I admit to not knowing a lot of people on Intellectual Conservative other than Rachel Alexander who has followed my work and wants to help me reach my goals any which way she can…”right turn Clyde.” (A little humor [...]]]>

I admit to not knowing a lot of people on Intellectual Conservative other than Rachel Alexander who has followed my work and wants to help me reach my goals any which way she can…”right turn Clyde.” (A little humor there)

Well after featuring several pieces written by him originally published on his personal Facebook and nudging him to join the Intellectual Conservative website; I would like to say to Steven Olivo, Welcome!

I actually came into contact with Steven about 13 years ago via social media.  I recently lost my mother, and felt it was time to build on something before the day I would lose my dad (who passed away Christmas Day 2015).  I felt social media would be a place for me to actual building my goals along with reconnecting with other people that I knew.  I became acquainted with Steven when I connected with the people involved (either as fans or musicians) in a niched musical genre called Classical Crossover.

For those who don’t know, Classical Crossover is a combination of traditional/historical Classical music styles mixed with modern pop music.  CC was popularized by such artists including The Three Tenors (Plácido Domingo,  José Carreras, and Luciano Pavarotti), Sarah Brightman (who popularized the role of Christine Daaé in the stage musical The Phantom of the Opera, and with her then husband Andrew Lloyd Weber popularized his Requiem especially the Pie Jesu), Andrea Bocelli (who achieved stardom when Pavarotti himself encouraged him to record a song written by Italian pop rock musician Zucchero Fornaciari, but Bocelli was able to rope Pavarotti into making Zucchero’s song a duet and the rest is history including Bocelli’s duet with Brightman with the song Time To Say Goodbye/Con te partirò), and of course more recently Jackie Evancho, who herself achieved fame at ten years of age.

Overall Olivo’s favorite Classical Crossover act would be Celtic Woman, who was able to maintain worldwide success especially in America and taking advantage of America’s fascination with Irish culture.  Celtic Woman is not exactly recognized as Classical Crossover but some would consider them such.  Celtic Woman which was created by David Kavanagh, Sharon Browne and David Downes, is actually a hybrid of Classical Crossover, Folk, Pop, and Celtic Music.  Celtic Woman was considered to be a one shot project back in 2004-2005ish, but the creators saw a cash cow that could last for years…they were proven to be right.  The musician ensemble’s highest peak was it’s A New Journey show and album that was released in early 2007, and both were teased by their second PBS special in late 2006.  The novelty of the ensemble wore off for me a few years later, but Olivo has remained a loyal fan in spite of the changes in the ensemble in recent years.

But Celtic Woman has not really helped make popular music any better, but they are not to blame either.  Olivo has been able to make it to just about every concert that came to his area.  To date he only missed Celtic Woman once, and only because of other commitments.

It was a love to seeing Classical Crossover succeed that eventually allowed Steven and me to become long distance friends.  My personal music tastes have changed somewhat over time, but I still want to push for quality music regardless.  We had a few bumps in the roads but not as many as others have.

Now that you know how I met him, let me let tell you more about him.

Olivo has a strong interest in reading history, especially about the crusades, World War I, and the late Victorian era.  Olivo is a passionate supporter of out military and our first responders (including but not limited to; EMT, fire protection, state troopers etc.) who Olivo feels such people keep our liberties and freedoms intact.  You can find Olivo at parades that honor the above, Military Tattoos (musical performances done by the armed forces), and airshows.  When Olivo is allowed to take pictures, Olivo does such, and man he is good at capturing and making these life events treasures.

Olivo has tried his hand at writing fantasy stories, similar to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series.  He is also a fan of the Chicago One TV franchise (Fire , Med, and P.D.).

Olivo’s “real job” however is a public servant attorney in his current city of residence, and has taken on some well known lawyers in the area and has won big.

Just like everyone here, Olivo is a conservative and swims upstream against the tide of the progressive zeitgeist,  especially in the times we are living in now.

Once again, I would like to welcome Olivo to the Intellectual Conservative website.  I look forward to him writing more pieces here.

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Mark Levin did a great job [...]]]>

Mark Levin did a great job recapping his statements that he made in his previous books on his June 5th program,  mostly from Amertopia and Plunder and Deceit.  Levin pointed out the current economic rebound and stated that the Ivy League schools are not taking in a lot of Asian students.  The progressive left seems to have issues with the Asians.  The Asians have yet to embrace the lack of education (other than taking Marxism as the gospel truth) and that you really don’t need a family in your life and that your traditions of old…you need to part with them.  Wow, so much for embracing diversity.

