The Chamberlain Syndrome

By Johnny D. Symon

I've studied most carefully events in Georgia over the past few days, and for me Georgia's plight at the hands, or paws, of that great Russian bear, was simply another example to add on to my list of many from Tsar Nicholas II, on through Russia's Revolution to the present day. With Russia it's always wise to remind yourself that Conflict is it's middle name; The Russian Conflict Federation.

Woodrow Wilson mistook lack of faith, which always results in cowardice, for "humanitarianism." His desire was shared by many from 1919 onwards and upwards to 1939, that the First Great War should be the war to end all wars. He proposed that there be established a League of Nations, and his dream came true, though he himself never joined the club. But the League of Nations was just another cowardly attempt at changing mankind's destiny, mankind's inevitable portion. For you see, it isn't just death and taxes that are inevitable, it's also inevitable that we all must share and fair in the sure and certain consequences of mankind's rebellion, therefore death, taxes, atheism and fear become strange though logical and inevitable bed-mates.

The prophet Isaiah once said,

"Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves.
Every one loves bribes, and chases after rewards."
(Isaiah 1:23)

And although this condemnation was directed at the heads of Judah, it's become an established fact in the political realm ever since.

When God's laws are dropped in favor of fanciful and prefabricated humanitarian lies, fear is first to pay us a visit, and in Georgia's case the greatest fear they had was named The Russian Conflict Federation. Their fear became an inevitable reality which prompted yet another Chamberlain effect ...

Nicolas Sarkozy paid a visit to the Kremlin, and when he returned he assured the West that all was well. It's something he's grown used to since he became President of France. His election was without question a near landslide, and a huge mandate from the French people. But Nicolas ruined it all almost overnight, by mistaking his mandate to be a form of royal bestowal. He seemed to behave as if he was a kind of 21st Century Jesus, and off he flew to other parts, trying to sort out the world's problems, while forgetting that the only problems he'd been mandated to clear were those most grave in France itself. His landslide mandate became ash almost overnight, and he alone was to blame. In fact, his decline and fall by his own sword, should go down in The Guinness Book of Records as the fastest political harikari in recent Western history. He's a crass test dummy.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, by way of comparison, has risen up the comparative political ladder ever since her election. She's a realist and a doer. This is not to say that Germany's problems are over, just to say that, unlike Nicolas, Angela's putting her best efforts into solving and curing her own country's ills, yet unlike Nicolas, who played another Chamberlain, thus believing the unbelievable and expecting his subjects to believe the unbelievable with him, Angela Merkel simply gave Medvedev fair warning that he pull out his troops within days or else!

Though Angela's fair warning was tame in comparison to the one Condoleezza Rice delivered yesterday. President G W Bush has also issued stern warnings Kremlinward, and last week's agreement on the establishment of early warning missile and radar in Eastern Europe is timely and most welcome. I also welcomed President G W Bush's idea of expulsing Russia from G8, which is mild in comparison to my idea, which would be to expulse Russia's leadership out of their respective mortal coils.

Now I said at the start of this week's scribblings that I watched most carefully events involving Georgia and it's plight at the hands of the Russian loons, and one thing in particular stood out like a sore thumb; namely the price of crude on the world market. For in spite of Russia's invasion of a peaceful ally, and also bearing in mind that Russia holds the European Union to ransom over its oil and gas supplies to it, the price of crude continued to fall.

For me this was further conclusive proof that so-called "market fears" over the past few years that "acts of terrorism," or hurricanes in the gulf of Mexico, and so on, which resulted in a hike on crude, were all a bunch of lies, because if anything, Georgia's plight, and fears about the integrity of Kosovo even, should see crude on the up again, in spite of a decrease in the demand for oil due to its fabricated and unrealistic value.

I watched McCain and Obama last weekend performing their public confessional, and for me it was all a bunch of jive, because all I need is for them to confess whether they're Globalist minded or Nationalist minded, for you can't be both. But it's worthy of note to remember that to be Globalist minded or Nationalist minded before 1920 and the League of Nations, was completely the opposite of both thought camps today.

