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Feb. 2, 2017 - Radio Free Nortwest - H.A. Covington
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Oh, then tell me, Sean O 'Farrell, tell me why you hurry so.
Hush your vocal, 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 bikes 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, rightful, known to you and me.
One more, four for signal, token, whistle up, and arching tune, for your bike up on your shoulder by the rising of the moon.
By the rising of the moon, by the rising of the moon, with your bike up on your shoulder by the rising of the moon.
Out from many a mud wall cabin eyes were watching through the night, many a man they chest was throbbing for the blessed warning light.
The waters passed along the valleys like the man she's lonely crew, and a thousand blades were flashing at the rising of the moon.
Out the rising of the moon, out the rising of the moon, and a thousand blades were flashing at the rising of the moon.
It's February the 2nd, 2017.
I'm Harold Covington, and this is Radio Free Northwest.
Okay, last week I basically took up the whole show with a long rant about this and that, and so this week we're going to be a bit long on listener contributions.
Well, the god Emperor Trump hasn't been in office two full weeks yet, and already he's running headlong into the entrenched might of the existing power structure.
In the form of some woman judge in New York who ordered him not to implement a temporary, let me repeat that temporary ban on Muslim immigration, from seven of the most obnoxious specific countries, until the Customs and Immigration people can figure out some way to do in-depth background checks on the incoming stream of wogs pouring into the country through every American airport, and of course across the border too.
And by the way, we may need a northern border wall with Canada as well, since a lot of the third worlders, especially Muslims, are now sneaking down from the north.
Now, it may not be possible to establish any kind of so-called extreme vetting for these massive numbers of people.
I'm not sure how you could vet an illiterate goat herder from Yemen, since most third world nations barely have any paper records keeping it all.
Never mind social security numbers and all the other convenient computerized handles through which Zogg keeps track of us.
Now, some of you may recall some remarks I've made on this subject in the past.
The courts have always been the primary weapon and the last resort of the liberal left in this country.
Anytime they can't get what they want from the legislature or from the executive branch of government, or they want to thwart something that white people want to do, The liberals get their smart Jewish lawyers from the ACLU or the left-wing Soros think tanks to go running to a sympathetic Democratic judge as fast as their bandy little legs can carry them and get an injunction.
I'm surprised they didn't do this on November the 9th.
It's not as if they haven't overturned whole elections before.
I have to admit that in the rush to get going, this particular executive order on Trump's part doesn't seem to have been handled too well, and it comes off as a bit half-baked, vague, and not too well thought out, which seems to be Trump's style.
Whoever drafted the order was just asking for a judge to rule against them when they excluded wogs already in the possession of legal green cards from re-entering the country at JFK and other airports, which was the crux of the judge's ruling.
Not that banning them all, green card or not, isn't a damn good idea, but I don't think Trump fully understands yet that in his position he needs to master the art of working the system rather than just giving everybody the finger.
Now, I know that's what we love about him, but now he's in a place where he has the chance actually to do some good for us all.
He needs to get his shit together and master the nuts and bolts of his new job.
You know the Mr. Garrison as President caricature on South Park?
I think there's little truth to that.
That having been said, I have to admit that Trump is at least trying to keep his promises.
And how long has it been since any president did that?
He has ordered the construction on the border wall to begin in a few months, although I imagine the liberal lawyers will fight that in the courts every step of the way as well.
In one of his smartest moves yet, Trump has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to publish weekly reports of the number of crimes committed by illegal aliens in this country, which will be a major public relations tool.
I find it ironic that the most sinister of all the secret police agencies is now being compelled to do something that actually benefits white Americans.
On the downside, Trump is apparently moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which is a purely symbolic gesture that the Jews have been agitating for ever since they seized the city in 1967.
Successive American presidents have always refused to do so as part of their official policy of keeping up appearances and giving them some credible claim not to be in Israel's pocket.
Hey, we're giving these killer kikes $3 billion a year in cash and God knows how much in free weaponry, but we won't move our embassy, so we're really impartial, that kind of thing.
Trump appears to have given up all pretense of not being Israel's bitch.
Big surprise.
Now, we need to remember that for the first time in history, if I'm not mistaken, there will be open...
Practicing Jews living in the White House as family members.
Yeah, I know some of our conspiracy freaks always yammered that Franklin Roosevelt was a Murano, but no, I'm afraid not.
We are ever reluctant to admit just how much of our difficulty is caused by those of our own race who sell us down the river for money and power.
Look at Churchill and LBJ and Jaguar's Bush, but I digress.
I know Trump's 100-day honeymoon isn't over yet, and it looks like for some time I'll probably be opening these shows with some kind of comment on what he's doing and what the left loons are doing to try and overthrow him, so I'll keep it brief.
It's not like there's going to be any shortage of Trump news in the coming months.
I think we will eventually be forced to confront the central issue of his character, which I spoke of before the election.
The essential mystery or litmus test when Donald Trump is confronted with a direct attempt to deprive him of what he has legitimately won by the old power structure.
And he inevitably will be.
Now, when that time comes, will he have the balls to do the old Bonnie Prince Charlie number and raise his standards, so to speak?
For example, will Donald Trump have the balls to form a real citizen's militia?
A semi-official body reporting only to him something along the lines of Edward Carson's 1912 Ulster Volunteer Force.
I'm not talking about an Ammon Bundy-type clown show.
I'm talking about an actual, organized, uniformed, armed and disciplined militia led by genuine military officers, either retired or on detached duty, with at least some access to government money, stores and armories.
I can foresee the development of something in this country similar to the old German Freikorps during the early Weimar period back in the 1920s.
When we see that development, Trump preparing to deprive the old power structure of its credible monopoly of force, then we'll know he's really serious.
Until then, a couple of reminders, in all fairness.
First off, the two occupants of the office before him were so horrific that Jack the Ripper and the White House would be an improvement.