I guess that term from Orwell about “some animals being more equal than others” is a true statement.  Let me rephrase it however.  Some minorities are more equal than others.

It seems to me, that the progressive left prefers minorities that are committed (knowingly or not) to what the progressives want to advance in our country.  Granted if they can get all the minority groups to support what the left supports the better.  Certain minorities may not be easily controlled or at least not all in for what the left at large wants all at once.  Then it hit me; the Black community/African-Americans, women (regardless of skin color), and the LGBTQ (regardless of skin color and gender) have been among the strongest “minority” groups to benefit not only the Democrat Party, but are also the strongest groups that may very well usher in the progressive left’s fundamental transformation of America.

I will start with the women first.

The progressives has been successful with getting the women to vote Democrat by getting the women to strongly dislike (if not downright hate) the family, men, and above all the historical faith in God.  Many of the old religions especially Judeo-Christian, promote the concept of the woman being a good servant to her husband and her God, and as such she is encouraged to be the caretakers of the home, and family (including procreating children and raising them to fear God).  Now if among those children happen to be daughters, the woman has a greater role in training them to be future wives and mothers.  Basically this is the virtuous woman that is described in Proverbs 31: 10-31.  In the New Testament, Paul himself encourages women to dress with respectable apparel, modesty and self-control, and learn in submission.

Since the beginning of creation their were always women who questioned God and his creation order.  Going right back to the Garden of Eden when the devil got Eve to question God’s Law regarding the forbidden tree.  The rest they say is history.  I don’t need to go over the other women of the Bible, but in our modern day and age the term modesty has a fragile meaning.  Even I had to learn the hard way.

One man that also had to learn it the hard way long before I did was county judge Archie Simonson of Wisconsin.  Simonson infamously declared that ‘rape is a normal male reaction to provocative female clothing.’  The year was 1977 at the height of feminism, and the push for the so-called Equal Rights Amendment.  Dane County is the home of Madison, Wisconsin; and also a hot bed for not only feminism but progressive politics.  The feminists were very successful in removing Simonson from the bench and replacing him with a feminist friendly one who was one herself.  Simonson still was a family man with daughters of his own and would live a long life…passing away in June 2018.  Women don’t have to be modest, but can get a man in trouble for noticing.  Today, women are encouraged to not only express themselves sexually they are also encourage to enjoy their desires and not live under any man’s thumb…especially should she choose to have children.  Single women tend to not only vote Democratic but also embrace a progressive worldview, unlike a good amount of women who get married and seek the interests of her family over her self.  Thus the reason why our culture love single women who play loose and free, even if that endangers her children…if any.

The LGBTQ is also popular with progressive Democrats for similar reasons.  One big reason is that it challenged the traditional family with it’s goal to not only weaken it but to redefine it.  Our government thanks to our Supreme Court (Obergefell v. Hodges) basically made One Woman/One Man marriage meaningless by embracing Same Sex Marriage.  Long before that achieving that goal, adoption of children to gay couple became common place in most major cities.  The LGBTQ is seen as a group of people in which the progressive left can deconstruct America.  Of course both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible would call homosexuality an abomination.  In fact many of the old faith’s frown upon homosexuality…even Islam.

Those who followed the history of the Democratic Party and the history of slavery (and getting passed the white washing the Democrats and their progressive allies have done), know that they have profited in the slave trade when it was legal.  The white man stole the land from the Native Americans and the white man had his package of slaves to work the lands they took and made themselves prosperous.  It took a process for the Democrats to be corrected in humbled in their wicked acts towards the African American, but even with the Civil Rights  Act of 1964, you can’t bring a good group of Cons down…and the Democrat Party are a group of good Cons.  Nor can you really humble them.  LBJ successful changed the con, and now the black community of America are the Democrat’s greatest tool of “useful idiots” to keep that respective party relevant and afloat.

This brings us to the present day, and the so-called Black Lives Matter movement and official namesake organization, coupled with support from the Antifa.  Unlike the Black Panthers (BPP) of old, BLM has garnered mass appeal and support from a marco culture.  However the mind of BLM, is quite similar to the BPP.  Certain demands that are common include; an end to “police brutality,” and the abolishment of the prison system.  Both groups demand government funding for the black community to live conformable; especially if they have certain dysfunctions that may be frowned upon by many people, but it will be taxpayers paying for it until they no longer have money of their own.  Both groups also demand “justice” for the black community whatever that might at the moment, but one thing for sure.  When the cops especially of lighter pigmentation get killed by blacks, the BBP/BLM types will be celebrating.  Both private and publicly.