Frederick Bastiat in "What is Free Trade?" knew globalism to be the only way to apply free trade in its purest sense, and nationalism/protectionism to be what he described as "sisyphism," named after poor old Sisyphus who, due to his crimes, had to serve out a sentence of rolling a rock uphill, only to find it repeatedly roll back down again on its own volition. Pure sisyphism was defined as "labor infinite; result nothing." Bastiat was of course pre-Great War, and he laid down his thoughts during the Industrial Revolution. The League of Nations, followed by the United Notions and the Alliance of Civilizations, reversed globalism and nationalism.

The decline and fall of the West is a subject I tend to graze over once in a while, because I'm convinced that's what's happening. And as I've said before, only a nation's leadership can burn their own flag and nation completely. The rot sets in from within when leaders ruin their people and their hopes for the future. The Rock Group Pennywise spelt out that general trend of despair in their recent single "The Western World" ...

"No, I don't wanna live here anymore,
Gonna watch it burn,
We are the best, and we fight till the death,
There's nothing left worth fighting for
In the western world"

And if there's nothing left worth fighting for, it can only be due to Western leadership's desire to drain their own nation's resources, to benefit the dregs of humanity elsewhere; Foreign aid is bribery and theft, and a betrayal of those who came before us and built something that we all once felt was worth fighting for, well in truth, I still believe that there's hope for the future and therefore something still worth fighting for.

So today globalist politicos are super-sisyphists and enemies of the State and its people, because they'd rather bury the nation's talents and forget about them, whereas a nationalist would rather take those talents and put them to work. To a nationalist, potential oil fields in Alaska and off California are talents to be used, but a globalist would rather they remained buried. To nationalists, people are talents, but globalists have no time or care for them.

With this, many Christians will be reminded of the parable of the talents, and so they should, because it's vital in order to understand fully the problem Georgia faces with its hostile neighbor. It's neighbor simply recognizes the world's talents/riches to be its own for the taking, and refuses to account for the national integrity of other nations. It's globalist in the worst sense possible because Russian Globalism is worlds apart to the globalism of free trade held by Frederick Bastiat and others. Frederick viewed free trade as someone in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, he saw new technologies as a means of bringing prices down for the consumer. From sail ships to steamers, from steamers to railroads, from railroads to highways, from highways to flyways, everything spelt out better value for money and lower prices for goods.

But today's globalism betrays national interests. Personal taxation is a vehicle to serve the world and not a particular nation. Prices are leveled to serve the interests of bankers and internationalists, to the detriment of national consumers. Globalist minded politicos are traitors who, in a more perfect world, would expect to receive a chattering dawn chorus of well deserved hot lead.

Isidore Epstein in "Judaism" wrote, in reference to the great prophecies of Isaiah and Micah on the future kingdom;

"In this kingdom, righteousness and peace shall reign supreme. Gone will then be all social sins that end in pauperism and all political sins that end in war."

Social and political sins are a kind of cocktail, shaken and stirred, though always resultantly served on the rocks.

21st Century globalism regards your nation's God-given resources as "property of the world's collective nations." Ultimately the sovereign rights of person and property of a nation's individuals render those unique national talents a property of the world's forthcoming Super State, a State that The Russian Conflict Federation intends to head and control.

Georgia's plight is a prime example of the dark side of 21st Century globalism. They saw "fools Russian where angels feared to tread," and where political fallen angels of the Western world feared to argue. For the truth is that Russia has made Western Europe beholden to them for crude and natural gas, and the EU just several short years back turned a convenient blind eye to the theft and nationalization of Yukos.

Globalist political leaders are political sinners, and proponents of social sinfulness. They are the reason for the poor always being with us, and the nation's resources and talents remaining buried beneath sea and soil. Frederick Bastiat stated that Sisyphist politicos can never conceive of cheap bread, and though this condemnation, for indeed it is, was made in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, it remains valid today. Globalist politicos are high-tax, high- spend, atheistic cowards, and they can never conceive of their nation rising above the rest by observing strict control over the money supply, through firstly limiting it, and furthermore placing strict limits on their own political governance, by which I mean National Boundaries and Federal spending.

If ever the day comes that a political leader finally sees the light and turns their nation in the right direction, it'll be no less a miracle than walking on water or parting the sea. But where politicians are concerned I personally do not expect miracles, I'm a doubting Thomas. For you see, globalist politicians are blind because they willingly partake in the "Chamberlain Syndrome," not wishing to recognize the evil intent of their political neighbors, and likewise therefore those simple truths that promise national recovery contained within the great talents of their own nation.

© Johnny D. Symon