Articles by Herschel Smith

John Guandolo (via newsletter).

Friends, things are moving quickly right now and our enemies are out maneuvering the police, military, and federal agencies.  Truthfully, its not even a contest.  Our government at the local, state, and federal level is an embarrassment.  I am sending this quick update to help you put everything you are witnessing into a framework you can understand and by which, I hope, make thoughtful decisions on what is best for you and your family.  Remember this is a war of narratives.  The media is making everything appear worse than it is because the goal is to create chaos so that Americans demand ORDER.  Communists and jihadis know how to bring order to a community, but that order comes with slavery, depravity, and poverty.   Please do not make the mistake of thinking “It can’t happen here” because it IS happening here.  Here are a few things you must know when explaining the danger of where we are to others:

1.  Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a COMMUNIST organization.  From our colleague Trevor Loudon, who is one of the best resources for communist networks in the U.S. has this to say about ongoing events:  “Two pro-China communist parties – Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) and Liberation Road are playing leading roles in coordinating the often-violent protests now occurring across the United States.”  The 3 founders of BLM are Patrise Cullors, Opal Tometi, and Alicia Garza.  These women hold or have held positions inside numerous FRSO organizations.  Alicia Garza has held executive leadership positions in NDWA, POWER, SOUL, and RTTC.  BLM was founded by Marxists/communists born from the leading communist organization in America today – Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

2.  The violent riots are all about control of the state and power.  The riots in the U.S. were never “peaceful protests” which were “hijacked” and they have nothing to do with a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.  The riots have always been communist led riots – Black Lives Matter – working with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and terrorist groups like Hamas doing business as CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations).  Other MB groups like ISNA and ICNA are also working with the communists at the ground level.  The Communist/Islamic Counter-States were waiting for a flash point to use to launch their offensive.  The incident in MN provided that.

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5.  The Brown Shirts will be replaced by the Black Shirts.  Black Lives Matter and Antifa thugs are today’s “brown shirts.”  They are the leading edge of the violent revolution in America.  As the communist/jihadi movements advance, there will come a time they will need to appear as if they are normalizing their activities.  The Brown Shirts (Antifa/BLM) will be eliminated by the Black Shirts, who most likely will be the jihadis as the jihadis prepare to take over.

6.  Believe what you are seeing.  In Minnesota, the Minneapolis City Council is poised to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department.  Jihadi Attorney General in MN is Keith Ellision.  If the police department is defunded and shut down, a “civil security” group will be formed that will, initially, have a happy face on it.  Rapidly, however, it will become an overtly sharia-police force and Minnesota will become an Islamic State under the control of Keith Ellison.

This analysis dovetails with George Webb’s analysis of the kingpin role of Keith Ellison in all of this.

George Webb connects the dots.

Via David Codrea, this video dovetails well with this exposé. It’s a little dated, more more timely than ever before.

I stumbled on this and decided to post it.  So what is this – about the fifth or sixth review I’ve posted on the Henry X model?  All that free advertising, and Henry hasn’t contacted me to send me a rifle to put in my hands and review myself?

Idaho.

Upon rumor that violent protestors and rioters were considering descending upon Coeur d’ Alene, a small city in Idaho with a population of about 45,000, with intent to loot, vandalize, and otherwise cause unrest, the local militia men and women took action. Gearing up, they descended upon the downtown core to guard businesses and major intersections. They came out in mass, hundreds of people who were almost all armed, to ensure that the citizenry would be kept safe.

Some store owners were boarding up their windows in preparation of Antifa, but many of them carried on, as usual, comforted by the armed sentinels that stood guard.

Thankfully, the evening was uneventful, with at least one Law Enforcement officer allegedly saying that the intel was good and that the groups intent on causing harm backed down once they heard of the deployment.

There are more pictures at the link.

Next up Boiling Springs, South Carolina.  Of all places on earth where Antifa wouldn’t feel welcome, it has to be Boiling Springs, South Carolina.

Roughly 100 protesters slowed traffic Friday evening on Highway 9 in Boiling Springs as they marched in a cluster from the Zaxby’s to the Walmart Supercenter.

Accompanied in the front and the rear by the flashing lights of sheriff’s patrol cars, many of them covered a distance of about 6 miles on foot with signs held high.

Among the crowd, Thomas Broome held a sign that read: “Protect black lives the way you would protect this dog.”

His dog, Maya, stood at his feet wearing a sign around her neck: “Black Dogs Matter.”

At one point, a motorist behind the wheel of a pickup truck rolled down his window and shouted profanity at the group as he drove by.

What the news report didn’t say, that my intel source does, is that business owners were lined up in front of their places of business armed.

News from Chicagoland.