Don’t expect BLM to renounce the legacy of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, in spite of her open racism.  Like today’s Antifa movement, Sanger herself was a Communist/Anarchist.  Both were ready, willing and able to tear down the current society in favor of the new society they have envisioned.  In fact BLM stated in their own writings; “We deserve and thus we demand reproductive justice (code word for abortion) that gives us autonomy over our bodies and our identities while ensuring that our children and families are supported, safe, and able to thrive.”  Thus the preborn are not people, and can be snuffed out for the greater good…especially sexual liberation (or Free Love) which Sanger promoted along with the extermination of  Negros (which the black people were once called) via her “Negro Project” (and yet we still have a United Negro College Fund).

Steve Deace, BLM does not pass your justice test, and you and I know that the likes of BLM and Antifa could not care less.

Sanger was all about sexual liberation and felt that a world in which people held Karl Marx’s worldview would make it happen.  Sexual liberation is also promoted by the feminists and the LGBTQ.  Getting the black community to support both by making them depended on government and embracing Marxist ideals worked like a charm just as LBJ envisioned.  Sadly for all of the above, when the Marxists have achieved absolute power over everyone…all bets will be off, and they will throw their useful idiots under the bus like the rest of us.  In the meantime, the Democrat Party has made all these groups conformable enough to buy votes endlessly of the American Black Community along with the women and the LGBTQ.

The COVID-19 pandemic could also help make Eugenics great again, but that is another piece that may or may not be written, but I don’t trust those who want to force us to take the needle.  Sanger by the way, was all in for eugenics.

We are of one Race…The Human Race.  All Lives Matter, as we are all created by the same God.  A God that sadly many choose to challenge.

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Apparently the bullying mob went to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s home and demanded he come out and meet with them. I have never seen a mayor or other [...]]]>

Apparently the bullying mob went to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s home and demanded he come out and meet with them.  I have never seen a mayor or other executive look so weak, so small, and so powerless. It’s not necessarily about physical size – Fiorello LaGuardia was only 5’2″ – or about physical prowess – Frank Hague and Anton Cermak were just ordinary-looking guys. It IS about strength of personality and showing leadership. If Frey had any of either he would have told them to back off his home and that he would meet with them at an appropriate time and place. As it was, he let himself be bullied into sheepfacedly saying he would not commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police Department, and was told “then get the fuck out of here.” He retreated like a whipped dog, and now he looks like just that. He got slapped down by the mob, and now the whole world saw it happen.

Abolition of the police completely is a ridiculous idea. I’ve seen police departments disbanded, folded into other departments, and so on. I’m also aware of one department that was rebuilt top to bottom, a very long time ago. I’m also aware of communities that do not maintain their own police force. What I have never heard of is a major city firing its entire police force and not replacing it with another policing agency.

Calvin Coolidge was governor of Massachusetts before he became vice president and a model peacetime president. In 1919 the Boston Police Department went on strike seeking improvements to work conditions. As you might guess the city quickly descended into lawlessness. Coolidge quickly brought in the militia (forerunners of the National Guard), restored order, and proceeded to hire a completely new force, saying tersely “there is no right to strike against the public safety by anyone, anywhere, at any time.” The militia patrolled until there were enough policemen for the BPD to resume its duties. That was a different time, before public sector unions and before civil service becoming the system it is now.

Hudson County, NJ (Jersey City and environs), underwent some drastic changes in the mid-to-late 1990s) as it did away with the Hudson County Police and merged several fire departments to create the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue service. The former was done for reasons of cost. The original concept of a county police force dates back to when NJ was much more rural, and there was a need for an agency to patrol county property and keep an eye on the unincorporated areas (which were not within any towns and not controlled by the State) within the county. This was different from the various county sheriffs, whose primary missions were to serve court papers, enforce court orders, provide court security, run the county jail, and only secondarily patrol, etc. Eventually the sheriffs started to also provide SWAT/ERT services to municipalities too small to do it themselves, and the detectives attached to the various county prosecutors’ offices starting providing crime scene investigation, etc. As NJ became more and more built up, the unincorporated areas of the various counties greatly decreased or even disappeared.

