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Willi Münzenberg – The Man Who Wrote the NGO Playbook.
You have never heard of him. That was the point.
Gramsci explained why culture had to be conquered. Münzenberg showed how – and built the machine that still runs today.
1. Born in 1889 in Thuringia, the son of a poor innkeeper. During the First World War he met Lenin in Zurich. He became one of the founders of the German Communist Party and sat in the Reichstag. But his real talent was something else: he understood that most people will never join a revolution – and can still be made to work for one.
2. In 1921, famine struck Soviet Russia, and Lenin asked him to raise help from abroad. Münzenberg created Workers International Relief – and discovered that a humanitarian cause attracts people who would never join a communist party. The aid was real. So was the propaganda. The first modern NGO used as a front.
3. Then he built an empire. Newspapers, an illustrated magazine read by hundreds of thousands, publishing houses, book clubs, film studios. Germans called him the Red Millionaire. It was the media group of the Comintern – and almost nobody reading it knew.
4. His masterpiece was what he privately called the Innocents’ Clubs: committees for peace, against war, against fascism, against imperialism. Causes every decent person supports. Famous writers and scientists on the letterhead, congresses in grand halls – and a few communists in the back office deciding everything. The cause was the bait. The network was the catch.
5. When the Reichstag burned in 1933, he struck back with a book of accusations and a mock "counter-trial" in London, staged with eminent lawyers – and won world opinion before any real court had ruled. Trial by narrative. The template of every media tribunal since.
6. He didn’t need intellectuals to join the party. Only to lend their names. The fellow traveler – the professor, the actor, the novelist who signs the petition and never asks who drafted it – was his invention as much as anyone’s. Arthur Koestler worked for him in Paris and later described the whole system from the inside.
7. In the end he broke with Stalin, over the purges and then the Hitler–Stalin pact. In 1939 he published an open attack titled "The traitor, Stalin, is you." A year later, in France, he was found hanging from a tree in a forest. Suicide or murder – it was never solved. The machine outlived its builder.
Now look around. The "coalition" of NGOs. The open letter signed by a hundred celebrities on the same morning. The "civil society" platform funded by governments. The tribunal of public opinion that convicts before any court. The cause sounds always noble. The network is always the same.
Münzenberg would recognize all of it. He wrote the playbook.
Next time a hundred famous names sign the same letter on the same day, ask the one question nobody asks: who drafted it?
Antonio Gramsci – The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century.
Not the most famous. Not the most read. The most dangerous and the most consequential – because he was the one who figured out why the revolution kept failing, and what to do instead. The man who invented the long march through the institutions.
Everything that followed — the Frankfurt School, the Fabian Society’s operational model, the WEF formation pipeline, the captured university, the HR department enforcing approved speech — is downstream of what he wrote in a prison cell in Mussolini’s Italy, in code, between 1929 and 1935.
1. His central question: why hasn’t it happened? The working class was supposed to rise. The contradictions of capitalism were supposed to produce the revolution. They hadn’t – not in the West. Gramsci’s answer was precise and devastating: because the ruling class does not maintain power through force alone. It maintains power through cultural hegemony – the control of the ideas, values, and frameworks through which people understand the world. The worker who accepts that the existing order is simply how things are will not revolt, regardless of his material conditions. The revolution requires cultural change first.
2. The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.
3. The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own.
4. He also theorized the organic intellectual – the person who translates the theoretical framework into stories and assumptions that circulate through the culture without appearing ideological. The film that makes the existing order seem absurd. The journalist who frames every story within the approved assumptions. Gramsci understood that culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections.
5. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a published, documented, widely taught strategy that the left implemented consciously across the entire Western world. The 1968 generation put it into practice in the universities. They became the professors, the journalists, the civil servants, the judges, the HR directors of the decades that followed. The march took fifty years. It worked.
6. Mussolini’s prosecutor said at his trial: "We must stop this brain from functioning for twenty years." The brain did not stop. It produced thirty-three notebooks – smuggled out, published, and became the most widely read Marxist text in the Western academy after Marx himself. Gramsci died in 1937, six days after his release, at forty-six. He did not see the march he theorized. He did not need to.
7. Every captured institution, every transformed curriculum, every HR department enforcing approved speech, every content moderation policy suppressing the unauthorized voice – all running the program Antonio Gramsci designed in a prison cell, by a brain that was supposed to have been stopped. It wasn’t. And neither was the march.