Secondly, always remember what Trump saved us from.
I will say it again, this country would not have survived eight years of Hillary Clinton, not in any recognizable form.
I also say again that it is necessary, not just for Trump to keep his promise, But also necessary for the safety and well-being of the country that Hillary Rodham Clinton must be arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned for her crimes against humanity.
Hell, and that old Ridge-running Bush-shaped Bill Clinton needs to be right next to her side, sitting in the next cell.
Trump beat the beast and gave us a short, final breather in which to get our act together.
Let's make use of it.
Good evening, comrades.
Tonight I'm going to be discussing Eurasian Mission.
This is by Alex Dugan.
Eurasianism is essentially a rejection of Western liberal modernist hegemony, developed as a thoughtful alternative to either Westernization or preservation of the late Soviet state.
I would also note, as I...
Read this treatise that this book, which is Russian, does contain an unspoken yet unmistakable quality of neo-Russian expansionism.
Even so, the concepts in this book are relevant and in need of our immediate attention.
The goal of the Eurasian movement is to influence education, public opinion, economy, and culture.
And thus recalls the leftist long march through various institutions.
Now, apparently a hotbed of this thought is stemming from a university in Kazakhstan.
Now, the goal of Eurasianism is to preserve traditionalist culture and identity against globalist oligarchy.
This treatise spends a good deal of time discussing the question of global zones.
So in this Eurasianist New World Order, the world would be divided into sections, much like the segments of an orange.
And these would be autonomous.
But not independent living spaces that would be organized in continental zones with a large degree of domestic self-governance.
These zones would be more geographical than racial, and thus it would seem to me to make odd and difficult pairings.
The idea of breaking the world up into these types of segments has been around since the 1950s.
I talked about this, I think it was a couple of years ago, when I discussed a book that was in some ways similar to this, but was written in a more national socialist framework, although it was, of course, written in the 50s, and this was a post-war book.
In this Eurasianist world order, The United States is limited to its own zone, whereas the Latino cultural zones are more integrated.
Now, according to this author, Europe needs to become more traditionalist and more independent from Americanism, and it needs to get on better with North Africa.
Who would mediate between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa?
Now, Africa needs to erase its colonial borders and become more of an independent continent.
Japan ought to dominate the Pacific.
I suppose it is an unspoken assumption in this book that the Russians would essentially be dominant in Eurasia.
In this world order, federal agencies would control strategic elements such as transportation, energy, and strategically relevant finance.
Now, it's noted in this book that historical modernity has only produced essentially two ideologies, or possibly three, depending on how you want to look at it, that really oppose the individual focus of liberalism.
Those would be fascism and or national socialism, and also communism.
Liberalism is frequently presented As the only alternative thought process, or the only possible modern thought process, to the point that most individuals these days really know no other mode of thought, and thus are stilted in their individual growth.
Americans in particular are a special case.
Alex Dugan remarks that America is really the only country that was born liberal.
As a result of this, Americans lack a deep sense of identity.
Mercifully, this author, this intellectual, recommends three possible methods for Americans to remedy this.
First of all, Americans Can reclaim their ethnicity.
And in this book, the author is primarily discussing European Americans.
They can reacquire the history of their being.
And to this end, Dugan suggests a study of Heidinger.
Second of all, Americans who feel very unconnected to their roots can develop a personal sense of religion.
And thus, as Dugan puts it, can be rooted to the sky.
To me, this argument seems a bit weaker than the first argument.
The third way that Americans can remedy their lack of identity is they can experience a death-of-all theory.
They can realize themselves to be outside of the continuum and reflect upon the personal mortality.
In general, all people tend to remain liberals because they are told that things would be far worse if they did not embrace liberal ideology.
Therefore, they believe they have freely adopted this view.
In the fight against this global oligarchy, no restrictions should be made on ideology.
Because this war is so just and so imperative and so worthy of respect.
Dugan writes of a global revolutionary alliance that would be based on the rejection of the status quo, because the continuance of the status quo is catastrophic.
Now, this global alliance, by necessity, is very loose.
It doesn't have any identifiable strategy or fixed command.
It has to be everywhere and nowhere, much like the Viet Cong was, I suppose.
It needs to be unpredictable.
This author states that if any country acts against the U.S., the NATO, and the Global West, and world liberal finance, That state should be considered within the Global Revolutionary Alliance and should be assisted in every possible way and in all circumstances without regard to anything else.
However, these states should not criticize any anti-American regime.
This clearly raises interesting questions with regard to the current regime and states.
I know that President Trump opposes NATO, but he also, and I would think quite unsurprisingly, is very much a pro-nationalist American.
Now, Diffin contemplates the question of white nationalism.
Now, Eurasianism has found allies in Javik, the Hungarian party that I reported on back in the fall.
And it's also found allies in both Golden Dawn and another Greek nationalist group, which appears to be named Supiza, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.
Dugan is very excited about the far-right parties in Europe potentially gaining power.
Even so, as you might imagine, Dugan has questions as well.
Now, on the plus side of white nationalism, Dugan is quite happy about how white nationalists deny modernity, global oligarchy, and liberal capitalism.
On the other hand, he criticizes white nationalists for being tolerant of immigrants and other identities.
So, nationalists must decide if they are in the modern or traditionalist camp.
Now, those called to a traditionalist vocation must ask themselves how they came upon their vocation as traditionalists.
Dugan really wants to see left-wing identitarians who oppose modernity.
And claim that liberals fear religious traditionalists who are focused on social justice.
The use of terms like "social justice" in this book It makes me think that Dugan has something of a post-Marxist quality in his thought.
Indeed, he frequently blames whites for liberalism in this book, and he also makes the point that nations as we understand them in modern times were created as tools of capitalism.
Now, when asked about religion, Dugin says that he encourages Russians to be orthodox and prefers people adhere to local traditions.
In general, Dugin opposes fanaticism in religion, but he does not presume to tell Europeans what to practice.
