As we rocket towards our thrilling finale, thank you for all your comments about this month's Tale for Our Time. Mark Shere, a First Week Founding Member now in his eighth year with us, writes:
Here, and in the Agatha Christie book, the threat of a national strike by the left is seen as enormously powerful. That's not a tactic that works anymore for the left. So few of them do anything productive. Maybe it's time for the right to adopt this non-violent weapon. National strike in England now! National strike for the first time in the U.S. — or maybe just in the corrupt states — right after Election Day if they try to steal it again.
That's not a bad idea, Mark. I don't even know what a left-wing general strike would look like these days: all the transgender admirals down tools?
On which note: in tonight's penultimate episode of Bulldog Drummond, the American millionaire is out of the globalist plotters' clutches ...and his memory is returning:
"We all dined together, I remember, and it was after dinner, in my private sitting-room, that Peterson put up his proposition to me.... It was a suggestion that he thought would appeal to me as a business man. He said—what was it?—that he could produce a gigantic syndicalist strike in England—revolution, in fact; and that as one of the biggest shipowners—the biggest, in fact—outside this country, I should be able to capture a lot of the British carrying trade. He wanted two hundred and fifty thousand pounds to do it, paid one month after the result was obtained...
"I told him," said the millionaire, "that he was an infernal scoundrel, and that I'd have nothing whatever to do with such a villainous scheme. And then—almost the last thing I can remember—I saw Peterson look at Lakington. Then they both sprang on me, and I felt something prick my arm..."
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