Until now – because the distribution monopoly that made its outcomes enforceable is cracking. The counter-march has begun. It just doesn’t have a name yet.
Must read. 👇 Financial crimes in large institutions punished by institutional fines does nothing. Send the individuals who oversaw the institutional crimes to jail. That'll move the needle.
Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent,
My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov.
The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison.
I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return.
I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something.
Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act.
Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged.
Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working.
A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats.
This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried.
There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go.
Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him.
I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them.
This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one.
Three things would change the math overnight.
Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined.
End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one.
And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them.
Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine.
I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it.
Respectfully,
Everett A. Stern
HSBC Whistleblower
Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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This is civilizational suicide.
🚨Mass Immigration DESTROYS Canadian Economy:
Since 2015, Canada has admitted roughly 14.5 million immigrants, almost all of whom are from India – so many, in fact, that right now almost one-third of all people currently in Canada are immigrants who have arrived within the last ten years.
However, despite this massive wave of immigration, Canada’s real GDP per person has failed to substantively increase, with the long-term data indicating that importing 14.5 million immigrants has actually proven to be an economic detriment, effectively suppressing Canadian real GDP per person.
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An entire generation of spoiled brats who’ve never built anything, stand on the crumbling empire they don’t deserve, built by great and courageous men who are now judged through the moral lens of the softest dorks living in the easiest times. Oy vey.
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There are (IMHO) exceptions, but largely, yes. He's correct. You can't wake people up. They have to initiate the process themselves, at some level, of their own accord.
That d/n mean you can't try. But everyone who has tried runs into the same wall. In fact, that's a feature of the control system, not a flaw. Given human nature, does it not make sense for the powers that be to lean into certain human qualities as both a control mechanism and a backstop against losing control of their illusion?
As the speaker points out, calcified beliefs, pride, ego, skepticism, cynicism, denial, and rigid beliefs combine in various ways to create a rather impenetrable fortress—even with people/family who profess to love us. We all know this is true. They'll protect the construct their entire life is based on b/c it's the reality they've accepted as being true. And until they're ready to challenge that, which can be terrifying, it's more often than not a fool's pursuit.
That's why I press forward, disengaged from battles I can't win. It's not worth the aggravation. Sure, call truth to power and say your piece in support of what's happening. But letting go of the desire to push back against everyone's individual defenses, as though YOU have to convince them, leads to a more serene life experience.
FWIW, everyone will have to come to grips with things of their own accord as they unfold. At some point it's going to be undeniable as things play out and many of these barriers will come crashing down. That's when all the knowledge so many have gained comes into play. The same people will be thirsty for it.
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This did not happen after one or two or even a hundred dishonest, inaccurate news stories. This happened after more than a decade of non-stop false reporting - from Hunter Biden’s laptop to “Russia collusion” to the Covid kill shot. The harm done to the American people has gone unanswered. They have chosen to keep lying & not correct the record. And they thought they could just get away with it forever. Hundreds of thousands of completely false stories over more than a decade. They have disgraced the profession & harmed all journalists.
Justice Department probes TV networks over Trump pool coverage, New York Times reports reut.rs/3WjgLff reut.rs/3WjgLff
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Western civilization conquered oceans, split the atom, put men on the moon, and built a world of prosperity our ancestors could scarcely have imagined. Then its own schools, universities, and cultural institutions began teaching generations of children to be ashamed of the civilization that accomplished it.
What a staggering goddamn betrayal.
The Greeks celebrated excellence. Explorers risked everything. Scientists challenged the impossible. Generations built industries, defended nations, and pushed humanity into the future. Their descendants inherited the greatest accumulation of knowledge, wealth, and technological achievement in human history.
And what did our enlightened cultural establishment do with that inheritance?
Turned achievement into guilt. Recast national pride as a character defect. Made historical monuments targets for destruction and taught children to catalogue America's sins while remaining spectacularly ignorant of its triumphs.
Then the political consequences followed. Factories disappeared overseas. Borders became optional. Military strength deteriorated. Sovereign decisions migrated toward international bureaucracies. The people entrusted with protecting Western prosperity presided over its erosion while congratulating themselves on their sophistication.
And the same smug bastards who lecture Americans about their civilization's moral failures live surrounded by its achievements, enjoying comforts made possible by generations whose courage and ambition they now regard with contempt.
