The Big Lies

“Falsehood flies; and the truth comes limping after it.”

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One of the darker aspects of being a Southern Dissident is that you learn to live in hostile world and this world’s chief currency is the lie. War was waged on our ancestors for a lie. Our towns and communities were invaded for economic reasons and now the Empire and its complicit sycophants in academia and the media spin lies about the War for Southern Independence. Our great grandfathers were men of noble character and are now maligned and denigrated by people who have chosen to hate us base on lies about the war. The principal tool used against us by our current political enemies is the lie. They lie about our character and our motivations every chance they get. It’s what they do because their father is the Father of Lies.

Has anyone ever stopped to question if a world that revolves around lies is able to function? What sort of harm are we doing to ourselves and our posterity by continuing to bathe in historical, political, and cultural lies, year after year, decade after decade? Is this sustainable? For example, you want the builder of your house to be a man of integrity, lest your home collapse on you one day. He can’t lie, at least not about the integrity of your home. The same goes for your auto mechanic, your airplane pilot, or your doctor; if these men had the same moral character as the reporters for MSNBC, Vice or HuffPo, then many of us would have our lives tragically cut short and the outcry against them would be severe… and change would occur. Lies will only get you so far, even in a postmodern world. The truth will eventually emerge out of necessity and chains of lies eventually snap. It is necessary that our relationships, our culture, and our very civilization be grounded in truth. We will discuss two lies of the American Empire. One of these lies is currently being embraced by most of America while another seems to have run its course and is crumbling before our eyes.

George Floyd

George Floyd was arrested on suspicion of forgery on May 25 and went unresponsive while in police custody. There is no need to go into great detail here about Floyd’s criminal history or the fact that he briefly resisted arrest and struggled with officers who were attempting to cuff him. It’s important to note that he didn’t die because an officer strangled him. I’ll repeat that with capital letters- HE DIDN’T DIE FROM STRANGULATION OR ASPHYXIATION. While the officer chose to kneel on the lateral side of Floyd’s neck while he was handcuffed and in a prone position for 8 minutes, (and whether this was prudent is certainly a debatable point) Floyd was unresponsive for only two of those minutes. EMS was dispatched by MPD and they arrived and began to treat Mr. Floyd. The EMS records show that upon initial assessment, Mr. Floyd was observed to be in cardiac arrest and he promptly received resuscitative care including defibrillation.

Respiratory A&P 101

Large portions of urban America are still currently being looted and dismantled because of the mistaken notion that Mr. Floyd was choked by a police officer and this incident is prima facie evidence of an ongoing trend of black men being murdered by police officers. Well, I hate the burst their bubble but we need to call bullshit on this right now. You cannot choke a human being by exerting blunt force to the lateral side of their neck.

Looking at an anatomical cross section of the human neck underscores this point. One knee leaning into the side of a large man’s neck is simply not enough force to overcome the reinforcement of the bony cervical spine, the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles, and the cartilaginous tracheal rings to collapse the airway, particularly on a muscular individual like Mr. Floyd. You can certainly exert this force to the front of the neck and choke someone, but any moderate, blunt force to the side of the neck will not accomplish what is being claimed was done to Mr. Floyd. The anatomy will not allow it. Mr. Floyd’s airway was actually shielded during the time he spent prone beside the police cruiser. However, there was some truth to his inability to breathe. Let’s explore the physiology of the issue further.

Breathing requires the ability of the diaphragm to descend and the expansion of the external intercostal muscles which results in the passive drawing of air into the airway and into the lungs. This involuntary orchestration relies on certain pressures being maintained within the cardiopulmonary vascular tree. If there are increases in the vascular pressures within the lungs for whatever reason, it becomes difficult to oxygenate the blood and, if conditions worsen, it can become impossible to breathe effectively. People who are having major heart attacks, acute episodes of congestive heart failure, or pulmonary embolism will present with difficulty breathing and in severe cases, it will be necessary to intubate these people and artificially ventilate them with supplemental oxygen. It is certainly true, they can’t breathe… but they aren’t being choked. Their inability to breathe is a cardiac and circulatory problem, not an airway problem. This is a crucial point and at this stage of the game, it’s one that’s worth several hundred million dollars in property damage. Here’s another million-dollar point. We know Mr. Floyd wasn’t being choked because he continued to complain about not being able to breathe and complained for several minutes before he went unresponsive. People that are being choked cannot talk. People that have no airway can’t move air in and out of the lungs across the vocal cords to phonate. People that are being choked pass out in a matter of seconds, not minutes.

The coroner’s report noted that Mr. Floyd died from cardiac disease and the stress on his system pursuant to his arrest. He had longstanding hypertension, this hypertension remodels the heart in an unfavorable manner that greatly decreases the body’s ability to tolerate the stress of catecholamines and renders it prone to sudden cardiac death. Mr. Floyd was noted to have intoxicants in his system but whatever role these played was negligible. He died of cardiac arrest and people that die from cardiac arrest, in their waning conscious moments, feel like they can’t breathe. Based on the surveillance video it’s likely he collapsed as they were attempting to place him in a vehicle and the responding officers interpreted his collapse as further resistance. That would explain why the one officer kept a knee on him, they assumed his fall to the ground was a ruse and the police didn’t want any further altercation. Have you ever arrested an intoxicated, belligerent 6’4” muscular male before? No? Well, we should all walk a mile in the shoes of a patrol officer in an urban district before screaming for heads on pikes and lighting the molotov’s.

Perhaps it’s too much to expect police officers who are constantly being filmed, taunted, and threatened by a hostile crowd while trying to arrest people who perpetually lie to them to, at the same time, perform advanced lifesaving cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the field. We can be fairly certain that the cardiologists at the Cleveland Clinic work under slightly different conditions. Do some cops make bad decisions? Certainly. Are most cops undertrained? Certainly. Was it smart to keep a knee on the side of a man’s neck for two minutes after he quit talking? Probably not, but remember we are dealing with police officers here and not paramedics and certainly not physicians. Does the narrative being used to justify rioting and the wholesale destruction of America’s past pass the smell test here? Of course not.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH

Now that we understand that the catalyst of the riots is/was bogus, we can move on to the second lie. This lie is an older one and has had the veil of plausibility ripped from it’s crown and thrown into the urine soaked streets over the last few nights. Let’s cut to the chase. Bring it in closer and I’ll whisper it gently in your ear. There you go. Are you ready?

Diversity is not our strength.

While we hear the same 50 year-old broken records being played by liberal and conservative politicians alike, almost no one outside of Dissident circles has the courage to question whether or not the great American Experiment may be beyond its expiration date. Sure, there are a few blacks that have successfully integrated into white American culture, but by and large the notion that millions of Africans and tens of millions of Anglos can live peaceably, side by side, in a single political unity, seems farcical at this point. Isn’t this an important rule of history, that disparate people groups, when forced into close proximity with one another, will fight over power and resources? Of course it is, and anyone who can glimpse over the charred remains of police cruisers and still see an America as a nation of ideas, a nation of nations, a beautiful red, white, and blue melting pot, is either senile or a damned fool. It’s time to let the big lies die. It’s time for truth.

Deo Vindice.

-By Dixie Anon