By the 1990s, the Hudson County Police’s duties had dwindled to patrolling a handful of county roads and two or three county parks, and running the 911 center for the county. All of those places fell within the concurrent jurisdiction of some city, town, or other municipality. The agency had outlived its usefulness. Its efforts were duplicative, and, when costs had to be cut, it had to go. Some of its 82 officers retired if they were close to the end of their time anyway. Others, mostly those who had a lot of time to go but were already trained, were absorbed into the Sheriff’s Department – it was cheaper and easier than trying to train brand new recruits. Unfortunately, not all of them were offered new jobs, and some of the guys who fell in the middle found themselves out of luck, trying to find jobs with other police departments or begin a second career. I believe there was some litigation, but it went nowhere, the Civil Service Commission was on board with it. However, policing of all the county continued, as the municipal departments already had it covered. No place went unpoliced.

North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue was a streamlining of five small fire departments in an area that was really one big city except for the names into one large one, to trim costs and refocus resources. It took 15 years and endless legal wrangling, to make certain no one would lose rank or lose his position completely. It included buying out up to five years of pension time for firefighters who had 20 years or more in to slim the numbers down. As a result the regional department was able to slim down numbers, particularly in management, and direct resources to upgrading equipment, facilities, and training.

The Bergen County (NE corner of NJ, Hackensack and environs) police, who found themselves essentially in the same place as the Hudson County Police, were folded whole cloth into the Sheriff’s Department 15 years ago, and they still haven’t trimmed the numbers down by attrition to where they want them to be. However, the powers that be decided that would be cheaper than outright firings and layoffs, which might result in litigation, even if they would probably prevail in litigation.

The nearest thing to an outright abolition of a city police department in NJ was the city of Camden (across the Delaware River from Philadelphia) disbanding its police department in 2012. It’s a long story, but the short version is that decades of overtaxing the various businesses led most major employers (Campbell’s Soup and RCA were two of the big ones) to leave the city. As a result, the city’s tax revenue had fallen to such a level that it could no longer afford a police department. From 2005 to 2012 the State operated the police, but it was then decided to hand off to the county for cost reasons. Some officers were rehired into the new department, others went to other departments (there were SEVERE cutbacks in benefits). However, the city of Camden did not go unpoliced for even a single day.

Most small communities I am aware of in rural Pennsylvania contract with either the county or state policing authorities for policing services. There is no such thing as a totally unpoliced municipality, though some may be far from the reach of those agencies (hence a lot of rural Pennsylvanians being armed, but that’s a whole separate discussion).

I cannot fathom doing away with a whole department of 800 officers, as in Minneapolis, without there being some major legal issues. What happens to the officers, especially those with clean records? Do they spend already scarce public funds on buyouts of those near the end of their tenure? Are all officers just dumped out on the street, whether they have 25 months or 25 years in? What about pensions? What about accumulated vacation and sick time, which probably has to be paid for under union contracts? Do they think litigation won’t result? It will, and I think the City will be in a tough spot. Judges will take one look at a proposal like that vis-a-vis existing contracts and say “are you kidding?”

More importantly, What happens to law and order in the city? Will Minneapolis become a city of close to half a million with NO ONE to keep order? It’s absolutely clear from the video above that the activists don’t want this department merged with another, and they don’t want the state to take over. They want a completely police-less city, where no one can enforce the law, only try to persuade everyone to behave.

If that happens, what recourse do shopkeepers and business owners have if they get robbed? What’s a wife to do if her husband gets drunk and decides to knock her or their children around? If a woman’s date decides the date is going better than she thinks it is and refuses to take no for an answer, who can she turn to? If an argument turns into a street fight, what then? What about traffic control? Who’s going to make sure no one plants a bomb at a bus or rail station or disarm one if they do? If someone decides the quickest way to a big payday is to kidnap a child or hold a few office workers at gunpoint, who steps in? (hint: the deliberate weakening of law enforcement capabilities to look peaceful is a big part of what led to the disaster at the Munich Olympics in 1972 and led to the establishment of the GSG 9 German police special forces unit [believe it or not, the Bundeswehr didn’t follow suit until after 9/11]) What about the Minneapolis international airport? Will the city just step aside and leave that to Homeland Security, or do they want FPS, ICE, etc., all to pack up and leave too? What about the other emergency services? What firefighters or medics in their right minds will enter an unsecure scene (hint: no firefighter wants a repeat of the ambush of firemen that happened in West Webster Christmas eve 2012)? What insurance company is going to write business or homeowner or auto policies in a city where no one will respond to losses and no one will follow up to try to retrieve anything stolen? Has anyone thought ANY of this through?