One of the contradictions that is brought up in this book is that Dugan is a very strong traditionalist.
Now this traditionalism causes him to have certain sympathies with Islamists.
However, Islamists have a tendency to be universalist in their faiths, and indeed often are seeking a caliphate which would perhaps be global.
This is potentially a strong contradiction, but Dugan claims that the universalism of Muslims is not the same as the universalism of global oligarchy.
Now, at the time that this treatise or compilation, really, of writings and sayings by this intellectual Dugan was written or put together, Dugan was favoring Putin.
Now, Dugan's opinion of Putin has waxed and waned over the years, but at least the time of this book was favorable.
Many who are claiming that this recent election was the result of influence by Russia, and this does seem very credible.
Now, the view put forward in this treatise is that Eurasianism is the only alternative to globalism, and if so, it is clearly worth studying.
It's also interesting to note that Harold himself has said that if the Northwest were to become independent, it will probably almost simultaneously come into the influence of Big Bear.
Although, of course, according to this compilation, it would still be within the American zone.
So again, I've been discussing the book Eurasian Mission.
It's published by Arctos Publishing, and it's essentially a compilation of various statements by Alex Dugan.
Now, while some aspects of this book are rather hippy-dippy, other aspects are more promising, especially its fascinating critique of American society.
So have a good evening and hail victory, comrades.
You're welcome.
In my long rant and rave of last week, I mentioned that We do have a lot of people who are coming to the Northwest, but part of you guys' problem with the NF is that you don't get to see their faces for fairly obvious reasons, but at times you do get to hear their voices.
This is Comrade Bill from Spokane.
Hey, this is Bill coming at you from just outside of Spokane.
A lot of people are talking about Trump, well-known people in the movement, Trump has made a big difference.
David Duke's calling it a sea change.
Richard Spencer is saying that Trump is the first iteration of...
I guess he would call it a white nationalist.
I wouldn't call Trump a white nationalist.
He has some moderate nationalist views.
All of them seemingly non-racial.
Though, when you look at the way he does things implicitly, he seems to favor us.
Or at least he's not bitch-slapping us.
So, that's positive.
One thing that I've seen around the internet is younger men, and younger women too, like 20-ish in years of age, are saying things like white identity is something we need to be thinking about.
I saw a 20-year-old kid in a chat forum say he was a fascist.
And it kind of makes sense in a way because the establishment is the left.
I mean, everything we get from the news, from schooling, From Hollywood is inherently left.
It's overtly left.
Even the subliminal stuff is left-wing too.
So the only way to be an outsider, the only way to counter the culture, like a lot of young people want to do, is to be a right-wing white nationalist.
So that's good.
I think it's becoming cool to be a fascist, to be a white nationalist.
Personally, I'm not a fascist.
I do believe in the market, but I'm definitely a white nationalist.
In terms of how free an economy the Northwest American Republic is going to have, I guess we'll have to hash that out after we win.
But personally, I'll be pushing for more freedom on the economic side as opposed to less.
Another thing that might help us out a little bit is with Trump in there and with Jeff Beauregard Sessions as his Attorney General, as opposed to Loretta Lynch or Eric Holder, both racist nigs, maybe white people won't be so afraid to step out from behind wherever they're at and contact us, you know, meet up with us and maybe consider moving because it's just a more hospitable political climate.
And if that's their logic, I can't fault that.
It's a small step forward type of a process.
I feel like Britain's moved in our direction in terms of more of an identity for whites and more nationalistic views.
Why else would they have voted for Brexit?
That was a great upset.
Trump was definitely the greatest upset in terms of politics and modern history.
And maybe Marine Le Pen will win in France.
That would be great.
And I think it shows that the old Overton window has maybe shifted just a little bit in our direction.
We still have a lot of work to do, but I think we've got some momentum here.
There's certainly a mood around the world of nationalism when it comes to white people.
We're starting to figure out that the spics are nationalistic as hell in terms of their race.
The knobs?
Ditto in terms of race.
And we need to start being more nationalistic in terms of our race because, like Harold says, our race is our nation.
And I think people are slowly but surely white people.
They're starting to wake up to that fact.
I spend a lot of time on YouTube.
I like watching the videos and whatnot.
It's just a good alternative to TV that's just loaded with leftist Jewed Up propaganda.
So I watch a lot of YouTube videos, and man, there's a lot of good white nationalist, white identity YouTube channels on there.
Red Ice TV is like turning into CNN or something.
And the MPI's got a lot of good videos.
I do like Richard Spencer.
He's a smart guy.
He talks about things in ways that I haven't heard them before from other people, which I appreciate.
And supposedly, he maybe has some questions about his background.
I don't know.
But that could just be some kind of counterattack in terms of leftist propaganda.
But anyways, there are a lot of good channels out there now.
There's a lot of good stuff, period.
The older stuff.
Dr. Kevin MacDonald, he's one.
He's a retired PhD in psychology, former professor.
He gets into in-depth nationalist issues and ideas.
One podcast, it wasn't a podcast, it's just a video on YouTube.
But it's a talk.
I assume it's a talk from a speech that he did at a conference somewhere.
And he talks about the origins of the white man, and it's good.
And maybe it'd be some good ammunition for you, because you got all these left-wing assholes out there telling white people that they don't actually exist.
William Pierce's, some of his stuff is on there.
He's good.
David Duke is another one.
He's got a lot of very good intellectual type of content.
And of course, George Lincoln Rockwell stuff.
You think about those people, and those people, especially guys like David Duke, are just vilified.
I mean, David Duke is pretty much a household name, and it's a household name that's hated.
But guys like David Duke and William Pierce and George Lincoln Rockwell, those are names that are hated, that we're trained to hate and to vilify.
But there may come a day in the future where those people are looked upon very favorably in a historical sense and how they went against the grain and despite the fact that they were spit upon and just universally despised by the establishment, they turned out to be correct.
