Report on Jeshua the Nazarene, by a Nameless Spy of the Temple Guard

Short-form historical fiction for Easter, Copyright 2023 by Andrew W. Smith

I was not a skeptic; I was a confirmed unbeliever. I am trained in The Law and its enforcement. I belong to no sect and believe in no superstition. And my allegiance is to The Law, the Temple, and Israel. So for the sake of The Law and the Temple and Israel, hear me and heed me. 

By the time of my assignment, the Nazarene was easily found and easier followed: the people spoke of him unprompted, his whereabouts and his works, and where he went, multitudes thronged. I discovered the Nazarene in Bethany, and disappeared into the masses who had attached to him. 

The people high and low who follow the Nazarene or believe in him without having seen him do not imagine his supernatural works to be possible; they know them to be impossible. The reports are accurate, the miracles are authentic: no man was ever persuaded by his eyes over his will more totally or brutally than I. The question is whether this extraordinary man and his supernatural powers are of the Light, or otherwise.

   

There is only Light about the Nazarene; his ways and works are only good. He knows The Law as well as any Pharisee, and keeps The Law at least as well. His deeds are compliant with The Law, his words are consistent with The Law. Save one. It was my principal charge, to witness the Nazarene's reputed claims of deity, and I am bound to report that in my hearing, and more than once, he did utter claims to the effect that God the Father is his father. But before the Nazarene is judged for blasphemy, hear my report and heed my warning.

The Nazarene and his circle are not an army, not a faction, not even a gainful enterprise; they resemble nothing so much as a wandering teacher and his over-aged pupils. The Nazarene asks no monies and holds no properties. He and his circle dress plainly, without finery or jewelry, and they're forever eating bread and fish like the common people. They are itinerant, without a fixed abode but never without friends to offer them a table and a bed. 

Our notion that the Nazarene threatens the established authorities temporal or ecclesiastical, is the projection of ambitious men in those established authorities. Among his followers are a great many who believe him to be the Messiah of prophecy and who interpret that prophecy as the throwing off of Roman dominion from Israel, but the man himself says nothing to inflame and does nothing to impel any such political aspiration. On the temporal powers he offers only, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's." There is no sedition about the Nazarene, and he is without ambition; his cause is not worldly.

  

It's highest blasphemy, of course, the Nazarene's claims to be "Son of God", unless of course he is the Son of God. We are a subject people, subject to Rome, and if for whatever cause the Nazarene comes to affront Rome, then I know too well how Rome will answer the affront. But if this Jeshua the Nazarene is the Messiah of prophecy, come to deliver us not from Rome but from death, and if in him God has offered us His son, and yet Israel takes a hand in his rejection, then woe to Israel.

Forgotten history on a forgotten Evacuation Day

America is not Irish and Patrick is not our saint, nor do we observe the holidays of foreign national patron saints or recognize extra-Biblical Roman "saints". So "Saint" Patrick's Day is alien to America, and in America the 17th of March is rightly Evacuation Day, the commemoration of the Revolutionary expulsion of government forces from Boston in our first great triumph of the Revolutionary War, March 17 of 1776. 

It wasn't "the British" we were fighting: we were at least as British; what are termed "the British" were "the government". The American Revolution was our treasonous, murderous, and righteous, armed insurrection against our duly-instituted government. We were outlaws but we prevailed by the will of God and force of arms, and so the outlaws became the founders of the republic, and the rest is history.

It's suited American governments since that American Revolution that the lawful government of the time is misnamed in history "the British", carrying the connotation of foreign occupier, but "the British" were neither foreign nor occupiers, they were our people and our government, only they lorded over us so we killed them and seized their power for ourselves. And Amen. 

America is not a government or deference to government, any more than it's Irish or Roman; America is glory to God and death to kings.

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And another thing, along these lines, my best theory to account for a sociological anomaly which mystified me for as long as I was cognizant of it, and which I have never yet seen addressed or even acknowledged elsewhere. 

I come from a rarefied corner of the planet, northeast of Maine in extreme southern, extreme rural Nova Scotia, at a sort of end of the world. My people descend from Old New England -- my own line landed in 1631 -- and to the present day they speak Old New England and think Old New England. And yet, by my father's generation in the Midcentury, and in my generation circa the '80s and '90s, our cultural identity was Southern and Western.  

