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Dec. 8, 2016 - Radio Free Nortwest - H.A. Covington
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Oh, then tell me, Sean O 'Farrell, tell me why you hurry so.
Hush-a-woogle, hush and listen, and his cheeks were all aglow.
I bear orders from the captain, get you ready quick and soon, for the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon.
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon, for the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon.
Oh, then tell me, Sean O 'Farrell, where the gathering is to be?
In the old spot by the river, a rifle known to you and me.
One more roar for signal, token, whistle of an arching tune.
For your bike upon your shoulder by the rising of the moon.
By the rising of the moon.
By the rising of the moon.
Which are by, upon your shore, by the rising of the moon Out from many a mud wall cabin eyes were watching through the night Many a manly chest was throbbing for the blessed warming light But passed along the valleys like the man she's lonely croon And a thousand blades were flashing at the rising of the moon At the rising of the
moon, at the rising of the moon And a thousand days were fleshing out, rising on the moon.
It's December the 8th, 2016.
I'm Harold Covington, and this is Radio Free Northwest.
This week I'm going to do something I don't normally do.
I'm going to more or less turn the show over to one single comrade.
His name is Jason, and to tell the truth, I'm not even sure where he's from.
About a week before the election, Jason went to the trouble of uploading onto YouTube an hour-long review of all five of my Northwest novels.
I sent that link out to the Northwest Revolution list, and presumably some of you took the time to watch it.
This version of Jason's commentary is about 12 minutes shorter due to the fact that I sound-edited it and got rid of most of the American diction, by which I mean all the stutters and uhs and ums and like you knows with which Americans speak.
I also cleaned up a lot of the negroid language that Americans, especially younger Americans, have fallen into due to our culture's long exposure to monkhoids.
Although I'm not ripping on Jason for that because almost literally everybody does this, including myself sometimes.
Seventy years of negorizing the culture has turned us all into semi-literate and incoherent quasi-coons.
Now, the reason I'm devoting this entire episode to a review of my own books...
is not because I'm narcissistic or I want to pat myself on the back.
It's because next year we're going to be kicking off a program that I call Settlers 17, which will be a Northwest migration persuasion and propaganda effort on steroids, or at least such steroids as we can muster in our present circumstances, and I'll get into that more over the coming weeks.
But it will be largely a kind of back-to-basics effort on the party's part.
Now, we've spent the past year on a long digression into system politics.
It's been Trumpledor versus Hildebeest.
Election, election, election, and make no mistake, that was important for our people's future.
But what's more important is finally getting the Northwest Front thing off the ground.
We have a breather for the next couple of years, I think.
And we have to make good use of that time before the balloon finally goes up in one way or another.
It is time that I started seeing some out-of-state license plates coming over the hill in serious numbers.
Our oldest and most basic recruiting tool, still, is the Northwest Novels, and we have to really start pushing them and acquiring a whole new generation of readers for these books in the alt-right.
This show will serve as one of several audio introductions to the novels.
Greetings from the Northwest homeland, comrades.
I'm going to be doing a review right now of Harold Covington's five Northwest novels.
Now, I've spent pretty much the past six or so months reading these books, like, since April.
They're very long books, at least the latter two are.
It's been a wild, amazing ride.
A very violent, bullet-hole-ridden, over-the-top ride.
Now, there seems to be a lot of different things going on with these books.
On one hand, there's a very serious, well-written story at work here.
Many interwoven narratives about different characters, very well-realized characters, not like William Pierce's paper-thin characters in the extremely implausible Turner Diaries.
On the other hand, there's also the same as with Turner Diaries, the whole instruction manual aspect to these books.
So, really, I primarily view these books as a well-written and entertaining work of fiction, rather than as an instruction manual.
Half of my listeners will be relieved to hear me say that, the other half will be very disappointed.
Now, these books are actually downright prophetic in a way, because they predict the Hillary Clinton presidency, and unfortunately, we could be looking at that very soon.
Hopefully, we won't be.
Hopefully, Emperor Trump will kick her lying, murdering ass to the curb.
And then curb stomp the bitch, but let me put it this way.
As to whether these books are just fiction or prophecy, it looks like we may very well find out in a week's time.
If Hillary Clinton wins, then we might very well be seeing Covington's dystopian slash utopian future realized.
As bloody fantasies of a violent war to create a Northwest American republic could very well become a reality.
Probably not, but what will become a reality is some of the dystopian conditions predicted in which, essentially, America is overtaken by a bunch of marauding black and Hispanic gangs, and affirmative action is amped up to 11, basically.
And, all in all, a complete clusterfuck of a situation.
So, these books, I would say they would make a very good TV series.
I could definitely picture them as like an HBO-caliber TV show that lasts a long time.
These books contain similar undercurrents themes and ideas throughout.
Basically, if you like one of them, you're probably going to like all of them, and if you read one and you hate it, chances are you'll probably feel the same about the others.
The books are basically I'd say about 70% plot and 30% ideology.
You could further subdivide it and say it's like 50% plot, 20% tactics, and 30% ideology.
Now, in terms of the ideology, it's very white nationalist, with a bit of a libertarian tinge to it, although the libertarianism only applies to specific things.
To be honest, my vision of the ideal society would differ from Covington significantly in regards to his libertarian social policies.
Like, for instance, in Freedom's Sons, the fifth book, in the Northwest Republic, it's established that it's legal to smoke pretty much anywhere.
And I believe a good number of recreational drugs are legalized, such as weed and a few others.
Also, dueling is legal and there's no speed limit.
There's no minimum drinking age.
So it's a very, very libertarian society in a lot of ways.
But despite that, the book keeps reiterating that it's a free society where you're allowed to do whatever you want to do.
However, there are certain exceptions to that.
You can't agitate in favor of the Republic returning to the United States.
You can't basically promote anti-white or racial egalitarian propaganda.
You can't be gay.
And in fact, the Northwest Republic's restrictions on homosexuality are so severe that the kids don't even know that homosexuality exists.
It's literally been wiped out of the collective consciousness, which personally I don't think is even possible, but I digress anyway.
Also, they can't access the internet from other countries.
They can only access the internet from sources within their own country.
And also, there's a lot of restrictions on entertainment, like what kinds of entertainment they're allowed to consume.
A lot of Hollywood movies are either banned or edited.
One of the funnier things in the fifth book is they have this program where they digitally edit the movies, like Hollywood movies, to make them pro-white.
By replacing these heroic Dindu characters, like, they would replace Will Smith's face with Viggo Mortensen's or something like that, and edit the movies to remove the more paused content.
And he even said, "For Sesame Street, I'd give Bert and Ernie girlfriends." So, the whole thing is really hilarious.
There's a lot of humor and stuff.
One joke, for instance, that's typical of the humor throughout the series is that there's this detective duo called the Mommy and the Monkey.
It's this Latina woman who's basically the brains of the duo and this black guy who's purely the brawn.
And every time they have a staff meeting, it'll always say, like, his name is Jamal Jarvis, the monkey, the black guy.
And his only things it'll ever say during these discussions are like, yeah, shit, damn, and stuff like that.
And it'll always be phrased like, shit was Jamal Jarvis's contribution to the conversation.
And just...
Like, stuff like that.
A lot of the humor revolves around blacks and stuff like that.
