that into their children.

President Trump has offered a way to break this cycle, by rebuilding Gaza as a good place to live. Whether any Palestinians have the temperament to take it, is for them to decide. But HAMAS rates total, complete annihilation, to the last armed effective.

HAMAS asked for that, with their latest provocation. CNAV would advise the IDF to take no prisoners. Honor President Trump’s suggested deadline, of course – the world expects that. After that, go back in and finish the job.

Link to:

The article:

https://cnav.news/2025/02/11/news/gaza-war-break-out-again/

Video:

Remarks about condition of the hostages:

https://x.com/HowardMortman/status/1888718581292040411

Details on treatment of hostages:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14378377/Hamas-hostages-hung-feet-forced-rotten-bread-tunnel.html

Video: the indirect threat:

Declarations of Truth:

https://x.com/DecTruth

Declarations of Truth Locals Community:

https://declarationsoftruth.locals.com/

Conservative News and Views:

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