And I think there's a very good chance that's going to happen.
And as this country fills up with non-whites and it gets darker and darker and the dissent is undeniable and it's obvious, the decline of America, These people will be increasingly viewed as correct.
So keep that in mind, folks.
If we do this, and we do it right, and we do it in a noble fashion and in a moral fashion, we could be viewed as heroes in history.
Now, what's likely to happen to you on a personal level is you'll toil in obscurity.
You'll die, and you won't be remembered.
And that's okay.
To me, that's okay.
Because I feel like I'm fighting for what's right.
We're trying to do the right thing here by our people.
And for ourselves.
Personally, I am an individualist, but there are things more important.
There are bigger movements in history, bigger tectonic shifts going on that, compared to you, they're just insignificant.
And I believe that there are some things worth dying for.
Not that I plan on dying anytime soon or for a cause.
There are things out there worth taking one for the team for.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, though I am an individualist, I do believe in a higher calling.
And I think if more of us focused on that, then it could set your mind at ease for all kinds of different troubles you might have.
I mean, hell, my life is great.
The way it is right now, I love it.
It's perfect.
Things could always be better.
If they just stay at this level now, I'll be fine.
So I definitely don't want to screw anything up, wind up in prison or something else bad happening.
But there is that higher calling, so I guess I'm willing to take that risk.
One other thing I wanted to mention, Harold said this before, and I think it's appropriate to mention it here.
These guys like Richard Spencer and the NPI and RightStuff.biz, turns out being run by a Jew and all this other stuff.
These guys are helping to awaken whites to what's going on, to how we're being replaced, how we're being bred out of the country, our own damn country.
And hopefully these people, at least a good percentage of them, will filter on over to us eventually.
Because we're the only ones with a real serious plan to actually fix the situation.
Because as others have said, there's already more non-white babies being born than white babies in America.
So the liberals, the leftists, the Marxists, they've already got it locked if they just maintain the status quo.
So more radical measures are going to have to be taken.
I mean, we're pretty much the baddest of the bad in terms of white nationalist politics.
I mean, we're on the right edge of the right in terms of what we're trying to do, what we're talking about doing.
You know, the thing that dare not speak its name.
So, I guess we'll have to see how it plays out.
Future will tell.
And that's it.
Talk to you later, fellow white nationalists.
Okay, I know by now we have all pretty much had enough of the 2016 election.
I know I have.
That was a pretty intense year.
And we're getting so much drama just in the first two weeks of President Trump's administration that looks like 2017 is going to be almost as wild.
But...
A friend of mine sent this to me.
It is a campaign ad for the Trump campaign from the 2016 election, and I have to admit, this is just cute.
Some of you may remember these videos that all the Hollywood movie stars were doing to try and get the people, first off, to vote for Hillary, secondly, to try and stage a kind of a coup d 'etat in the Electoral College by getting what's known as Hamilton electors, I don't know how they got that name, or faithless electors to refuse to follow their state's vote totals, so forth and so on.
This is a takeoff on that, and like I said, I just find this droll.
Again, it shows that our side is finally starting to catch up on the media front.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 8th.
I know this because some famous actors told me.
Thanks, famous actors.
I had no idea.
No idea.
I was just thinking sometime in December, maybe January.
Wait.
It's this year.
I thought it was over.
It turns out this election is important.
Really important.
Really important.
Really, really important.
Because I thought it was, you know, no big deal.
Again, thanks, famous actors, because it's times like these when we realize just how lucky we are to have famous Hollywood actors to guide us.
To guide us.
They know stuff we just don't know.
Stuff we can't know.
Because we're not famous actors.
And they're not just acting smart.
They are smarter.
They are smarter.
And thank goodness they made it clear that we must vote for Hillary.
I could have made a terrible mistake without their help.
I thought Clinton deleting all those emails was dishonest and corrupt.
And put our national security at risk.
But now we know it was all just an accident.
Just an accident.
It was just an accident.
An accident that could happen to any of us.
I mean, who among us couldn't accidentally hit the delete button?
30,000 times.
30,000 times?
30,000 times.
I'm actually quite embarrassed.
I was going to vote for Trump before checking with, well, Scarlett and...
Robert or...
That, well, that little dude who was in something.
I mean, I almost voted for Donald Trump just because he knows how to turn things around.
Wants to secure our borders.
Protect our religious freedoms.
Wipe ISIS off the face of the earth.
Off the face of the earth.
Let American companies compete on an even playing field.
And let us keep more of our hard-earned money.
But now I know, thinking that way was just plain...
Was just plain...
Deplorable.
Deplorable.
Let's be honest.
When a bunch of famous actors take time out of their busy day...
To have their driver take them to the studio so they can look right into the camera...
And share their collective wisdom and insights, well...
You just have to pay attention.
I just wish they would offer their advice more often.
Like...
Where to invest my money.
How to raise my kids.
Whether I should take that job in Cincinnati.
What that lump is on my elbow.
Well, they certainly were right about one thing.
Your vote really does matter.
Really does matter.
Your vote does matter.
So on November 8th, please join us in sending a loud and clear message to each and every one of those Hollywood Einsteins.
Thanks!
Thank you.
Thanks.
For nothing.
Thanks.
For nothing.
You know, I'm not just the author of the five Northwest novels.
I'm also the author of 15 or so other books, including the two Matt Redman novels, which are kind of prequels to the Northwest series and which do have some worthwhile stuff in them, if I do say so myself.
So here's my young fan Jason from Canada to talk about those.
So I just finished reading Harold Covington's novels Fire and Rain and Slow Coming Dark.
Now, these novels were written before the Northwest novels were.
These books were actually meant to be published by a mainstream publisher, at least Fire and Rain was.
And, of course, what happened was when Harold tried to get this book published, his agent came back to him and said, come on, Harold, don't be ridiculous.