Like, blacks being artificially promoted to positions of power and the situational comedy that results from these people who are clearly incompetent and incapable because they were artificially promoted due to affirmative action to fill a position clearly above their abilities.
So yeah, there's a lot of black humor in these books in more ways than one.
One thing to keep in mind is that these books are legitimately addictive.
To be honest, I've never read a more addictive series of novels in my entire life with the possible exception of the Harry Potter books.
Yes, that is how good these books are that I'm actually comparing them to Harry Potter.
And unlike in Harry Potter, in these books the good guys actually win.
And unlike Harry Potter, they actually have a positive political message, and not the "Oh, Voldemort's evil because he's a pureblood and he wants to create a future for wizarding children." Okay, honestly, if Harold Covington had written Harry Potter, Voldemort would have been the hero, and it probably would have even been a better series than it was.
Now, it's almost unfair to compare this to William Pierce's books.
As I said in my review of Pierce's books, the best thing that Pierce's books did was pave the way for these books.
I mean, in the same way the Beatles paved the way for better rock bands that came about in the future.
It's not even in the same ballpark, to be honest.
William Pierce's The Turner Diaries is incoherent and implausible.
It barely even counts as a coherent narrative, and it pretty much writes itself into a hole that it climbs its way out of by using nuclear weapons.
Covington's books actually do deal with the nuclear question, but they deal with it in a much less convoluted, deus ex machina, a much more thrilling and intrigue-filled way.
And it's not until the final book where nukes come into play.
And when they come into play, they come into play...
In a very tooth and nail kind of way.
It's looked at in very much detail the pros and cons of the situation, why they don't want nukes to get into the war at all, and they make a very compelling argument.
You know, if you nuke the Pacific Northwest, you're going to cause all kinds of permanent effects across the United States, and you'd have to be crazy to even try it.
And this book actually looks into detail at the ramifications of a nuclear war scenario, whereas William Pierce just goes balls deep.
Nuke every major city in America, nuke all of Russia, oh, and everything's gonna be fine, you know?
Like, he's...
Never mind the fallout.
Never mind the egg, everyone's dead.
Apparently that is somehow, you know, oh, they nuked each...
America and Russia nuked each other, and then we turned all of China and Asia into zombies, and then the white people live happily ever after.
No, they would not live happily ever after.
They'd be living in a nuclear winter.
So...
Covington, unlike Pierce, deals with these situations in a plausible way.
And I do say plausible, because the only thing that his books don't explain is how the impulse to save themselves really starts amongst white people.
It's almost described as a mystical way.
Like, this is one thing the books keep referring to, is the idea that no one really knows why it happened.
It's just one day the white man just woke up and said, fuck it, we've had enough.
And rose up against the forces trying to blot us out of the world.
And it's described as almost like as soon as we start fighting for ourselves, God will be on our side.
Now, I don't know what Covington's exact religious beliefs are.
I know he's not a Christian, but he does refer to God and the divine.
And that is one aspect of it.
Now, speaking of religion, the books are interesting because he actually has some Christian...
Northwest NVA Army characters who are portrayed very positively, but he also has parts that are critical of Christianity.
He's very critical of Judeo-Christianity, Christian Zionism.
But overall, the books don't come across as anti-Christian.
The portrayal of the Wingfield family in A Distant Thunder, who are basically a fashy version of the Weasleys from Harry Potter, they're a Christian family with a lot of kids who...
Welcome the protagonist, Shane Ryan, into their family.
And they're very salt-of-the-earth kind of people.
Very, like, working-class salt-of-the-earth.
People who you'd like to have as neighbors.
But then it's like, oh, they're actually revolutionaries in a violent terrorist army.
But, yeah, the thing is with these books is, like, they create a lot of believable characters.
They explore things from a multidimensional angle.
And unlike Pierce's books, they're presented in a plausible way.
As long as you can accept the premise that a few white people would band together and form the NVA, the Northwest Volunteer Army, everything that follows from there is a plausible chain of events.
The only thing that might be implausible is simply that those few people would have the will and the balls to get it started.
But once the ball gets rolling, everything that proceeds from there is very well thought out, meticulous.
And I guess that's why the initial act of the ball rolling is key, and that's why that's the one part that Covington doesn't really explain that he calls almost a mystical force of God or nature.
And I think he's obviously insinuating that this is something that needs to happen.
He's hoping he's the one who makes it happen.
I don't know if he'll be the one who makes it happen, or if it does happen, if it'll happen in the way he predicts it here.
But then again, if we get Hillary Clinton as president, that'll be one thing in these books that came true.
Let's hope we don't, okay?
Let's hope we don't, because to be honest, I would much rather have a peaceful transition toward a white ethnostate under der Trumpenführer rather than a violent civil war under the sea hag, as Covington repeatedly calls her.
Anyway, I guess I should go through the books one by one.
So, I read the brigade first, but I'm gonna go through them in the order in which they were written.
So anyway, the first book is The Hill of the Ravens.
Now, keep in mind the chronology of these books is not the same as the order in which they are written.
The chronology would be very hard to...
You'd have to have a whole diagram because, for instance, the second book, A Distant Thunder, has the scene that takes place the earliest, which is like toward the beginning, and also the scene that takes place the latest out of any scene in the entire five books.
Books number two, three, and four all overlap quite a bit in terms of the timeline, and book one also, if you're gonna think about the past plot.
So the only thing that's really definitive is that the fifth book is definitely the last book.
It's meant to be the last one you read.
It's the last one pretty much chronologically, more or less.
But other than that, there's no real definitive order in which they should be read, except that I would definitely say the fifth book should be the last one.
But anyway, okay.
So the first book, The Hill of the Ravens.
This book is actually, it's set in the future, 40 years after the Longview Treaty, more or less, a bit more than 40 years, it says.
But it's also concerning events that take place during the Revolution.
Basically, it's about two detectives in the future trying to solve the case of an ambush in which a bunch of NVA fighters were betrayed by someone.
Possibly in their unit or someone in contact with their unit.
Betrayed to the FATPO, the Federal Anti-Terrorist Police Organization.
That's a funny pun, by the way, on Covington's part.
FATPO.
He has a lot of funny little things like that throughout the books.
Anyway, yeah, so it's kind of a murder mystery told in the future in retrospect, like kind of an investigation that takes place in the future that concerns a murder mystery that took place in the past, which is actually the present from the perspective of most of the Northwest books.
Books two to four all take place during the Revolution itself.
So, yeah, I mean, the time in which the murder mystery took place during the Revolution is the same time that the second, third, and fourth book take place.
And, in fact, these events are referenced repeatedly throughout the other books, often referenced as being a more recent thing.
So, basically, the plot in the future involves the Two detectives going from one witness to the other to try to ascertain what might have happened on the day.
Because the woman who's suspected of being the traitor who betrayed this flying column, as it's called, she is now suspected of actually being innocent.
So they're trying to see if they can clear her name or not.
When going to all the suspects or witnesses, they kind of take a bit of a tour of the Northwest.
It's a tour for the reader to sort of show the society.
Like, they show the spaceport.
There's actually one really entertaining scene where they go into Utah to rescue a bunch of Mormons who are trying to escape into the Northwest Republic.
And stuff like that.
They show various aspects of how the society runs.
