cologeek

Former Naval Intelligence, private investigator, and corporate security specialist with over a decade in the transport industry. And a massive sci-fi geek.

[cologeek @sentaison]

@mrosazza It all makes sense when you consider the idea that it's not the criminals they want disarmed.

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

The Sacred Fire Still Burns

Two hundred and fifty years after those words were spoken, the fire has not gone out.

It has been tested by war, by faction, by the slow corrosion of comfort and the sharper assaults of ideology that would rather manage men than trust them.

Yet it still burns.

On this July 4th, 2026...the quarter-millennium mark of the American Republic...the question is not whether the flame flickers.

The question is whether we still possess the will, the clarity, and the ferocity to tend it.

The Founders were not optimists in the modern, sentimental sense.

They were realists who understood power as a hungry, patient predator. They knew that republics do not die in a single dramatic collapse; they are eroded by the thousand small surrenders of men who prefer safety to sovereignty, who trade the hard discipline of self-government for the soft promise that someone else will bear the burden.

Washington’s “sacred fire” was never a metaphor for vague national pride.

It was a precise recognition that liberty is not a natural state.

It is an achievement that must be defended against the permanent human appetite for control...whether that control wears the mask of a king, a committee, or the administrative state that now claims to know our interests better than we do.

This Republic was engineered as a lethal trap for tyranny.

Its architecture...the separation of powers, the deliberate friction between branches, the Bill of Rights that treats individual sovereignty as non-negotiable...was not built for angels.

It was built for flawed, ambitious, often selfish men, because the Founders had studied every republic that had come before and watched them all devour themselves once power escaped its chains.

They gave us a machine that requires constant vigilance precisely because they understood that vigilance is the only thing that keeps the machine from becoming another instrument of domination.

On this 250th anniversary, as fireworks split the night and tall ships sail into harbors that once watched the birth of the idea, the temptation is to treat the occasion as commemoration alone.

That would be a mistake.

Commemoration without recommitment is how fires die.

The experiment Washington described as “finally staked” on the American people has survived because enough of those people, in each generation, refused to let lesser men and weaker ideas extinguish it.

They refused when the price was blood at Bunker Hill and Gettysburg and Normandy.

They refused when the price was only the daily, unglamorous labor of insisting that the individual remains the sovereign unit and that government exists to secure rights, not to manufacture outcomes.

The venom I reserve is not for the Republic herself.

It is for the quiet, sophisticated arguments that liberty must now be balanced against equity, that sovereignty must yield to security, that the hard-won right to self-determination is too dangerous to be left in the hands of ordinary citizens.

Those arguments are not new.

They are the same ancient impulse toward mastery dressed in modern language.

The Founders recognized it.

Washington named the fire that resists it.

Two hundred and fifty years later, the fire still belongs to anyone willing to guard it with the same clarity and the same refusal to compromise.

What follows is not a celebration of perfection.

It is a dissection of the idea that made this the greatest nation on earth...and a reminder that the idea remains worth every ounce of ferocity we still possess.

The sacred fire was never promised to endure on its own.

It was entrusted to us.

On this quarter-millennium, the only question that matters is whether we will prove worthy of the trust.

Read on. The Republic is still here.

The fire is still burning. And the fight is still ours.

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[Gene Simmons @genesimmons]

In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.

[Michael Sanders @HER0WeNeed]

Whatever you do, don't share this video either.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

UK police really don’t want you to share this video of their officer arresting an assault victim, while letting his attackers go free

[cologeek @sentaison]

@__0HOUR1_ If there's evidence that she had knowledge of it, yep!

[Northern Barbarian @xnoesbueno]

Cool.

[cologeek @sentaison]

They deserve to live quiet and safe lives. But in their own nation, not ours.

[U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen @RepPettersen]

ICE has detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days alone — nearly double the daily arrest rate from earlier this year.

People don't want to leave their homes— families are too afraid to even go to the grocery store.

That's what Trump's deportation surge is doing to communities right now. Colorado's immigrant communities deserve better than having to live in fear for their lives and their livelihoods. We all deserve better.
https://t.co/45GkngWjU1

[cologeek @sentaison]

@RepPettersen They deserve to live quiet and safe lives. But in their own nation, not ours.

[cologeek @sentaison]

Waiting for our "Army Ranger"
@RepJasonCrow
Crow to speak up as well. This is the sort of thing he and Kelly were agitating for, right?

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

Waiting for the ever-useless @SenMarkKelly to weigh in on the Air Force jerkoff who violate the UCMJ this week.

I think there’s about a 100% chance that Senator Thumb will not say a damn thing, except maybe to praise him.

[cologeek @sentaison]

@KurtSchlichter @SenMarkKelly Waiting for our "Army Ranger" @RepJasonCrow Crow to speak up as well. This is the sort of thing he and Kelly were agitating for, right?

