Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture (20 page)

You’ve heard about the Roman policy to “divide and rule.” That’s just what the government is doing. While it divides indigenous Americans over race, sex, and economic class with its economic and social engineering policies, it creates whole new groups of “Americans” who don’t speak our language and don’t share our values with its immigration policy. Some of them even want to kill us.

Then it champions their rights not to be discriminated against while trampling our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. While we’re fighting each other and these government-sanctioned invaders, the government grows stronger and we get weaker.

I’ve been warning about the dangers posed by injudicious immigration policies for decades. Now those dangers are accelerating exponentially with the Progressive-Islamist takeover. If we ever want to see our country again, we need to stop it now. In another decade, it might be too late.

As part of their ongoing war on religion, leftists regularly attack the pope. One of their favorite smears is to call him a Nazi, a tactic they used most recently against Pope Benedict XVI. Pope Benedict had been in the Hitler Youth, but only because it was legally mandated for all fourteen-year-old boys in Germany at the time. It was the same as being drafted into the army. Had he not joined, they would have come to his house and made him join.

Those are facts, but facts are immaterial to the left. They have an agenda, and Pope Benedict being a Nazi fit that agenda at the time, regardless of all evidence to the contrary.

It wasn’t the first time they ran the “pope is a Nazi” campaign. You may remember the 1999 book
Hitler’s Pope
by John Cornwell. In it, Cornwell elaborates on a charge made previously against Pope Pius XII in Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 play
The Deputy
. Both claim Pope Pius XII helped the Nazis because, as cardinal secretary of state of the Church, he signed the Reichskonkordat.

The Reichskonkordat was an agreement with the German government stipulating that clergy would refrain from certain political activity in exchange for guarantees of the Catholic Church’s rights. This, they argue, helped legitimize the Nazi regime and stifle criticism against it.

Never mind that the agreement was not signed by Hitler and doesn’t even mention the Nazi party. Forget that Pope Pius actually saved many Jews from the Holocaust, was called “the mouthpiece of Jewish war criminals” by the Nazis themselves, and was mourned as a hero by Jews all over the world upon his death in 1958.
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Even Cornwell himself has largely backed away from the allegations against Pope Pius in his own book.
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Again, leftists aren’t interested in facts. They are interested in their agenda, and “the pope is a Nazi” fits their agenda. The pope and his influence over billions of Catholics stands in the way of their plans for a godless, socialist world order. So, in addition to attacking religion in every public space, they attack the pope when doing so meets their needs.

That has certainly not been the case with Pope Francis. Pope Francis is different, because he is not a spiritual leader. He is a political operative, with all the earmarks of having been handpicked for his office the way French president François Hollande and our own Dear Leader Obama were picked for theirs.

It wouldn’t be the first time the Vatican has been occupied by a political rather than a spiritual leader. The papacy is two thousand years old. It has had good periods and bad periods,
as has any long-standing institution run by imperfect human beings. There were popes who were honest, wise, and deeply spiritual, and others who were morons, scoundrels, or worse. There were times when the papacy was the spiritual center of the Catholic faith and times when it was little more than a political office, complete with rule over large areas of land and armies commanded by the pope to enforce that rule.

Pope John XII was definitely an example of the latter. He was simultaneously the secular prince of Rome and the pope, but he acted more like the pagan Roman emperor Caligula. He was accused of turning the sacred palace into a whorehouse, fornicating with several women there, including his own niece, and then blinding his confessor.
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He put deviant liberals in Hollywood to shame.

Pope John was eventually deposed as both ruler of Rome and pope, but subsequently regained both offices, brutally mutilating prisoners captured in his victory. He is said to have died in the act of committing adultery.
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Pope Benedict IX was also accused of rape, murder, and other atrocities, while Pope Boniface VIII demolished several towns while feuding with a powerful family. The ironically named Pope Innocent IV tortured heretics, including Galileo, for the “heresy” of claiming the Earth revolved around the sun.

Were the Church not nourished by the Holy Spirit, it might never have survived some of its darker times. But it did survive, and in modern times the Church and the papacy have concerned themselves much more with saving souls than politics.

That’s not to say the pope should have no political opinions at all. Pope Pius XI, who was actually the sitting pope when the Reichskonkordat was signed, said,

“When politics come near the altar” means when governments infringe upon or attempt to influence the Church on spiritual matters. That’s precisely the opposite of the pope using his position as spiritual leader to influence politics, but that’s what Pope Francis has been doing. Not only has he abused the trust placed in him for political purposes, he’s sold out to the socialists who’d love to abolish all religion if they could get away with it.

Pius XII was wrongly called “Hitler’s Pope.” The charge didn’t fit the facts, as the author who wrote the book eventually admitted himself. But Pope Francis can very appropriately be called “Lenin’s pope.” Let’s consider the facts supporting
that
charge.