This book, along with Freedom's Sons, like those two books, the first and the fifth, are the ones that really concern the society itself of the Northwest Republic and how it operates.
So if you want to get an idea of what Covington's utopian white society will be like, those two books are really the ones to read.
Now, there's definitely a bit of retconning in there, because there are certain events and certain types of technology, I think, during the first book that, like, I guess they do match up more or less with the technology depicted in Freedom's Sons, the fifth book.
I'm sure the first book, like, okay, there were definitely some plot holes and inconsistencies.
For instance, there's something that's referenced in all the other books, the General Order 6, I think it is, or General Order 10, I forget what it is, but it's the order that people in the NVA cannot drink out.
And that is actually clearly contradicted during the first book.
So I think there are a few inconsistencies here and there, but not huge ones.
Jason is quite correct.
There are some anomalies between Hill of the Ravens and the rest of the series.
What you have to bear in mind is that Hill of the Ravens was the first Northwest novel that I wrote back in the winter of 2002.
And at that time, I did not have the...
Foggiest notion that this thing was going to develop a life of its own and turn into this big long series of novels and this whole mythos.
And I didn't actually start thinking of it as a mythos until I started Distant Thunder.
And so that explains some of the contradictions.
I think if Harold has the time, it would be great if he did a revised version of, I guess, all the books to sort of iron out any tiny little plot holes that exist here and there, but it's nothing major.
It's nothing hugely relevant to the plot.
Just minor little retcons.
In this book, I found this one actually the quickest read.
It's a very easy read, very easy to just skim through.
Like, I got through this book very fast, and the reason is its murder mystery format makes it quite a page-turner.
It's very, very exciting.
Like, you want to find out who did it.
It's a very good mystery.
I know Covington has done other books before this, so I don't know if he's actually done other mystery books, but he's very good at the genre.
And it's a good format to sort of give readers this tour of the Northwest and to also acquaint them with the history of the Revolution itself.
So it feels definitely like an introductory novel.
It's probably not a bad one to start out with.
I mean, I started out with The Brigade.
That's the most well-known book and the most popular book.
So either of those two, I think, would make sense to start out with.
So Hill of the Raven's Over, I'd give it like an 8.5 out of 10. It's a very brisk read, you know, very readable, fast-paced.
It's quite a page-turner.
The second book, A Distant Thunder.
Now this book I have mixed feelings about.
Like, don't get me wrong, all the books are good.
This one has a bit of a different writing style because it's told in first person.
I really like the character of Shane Ryan.
He's angry.
He's a kid, you know, he's relatable to the readers.
He comes from a working class background and he spends a lot of time talking about how the system is shit on him.
Like, there's one part that I showed to my buddy Argent where basically Shane is talking about the shitty jobs he's gone through and the shitty pay and the complete lack of workers' rights.
And we were both listening to it and thinking like, yeah, this sounds like the minimum wage jobs that we've worked.
And it's just the depiction of his trailer trash upbringings.
And he's let his drunken father...
And his mother, who's always trying to sue people and trying to report people on bogus charges for being affiliated with the NVA just to spite them.
It's a really good depiction of this whole Jerry Springer trailer trash America that largely exists because of the bad economic policies in the United States and just because of outsourcing and all these globalist trends like that, bringing in Mexicans so whites can't get work.
So it's a really good depiction of that kind of thing.
A Distant Thunder kind of feels almost like the trial run for The Brigade in the sense that The Brigade is kind of the book that Covington always wanted to write, but Distant Thunder was the first attempt at it.
I feel like Covington's sense of his ability to sort of write a book and stage scenes really well, especially action scenes, I think improved in future books.
I would still say A Distant Thunder is a good book though because it's pretty emotionally effective.
There's a scene where a major character dies and it's quite sudden.
Not just that, but also the very end when Shane gets captured and imprisoned.
The way it's depicted is so vivid.
I've never heard such a vivid depiction in any book or even in any movie or TV show of just imprisonment in really shitty conditions and being trapped in this kind of hellish nightmare.
It's very vivid the way it's described.
The ending of the book is really good.
Like, everything really comes together, gets really intense, and there's all these really bad moral dilemmas, like, with one character who's forced to prostitute herself, and her own father laments it, but he says, like, we have to do this, have her undercover, having sex with this scummy police guy, because...
because...
He actually has this whole monologue, like it's Mr. Wingfield, about how his daughter Chyna, who he's having undercover, having sex with Leon Sarles, the police officer, and he says, unfortunately, we were past the point when we can't make these kinds of sacrifices.
We fucked up.
We had so many generations where we could have saved this without having to make moral sacrifices like this, but now we have to.
And this is a theme present throughout the books, like all the violence they have to engage in, other, you know, sinful acts.
kind of this acknowledgement where people will say like, I remember Freedom of Sons is a monologue toward the end where someone says, yes, we might be judged by God for the sinful things we did, but at the end of the day, we still feel God favored us, but we had to do terrible things.
And there's this, there's this undercurrent, if whites had acted in the past, in previous generations, we wouldn't be forced into a position where we have to do horrible things.
And personally, I still think there's a window of opportunity where we won't have to do horrible things in order to win.
And that they may never come.
There may always be another solution.
But I do understand the idea that there's a greater sense of urgency now than there was, say, in the 1950s.
Like, in the 1950s or 60s, we could have very easily made America into a white nationalist country.
Not only without bloodshed, but without massive civil unrest even.
Like, we had the power to do it then, and we squandered it.
And now we're forced into a situation where we have to do deplorable things.
Deplorable in the literal sense of the word.
When Hillary, if she would be calling the NVA deplorable, she'd have a point because they do have to do plenty of deplorable things.
Along those lines, there were a few scenes of violence that, to be honest, went a bit too far for my tastes.
Not in every book, but A Distant Thunder actually goes the furthest with this.
There's two particular scenes that I thought rubbed me the wrong way.
There's one with a young worker at a restaurant who's saying, like, oh, I'm glad those NVA guys on TV died.
Fucking racist, blah, blah.
And the second is, like, some crazy shopping mall Santa who screams about Zionism and how he loves Israel or something like that.
And in both these cases, the NVA track these guys down, they torture them, and then they kill them.
These scenes just seemed a bit misguided because they're basically, in both cases, kind of targets that don't have that much importance, to be honest.
And the sheer sadism of the murders in those two cases fell over the top.
Like, it would be one thing if they just killed them, but the fact that they tortured them first, it would just...
I feel like those two scenes were a bit off-putting, and this is partly why I would not recommend someone start with A Distant Thunder as their first book in the series, because those scenes could really rub some...
I mean, there's a lot of stuff in these books.
I could rub someone the wrong way.
I mean, even a lot of white nationalists, or at least a lot of alt-writers, would probably find these books too extreme for their tastes.
Even I did at parts.
But I think those two scenes in A Distant Thunder really stand out.
Even though he probably wouldn't acknowledge it, I think maybe Harold learned his lesson a bit because there weren't really any scenes in the future books that involve torturing people out of sheer sadism on the NVA's part.
Pretty much all the scenes of torture in the books after that are by the American government.
You know, when I first heard that in this young man's presentation, I had no idea what he was talking about.
I actually had to go back to the book, A Distant Thunder, and go over it again to try and figure out just what he was referring to.
I'd simply forgotten those two scenes.
