by Travis Mateer
It will never happen here.
That’s the dumb mindset of too many Americans when it comes to lines drawn on paper, commonly known as MAPS. The idea of post-collapse America is just compelling entertainment for these oblivious Americans, and the most recent example glaring at us from screen to shining screen is the show Fallout.
On the REAL topography of America another county in Oregon voted to join Greater Idaho. From the link:
The “Greater Idaho” movement notched another victory this week, as Oregon’s Crook County became the 13th county to vote to secede from leftist domination and join its more like-minded neighbors to the east. About 53% of voters approved a referendum recommending that county leaders engage in “continued negotiations regarding a potential relocation of the Oregon-Idaho border to include Crook County.”
“The voters of eastern Oregon have spoken loudly and clearly about their desire to see border talks move forward,” said Greater Idaho executive director Matt McCaw. “With this latest result in Crook County, there’s no excuse left for the Legislature and Governor to continue to ignore the people’s wishes.”
When I imagined post-collapse America in fiction, it was the Cascadia bio-region I used for the Pacific Northwest. And since those funny lines drawn on paper called maps like to have correlating abstractions called FLAGS, here’s the Cascadian flag, or “Doug flag“, and the story of its Portland, Oregon provenance, as told by its creator, Alexander Baretich:
I designed the Cascadian flag, aka the Doug, way back in the mid-1990s when I was a graduate student studying in Eastern Europe. Though I totally love the people, cultures and landscape of Eastern Europe, I was deeply homesick for ‘the forests of Cascadia, specifically the Willamette Valley forests I grew up around. One day as I sat on a hill with my companion, I had this vision of a flag where the Cascadian landscape came to mind. Prior to the design and its popularity, the idea of Cascadia–specifically the bioregion–was pretty much an abstract concept reserved for radical geographers and hip sociologists. The flag conveys something far more tangible than an abstract concept of demarcation of space; the flag captures that love of living communities in our bioregion. Unlike many flags, this is not a flag of blood, nor of the glory of a nation, but a love of the bioregion; our ecological family and its natural boundaries; the place in which we live and love.
It’s interesting that this LIVE AND LOVE aspiration from the creator of the Cascadian flag now intermingles with the aspirations of the Northwest Territorial Imperative, which uses the same colors because the imperative is to flood and control the Northwest with whiteness. From the link:
The Northwest Territorial Imperative (often shortened to the Northwest Imperative) was a white separatist idea put forward in the 1970s–80s by white nationalist, white supremacist, white separatist and neo-Nazi groups within the United States. According to it, members of these groups were encouraged to relocate to a region of the Northwestern United States—Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana—with the intention to eventually turn the region into an Aryan ethnostate. Some definitions of the project include the entire states of Montana and Wyoming, plus Northern California.
From this idea, Harold Covington founded the organization the Northwest Front in the 1990s, which is now inactive. Harold Covington died at the age of 68 on July 14, 2018, and his death marked the end of the Northwest Front organization and website.
Several reasons have been given as to why activists have chosen to turn this area into a future white homeland: it is farther removed from Black, Jewish and other minority locations than other areas of the United States are; it is geographically remote, making it harder for the federal government to uproot activists; its “wide open spaces” appeal to those who believe in the right to hunt and fish without any government regulations; and it would also give them access to seaports and Canada.
The formation of such a “White homeland” also involves the expulsion, euphemized as the “repatriation”, of all non-Whites from the territory. The project is variously called “Northwest Imperative”, “White American Bastion”, “White Aryan Republic”, “White Aryan Bastion”, “White Christian Republic”, or the “10% solution” by its promoters. White supremacist leaders Robert E. Miles, Robert Jay Mathews and Richard Butler were originally the main promoters of the idea.
The territory which is proposed by the Northwest Territorial Imperative overlaps with the territory of the Cascadia independence movement, and the two movements share similar flags, but they have no ties to each other.
I’ll definitely have more to say about Fallout because I watch these carefully contrived storylines in order to document this preferred method of narrative control, preferred because the result is you (and I) are passive and mostly isolated inside stick-made boxes while taking in this insidious content.
With that said, it IS Memorial Day, so I’ll be taking my Box Truck Spectacle (BTS) to a special place for my special array of services. I suspect local readers will know why I’m choosing this special place outside the city limits of Zoom Town.
If you have a desire to provide cash donations, it’s pretty obvious where I’ll be later today. In return, I’ll tell you a story about Karl Tyler, a well-known businessman with well-known ties to the intermountain west.
The story is how Karl Tyler figured out, and STOPPED, the Russian faction operating the vehicular side of the black market with a land sale. If I’m in a good mood, maybe I’ll throw in what I’m hearing about what’s happening in this sulfurous enclave of our jurisdictionally opportunistic state.
If an online donation is more your speed, I like to offer Travis’ Impact Fund (TIF), though I’ve had more luck with puppets than soliciting online donations from my readership, which I’m happy to report is growing thanks to my IN PERSON approach to guerrilla marketing.
I just looked up guerrilla marketing to see what kind of images came up and this one is the one I’ll pick, since lyrics to the song I’m listening to by Yo La Tango (Weather Shy) just sang RAIN OR SHINE as I scrolled, which is MORE than an appropriate synchronicity, considering my garage sale was mostly a financial bust (I made 5 bucks).
Luckily I know the value of good, quality information when I hear it.
Thanks for reading!