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Dr. Clyde N. Wilson

Minnie Ha Ha

6/30/2025

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Dear reader, you must take a look at the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” easy to find online. It was created by a rare honest reporter who left Minneapolis television because she was not allowed to ask questions about the George Floyd case. The reporter, Liz Collins, also has a book, They Lied.


George Floyd, a violent, drug-addicted felon in dangerously bad health, died in police custody of a heart attack after being apprehended for a robbery. His story became immediately international news - with a video of a white policeman holding him down while he was saying he could not breathe.


The story presented and still being presented to the public was that White cops had murdered poor George Floyd. The news media adopted this narrative immediately and persistently.


The police, at Floyd’s request, had taken him from the squad car and laid him out flat to aid his breathing while waiting for an ambulance that went to the wrong address. The criminal was being held down by the White cop with a method that had long been standard in the police manual.


We might say that American history changed that day. This incident became a worldwide exhibit of heinous systematic racism in American society. Riots, unpoliced by the city, destroyed 1,500 Minneapolis businesses. They were copied everywhere. American corporations funded Black Lives Matter, which is now exposed as a corrupt money-making machine for its leaders.


George Floyd got a gold statue and an athletic field named for him. His “family,” in which he had never shown any interest and which had never shown any interest in him, got over a million dollars in public money.


But that is not the least of it. The governor (recently the Democratic candidate for vice-president of the U.S), the state attorney general, the mayor, and the police chief LIED to keep the false narrative of murder and racism going.


Even worse, they manipulated the justice system with the cooperation of a sympathetic judge. Defense evidence was systematically excluded from the trials of the police officers - the police body camera material, the original autopsy which showed death by heart attack. And the relevant part of the police manual somehow disappeared. The scene was arranged to intimidate the jury so that they feared for their lives if they found the police innocent.


The respected cop accused of the “murder” is serving a prison sentence that will last till his old age. Other officers at the scene, one of them an African American, also received prison sentences. The politicians and the media readily sacrificed ordinary law officers for their false narrative.


What we learn from this is the utter corruption of the national media and the “blue” state political establishment. They want to impose their perverted view of the world on us. They hate us and consider themselves to be a gifted elite to rule over the masses.


Minneapolis is deteriorating as might be expected. Crime has boomed to previously unknown levels. In a year carjackings went from one to 200, nearly all unpunished. Some 40% of the police have resigned, and you can bet they are the best part of the force. Minnesotans are leaving their beautiful State for boring Iowa.


As one who lived through the “civil rights” era, I am tempted to say to Minnesotans, “Good, you are getting some of what you deserve.” At that time Minnesota was about 98% white and its leaders were at the forefront of applying federal force to change the multi-racial South into a form that they virtuously wanted. Leaders like Humphrey, Mondale, McCarthy. (I have wondered why Minnesota, which is not a particularly large state in population, has had so many politicians in the vicinity of the White House right up to the dubious Walz.)


​It is tempting to say to Minnesota, "You deserve it." But perhaps that is a bit unfair. There are plenty of good people there. Much of the rural state shows red.


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Senator Satan

6/22/2025

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“Ted” Rafael Cruz, although a Senator from Texas, was born in Canada to a Cuban father and educated at Princeton and Harvard Law. Texas Senators reached an apparent bottom low with Lyndon Johnson. The days of Sam Houston, John Reagan, Roger Mills, Lee O’Daniel are long gone, but the standard after Johnson, incredibly, keeps moving down and down.


I watched a debate between Cruz and Tucker Carlson, the subject of which was supposed to be whether the U.S. joining the Israeli attack on Iran is good for Americans (other than casualties and taxes). With Cruz I saw a politician (and I mean that in every derogatory sense) display his great talents---evasions, non sequiturs, and changing the subject without ever giving a clear position. While pretending to the posture of a dignified elder statesman.


I thought immediately about how Satan works in the world and wins over many with plausible and seemingly sincere lies. After all, he is the Father of Lies. I saw the snake hissing in Eve’s ear.


Cruz favours an American attack on Iran in support of Israel, although he never came out and directly said so or gave any sufficient reason why. In answer to that issue he diverted to a tale about how he is neither an interventionist nor an isolationist but a very wise and thoughtful chooser of what foreign invasions are necessary. He admitted that we cannot attack every country with “bad people” but never made clear why Iran was one of those that needed to be attacked. Every reason he mentioned fell short of war justification.


When Carlson asked Cruz what “regime change” would look like in Iran he had no opinion, causing us to wonder if he ever even thought about it. Regime change? Like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine? The issue of regime change was evaded by Cruz flattering Carlson that he agreed with him 80% of the time.


Carlson queried why the U.S. should be concerned with war for the benefit of another country when our country is showing deterioration in ways that need to be addressed? Pointing out that domestic society has been declining since the supposedly beneficial end of the Cold War. Cruz retreated immediately to Republican boiler plate. Our problems are caused by Democratic mayors in big cities, he declared. How this is responsible for falling life expectancy, impoverishment of the working class, and deteriorating infrastructure was not addressed.