They were just things I'd casually dropped in.
I'm always fascinated about what people take away from my books, the things that catch their attention, the things that seem to stick with them.
the things and the ideas and the characters that seem to grip them and catch their attention, so forth and so on.
And on the other hand, the things that I put in there deliberately so people would take notice and would start thinking about certain things and moving along.
I will reveal one thing right now that I don't think I've ever referred to in public.
Throughout all five of the Northwest novels, There is kind of a running gag, a running inside joke, that so far, this is now 14 years after the first book was published, that so far, not one individual who has read these books has caught on to.
And that includes a lot of the readers who were familiar with movement history, were familiar with the white nationalist movement, and the people and places and things that go on there.
And so far as I know, nobody has picked up on it, or at least if they have, they haven't mentioned it to me.
I'm really going to be curious to see if anybody ever does.
Anyway, let's get back to Jason now.
They kill a lot of people in the rest of the books, including innocent people.
Like, well, innocent from a certain perspective.
But there isn't the same level of sadism.
And I understand the idea, you know, in war people die, in war civilians die.
And sometimes intentionally.
I mean, the average person in North America or Europe is completely okay with the fact that the Allies incinerated millions of German civilians.
So, I mean, the idea that murdering innocent people is inherently, like, offensive, like, to the point where someone would put down the book and be like, no, I can't read this anymore.
This is disgusting.
I mean...
To me, it's like, well, you know what, we live in a society that uses the firebombing of Dresden as its founding myth.
So, you know what, don't preach to me about morality in that regard.
Like, in terms of being offended by the books to the point where you can't read them.
The idea that we should be offended and that these books are too offensive to read, I think is ridiculous, especially in light of, you know, movies like Django Unchained, where we're supposed to cheer on Jamie Foxx, I kill all the white people in this movie, you know, no.
Or like that church scene in Kingsman where we're supposed to be happy because the Southern Baptist guys or Westboro or whatever are getting killed, like, come on.
Is this really any worse than that?
And it's unfortunate because I think A Distant Thunder has some of the best characterization, and it's one of the more emotional books in terms of the connection you feel as a reader with Shane and with the Wingfield family.
And I don't recall off the top of my head any scenes in the later Northwest Front books that involved the heroes torturing people.
I mean, it's alluded to that Ogilvy does stuff like this, but...
As Covington himself even said in Radio Free Northwest, there's a reason why Ogilvy isn't featured as a character in the books and is just alluded to, and why he's seen as kind of a scary guy, even by other people in the NVA.
So, yeah, Distant Thunder.
It's a bit rusty, and it has a few scenes, as I said, that are kind of off-putting, but I like the first-person narration.
There's a lot of humor, a lot of poignancy, a lot of good observations in the writing, and some good characters, and toward the end, it gets really intense.
I would give A Distant Thunder overall probably like a 7.5 out of 10. Oh, then again, that's a bit unfair because didn't I give...
Yeah, I gave William Pierce's Hunter a 7 out of 10, but there's no way that those are two so close together.
Okay, how about this?
Hunter, I'm retroactively saying, is like a 6 out of 10, and Turner Diaries is like a 4 at most, maybe a 3.5.
So yeah, Distant Thunder is a 7.5, I would give it.
Probably the weakest of all the books, but it has a lot of stuff to like, though.
It's very, like, I kind of teared up a little bit at the ending, you know.
It has some resonant themes and ideas, and it's definitely still worth reading.
It was kind of, as I said, the trial run for the Brigade a bit.
Now, the next book, A Mighty Fortress.
It's an interesting book because it concerns the last days of the Revolution.
The good last third of the book basically focuses on the Longview Peace Treaty and how it goes.
And it actually involves a lot of teenage romance and stuff throughout the book.
There's this character Nightshade, aka Emily, who's a very kind of spucky girl.
Spucky.
I know spucky is the term they use for the video, but isn't that...
Spunky, that's the term I was looking for.
Okay.
She's a very spunky girl, very rebellious kind of teen rebel.
She's actually a little bit feminist, this is a funny thing.
Although, she does have a monologue addressing that where she sort of says, I wish I could be a traditional woman, but I feel the United States has deprived me of that, so here I am, I am what I am, kind of thing.
Now, Covington is a bit, to be honest, I disagree with him a bit on gender roles.
He's a bit actually too feminist for my taste.
Even in Freedom Suns, he even says he has this whole thing about why women should be allowed to vote.
In his ideal society, and basically his ideal society views women and men the same in terms of voting rights.
I disagree with that.
But anyway, I guess the third book, A Mighty Fortress.
It was another book that I read through fairly quickly.
Definitely page-turner, funny, entertaining.
It's a bit of a bridging the gap kind of book.
Like, I would say it left less of an impact than any of the other books.
But it was definitely entertaining.
There was a lot of humor in the peace treaty and with the Jews.
This whole thing with the protagonist, Cody, he has this Jewish family who raised him who are a bunch of perverts, basically.
Which is something that is pretty common amongst those people.
One criticism I'd make is there was this whole thing where it was set up that Cody was able to speak Yiddish, but that ended up being irrelevant in the end.
But anyway, yeah, okay.
A Mighty Fortress, I would say, it's a good book because it has a variety of circumstances.
Like, it starts out with kind of the last days of the Revolution, going on a hit, a tickle as they call it, dealing with the aftermath of the ceasefire where Fat Poe tries to get in a few more casualties by occupying a mall and wreaking havoc.
There's a really funny scene where the Black and Hispanic members of Fat Poe are arguing over what kind of music to blare in the mall.
That they're occupying with all these cowering white hostages.
Like the blacks want hip-hop.
The Hispanics want their Latin rap.
And that's one thing about these books is that they're all hilarious.
There's a great deal of humor throughout all of them.
I couldn't even begin to list off the funniest scenes because there's so much humor in these books.
They're hilarious.
Humor and political observation and well-done characters.
The interesting thing is, I would actually say his best done characters are mostly his female characters.
I would say, if anything, the female characters...
I don't know what to make of that.
It's a very interesting thing, but there does seem to be that undercurrent where the female characters are all very well-defined, very memorable.
The male characters often feel a bit more like a mouthpiece for Covington himself.
Well, I think it's partly deliberate that the men are sort of well put together.
They're not as emotional as the women, because that's just how men are.
And it's also that they're very well disciplined.
So I feel like the fact that the men are so well disciplined means they don't have as distinctive a characterization as the female characters do.
Although, Shane Ryan is definitely an exception to that.
Like, he's a very angry, energetic young guy.
Overall, though, definitely a lot of well done characters, especially the female characters.
And some of the villains, too, are pretty well done.
Like the monkey and the mommy in the brigade, which I'll get into in a second.
Mighty Fortress, yeah, so it's kind of a bridging the gap story.
It shifts gears midway through with the peace conference.
There's actually a funny subplot about an attempt at getting Christian Zionist militia set up to fight against the NVA.
The US government tries to set them up, but this backfires spectacularly.
And the scene in which it backfires is really funny.
You have these tub-thumping, crazy evangelicals talking about how, oh, we need to get back our Filipino congregation.
And they hold up these guns saying, like, these are tools with which we shall defeat these evil satanic racists.
And it's, I feel like Covington's kind of earned himself the right to make fun of evangelicals a bit because he does have the positive portrayal of Christians in the form of the Wingfield family in the previous book and also certain other characters.