Just eight months after taking office, Pope Francis published
Evangelii Gaudium
, an apostolic exhortation in which he makes the same spurious criticisms of capitalism Lenin used to lead the Bolshevik revolution. As just one example, he says,

The left always talks about the free market as if it were being run by someone and income was being distributed. That’s counterintuitive. By definition, a free market does not run according to a plan, and no one decides how income is distributed. Each individual decides whether to buy or sell, at what price, and at what quantity. They aren’t told what to do by anyone. That’s why they call it free.

The pope doesn’t believe freedom works. He wants “decisions, programmes, mechanisms and processes” to be imposed on people. He wants income
redistributed
, meaning forcibly taken from some people and arbitrarily handed out to others.

This is just what Lenin did after the 1917 revolution in Russia. He implemented decisions, programmes, mechanisms and processes based on Karl Marx’s maxim, “From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.”

Guess how that worked out? Things got so bad in Russia that Lenin was in danger of being deposed by 1921. The Soviet Union survived only because Lenin’s “New Economic Policy” restored some semblance of a market economy.
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The Soviets, the Vietnamese, and the Chinese all learned the hard way that communism doesn’t work. They all abandoned it on their own after suffering miserably trying to make it work.

We often refer to China as “Communist China” because the Communist Party still asserts autocratic rule over the political process. But China might be less communist economically today than the United States. In some ways, China is the most capitalist society on earth.

The United States doesn’t have a completely capitalist system. The free market has been continually altered since the progressive assault on it began over a hundred years ago. We have a mixed economy like Europe, although the United States has more capitalism than socialism in the mix, at least for now. But politicians still interfere with the peaceful exchanges of property that would occur without interference in a free market. Too often, voters choose politicians based on how much of other people’s money they are going to get or what industries are going to get subsidies or favors.

China’s system is very similar. They just don’t bother with the fraud of elections. Americans went to the polls in 2014. They voted against the leftist policies of the imposter in the White House. They said
nyet
to the Communist Democrat Party of America.

What was the result? The next day, the arrogant, lame-duck president laughed at us and said our votes don’t count because only a small number of people voted, meaning white people and working people. He said, “Wait until 2016 when I flood America with 20 million illegal aliens and fill the streets with Occupy Movement radicals. I’ll get them all registered and they’ll all vote. Then, you’ll see who really runs this country.” I’m paraphrasing, but that’s what he really meant.

China practices the same sort of state-directed capitalism as the United States, without the political need to appeal to voters. There are no elections. Instead, everything is done through bribery. If you want to start a business in China, make sure you bribe the right government officials.

In America, you may not have to bribe politicians directly in order to start a business, but you do have to pay for permits. If you want to build a house, there are permits for that, too.
If you want your kids to go to an elite college, you might have to make a “donation” to fund a new building or an academic department. It’s bribery in all but name.

The Chinese are more honest about it. They just hand over $5,000 gift cards directly and dispense with the whitewashing. Say what you want about them. Their economy is booming while ours continues to contract, regardless of phony government statistics indicating it’s recovered.

In any case, China is not a communist state. They learned the hard way how lethal communism is. They paid an even bigger price in human life than Russia, where full communism was abandoned earlier. But every country that has tried communism has had the same results.

Even Vladimir Putin admits it was a mistake. He reminded President Obama about the horrors of communism at Davos back in 2009, in an attempt to dissuade Obama from pursuing his $800 billion disaster of a mortgage bailout.

Apparently, Pope Francis does want to see it repeated. Not only is he advocating thoroughly discredited socialist theories, he’s completely misinformed on the economic conditions he says he wants to improve. He mentions inequality eleven times in his apostolic exhortation, calling it “the root of all social ills” and saying it is “increasingly evident.” He says the “need to resolve the structural causes of poverty cannot be delayed.”

He reiterated this in a letter to the president of Panama earlier this year:

There is only one problem. By every objective measure, inequality is not increasing. It’s decreasing at rates orders of magnitude greater than at any time in human history. According to the
Economist
, the poverty rate worldwide has been cut in half in the past twenty years.
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Not only has poverty decreased spectacularly, but it has done so precisely because so many countries have shifted away from the kind of socialist policies Pope Francis advocates and toward the free market system he condemns.

I am not saying the pope is evil. He probably believes the things he says just as millions of leftist voters do. Why wouldn’t he? Pope Francis was born and raised in socialist South America. He was immersed in anticapitalist thinking his entire life. He probably believes in socialism as much as American businessmen believe in free enterprise. As the
Economist
said of an interview the pope gave in 2014:

As you can see, I am not alone in recognizing the influence of Lenin on the Holy See. Whether it is conscious or unconscious, it’s still socialism and terribly destructive. For a man whom billions trust to hold these views is terribly dangerous for a world in need of more freedom, not less.

This is why borders and culture are important. It is no accident that the first non-European pope in twelve hundred years would have these radical views. We believe the things we are raised to believe. If you elect a pope from a socialist country, as Argentina was for most of Pope Francis’s life there, you should expect him to have socialist views on the economy. When you allow millions of people from a socialist country to cross your border and eventually become citizens who vote, you should expect socialist representatives and eventually socialist laws.