These books are basically, to the Northwest novels, what The Hobbit is to Lord of the Rings.
They're a predecessor on a smaller scale that hints at the greatness to come, but doesn't quite deliver it, but nevertheless delivers a very entertaining read.
Now, these books are meant for a mainstream audience more so than the Northwest books are.
You could say, in a manner of speaking, the Northwest books are alt-right, and these two books are alt-light.
They have right-wing themes, they have racial undercurrents, and there's quite a bit of talk of liberals ruining America and things of that nature, but the books aren't explicitly white nationalists.
Now, the second book...
Slow Coming Dark does contain a repeated line about brave white men and how the hero, Matt Redmond, is part of a dying breed because he's one of them.
But this line is about as racialist as the books get.
There's no suggestion about, you know, we need to found a white ethnostate or that the problem is multiracialism itself.
It hints at that, but it doesn't quite go that far.
Now, one thing you can tell in these books is that they were written by Harold Covington.
They contain a lot of the same expressions that the Northwest books contain, such as Beat Feet, Bugger Boys, Unass, Les Ces Puls Grande, etc.
These books are cut from the same cloth.
They're not as explicitly racialist, but they still have similar themes and a similar writing style.
So Fire and Rain is basically a murder mystery novel in which...
Protagonist Matt Redmond tries to uncover the secrets behind the unsolved murder case from 26 years ago of his ex-girlfriend along with her best friend.
And as it turns out, this murder ends up being linked to the anti-Vietnam War movement and the United States Democratic Party establishment.
Now, these books actually are officially canonical with the Northwest Front books.
They're referenced in the Northwest novels.
The characters of Matt, Heather, Tori, Tony Visconti, Bill Vitale, they're all referenced throughout the Northwest novels, especially in Hill of the Ravens.
They're given extensive focus in Hill of the Ravens, but still are mentioned sporadically throughout the other four books.
So, the fact that these books are canonical has some very interesting implications, because there are supernatural elements in Fire and Rain.
There's actually a ghost, the ghost of Mary Jane and Jeannie, the ghost of these two girls.
So, what this means is that the supernatural canonically exists within the Northwest novels.
Which lends credence to Harold's repeated refrain that the reason why the NVA succeeded is because God noticed that the white man had finally awoken from his slumber.
Da 'ol Massa is back, as Red Morehouse would put it.
And that God is on the side of those who choose to help themselves.
When the white man emerges from his slumber and decides to do something for himself, God will be behind him.
So the fact that the supernatural canonically exists in this series makes that whole argument, which is repeated throughout the Northwest books, it makes it all the more powerful, you know?
Because it's not an atheist universe that these books exist in.
It's a universe where the supernatural actually does exist.
Now, I've noticed a lot of little Easter eggs.
Because after finishing Slow Coming Dark today, I actually went back to the Northwest books and I looked for all the parts that referenced the Matt Redman novels.
So one thing that's interesting is that the old man, which is basically, you know, the guy who founded the Northwest Republic, who is basically a stand-in for Harold himself.
In Hill of the Ravens, it mentions that him and Matt threw milk cartons and rocks at Kent State protesters in high school.
Fire and Rain actually has this mentioned briefly.
Matt and some of his fellow country boys throwing rocks and milk cartons at the Kent State liberal protesters.
So it's funny how the old man actually pops up in Fire and Rain, albeit implicitly, like he's not specifically mentioned.
I just find these little details to be quite interesting.
Another example of that is that there's an echoing motif in Fire and Rain and Hill of the Ravens where in Fire and Rain, Matt Redmond gives a cigar to an old man, a dying old man, in exchange for information.
And in Hill of the Ravens, Don Redmond, Matt Redmond's nephew, ends up doing the exact same thing with the old man, the stand-in for Harold Covington himself.
So, you know, as George Lucas would say, it's like poetry.
It rhymes.
So that's a neat little callback that I caught there.
Very good.
I like it when an author calls back to his previous works in ways like that.
It's a rewarding little endorphin rush for the reader.
Now, if I had to describe the main difference between the two books, Fire and Rain is more emotional and personal, whereas Slow Coming Dark is more thrilling and balls to the wall.
In terms of political content, Fire and Rain is a book that normies could read, and it wouldn't offend them enough that they'd put it down.
Now, while the Northwest books are made primarily for a white nationalist audience, these two Matt Redman books would also appeal to those who haven't fully taken the red pill on race.
These books would appeal to quite a lot of the alt-light types, libertarians, ANCAPs, and other various types of right-wingers who aren't quite white nationalists.
The books would also appeal to white nationalists and fans of the Northwest books, but that obviously goes without saying.
Now, there's actually one line of dialogue by Matt Redmond in Fire and Rain that sort of obliquely suggests the idea of the Northwest Republic or some sort of white revolution, albeit cryptic.
This passage even alludes to the need for a complete violent overthrow of the system in the United States, foreshadowing the Northwest Republic.
Basically, in this passage, Matt is talking to...
Tori, who comes to be his adoptive daughter.
And Matt says, I think people over at that goddamn place on Homestead Road are teaching you politically motivated lies and they ought to be dragged out of those goddamn classrooms and shot.
And then Tori says, I know it's going to come to that someday, what you said.
I hear all this hate in the election every day on the TV and the newspapers.
Eventually they're going to settle it like they do in Yugoslavia and the Middle East with guns and cannons and tanks and stuff.
Probably by the time I'm you and mom's age.
Yes, I know, said Matt with a sigh.
And oh God, it's such a tragedy.
It didn't have to happen this way in this country.
Now this exchange is especially prophetic because it actually does end up happening when Tori is her parents' age, if you go by the chronology in the books.
So you have to wonder, when Covington wrote this, did he have in the back of his mind, way back in 96, the idea of the Northwest novels and the Northwest Revolution?
Now, Fire and Rain doesn't immediately start out as a politically incorrect book, so there's a bit of bait and switch going on here.