And he does actually cover the religious dispute quite a bit in this book.
I would say A Mighty Fortress gets more into the underlying politics behind the revolution.
Definitely more so than A Distant Thunder and The Brigade.
It's a Bridging the Gap book in multiple ways, not only in terms of the events that take place, like Bridging the Gap from the Revolution to the foundation of the Republic, but also in terms of its focus.
The Brigade and The Distant Thunder are more focused on the Revolution itself, whereas I would say Freedom's Sons and Hill of the Ravens are more concerned with the functioning of the state and also the ideology behind it and sort of how it's going to operate.
And also just like what the specific demands are.
And A Mighty Fortress delves into that quite a bit too.
And also just these conflicts, like the religious conflict.
Like it has a funny scene where a guy is disciplined because he starts, one of the Northwest volunteers starts raining leaflets down on the Northwest that say Jesus is a dead kike on a stick.
So basically, it's making fun of pagans and how stupid they are with that kind of shit.
And, like, it's a really funny scene.
Like, as I said, Covington has a great sense of humor.
So he mocks the Christian evangelicals, but he also mocks the pagans.
You know, he mocks the pagans quite a bit.
Like, he often references them throughout the books as, like, oh, they want to sit around butt naked in the forest drinking mead and wearing horned helmets and having orgies, which is literally what, like, renegade broadcasting.
Okay, not quite right there.
At least certainly not my intention to quote-unquote mock pagans.
I think Jason's making a mistake that a lot of people do when they read my stuff.
They confuse pagan with anti-Christian.
These two tendencies within our movement are two very distinct and separate tendencies.
Pagans actually adhere to a non-Christian religious view.
Anti-Christians are simply anti-Christian.
They're the ones who mostly call Jesus a dead Jew on a stick.
I know very few pagans who actually seriously oppose and insult Christianity per se.
I suppose I can see how some people might get confused by that in my books, but I just want to clarify.
My intention is not to mock either paganism or Christianity or any religion.
The only people in the movement that I really have a problem with on a religious basis is the virulent anti-Christians, who are basically anti-Christian first and pro-white second.
Anyway, just thought I'd drop that in there.
So, he's actually a bit ahead of his time in some ways in some of his mockeries of the white nationalist movement.
That's another funny thing Covington does a lot, is he mocks the white nationalist movement itself for being ineffective.
And incompetent and full of just pointless arguing and bickering about stuff like religion, for instance.
And this whole dead Jew on a stick bullshit.
Stuff like that.
He actually really lays into other white nationalist leaders.
Like, there's a scene at the end of Hill of the Ravens where the old man, who's basically Harold Covington, has all these ducks who he names after different white nationalist leaders, like David Duke and William Pierce, and he keeps mocking them, and he keeps, like, attacking the ducks and throwing shit at them, and the implication is that, like, all the previous white nationalist leaders were nincompoops who didn't know what the fuck they were doing.
So, A Mighty Fortress, I'd probably give it, I guess, an 8 out of 10. It's a solid book.
Very readable.
Easy to get through.
Next comes the brigade.
Oh, Father, why are you so sad on this bright Easter morn?
When Irishmen are proud and glad of the land where they were born Some they say and memories few are far off just in days When being just a lad like you I joined the IRA Where are the lads who stood with me
when history was made?
Oh, Gramma Cree, I long to see the boys of the old pagay From hills and farms the call to worms was heard by one and all And from the glen came brave young men to answer Ireland's call It was long ago we faced a
foe, the old brigade and me But by my side they fought and died that Ireland might be free Where are the lads who stood with me when history was made?
Oh, Gramma Cree, I long to see the boys of the old brigade And now my boy, I've told you why On Easter morn I sigh But I recall my comrades all of
dark old days gone by I think of men who fought in Glen with rifle and grenade May heaven keep the men who sleep From the ranks of the old brigade.
Where are the lads who stood with me, When history was made?
Oh, Brahmacoree, I long to see, The boys of the old brigade.
You're the same.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Now, The Brigade is pretty much the magnum opus of the collection.
It's the most famous book.
It's the most well-read.
I would say deservedly so.
It's pretty long, but it's epic.
It's full of just epic set pieces.
Like, from the Operation We Are Not Amused in Los Angeles, where they attack the Oscars.
Oh, man.
I swear, when they first announced that they were attacking Hollywood, I literally just burst out cheering and clapping.
And then there's just a lot of other big set piece action scenes.
Like there were some scenes in the brigade that were honestly so intense that they felt like something out of Breaking Bad in terms of the level of just intensity.
Going on, like there was this one scene with the botched assassination of the vice president where there's this whole confluence of factors where one of the main characters, Kiki McGee, she's probably one of the best realized characters, if not the best realized character in the entire series, and she's undergoing a very fundamental dilemma.
She's basically forced into being an informant for the FBI, I think it was, and she's basically, this scene is where she switches over and she's like, fuck it, I'm on the side of the NBA now, and it's a very intense scene.
The way the shootout is described, there's a lot of very vivid descriptions in a visual sense.
This is probably the most well-realized action /tension scene in the entire series.
And a lot of these plots with the characters, these subplots are very well done, like with Kiki McGee, also with, I think her name is Andrea.
That's Annette.
This boyfriend and girlfriend who want to shoot this black guy at their school who basically medict her sister into committing suicide by being his dindu self.
There's actually a part where he's described as shucking and jiving around the campus, and I basically burst out laughing when I heard that because just the way he describes blacks, like chest-thumping, swaggering, bravado, and stuff like that, it's really funny.
The way he describes these dindus.
And yeah, that whole subplot's really well done.
Also, just a lot of the book focuses on the FBI, the local police, so it shows things from both sides.
And a lot of the scenes involving just the bureaucracy, the incompetence, the constant bickering and arguments on the government of the United States side are very entertaining, very hilarious.
Oh, The Brigade's an amazing book.
My only criticism is it's a bit, toward the beginning, it's a bit hard to get into.
Like, there's a bit of the...
A lot of minuté, minuté, how do you pronounce it?
Minuté involving the workings of the NVA, but that's mostly toward the beginning.
There's a certain point where the book just takes off, and once it takes off, it's firing on all cylinders and doesn't stop until the end.
I'd say the point where it takes off is where the first FBI character is this, I think, mystery-meet-Filipino ex-prostitute woman and her white partner introduced.
At that point, the book really starts taking off.
I'm not even saying the beginning's terrible.
Like, it's still very entertaining.
There's a lot of entertaining ideology and stuff at the beginning, and funny stuff.
But it does take a little bit to get going, although I find a lot of the best works of fiction have that issue where they just, the beginning is the least entertaining part.
I think maybe that's how a good story works, you know?
Like, you get all the minute out of the way at the beginning, and then you really start firing on all cylinders when it starts firing on all cylinders.
So yeah, honestly, it's a very emotional book, especially regarding the whole Kiki McGee plot, because she's a very relatable character.
She's put in a very bad, bad, bad situation, and she does some bad things, betraying the NVA, but you can really sympathize with her, because she's put in an awful dilemma.
And she's a very well-realized character.
Like, she's obviously in some level of fuck-up, but she's someone who wants to be better.
She's a very flawed character, very relatable character.