[Zero Tolerance Policy @ThoughtCrimes80]

Listen, I’m all for a good fireworks show, and every year, I’m like, “fuck it, let’s pop em off.”

But this year is different. It’s dry as a bone. There are 16 active fires in Colorado and we just moved to Stage 2 restrictions in DougCo.

For the love of everything holy, please don’t get hammered and light another fire this year. It is so expensive to fight these, not to mention destructive. So far over 200 structures (including homes) have burned.

And now we’re talking felony territory if you get caught.

As soon as we get some decent rain, I will join you and we’ll light off the good Wyoming shit. Until then, please calm your tits. 🥹🇺🇸🧨

[BostonWriter @bostonwriter]

If this sort of thing doesn’t stop you in your tracks and make even the slightest twinge of pride rise in your soul… well… I feel sorry for you.

[cologeek @sentaison]

@redsteeze There are Dems out there that haven't recovered from 1994! Not to mention 2000.

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” - Theodore Roosevelt

[LHGrey™️ @Grey_0G]

In the rain-slicked alleys of Zagreb, a man named Sanders has become the avatar of a truth the Western elite has spent decades trying to bury beneath layers of ideological horseshit and therapeutic language:

when the state imports predators, releases them into the citizen body with judicial leniency, and then criminalizes any native who dares name the pattern, the monopoly on legitimate violence does not vanish.

It simply migrates...from the corrupted institutions to the individual who has finally understood that the social contract was never a covenant. It was a temporary lease, and the lease has expired.

Citizen Vigilante is not a film. It is a diagnostic wound. Uwe Boll, that most unapologetic of cinematic provocateurs, has delivered a low-budget, high-voltage revenge narrative that refuses every softening lie the managerial class demands.

An American expatriate, forged in military discipline and stripped of illusions, watches Europe’s experiment in demographic transformation produce exactly what any forensic psychologist would predict:

elevated rates of specific violent crimes in targeted communities, judicial capture by ideology over evidence, and a native population...particularly its women...reduced to a state of chronic, low-grade terror that polite society insists they must reframe as enrichment.

Sanders does not debate. He does not petition. He acts.

He hunts the rapists the courts will not punish, executes the judges who enable them, and turns the state’s own tools of surveillance and force back upon the institutions that have chosen foreign clients over native survival.

When the protective authority repeatedly violates the implicit contract...security of the citizen body in exchange for the surrender of private vengeance...the nervous system of the population does not remain passive.

Hypervigilance hardens into strategy. Diffuse rage organizes around the recognition that the state has selected its enemies and its friends, and the citizen is neither. This is not ideology. This is neurobiology meeting political reality.

The film simply refuses to look away from the terminal stage of that process.

The political class and its media priesthood will call this xenophobia, incitement, or the fever dream of the uneducated. They will do so from behind security perimeters the average citizen cannot afford, while their policies continue to accelerate the very conditions the film dramatizes.

They will tell the citizen to shut the fuck up, to celebrate their own demographic eclipse as moral progress, and to accept that noticing the pattern is the real crime.

This is not governance. This is contempt weaponized as policy, and it is reaching its expiration date.

Citizen Vigilante is therefore not merely European. It is a mirror held up to every Western nation...including this one...that has chosen to import populations it cannot or will not assimilate while pathologizing the native attachment to continuity, safety, and priority.

The American version is already in draft form in sanctuary jurisdictions where criminal illegal aliens are shielded from removal, in the fentanyl corridors opened by deliberate non-enforcement, in the preventable murders committed by men who should never have been here, and in the quiet accumulation of citizen rage that the elite still pretends is irrational.

The film does not call for vigilantism. It diagnoses the vacuum that makes vigilantism the logical next step when institutions have forfeited their claim to legitimacy.

What follows is not a review.

It is a forensic autopsy of the conditions that produced Sanders and the warning he represents for a nation still pretending it can import the third world without importing its consequences.

The political class can keep issuing its edicts. It can keep gaslighting the dispossessed. It can keep counting on the citizen’s continued passivity.

The blade has already begun to listen.

https://t.co/h8tzr4diEd

[cologeek @sentaison]

@exjon I think it's been about 200 years since the "utopian" socialist experiment in New Harmony Indiana collapsed under the weight of its own failed ideology.

[cologeek @sentaison]

@c567l45 @Ojo_Kritico I can fix her!

[cologeek @sentaison]

@PaulDMauro How many "Workers Revolutions" were actually led by workers, instead of over-educated and underperforming upper-class sociopaths?

[cologeek @sentaison]

How many "Workers Revolutions" were actually led by workers, instead of over-educated and underperforming upper-class sociopaths?

[Paul Mauro @PaulDMauro]

THAT. Is a telling chart.