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will not tolerate vigilantism after groups of mostly white men patrolled the streets of the Bridgeport neighborhood on Wednesday night in response to a nearby city protest.

Multiple streets were blocked in the Bridgeport neighborhood Wednesday night as nearby protests dispersed. Near West Pershing Road, water gushed from an open fire hydrant as small groups gathered on corners. Some of the men held bats. One wore a shirt that said “All Lives Matter,” one sipped a beer and another waved at an officer as he drove by. Additional groups of people, some armed with bats, lined West 31st Street.

Asked about the situation in Bridgeport, a diversifying neighborhood that served as an Irish American power base for the Daley political family, Lightfoot said, “It is absolutely not appropriate for people to take up arms, bats, pipes, whatever in patrolling neighborhoods.”

“We’ve seen that end with tragic results across the country and we’re not about to allow that practice to happen here in Chicago. If there’s an issue, call 911,” Lightfoot said. “I absolutely support neighbors being vigilant as to what’s going on on the streets and in their blocks but taking up arms, that leads to chaos and we’re not supporting vigilantism in the city of Chicago under any circumstances.”

Bet you thought these people were anti-cop, didn’t you?  Nope.  They are anti-you.

The criminals, rioters and thieves get to do what they want.  You cannot defend yourselves or your property, so says the governor of chaos.

You see, if any in our community really believes that after all of this goes down there will be an end to no-knock raids and police overreach will be reigned in, you are a naive fool.

They intend to evict the few remaining relatively good people left in law enforcement, those who still believe in some semblance of the constitution, replace them with others (MAVNI recruits, La Raza, etc.), and turn the police against you.

That will ensure that (a) you don’t fight back when they confiscate your 401K and retirement accounts, (b) you don’t fight back when they try to confiscate your weapons, (c) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill to tax inheritance, (d) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill for reparations, and (e) you don’t fight back when they socialize medicine.

Do you see?  You didn’t really believe any of this was about the cops, did you?  Tell me you saw through all of this?

Reason.

[1.] In all states, you can use deadly force to defend yourself against death, serious bodily injury (which can include broken bones and perhaps even lost teeth), rape, or kidnapping, so long as (a) your fear is reasonable and (b) the danger is imminent (requirements that also apply to the doctrines I discuss below).

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But in nearly all states, you can’t generally use deadly force merely to defend your property. (Texas appears to be an exception, allowing use of deadly force when there’s no other way to protect or recapture property even in situations involving simple theft or criminal mischief, though only at night,  Tex. Penal Code § 9.42; see, e.g., McFadden v. State (Tex. Ct. App. 2018).) That’s where we get the conventional formulation that you can’t use deadly force just to defend property.

[2.] This conventional formulation, though, omits an important limitation: In basically all states, you can use nondeadly force to defend your property—and if the thief or vandal responds by threatening you with death or great bodily harm, you can then protect yourself with deadly force. So in practice, you can use deadly force to protect property after all, if you’re willing to use nondeadly force first and expose yourself to increased risk.

[A.] In about half the states you can use deadly force against robbery, which generally includes any theft from the person that uses modest force or a threat: “Even a purse snatching can constitute a robbery if the victim simply resists the effort to wrest the purse away.” Some robbery of course does also create a reasonable fear of death or serious bodily injury, but in these states such a fear is not required.

[B.] In some states, there is a rebuttable presumption that you reasonably fear death or great bodily harm—and may thus use deadly force—if the target is (to quote the Iowa statute),

Unlawfully entering by force or stealth the dwelling, place of business or employment, or occupied vehicle of the person using force, or has unlawfully entered by force or stealth and remains within the dwelling, place of business or employment, or occupied vehicle of the person using force.

I think Missouri is like Texas in this regard even though he didn’t mention it.

In the Colonial era, horse theft brought harsh punishment, including branding, torture, exile and even death.  This is so because theft of the means of plowing the ground on the frontier meant relegating your family to death for lack of food.

It’s complicated.  Be sure to know the laws of your state.  For me, it comes down to this: If the person is entering the premises of your home or business with a weapon or intent to commit theft, you simply cannot trust that he will stop there.

There are thousands of instances where a thief took what he wanted and then killed the people who saw him do it.

There is also his article on The Duty To Retreat In The Founding Era.  Read this as well, and as always, none of this constitutes legal advice.  You have to pay for that.

NY Times Op Ed.

The Almighty, the maker of heaven and earth, says the following: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

Follow the Lord and live.  Follow the NY Times and perish, in time and eternity.  It’s your choice, boys and girls.  But don’t say you weren’t warned.  I’ve done my job.

Many are familiar with this video.

Fewer have seen his explanation of the event.