One thing with Covington's characters I noticed is all the good guys seem to have some sort of innate racial awareness, even though some of them don't really act on it right away.
All the good guys seem to be racially aware on some instinctual level, which I think is true.
Like, I think mostly, you know, generally speaking, most people who are gonna ever fight in a pro-white way probably are somewhat instinctually racially aware.
Like, to be honest, even since I was a kid, like, I was always quote-unquote racist.
Although the interesting thing is all his characters seem to be also aware on the JQ from the beginning, and if there's one thing that Pierce got right more so, it's that in Hunter, the main character, he was racist from the beginning, but he wasn't Jew-wise from the beginning.
And there's no characters like that in Covington's books, really.
Everyone seems to be, if they're racially aware, they're also Jew-wise, which in my experience I find not to be the truth.
Like, I find there's a lot of people who are racially aware in terms of, like, you know, blacks, whites, whatever, but they're not Jew-wise per se.
Okay, that would be one criticism I'd make for all of Covington's books, but yeah.
It's not a huge criticism because it doesn't really affect the plot or the characters that much.
It's just more of an ideological criticism, I guess a realism criticism, where I think maybe he could have had something more complex going on there, where there are characters who start out at least as racialist, but not Jew-wise, per se.
So yeah, anyway, that was a huge digression there.
So yeah, the Brigade, honestly, yeah, it was very emotional.
Like, I almost cried in the last scene, where they're telling Kiki's little daughter years later about her mother and all that.
It's a very gripping plot because you really feel for some of these characters and the dilemmas they go through.
This is just an all-around great book, you know?
I would give The Brigade probably a 9.5 out of 10. It's a very solid book.
Anyway, the final book, Freedom Sons.
Now this one is a big mixed bag.
It definitely feels like, in some ways, a fitting conclusion.
It's a confluence of a lot of the previous books.
Like, we have one of the first scenes, The Battle for Portland, where a lot of the characters from the previous books are all featured, and it's really kind of a character reunion, like an NVA reunion sort of thing going on, where they have this big, huge action set piece, and all these characters you recognize from the previous books are all featured.
Like, you have Cody and Emily from Mighty Fortress.
You have, I think, Shane and Emily show up from A Distant Thunder.
You have a bunch of characters from the brigade show up.
And yeah, I mean, so you really get this whole kind of nostalgia thing.
That's why I say you've got to read the Freedom Sons last, because it's clearly meant to be read last.
So it's like you get a nostalgia trip from the opening scene where he's all these characters and you get like Nightshade dangling off the bridge and being her rebellious little tomboy girl self.
And yeah.
The thing with Freedom Sons is it feels the most episodic out of any of the books.
Like, there are certain main characters throughout it, like Robert Campbell, Tom Horikava, you know, like the Horikavas and the Campels, the Myers family.
Like, there's certain families that are prominently featured throughout, but there's a lot of time jumps.
So I would say, of all the books, it feels the most episodic.
It almost feels like three books in one.
You could say.
But there's definitely some connections throughout some certain interweaving stories.
But The Brigade, I guess The Brigade feels more like a full story.
Like, it feels more like a cohesive work, The Brigade, whereas Freedom's Sons feels more episodic.
There are definitely common threads.
Like, for instance, I guess you could divide it roughly into four parts.
Okay, the first part concerns the Battle of Portland and then the founding of the Northwest Republic.
And Force 101, which is basically remove liberals.
They disappear, you know, the liberals.
They kind of all, you know, they go on vacation, wink wink.
And we never speak of them again.
Fuck them.
Okay, I'll get to that later if I remember, but okay, I have some issues with that part.
The second act out of four is basically, I think, 12 years after that.
Okay, sorry, let me rewind a second.
During the first part, it establishes certain plots where the Horkoff family escapes from Chicago, from their shitty existence there, to the Northwest Republic.
And also concerning the Myers family, the breakup of the Myers family as a result of Amber Myers, the mother, and her hysterical reaction to the Northwest Republic.
Amber Myers is a very good depiction of liberal women.
She's spot on.
As with the Brigade, the strongest parts of Freedom's Sons are these subplots that concern the lives of these characters.
I think throughout the books, a lot of the best scenes, especially in the Brigade and Freedom's Sons, are scenes that involve characters who aren't necessarily in the NVA specifically, but kind of bystanders, like third parties.
But often third parties who get roped into the whole thing.
These are the best plots where it's like there's a third party.
Person or people who are going about their lives and they kind of get sucked into all this.
Like, those plots are the best plots in the whole series.
Like, I love any kind of plot like that.
They're usually really well done, well executed.
And the thing with the Horikov family and the Myers family, those are no exception.
Really well done subplots.
Anyway, so the Horikov family, they run the border into the northwest.
The Myers family gets broken up by Amber and her hysterics.
She takes the daughter Georgia with her into Washington, D.C. to live with her liberal grandmother and live a life of hedonism and stupid liberal urbanite stupidity.
So that's the first act.
The second act, 12 years later, concerns the Seven Weeks War, I think it's called.
Now this part, the second act, contains both the best and worst parts of the book.
The worst part is there's a part that really drones on that's describing the war in kind of like a detached...
Where it's talking about formations and stuff like that.
It's not really scenes.
It's more like bird's eye view kind of view of the war.
And that part is like, eh.
It just doesn't work that well as part of a novel.
But then what happens is there's the nuclear crisis.
And this is the best part of Freedom's Sons by far.
It's up there with the best parts of the brigade.
Like this sequence of the book is awesome.
And it basically concerns a bunch of undercover operatives in Washington, D.C. who are trying to defuse the nuclear crisis and deal with these hysterical Jews in Congress who are trying to basically create nuclear Armageddon.
They're trying to make the Samson option a reality.
And one of the funnier things in the book is also how the background detail about how Israel was wiped off the map by the Arabs and how the Jews call it the Second Holocaust.
And now they get angry at the American whites and blacks who want to call NVA bombings of Americans the third holocaust.
Like, no, you can't have a holocaust.
That's just for the Jews.
So it's like...
A lot of political intrigue in this section.
Very thrilling.
It's a straight-up political thriller in this section.
It's very well done.
The spy games, the intrigue, all that stuff.
Very James Bondian.
A lot of humor, too, with this hysterical, shrieking black mammy who's in charge of the CIA.
They bullshit her by making her think that aliens came to her rescue because she has this obsession with the Northwest Republic being in communication with aliens.
It's a pretty funny little subplot.
But yeah, speaking of aliens, okay, maybe I'll remember later, but okay.
Anyway, yes, speaking of aliens, okay, so after the really thrilling second act, here comes the third act, which is, to be honest, I viewed it as a bit unnecessary.
It's not badly written, it's just kind of unnecessary.
It's this whole subplot concerning the Solutreans and archaeological excavation, which turns into a murder mystery, kind of like Hill of the Ravens.
It actually, it reminded me, it was giving me nostalgic throwback to Hill of the Ravens there.
I like that aspect, but the outcome of the murder mystery I wasn't as satisfied with.
Like in Hill of the Ravens, it was a very satisfying outcome, actually a bit emotional too.
Here it's like it was literally Mad-Eye Moody.
I'm not even joking.
It was literally the exact same explanation as fake Mad-Eye Moody in Goblet of Fire.