We were left out of the Revolution in the 1770s while we settled the 14th Colony, and in 1867 we were annexed against our express democratic will to godless, godforsaken Canada, may it be destroyed utterly and soon. Canada was ever a foreign occupying regime, Tories who are The Enemy and Frenchmen who are The Enemy, all alien and anathema, and pathetic to boot. The whites-need-not-apply, the-women-are-the-men-and-the-men-are-girls, gay-and-trans, Church of Green, globalist communist, satanic Canada of the 21st Century is that much more alien and anathema.

Then the Old Country betrayed us in 1867, and even by the early 17th Century we had been compelled to part from our country and countrymen, lorded over as they were by a king and an aristocracy and a Rome-ish state church. So where were we to turn for a mother, our little lost colony?

Until some stage of the 20th Century our compass pointed to New England. Even into the last century our capital was less Halifax, never mind Ottawa or London, than Boston. But by my father's time New England was being supplanted in our heads and hearts, by the American South and West, notwithstanding that for obvious reasons of geography and history we'd had little or nothing to do with the South and West.

Why should a little lost colony of Old New Englanders stranded motherless half a continent away from the American South and West, lose their identification with their ancestral New England and come to identify instead with the remote South and West, and about that time, the middle of the 20th Century? The answer can only be immigration, the cumulative and transformative effects of mass immigration by alien foreigners to the North which mostly passed over the South and West.

By the time I first visited Massachusetts in the later '80s about the only English left in New England was the placenames. Boston which had been England in America was by then Ireland in America. Irish Catholics had washed over Boston in the first wave of foreign immigrants since the Foreign Protestants of Lunenburg and Pennsylvania before the Revolution, beginning not long before the Civil War and followed post-bellum by Italians and Poles and Eastern European Jews and a cacophony of Old World tribes and religions swarming Boston and New England and the North more generally, so that by some chapter of the 20th Century the Old Stock had been washed away and our homeland was to us a strange land. 

But not so the South and West. "Old times there were not forgotten." There still the surnames were Smith and Jones, the churches were wood painted white and the religion was the Bible, King James translation, the cuisine was buttered biscuits and apple pie, and the talk drawled and the songs twanged. The South and West to us had gotten to be more like home than home.

One-party post-democracy

There've been worse times in America, but not since Sherman's March to the Sea. If it's not a recession then it's a depression, two-thirds to three-quarters of the people say so per even the Big Press polling. Worst inflation in 40 years. Worst year by far for stocks and bonds since records were first kept in 1871, $10 trillion destroyed. Worst consumer confidence yet registered.

Worst crime. Worst invasion of the southern border, five million illegal aliens in two years officially, and presumably as much as double that in toto and in truth, from every corner of the planet to every corner of the country, "resettled" courtesy of the United States government whose duty is to keep them out or kick them out. About as many Americans dead in 365 days as died in Korea and Vietnam combined over a decade, from Fentanyl and other opiates, Fentanyl being manufactured in China and smuggled through Mexico.

Worst war in Europe since 1945, with the realistic prospect of war in Asia and World War Three and nuclear holocaust. A spectacular, world-historic calamity in Afghanistan, 20 years of blood and treasure gone for naught and worse than naught, leaving the Taliban with uncontested command of much more territory than before our intervention and the ninth- or eighth-greatest arsenal on earth. Food production across the country destroyed violently and mysteriously and continuously, in the middle of a global food shortage, with not so much as an acknowledgement by the authorities. 

Something like $7 trillion in two years of deficit spending with nothing to show for it but inflation and corruption, madness and ruin. Tax collectors reinforced by an army of 87,000, to be armed and trained and licensed to kill ordinary Americans.

Madness in the public schools, "Critical Race Theory" and "LGBTQ+", training the kids into hatred of whites and into homosexuality and transgenderism. Compulsory injection with experimental and needless, harmful and lethal vaccines. Not coincidentally a crash in American life-expectancy, to the Third World level of Mexico's.