So what Covington does is he lures the casual reader into the story by hooking them on the plot, and then only once they're immersed enough that they can't turn back does he start laying on the political themes.
But he does it in a subtle enough way that the normie reader will not feel inclined to simply put the book down because they'll already be invested enough that they want to find out the ending, and the political themes aren't so heavy and in-your-face that they'll feel put off.
Now, since Matt Redmond is uncovering the details about the murder of his girlfriend from many years ago, this book really touches on the idea of whether love is something that can be replaced, because he still feels like he loves her, Mary Jane, his girlfriend from many years ago who was brutally taken away from him.
But on the other hand, there's also an ongoing romantic plot between Matt and Heather, who later becomes his wife in the second book.
So it really focuses on the idea of whether love is transferable, whether you can love another person after having loved in the past, and if that means the love that you had in the past is still legitimate and still exists even then.
Whether you can simultaneously love two people at once.
Okay, this is a pretty long clip, so I figure I better jump in here with the second music break.
Now, to keep it somewhat on topic, in Fire and Rain, I several times quoted as part of Matt's dialogue and plot development a poem by the Scottish National Poet Laureate, Robert Burns, entitled My Love is Like a Red Red Rose.
Now, just for the record, or any who might be curious, yes, there was a real girl on whom the character of Mary Jane Mears is based.
She died, and since it's not germane to anything today and she may still have family around, I won't mention her name.
I remember and that's enough.
This is Andy Stewart Oh,
my love is like a red, red rose that's newly sprung in June.
Oh, my love is like the melody that's sweetly sung in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, so deep in love am I. And I will love thee still, my dear, till the sea's gone dry.
Till the sea's gone dry, my love, and the rocks melt away the sun.
And I will love thee still, my dear.
While the sands of life shall run And fare thee will my only love And fare thee will a while And I will come again,
my love Though it were ten thousand miles We're
newly sprung in June Oh, my I need the melody that sweetly played in tune As fair as though my boy loves So deep in love am I And I will not be still
Till other seas gone dry Till other seas gone dry, my dear Till other seas gone dry And I will not be still, my dear Till other seas gone dry Bye.
you you you you you
Now, Covington mentioned in one of his podcasts that in Fire and Rain he was trying to throw in a little bit of PC nonsense in order to get his book past the censors.
Evidently it failed.
But you can see this in the book, and Slow Coming Dark doesn't have any of that.
It's not an overtly racialist book, but it's also a completely politically incorrect book, and there's no attempts whatsoever at pandering to liberals.
The good thing about these books is that they are accessible to an audience that the Northwest books would not be accessible to.
They are a gateway drug to the Northwest books.
If the Northwest books are acid, these books are weed, okay?
So they're the gateway drug.
These are the books that you would recommend to your normie or semi-normie friends, your mainstream conservative friends, your libertarian friends, your alt-light friends.
Your paleocon, NCAP, whatever the fuck, friends.
The kinds of people who could not stomach the Northwest books for whatever reason.
But could indeed stomach a mystery novel and an adventure thriller with right-wing themes.
There's nothing overtly Nazi about these books.
There's nothing overtly white supremist about these books.
They're just, they're right-wing.
They're very much against the Clintons.
They're against the liberal establishment of the United States.
They're against the hippie movement.
And they say a lot of things that would make liberals really triggered and butthurt and would make them piss their pants and start crying and start demanding to have a safe space and have some Play-Doh to play with so they can make a little heart out of Play-Doh to replace their own heart, which Covington crushed and tore to pieces with his mean, evil words.
This book would definitely trigger the shit out of liberals.
But for a regular conservative or a semi-edgy person, these books would be absolutely great.
Because not everyone is fully willing to take the plunge into the Northwest books.
Like, I have some friends who I tried to get reading the Northwest books, but they kind of couldn't stomach it.
They felt it was a bit too extreme.
Like, my one friend took exception to the fact that they were targeting non-white civilians.
Some people can't stomach this sort of thing.
So for those kinds of people, these two...
The books are perfect, because they have the same narrative about how Matt Redman, this Indiana Jones, fedora-wearing, old-timey, conservative white man, is railing against the forces of liberal elitism.
He's basically a one-man army, although he has others in his army, too, at certain points.
But there's this constant undercurrent of political themes.
So the books are not apolitical.
They're definitely political books.
But they're not overtly white nationalist books.
They're not overtly racialist, national socialist, or fascist.
They're just...
They are conservative, right-wing, anti-establishment books.
I guess they're not conservative, because the term conservative really means, like, George W. and guac-bull merchant Jeb.
So conservative is not the right word for these books, but they're right-wing, okay?
They're not straight-up white nationalist.
Now, the plot of Slow Coming Dark is basically that Matt Redmond and his wife Heather get wrapped up in another case involving the murder of a former mafia guy who he knew from being a police detective.
And this case ends up unraveling a massive conspiracy involving the Clintons trying to hunt down and assassinate a woman who Bill and Hillary Clinton had raped.
And who had given birth to Bill Clinton's bastard son.
And the plot of the book revolves around Matt and Heather as well as a few mafiosos and Heather's daughter Tori all banding together to protect this woman and her infant son from the clutches of Hillary and Bill and their federal government forces.
And by the end of the book, it ends up becoming a straight-up bloodbath, very reminiscent of the Northwest novels, where they're all engaging in large-scale firefights with the federal government and killing countless numbers of feds.
So it gets pretty edgy by the end, but it's still not an overtly white nationalist work.
So as long as there's somebody who can take violent content, you shouldn't have a problem with this book.
Like, this book...
If you can handle violence, then it's fine.
So, I mean, as I said, these books, they're not off-putting to regular people, unless, like, they're shitlibs.
But I mean, like, to normal conservatives, they won't be off-putting for their political themes.
The only concern, really, is some of the violence.