It was literally the exact same scenario.
I mean, it's like, did Covington literally rip off Goblet of Fire there?
I don't know, but it was Mad-Eye Moody did it.
There's literally no other way to put it.
It was Mad-Eye Moody.
Uh, no.
I only actually watched, I think, two of the Harry Potter movies.
The first one and the last one.
And so I'm not sure what that's about.
I don't know.
The thing is with the Slytherins part is it feels like a big-lipped alligator moment.
Like, it comes and it goes.
It's there, and it's kind of barely referenced again.
It doesn't have much consequence to the rest of the plot.
It feels like he was just trying to do Hill of the Ravens 2 and trying to make it...
Put it in there.
It was definitely a readable part.
It was definitely entertaining enough.
As is most of the rest of the book.
Except that military part that I talked about earlier.
The battles.
But basically...
Yeah, it's just a bit irrelevant, I guess you could say.
And also, there's a bit of random game changers.
Like, it's kind of very briefly alluded to that the Solutrians might have been in contact with some sort of aliens.
It's like, wait a second, come on, you can't mock that black mammy for having crazy outlandish alien theories, but then introduce a crazy outlandish alien theory.
Not only introduce it, but introduce it in a way that's literally a big whipped alligator moment.
It's there, and then it's never referenced again.
And also, the implications aren't really addressed in the rest of the book, and it doesn't affect the rest of the book that much.
I guess it does a bit in the sense that it further crushes liberalism, like the idea that whites were in North America first and that we didn't evolve out of Africa or whatever.
But it's not that important to the plot of the rest of the book.
And also the revelation with Matt I. Moody with the technology he uses to fake his appearance as someone else, that is a Chekhov's gun that is never fired again.
It's literally...
No, that's something that's like, okay, I was thinking when that came up, like, okay, this is gonna come into play later, right?
Oh, and then it never does.
I'm like, what?
So, that whole plot was a bit pointless, to be honest.
The book's long as is, so, I mean, personally, if I had been Covington's editor, I would have advised him to take out that entire part, but then again, I'm not Covington's editor, so take that for what it's worth.
The fourth part is basically...
A conflict concerning the borderlands of the Republic.
Now, this part I liked.
However, like, it was very well written.
It's classic Covington, classic Northwest front stuff.
It was a good way to end the book in the sense that, you know, it has all the elements we know and love for the rest of the books.
The intrigue, the fighting, and the characters.
The regular, everyday people are kind of roped into it.
I'm actually starting to just tear up with nostalgia a bit here right now.
Like, it's over right now.
Like, kind of like, ugh.
It's an emotional journey, you know, when you read these books for six, seven months in a row and then they're over.
It's like, fuck.
I really hope he writes a sixth book.
And part of the reason I hope he writes a sixth book is because this fourth part of Freedom Sons leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
I know he's referred to...
Freedom's Sons as the final book, but didn't he also refer to the Brigade as the final book?
He might have even at one point referred to A Mighty Fortress as the final book.
So I think there could be another one for sure.
Maybe more than one.
But yeah, the unanswered questions is...
The fourth part concerns this whole thing with the prosperity zone that the United States government founds just outside of the Northwest Republic.
What they're basically doing is the United States is completely collapsing.
And this is one of the funniest things is the descriptions of how the cities have descended into cannibalism and like...
Minneapolis is ruled by a Somali warlord who goes around raping white women and just murdering people and the whole depictions of like the racial Armageddon it's really funny like the descriptions of it kind of happening across the United States and how all the swipples and all the elites have moved to Burlington, Vermont, which is the whitest part of the country.
It's basically America's completely collapsing.
But it's not only is it collapsing, its control is weakening.
So what that means is that implicit whiteness has come about again.
Not explicit whiteness.
Like, this is a big conflict in the fourth act of Freedom Sons is explicit whiteness versus implicit whiteness.
And the Northwest Republic represents explicit whiteness, whereas...
Montana, East Montana as depicted, which is still in the United States, represents implicit whiteness.
And that's basically the society that exists there.
Like, they're majority, vast majority white, conservative, but they're not part of the Northwest Republic and they're not explicitly a white state.
So it's like, it's a very interesting dynamic at play with the different characters there on both sides of the wall.
Well, it's not really a wall, it's, well, it is kind of, it's more of a freeway, an abandoned freeway that functions as a wall of sorts.
I-15 bisecting Montana.
But basically, the problem is that this part leaves some unanswered questions because it establishes the fact that the Americans want to set up this prosperity zone, which is basically like moving a bunch of economically productive people to the areas bordering the Northwest Republic.
The reason is because the rest of the country is falling apart.
And it's also because they actually want to use the Northwest to protect the remaining productive people in the United States by doing America's dirty work for them in case the mud flow from the cities and from the shittier parts of America flows to the prosperity zone neighboring the Northwest.
They're hoping that in the shadow of the Northwest guns, the Northwest will protect the remaining productive part of America.
So it's very interesting.
There's also a thing going on where they're trying to provoke another war.
So there's multiple agendas going on on the American side, which is an interesting dichotomy.
Like, there's finally genuine conflicting agendas in the United States because of the weakening of the United States.
And some of them, they seem like they almost want reconciliation with the Northwest.
Like, they view this prosperity zone as a way of reconciling the two countries.
But others are trying to make it a way to trigger another war.
And this is a very interesting dilemma.
And the big problem is we never know that...
Results of the dilemma.
Like, basically, the Northwest fighters, they defeat some of these FBI operatives who are trying to trigger a war.
But we never know, did the Prosperity Zone succeed?
What happened?
Did the Prosperity Zone indefinitely succeed?
Did it get overrun by the MUDs from the rest of America?
Did it get annexed by the Northwest Republic?
And if it got annexed, was it peaceful or was it violent?
What happened?
These are very interesting questions, and the book does not answer them.
This is why I'm hoping there will be another book.
Not only because I'm literally addicted to these books at this point, and I just want there to be more, but it's also because, flat out, I want to know what happened there.
I actually sent Covington an email where I asked him about that.
We'll see if he replies.
He seems to be very active with his mailing list, so who knows, maybe.
But yeah, that whole fourth act, I really liked it, too.
But it's just a pity that it didn't fully resolve, especially because it had an epilogue at the end that was ten...
Years later.
So you'd think they could have mentioned in the epilogue what was going to happen with the Prosperity Zone, but they didn't.
They also never addressed the alien thing with the Slytherins.
I'm fine with that never being addressed.
I'd rather it never be addressed.
I'd rather it never be mentioned again because I hate it when stories randomly interject complete game changers.
Kind of like in The Rock when they mention the aliens from Roswell being real in that movie, which is never mentioned again.
But anyway, that whole unaddressed question, that really bugged me.
I hope it means that there's going to be another book, but I'm worried that what it means is that Covington's explanation should be like, oh, it's up to you as the reader to decide for yourself what happened.
I don't like that.
I don't want it to be choose your own adventure.
I kind of want a conclusion, you know?
And I guess I felt like if Freedom's Sons was going to be the last book, that it should have been more conclusive about the Prosperity Zone because it spent that whole plot building it up.
And then we never find out what happens.
Like, we found out what happened after the Seven Weeks War that the Northwest annexed big portions of the rest of the country.
So we want to know, like, what is the result of this prosperity zone?