What is more, now the same people who’ve been cheering on the mobs now want the various networks to not only do away with police shows but to start shows that show “alternatives to policing,” in order to start filling people’s minds with the idea that “yes, we can find another, better way.” Honestly, I can only think of two television shows that even came close to that idea. One was “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” the Jane Seymour period piece vehicle that ran from 1993 to 1998. The good doctor, who thought and talked like she’d been picked up from Clinton-era San Francisco and transported back in time 120 years, was, of course, shown to be always right. The rough-and-ready townspeople just needed her to show them the way, as she introduced gun control, encouraged members of the military to desert, and treated the local Indians like saints. Eventually even that show backtracked on unarmed policing, as her adoptive son Matthew Cooper (Chad Allen), who tried to be the town sheriff without a gun, was nearly shot dead and shown the error of his ways by “legendary” Marshal Elias Rinn (Willie Nelson). The other was “Touched by an Angel,” the 1995-2005 Roma Downey faith fantasy where three angels (occasionally assisted by others) roamed the US convincing people to find kinder, gentler ways out of problems – sometimes doing diametrically opposed things, like giving one person a tongue-lashing for an affair in one episode, convincing another unhappy wife not to leave her husband in another, but convincing another husband to an unhappy wife it was time to let her go in a third. Somehow love and kindness always won out in the end, and a planned occasional fourth angel, who would step in to punish the irredeemable or defiant was cut because the producers wanted to keep things pleasant and nice (of course the show aired on Sunday nights). Pure fantasy and wish fulfillment.

I’m a fantasy writer myself, and fantasy is a great thing. We all need to escape this dreary world now and then. Whether you like light fantasy where the kindly lady with the I’ve-got-a-secret smile down the block who befriends the unhappy boy during the summer he’s grappling with his mother’s illness might be just a nice person or she might be…something else, or full-on fantasy where knights with glowing weapons battle dragons, wizards throw fire and lightning, and that unopened door or crumbling stairway leads to Things Better Left Forgotten, there’s no harm in reading it. Some of it is wish fulfillment, like being the hero who gets the hottie or taking revenge on the jerk… or people who act badly in life acting better, or those who ignore you in life being persuaded by your great ideas. It’s that last part where it gets dangerous for adults. None of us are so dumb that we’ll put on a red cape and try to fly out a window, or buckle on a sword and go looking for a pyrokinetic reptile to fight. However, it is very easy to believe that the ideas we have are so good that if only others would listen to us, we could make this world into the perfect place, and they should listen or will listen because they are just that good. Sometimes they DO sound good – good enough that we don’t think, and others don’t think, whether these fantastic ideas will really work in this real world.

Karl Marx said “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” We all know how that worked. He also said the state would wither away. In the Communist nations the state was maintained by force. Lenin promised “peace, bread, and land.” He delivered none of the above. Hitler peddled the myth of a “master race.” The less said about what happened there the better. The Berrigan brothers sought a world where violence would never be used because it would never be needed. Well, they’ve come and gone, and most of their disciples are sporting gray ponytails and beards themselves now, but the military and police are still around. If the world has calmed down a little it’s because of a lot of brave men doing their jobs, not some radical priest with a big mouth. Ira Einhorn and his ilk promised a world in harmony with the earth. If we got better about the environment it was because of a lot of people doing their jobs, not some bearded idiot who stank like a hoagie with onions and murdered his gf. These were all dangerous adult fantasies.

So now we get this latest crop with big ideas, bigger egos, and big foul mouths telling us that they want law enforcement to just disappear, the community’s got it covered. The facts show otherwise, but they don’t give a damn about facts. They’re just “sick and tired of being sick and tired” and they “won’t be quiet anymore.” Anger, certitude, loudness, and fantasy. Some fantasies you experiment with to see if they work. We’ve already seen this one doesn’t work. It needs to end, and it needs to end now. These leaders need to find their spines and say “Enough. This has gone on for days, it’s disruptive, and it’s not what the constitution envisioned. Get back to work, let those who need to clean up this mess get to work, and then let’s discuss a real solution when you are serious.”