Okay, so Slow Coming Dark gets more overtly racialist than Fire and Rain because it has this repeated mantra about the dying breed of brave white man and how Matt Redmond is one of the few remaining examples, as are the two main mafiosos in the story who help him out, Tony and Visconti.
So the Mafia, it's funny, because a theme of this book is that you kind of need bad guys to go after worse bad guys, which is why the Mafia get involved.
And in many ways, the NVA operates a lot like the Mafia in the Northwest novels, so the usage of the Mafia in Still Coming Dark is in many ways a premonition of how the NVA will operate.
And I help but wonder if Held got a lot of his ideas for the NVA from Mafia movies and stuff like that.
There's definitely a foreshadowing there with how the Mafia operates and their attitudes and their tactics.
And he seems to actually have a lot of respect for the Mafia because he says Tony and Visconti are part of the dying breed.
It's interesting because...
Tony is mentioned again in Hill of the Ravens as being wiped out by the American government, which causes Tory, who married him, to want revenge.
But it's never established if Tony actually was part of the NVA.
I kind of like to think that he was, because it would have been really cool for him to have been part of the NVA, considering how he fought against the feds at the end of Slow Coming Dark.
And the way that action scene was staged where Tony fights against the feds, it's very reminiscent of the battle scenes in the Northwest books with the NVA.
So it feels like a foreshadowing of it, of things to come, of greater heroics to come.
And it almost feels like I would like Tony to have joined the NVA.
So I'm going to say that was the implication there, that that's why they killed him, because he was part of the NVA.
For a casual reader, though, Fire and Rain and Slow Coming Dark are both very easily digestible.
They're quite mainstream accessible, at least especially compared to the Northwest books, but objectively speaking, too.
Like, I could see, if you made it a bit more politically correct, I could see Fire and Rain being the plot for a mainstream movie.
The scene where Matt and Visconti go after Hillary Clinton herself, and where Visconti ends up cutting off her ear, that scene feels like classic NVA.
That feels like something straight out of the Northwest books.
So definitely, if you're a fan of the Northwest books, you should check out these two, especially Slow Coming Dark.
Slow Coming Dark really does feel like a prequel to the Northwest novels.
I would say Fire and Rain is more of a slow-burning, character-focused story, a bit more small-scale.
It's very focused on the character of Matt Redmond.
Slow Coming Dark is more fast-paced, it's more of a thriller, and it's more reminiscent of the Northwest novels in terms of its pacing and tone and content.
And actually, for a casual reader, Fire and Rain might actually be the better book, because I think Fire and Rain seems like a very accessible book to casual readers, like to the kind of people who like pulpy murder mysteries and stuff like that.
Books like Gone Girl or what have you.
It would be a very accessible read to even people who aren't particularly political or right-wing.
So it would be a great way to slip a few red pills in there to recommend Fire and Rain to one of your normie friends.
Just subversively slip those political messages in there wrapped up in the veneer of what seems to be a fairly mainstream-friendly murder mystery story.
Now, Slow Coming Dark is a bit more of an overtly political book.
It might turn off liberals because the politics in the book are hot and heavy and they start right away.
This book would not be palatable to a liberal, but it would be palatable to a conservative.
These books deal with a lot of the same themes and dilemmas and motifs that the Northwest novels deal with, and one of them is the question of whether women should serve in combat situations.
This is actually addressed by Tony when he says, it ain't a question of whether they can, it's a question of whether they should.
It's bad enough that men do this kind of thing.
If women ever start doing it, then there ain't much hope for the human race.
Women are supposed to give life, not take it.
It's interesting because Covington also has a number of his sympathetically portrayed male characters make similar statements in the Northwest novels, even though at the end of the day, at Freedom's Sons, he has Red Morehouse speak out and say, yes, of course women should be allowed to serve in the military.
But I feel like Covington himself is a tad conflicted on the subject because he does give a voice, a sympathetic voice, to a number of men who disagree on this issue.
So I feel like he can see both sides of the argument and he respects both sides of the argument because he has positively portrayed characters making these statements repeatedly.
So there's other recurrent themes that are also in the Northwest book, such as the overall rot of leftism and how it's destroying America.
The creeping tide of political correctness and affirmative action, things of that nature.
They all pop up.
He doesn't really touch the JQ directly, but he does have shitty, evil, nasty Jewish characters in both books.
And there's one point when Andrea basically calls Matt a stupid goy, I think.
Well, let me find it.
She says, do you understand that, Matt?
Any chance you and Jesse Helms and all you other dumb goyim can get the message when she's talking about basically how the left have won?
So, that's a pretty big dog whistle to the JQ.
But even still, if you're reading the book and you're not wise to the JQ, you could still read that line and think like, oh, well, she's Jewish, but she's talking about leftism.
She's not talking about the Jews being in charge of it.
She's just a leftist who happens to be a Jew.
So it's like, it's teetering on the borderline, that reference, where it's like it could be construed as anti-Semitism or not.
Obviously, knowing Covington, you know what it means, but to an uneducated reader who doesn't know who Covington is, I think they could take the line either way.
Funny enough, there's actually two characters in Slow Coming Dark who Covington goes out of his way to describe as white.
There's Alice Silverman, the mother of Bill Vitale, and despite her name, she's not actually Jewish, a point which Covington makes sure to emphasize.
She just changed her name in order to succeed in Hollywood.
And the funny thing is, she's obviously based on Alicia Silverstone, and I always thought that Alicia Silverstone does not look particularly Jewish either.
I always use her as my example of the least Jewish-looking Jew out there, and how, you know, Jew-dar is not effective 100% of the time.
Now, as well as making a point that Alice Silverman is white, Covington also does the same for the character of Antonio Garza, otherwise known as Cowboy.
Matt's partner in the police department, who's a white man of partial Hispanic origin, but also largely of German origin, from Texas.