Does it trigger another war?
Is it peaceful?
Does it end with the Northwest annexing more territory?
Does it end with better relations between the United States and the Northwest?
Like, how bad is the collapse in the United States?
Like, when they talk about...
They basically talk about South Africa-style marauding gangs.
Like, the cities are fortified.
Some of the descriptions are hilarious of these completely decaying cities, like when they're escaping Washington, D.C. earlier in the book.
But it's like, we never really find out what happens, and really wanted to know what would happen.
I really hope there's another book.
Or Covington issues an explanation.
But I almost wish the explanation had been in the book, because I feel like it should have been.
If there's not going to be another book, there should have been at least an explanation as to what happened.
I think there could be another book.
There's more than enough material.
Not just what's going to happen with this prosperity zone conflict, but also they keep alluding to the idea that the Northwest Republic is just a springboard to eventually take back all of North America and also to inspire whites throughout the world to revolt in a similar way.
Now obviously that would be a book on a whole different scale and that would get into Turner Diaries kind of scenarios, which I can understand Covington shying away from that because it's just too fantastical and outlandish and the scope.
Just gets unwieldy.
But even if he doesn't want to write that kind of book, there could be at least a book of the final outcome of the Northwest.
You know, maybe like, I don't know.
Maybe there's not enough material for another book, but at very least he should have resolved this in Freedom's Sons.
Anyway, getting to my issues on a political level.
Okay, I don't really want this review to be about my political opinions.
This is more of a book review, but yeah, I definitely don't agree with the more libertarian stuff, like no drinking age and some of that.
Like, Covington is simultaneously too strict and not strict enough.
Or too radical and not radical enough.
He's too lenient when it comes to all this libertarian stuff, but he's too strict.
I'm going to say too strict when it comes to the racial stuff.
Now, I do believe that we need a white ethnostate, but like, Force 101.
Okay, like, it involves everyone who's ever had sex with someone of another race.
Like, if they can be proven to have dated or had sex with someone of another race, that they must be executed and disappeared for it.
I'm going to say spit it off the bat.
That's something that most white nationalists would never agree with.
Most white nationalists, to be honest, would probably...
A significant portion of the white nationalist community wouldn't survive under Force 101 if that was the standard and also just like eliminating all the gays like that like it's just it goes too far I mean I can understand okay for the purpose of the cleanup when it comes to treasonous elements I understand that when it comes to people who are politically treasonous politically dangerous Some of the more loud liberal voices and stuff like that,
like I can understand the logic behind that.
But I think it goes too far.
And in terms of just eliminating people because of who they've had sex with, like, I kind of understand, oh, I definitely want a society that's white, like, for white people, and doesn't promote race mixing.
Well, it wouldn't promote race mixing because it would be all white, but it doesn't promote homosexuality, that's for damn sure.
It doesn't have all these pride parades and shit like that, and doesn't allow gays to just adopt kids and stuff, but I mean, like, it goes too far.
Like, I felt a bit uneasy with this.
But not as uneasy as I felt with the torture scenes in Distant Thunder, simply because it's less visceral.
It's more described from a detached viewpoint.
Definitely, yeah.
Like, I mean, there's a few things that I disagree with ideologically that go a bit too far.
Or, in the case of libertarian stuff, just are actually, on the opposite extreme, too lenient.
So yeah, I don't agree with everything about how he envisions his white state.
Not by a long means.
Like, I mean, the way I would envision my whitetopia would be pretty different from Covington's in a lot of ways in terms of the specific policies.
But the one thing we do agree on is that it would be white.
It would be for white people.
Oh yeah, I forgot to say.
So I would give Freedom's Sons probably, I guess, 8.5 out of 10?
That would put it at the same level as Hill of the Ravens.
Yeah, that's about right.
Yeah, it's 8.5.
It's very inconsistent, though.
Like, there are parts of the book that are like a 9.5, and there are parts that are like a 6. So it varies quite a bit.
But overall, I think 8.5 is a fair rating for Freedom's Sons.
Alright, comrades, hope you enjoyed this review.
Okay, we're running long here, and so I'm going to close this with a few brief comments on some of the last things that Jason said.
It's a good thing that they have to be brief, because this is the kind of thing that the FBI agents in their cubicles have their ears bent down to the speakers listening for me to say.
Now, I actually gave the rationale for Force 101 in both Freedom's Sons and the Hill of the Ravens, but I'll take another shot at it now.
Jason, don't take this wrong.
You're clearly a millennial who has managed to cop a red pill from somewhere and swallow it.
And for that, I congratulate you, son.
Most of your generation will never get it to the degree that you've gotten it.
But you need to listen now to the voice of our people's past, the real world part, the blood and iron part about human nature.
I'll try to articulate some complicated and terrible truths of history for you as best I can.
I'm not defending my fiction here.
I'm just telling you how the world is and always has been.
We must internalize certain truths that our ancestors understood without question, and which the third world races we are fighting for our very existence understand still, even today.
Our enemies get this.
We don't, and we might all die if we don't wake up our ideas now.
Jason, in human events, there sometimes arise situations...
Where a society becomes so rotten, so diseased and poisoned on its own excrement and vomit, that in order to survive, it must sweat blood.
Certain people, certain races, certain classes, certain groups or factions or movements who have proven beyond question that their continued participation in the political and social and economic process constitutes an existential threat.
to everyone and everything, and will lead to catastrophic devastation and civilizational death, these people must be taken off the board permanently.
Our Northwest Constitution recognizes this fact, wherein two classes of people who have caused infinite trouble for humanity are prohibited from existing.
In the Northwest Republic, there will be no professional lawyers, and there will be no paid professional clergy or ministers of religion.
Northwest society will have to develop workarounds to prevent either of these two classes from ever arising in the homeland.
We don't dare allow them to exist.
In the past 200 years, they've done too much damage and almost killed us all.
There may or may not be a Force 101 in our future, Jason.
I don't know.
Since we don't know exactly how the Northwest Republic will come into being, nobody can say, and I won't speculate.
But I would say this to you.
The forces of darkness that seek our racial destruction have run up a terrible and incalculable bill.
For both practical and moral reasons, when the time comes, we who speak for history and the human spirit must collect as much of that debt as we can.
The cosmic scales have to be balanced.
And on that quasi-mystical note, our time is up for this week's edition of Radio Free Northwest.
This program is brought to you by the Northwest Front, Post Office Box 2188, Bremerton, Washington, 98310, or you can go to the party's website at www.northwestfront.org.
This is Harold Covington, and I'll see you next week.
Until then, Sasha Underban.
Freedom.
This day is called the Feast of Crispian.
He...
That outlives this day and comes safe home will stand at tiptoe when this day is named and rouse him at the name of Crispin.
He that shall see this day and live old age will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors and say, "Tomorrow is Saint Crispin's." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars and say, "These wounds I had on Crispin's day." Old men forget.
Yet all shall be forgot, but he'll remember with advantages what feats he did that day.
Then shall our names, familiar in their mouths as household words, Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
This story shall the good man teach his son, and Crispin Crispian shall ne 'er go by.
From this day to the ending of the world.
But we in it shall be remembered.
We few.
We happy few.
We band of brothers.
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
Be he ne 'er so vile, this day shall gentle his condition.
And gentlemen in England now are dead.
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