 

Censorship and criminalization of the political opposition and of dissenters and nonconformists generally, the leviathan security apparatus turned inward and corrupted comprehensively, and state and media degenerated into an Empire of Lies. Etc., etc.

The authors of all this are the Satanic force known as the Democrat Party, who in this time monopolize power as never before. 2022 was a midterm election year and in America the party in power are punished in the midterms even when times are good. The polling which skews Democrat by as much as 20 points, was agreed that the Democrat Party would pay for the ruin and madness they had wrought, electorally. And the wide world took for granted that the Democrats were assured of a world-historical comeuppance in the 2022 midterm elections.     

And yet we're expected to believe that the hated and disastrous Democrats were rewarded by the people whose country and lives they had demolished, gaining a seat in the Senate and coming within five seats of salvaging a bare majority in the House. Because elections in the United States in the 2020s are a fiction and a farce, they're pantomimes of elections.

In a word, it's a fix. Arizona is only the most obviously stolen election of the 2022 cycle, but as yet it's the most thoroughly investigated, documented, and quantified of the stolen elections this cycle, and so it's Arizona that I treat hereunder:  

-299,000 "early votes" in Maricopa County were counted outside the lawful chain of custody.

-59% of polling stations unaccountably crashed in Maricopa which is 62% of the state, on Election Day when 75% of voters were Republican, one day after the system had been declared in good working order, with 84% of those crashes in deep red precincts, i.e., the crash was deliberate, to deny Republican voters and votes.

-Magically most Election Day votes were Democrat votes in Maricopa despite that just 17% of Election Day voters were Democrat voters.

-25,000 votes were piled on in Maricopa after the legal deadline.

-Tens of thousands of mailed and dropped ballots in Maricopa were counted despite bearing signatures which are manifestly fraudulent.           

-Counted duplicate ballots are not matchable to the uncounted originals as cast by the voters.

-Election Day ballots in Maricopa -- i.e., Republican votes -- were printed on 20" paper unprocessable by the 19" machines.

-The counting in Maricopa was handed off to a third-party contractor which is unlawful in Arizona, and the ownership of the said contractor donated to Democrats on the ballot in '22 and '20.

-The verification of signatures on mailed and dropped ballots in Maricopa was left to "artificial intelligence", also unlawful in Arizona.

-The Democrat at the top of the ticket ran in the election and ran the election too, then certified the election and threatened the counties with jail unless they certified too.

-And two of the McCainiac Maricopa "supervisors" who ran the election also ran a campaign against the Republicans on the ballot, and one conspired with the Deep State to censor them.

 

In a word, it's a fix. Maricopa County "counted" for two and a half weeks until the incompetent and unpopular Bolshevik apparatchik running at the top of the ticket was proclaimed the next governor by all of 17,000 votes. And like Prohibition law was defied to death by the corruption of law enforcement and government low and high, stolen elections depend for their preservation on the corruption of those offices and institutions whose purpose it is to seek the truth and remedy the injustice.  

Arizona is bent, crooked, corrupt, and sewn up all the way down. So when dirty Maricopa County rigs the statewide elections, the dirty George-Soros sheriff, the dirty Establishment attorney general, the dirty Establishment governor, the evil Democrat secretary of state who ran in the election and ran the election too, and obviously the state and national press and Big Tech and the Deep State, all cover up the criminality and run out the clock until the fraud is sanctified by certification and those candidates repudiated by the people are installed safely in their offices, to burn the country down around them.

 

One honest judge might nullify the fraud, rescue Arizona, and turn the battle to save the country and the world. The Maricopa County judge was not that honest judge, permitting a nominal hearing presumably because the whole of Arizona now recognize that their elections are rigged and so he couldn't very well do in 2022 as in 2020 and dismiss the challenge unheard, but stripping that challenge to two counts and reducing the plaintiff to all of five-and-a-half hours' presentation, minus the delaying tactics of the dirty lawyers for dirty Maricopa, then promptly issuing his ruling seemingly ghostwritten by the same Democrat law-lord who gave us the Russia Hoax and the stolen election of 2020. And so with that ruling, December 24 of 2022, the world's greatest democracy is reduced at last to one-party post-democracy.