It's clear from his extensive descriptions of the beautiful fall treescapes, the lakes, and the Indian summer, that Covington also has a love for North Carolina and its landscape, and not just for the Pacific Northwest.
Now, these books actually are officially canonical with the Northwest Front books.
They're referenced in the Northwest novels by the characters of Matt, Heather, Tori, Tony Visconti, Bill Vitale.
They're all referenced throughout the Northwest novels, especially in Hill of the Ravens.
They're given extensive focus in Hill of the Ravens, but still are mentioned sporadically throughout the other four books.
On the subject of the Northwest books referencing these two books, there's one thing that's very funny, which is...
The Old Man actually shits all over Slow Coming Dark because Slow Coming Dark canonically exists as a book, as a book within the Northwest books as well.
They keep referencing it in Hill of the Ravens, a book that the Old Man wrote about Matt Redman's adventures with the mob saving, you know, Bill Clinton's illegitimate bastard child who he had through rape, Bill Vitale.
The Old Man actually calls the novel a facile piece of crap and calls it hopelessly dated.
And he makes this whole speech about how the book focused too much on the Clintons as the be-all and end-all of liberal evil, and that it was short-sighted because it didn't see the possibility of the U.S. elite manifesting themselves in a different way and taking things even further, as they did in the Bush administration with the Iraq War and all the subsequent wars in the Middle East, which Covington is always making fun of throughout the series.
The old man is basically a mouthpiece for Harold himself.
So he's basically impugning his own work here.
He actually says, oh, the book, it was a piece of crap.
It was dated.
It's shitty.
But I don't agree.
I thought Slow Coming Dark was a really good book.
I don't know if Harold is actually saying that it was a bad book or if he's just making a joke there.
But either way, I enjoyed this book.
I enjoyed Fire and Rain.
Probably give Fire and Rain an 8. 7.5 or 8, and I'd give Slow Coming Dark at 8 or an 8.5.
It's hard to compare them to the Northwest novels because these books, they're more easily digestible, but they're also less ambitious.
They're more easily digestible in the sense that the Northwest books, they're just as good in terms of plot, in some cases better, but what they do contain is they contain very extensive tactical descriptions.
And also very lengthy political diatribes.
So if you're not interested in those two things, you might find certain parts of the Northwest books a bit overwhelming or a bit laborious to get through if you're not into that kind of thing.
For a casual reader, though, Fire and Rain and Slow Coming Dark are both very easily digestible.
They're quite mainstream accessible, at least especially compared to the Northwest books.
My response to the criticism that Harold seems to make himself that the book is dated is that, to me, it just doesn't matter.
Just like it doesn't matter that the Northwest books are now alternate history because Hillary Clinton didn't actually become president.
Either way, it doesn't affect the message of the book or the entertainment value of the book.
The fact is, regardless of whether or not she became president, Hillary Clinton is a horrible, despicable human being, a woman who would have plunged the United States possibly into a catastrophic, world-destroying war with Russia.
That kind of thing is not the kind of thing a good person or a sane person would do.
We all know about Bill Clinton's history of rape, and we know about all these murders that have been associated with the Clintons, all these people who mysteriously shot themselves in the back of the head twice and such.
Yeah, don't be surprised if I end up shooting myself in the back of the head twice after making this review.
There's nothing really dated about it, because in spite of the fact that Hillary Clinton never became president, and that we saw instead the era of Bush and Obama and now Trump, It still doesn't change the fact that the Clintons are evil people and that they make great villains and that the themes of creeping liberalism,
creeping cultural Marxism, and the increasing totalitarianism of the liberal establishment are every bit as relevant now as when these books were written.
So the argument that they're dated or short-sighted does not hold water to me.
It doesn't affect them as novels.
They're still great books.
I still recommend them very much.
Depicting Bill and Hillary Clinton as a tag team of cocaine-addicted rapists who want to destroy the world is fucking hilarious.
And even if it's an exaggeration, there's a lot of truth in it.
And lacing truth with a bit of exaggeration, kind of like Bill and Hillary Clinton lacing their cocaine with a bit of mescaline, is hilarious.
So, I mean, I completely defend it.
One trope that Covington loves to have in all his novels is a dumb, brutish, villainous character.
A gigantic brute who's really more animal than man.
And the Matt Redman novels are no exception.
In Fire and Rain, he has this Polynesian gigantic guy show up at the employment of the FBI in the last act.
And in Slow Coming Dark, there's this guy called Luther Lambert, who's one of these three...
Now, these kinds of characters also exist in all the Northwest books, such as Leon Sorrells in A Distant Thunder, Jamal Jarvis in The Brigade, and that big black guy employed at the White House in Freedom's Son.
One scene that really puts the exclamation mark on the whole book is when Visconti tells Hillary Clinton, there is a dying breed of brave white men.
And Matt Redmond is one of them.
And you know what?
Bitch, so am I. And then he cuts off her ear.
Now, one very funny coincidence in Fire and Rain is that Matt Redmond has a cat named Trumpledore, or Trump for short, as he refers to the cat.
And there's one little passage where Matt is ranting about how NPR, which is leftist radio, had a bunch of commentators explaining why the Republicans were all just waiting for a GOP victory to start shoving minorities and gays into ovens.
That's literally what the book says word for word.
And then...
And that right immediately afterward, the cat shows up and he says, well, hello to you too, Trump.
So it's literally right after he talks about Republicans shoving minorities and gays into ovens, he says, well, hello to you, Trump.
And it's like, okay, that's fucking prophetic right there.
Like, obviously it's just a coincidence, but it's funny.
It's really funny in hindsight how that happens.
And this was written in 1996.
But anyway, speaking of the cat, I've noticed that Covington recently in his tweets refers to anything related to Trump as Trumpledorian.
So maybe that's a bit of a dog whistle or a cat whistle, if you will, to people who've read Fire and Rain and Slow Coming Dark.
And 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 and Aban.
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