Cruz’s answer is classic Republican evasion—avoiding what is real and serious by substituting a slogan.


And why should the U.S. government be involved in arranging other people’s countries at all? Countries that cannot harm us? I thought that was what the people elected Trump to get rid of.


And it seems to be bad form to murder another country’s respected leaders and scientists. Does anybody do this other than Israel?


My friends, let us remember that Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons and has refused, unlike Iran, international inspection. That President Kennedy was acting to restrain Israel getting nuclear weapons at the time of his death. That both international inspectors and U.S. intelligence have for two decades discounted that Iran intended a nuclear bomb. And that Cruz’s last election campaign got $2,000,000 support from Israel advocates.


Satan is real and here. His lies have long governed the U.S. government.

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More on the Sad Way We Are Now

6/15/2025

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To quit sending them billions of government money is, according to college presidents, tyranny.

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Take a look at the L.A. riots. If Southerners ever engaged in a protest, genuinely “peaceful, as at Charlottesville, we would already be suppressed and arrested, probably killed.

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The Governor of California complains that Trump’s armed intervention against rioters violates his state’s “sovereignty.” Where did he get that? Various Republican politicians compare the intervention to Lincoln’s attack on the Confederacy. Politicians of both parties are totally ignorant about the War for Southern Independence and the Constitution. The Confederacy was not a riot. Secession was democratically voted for and carried out with dignified and formal Constitutional proceedings and expressions of peaceful intent. To compare the Confederacy to violent rioting by foreign criminals is catastrophically ignorant and dishonest.

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In December 1841 the Japanese Empire attacked and tried to destroy the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. They regarded the U.S. Navy as a potential obstacle to their intent to dominate East Asia and the Pacific.


In June 2025 the Israeli armed forces attacked Iran as a potential threat to their dominance of the Middle East as the region’s only nuclear power. The moral position is exactly the same as that of Pearl Harbor - launching a deliberate war of aggression against another country upon a potential threat. A war crime according to every Western and Christian teaching.


Iran is not Libya or even Iraq. It is the inheritor of the mighty Persian Empire, with a large, intelligent, and active population, not a pushover. Many knowledgeable observers have discounted its intention to build nuclear weapons. Unlike Israel, it does not have any now.


The Israeli aggression depends on American money, weapons, and intelligence. It would seem the President of the U.S. collaborated in setting up the attack after Iran refused demands that no independent country could accept.


Donald Trump has abetted not only the Iran attack but the Gaza genocide carried out by Israel. When did a terrorist attack justify the eradication of innocent women and children? Trump has damaged his reputation, lost support, and compromised his more important domestic agenda. And cast doubt as to whether he has gained any control over the Deep State.


There is no reason to pour extra blame on Trump. The last President to have a fair and honest view of the Middle East was Jimmy Carter, a half century ago. It was nearly inevitable that America would be implicated in Israeli crimes. In the U.S. House and Senate the near unanimous consent of both parties has bankrolled Zionism for decades.


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Another major Trump disappointment - the Big Beautiful Bill. Of course, politicians lie and attempt to confuse voters about what they do - that is their nature. But as far as one can tell, Trump in this bill has sold out to the mainstream Republicans who hate him. Supposed spending cuts don’t come in until five years, which is a total useless measure. The Republican Speaker made sure that the USAid expenditures, so vividly exposed by DOGE, remain in force, along with a billion dollars to PBS and Green Energy measures.


What Trump thinks he is doing with this maneuver is hard to understand. I have always said that the greatest obstacle to his populist agenda is the Republican party. Some of the Republicans who voted in the expenditures applauded Trump when he praised spending cuts in the State of the Union address. That is the kind of thing that Republicans in power do.


Some Democrats actually believe in their perverted measures. Though they lie to further them, they actually think they are doing good. But Republican Congresspersons, by and large, are short-sighted and self-promoting and have no ideas about the public good at all. They are merely an election machine for the mediocre element of the Yankee nation to get in office without any real principles or vision. They spout out meaningless party slogans designed by advertising men. They are afraid of anything realistic that might hurt their respectability.


We are told we must admire Ronald Reagan, with a wife into astrology, a toe-dancing son, and a Playmate daughter. He signed into law the MLK holiday and a measure to give citizenship to millions of illegals, and first brought into power the Neocons who have disastrously dominated U.S. foreign policy.


​We have to fear that the populist revolution needed to save the American people is not prospering. Perhaps its failure is already sealed in history.

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    Clyde Wilson is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina He is the author or editor of over thirty books and published over 600 articles, essays and reviews

    Dr. Wilson is also is co-publisher of Shotwell Publishing, a source  for unreconstructed Southern books. 

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