Marco Rubio stood before the Parthenon and reminded the world what those generations understood: greatness requires competition, sacrifice, risk, and the willingness to pursue what others consider impossible. Trump's determination to rebuild American industry, military strength, technological dominance, and national confidence is a direct rejection of this poisonous culture of surrender.
Because the ugliest part of this story is the betrayal itself.
Western civilization survived wars, invasions, tyrants, and centuries of enemies determined to destroy it.
Imagine building something magnificent enough to survive all that, only to discover your own descendants had been educated to despise it.
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Stealing an election was a gamble.
A serious and dangerous one.
The globalists put all their money on the distraction of the plandemic, the brainwashed left, and a strategically placed and weaponized judiciary to hold the election “legitimacy line,” no matter what evidence of fraud came to light.
They cheated not just in one big way, and not only in swing states. That would have been too obvious.
They cheated in every way possible, with mail-in ballots, Dominion tabulations, and while “counting” votes.
But because all pre-election polls were intentionally manipulated to make the steal less alarming, they had no way to predict how many legal votes for Trump there would be.
THIS WAS THE BIGGEST FLAW IN THEIR PLAN!
Fast-forward to election night…
Things were immediately crazy. Trump was doing well all over the map, even in states considered Trump-proof.
Trump was approaching record-breaking territory.
The cheaters should have paid more attention to the pre-election Trump support in California. (If they followed me here, they would have!)
But they were too busy planning the steal to worry about ACTUAL Trump support.
The LEGAL ballots were irrelevant… until election day.
They had to load thousands of Biden faux ballots in unexpected places, which drove up the total to unexpected levels.
Then, the linchpin: Fox News called Arizona for Biden immediately, even with a large Trump lead.
It was the APB to all involved in the steal.
Someone made a call and shut down counting in states that needed time to usher in fake, no-crease “mail-in Biden ballots” and make adjustments to the Dominion counts, feeding and re-feeding Biden ballots over and over.
Who the heck made that call? (Is he Kenyan?) 🧐
Maybe ask Bret Baier or Martha. 🤡
Remember the “water main emergency” in Georgia that somehow lined up with the shutdown of counting in multiple states and later, wasn’t a water main emergency?
Come on, now. We're not idiots.
People went to bed with Trump leading "bigly" and woke up to an 81-million-vote victory for the guy who hid in his basement.
Those of us who watched the chaos throughout the night saw Trump LOSE tens of thousands of votes, not just once but several times, and on live TV.
The election results were a sloppy, unbelievable mess, and the election crimes were random, like panic-driven carelessness often is.
But this randomness also saved the globalists from immediate exposure.
Then, the fallout began, first as a trickle, then a flood.
Over 2,000 affidavits were filed (then ignored) by election workers (both parties, under penalty of perjury) who saw irregular activity.
Videos surfaced of ballots by the thousands being dropped off at dark docks late at night at locations where we’d been told counting had stopped and workers went home.
Who let these ballot-droppers in with their “special delivery”?
Then there was the impossible, non-partisan math.
Sadly, a disturbing percentage of US citizens were—and still are—okay with a stolen election as long as Trump is not President.
There is NO SUCH THING as a FREE country without FAIR elections.
PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!
So spot on 👍
What’s terrifying about this clip isn’t their ideals…these sweet gals’ hearts are certainly in the right place. What’s terrifying is they have the civic, political, and economic literacy of a 9 year old. When a charlatan like Abdul comes along with the Jr High class president schtick of “no more homework and the vending machines are all free!”, they fall for it.
I don’t know how you get to that age with ZERO understanding of supply chains, manufacturing, labor costs…but a lot of folks think that medicine and MRIs and hospitals just materialize out of thin air like unicorn farts. They’ve never built anything in their lives, so they have no concept of how things function…things are just…there. They think milk comes from the store. They think rich people don’t pay taxes, even though the top 1% fund 40% of government with their taxes already, and yet 40% of all Americans contribute ZERO federal income tax at all. These people don’t understand that you could tax the wealthy at 100% and it would only fund the government for 120 days. Then you’re screwed.
Too many Americans simply have zero understanding of how anything works, and even though they’re living in the easiest times in human history, they think things are “terrible out there”. These commie scammers roll through and promise them things that sound great, but aren’t possible in reality, and have devastating consequences if tried…but because they don’t know anything, they fall for it. Sadly, so many of our politicians and their advisors are such atrocious communicators, there’s like zero countervailing narrative to push back on the commie gobbledygook, so we are gonna have to learn the hard way. Guys…we just had a sample of socialism: Covid. We all got universal basic income, and it ended up tripling our costs and they’ll never go down. Ever. That one brief little experiment in command and control government will haunt us the rest of our lives. Bleak stuff, man.
