How to Send a Message

As of a few hours ago, Sarah Beckstrom, 20, has died. She was a member of the National Guard stationed in DC to assist in keeping law and order. She was one of two Guardsmen shot on the 26th. Shot by an Afghan national that at one point worked with and for the CIA (as an acquaintance pointed out before this was known - this was “Joe Biden’s Revenge” - little did he know how prescient that comment was).

I won’t comment on the specifics, since the Fog of War makes the half life of information perilously short. Media outlets are rife with speculation and tweets are shaky evidence at best, though some say that the two Guardsmen were unarmed at the time of the shooting and that a third had to step in to take out the assailant (foolish to put your soldiers in harms way with no way of defending themselves).

The subsequent reporting on this has been horrific as well. Media has gone so far as to despicably frame Rahmanullah Lakanwal as a “father of five” to garner sympathy and a gentler framing. Reptiles, the lot of them. Their time will come.

I want to talk about responses. Solutions. What can be done? What should be done?

Let’s discuss what is currently being done.

Trump issued a tweet on 11/27 (Thanksgiving day), containing, amongst other things (like a warranted rant against the seriously retarded Tim Walz and Somalians):

I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.

There’s some good stuff in here, just enough to grant hope. The “permanent pause” (ignore the oxymoron) is a good sign, and hopefully that will be effective immediately. Removing “anyone who is not a net asset” is also good - it frames the debate around contributions to American society (and how that “net” is measured leaves a lot of room for massaging the Overton window rightward). Deporting any foreign national that is “non-compatible” with Western Civilization is beautiful and perhaps the best part of this tweet. The implications here are fantastic. Compatibility, by its strictest definition, implies full assimilation, which would really only be possible for Germanic whites with a Celtic admixture. Pragmatically this is not what it means but it is a good step in the right direction with regards to mainstreaming demographic awareness.

Importantly, Trump also stated that “REVERSE MIGRATION” is the only way to solve this. It’s not, but it’s certainly the peaceful way! Regardless, it is good to enter these terms into the public discourse.

All of that said, it is unclear how this will actually be accomplished.

Trump’s tweet is a statement of policy position, but what steps will be taken to ensure that this happens? Furthermore, was this not ALWAYS the goal? Why are there not concrete steps being taken to enact this already? Why did it take a shooting for this tweet to exist? Trump’s response here should include pragmatic ways in which these people should be dealt with (more on that later).

Mechanically, we are left with the known incompetent Pam Bondi (Blondie Bondi) to drop the hammer. She stated 11/27 on Fox News that “we will do everything in our power to seek the death penalty…” which, is great… but presents its own issues. It is a huge cop out. Of course the government is seeking the death penalty, but phrasing it this way sounds weak. Why is there some mysterious force out there preventing what obviously should be done from happening? Where will this death penalty be found, and why must it be sought? Why not simply state “we will put him to death, and soon”? That would be much more appropriate given the kinetic nature of this conflict. Bondi sounds as if she is preparing for a protracted legal battle (this is likely, frankly, given the state of our legal system, and the incompetence thus far of Trump’s DOJ) and is hedging her reputation as if the outcome being death is not a foregone conclusion (“it’s okay guys! I’m still a girlboss and we put him in jail 4 lyfe!”). Bondi’s weakness has been a severe impediment to Trump’s second term, and she is further proving herself as incompetent here.

So what exactly should be done here?

Execution for the Afghan is table stakes. That must occur. It is also somewhat likely. The challenge is rather the timeframe between arrest and execution. Any trial should take no more than three days from the point that said Afghan is lucid. The swiftness here is key. If America is ever to be taken seriously, death must come quickly. If rendering justice takes months, years, even, what good is it? Our enemies will simply continue their fight, knowing that they can likely outlast the administration (hedging on a collapse in the midterms - possible if we get more Vivekery, and a subsequent loss in 2028). Further, it makes Trump seem impotent. Why is he unable to exact the requisite justice?

What good are rules and procedures if this is what they lead to? And if the system is such that changing them is burdensome (but only in ONE direction), why is that system not being overhauled full stop?

We must ask if a trial is even necessary. The strikes on drug smugglers in the Caribbean point to… no, in fact, that this is not necessary. Spies and foreign agents are granted no quarter. The right to a fair trial does not extend to enemy combatants simply because they are present on American soil. An invading army would be shot at and obliterated, rather than incarcerated and tried (though there are doubtless enemies within America that would like that to happen in that scenario).

The Afghan was in this country as a foreign national only granted status through a corrupt Biden-era DHS, which, in theory, given that it is an apparatus of the Trump administration, could simply revoke status for all of these Afghans (why was this not done day one?). Status revocation and the threat of being treated as an enemy combatant on American soil if not out of the US within 14 days should be the minimum.

Because that’s what these people are. They are enemy combatants and they will be treated accordingly. That is the message that Trump should send.

Foreigners must know that America is serious, the administration is capable, and that bad actors, whether foreign or domestic, will be granted no quarter for their assault on the American people.

Hopefully Trump will do the right thing.