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Yes. Where there is the Equity agenda, you will find it led by the WEF Young Global Leaders program. Here Klaus brags of installing more than half of Canada's cabinet. A country now melted down from LGBTQ insanity and anti-Christian "decolonizing" dogma.
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Relativism: No civilization is better than another.
Postmodernism: Truth is just power.
Guilt: Apologize for both.
Rubio stood where democracy was born and rejected all three.
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Hang him.
🚨PURE EVIL: 43-year-old "trans nurse" Kieran Ansley raped a newborn baby girl at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, where he worked.
The baby had been born 4 months premature but was showing development.
Fractures in her bones, bruises on her body, and wounds on her tongue were detected.
The words of the baby's grandfather, Robert Steavens, were heartbreaking:
"We waited so long for her to heal, she recovered. She was going to be discharged two days ago, and then this happened."
He will appear in court on November 10.
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The NGO industrial complex has been subverting the U.S. for a very long time. Take a look at this investigation conducted more than 70 years ago. It was set up to expose how foundations like Carnegie, Ford, Guggenheim & Rockefeller were funding the Marxist infiltration & overthrow of this country. Some in Congress did everything to suppress/discredit & they are still trying. This is no time for partisan politics. We are about to lose everything unless people get pff their butts and vote.
🔥New from me: A Congressional investigation in 1953 led to a shocking discovery about tax-exempt foundations.
The facts that emerged never made it into the Congressional Record. 👉🏼 tinyurl.com/4ts352zx
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The response to Black Hawk Down was to mass import the Somalias who celebrated the death of the Rangers and Delta operators. Catholic Charities. Lutheran Social Services. Hebrew International Aid Society. Enemies of the West and all civilizations.
33 years ago this weekend, two Delta Force snipers made a choice almost nobody would make.
Master Sergeant Gary Gordon was 33, from Lincoln, Maine, with a wife and two young kids at home. Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart was 35, a farm kid from Newville, Pennsylvania.
On October 3, 1993, they were in a Black Hawk circling over Mogadishu when another Black Hawk, Super 64, was shot down. Pilot Mike Durant was alive in the wreckage with a broken back and a crushed leg. His crew was hurt. There were no friendly ground forces anywhere near them, and hundreds of armed militia and locals were already converging on the crash site.
From the air, Gordon and Shughart could see exactly what was coming.
They asked to be dropped in. Command said no.
They asked again. No again.
They asked a third time and finally got the green light.
Their helicopter set them down nearby and they fought their way to the wreck on foot. Two men, carrying only what they had on them. They pulled Durant out of the cockpit, set him up in a safer position, and started holding off the crowd.
For a while, it worked. They kept the mob back with precise, steady fire while the numbers against them kept growing.
Shughart was killed first.
Gordon kept fighting alone. When he was nearly out of ammunition, he went back to Durant, handed him a rifle, and told him good luck. Then he went back out. He was killed minutes later.
Durant was captured, beaten, and held for 11 days. He came home alive. He has said for decades that he's only here because of those two men.
In 1994 Gordon and Shughart were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the first since Vietnam. The Navy later named two ships after them, the USNS Gordon and the USNS Shughart.
They didn't stumble into that fight. They watched it from above, understood the odds, and asked three times to go anyway.
Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart. Remember their names.
SB3X was a travesty. If not for that bill passed in a SPECIAL SESSION, old SB 189 (passed 2 years ago with a July 2026 effective date) would have automatically become law requiring tabulation by written English (prohibiting tabulation by QR code). This would have led to a hand count in November since no current Georgia machine can tabulate based on the readable English.
Instead the REPUBLICANS (inclusive of the entire Forsyth County delegation) all voted to stop SB 189 from taking effect, maintaining tabulation by machine-read QR code.
Again the establishment called a SPECIAL SESSION (law-making emergency) to block the old bill.
Let me emphasize: All the Republicans had to do was to do nothing. Don't pass the new bill (SB3X) and SB189 takes effect. There was no need for any "compromise" or legislative workout. Just don't pass anything and QR codes are gone.
There was never a more disgusting and disheartening vote in the history of Georgia Republican politics.