Our Friends And Our Enemies

From On the Brink of a Bloody Racial War , by Ben Klassen

Racial Loyalty Issue 70 – May 1991


We must learn to distinguish clearly between our Friends, our Enemies, and the Mugwumps.

Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has endowed each living creature with a built-in characteristic called instinct. This characteristic embodies the collective wisdom of that particular creatures experiences in the struggle for survival throughout the millions of years when that species developed its own identity differentiating it from other nearby species.

Included in this outstanding mechanism is the ability to instinctively recognize its enemies on sight, without these enemies necessarily wearing an identification card. All birds, animals and other creatures have this instinct. The human species, too, has it. If by chance of domestication, change of environment or domicile they lose it, then that species is rapidly on the down-hill slide to oblivion and extinction.

It has happened to thousands of species that are now extinct.

Having been brought up on the farm in Saskatchewan, Canada, I (Ben Klassen) can recall plenty of such examples as I observed birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, in their natural habitat. I recall, for instance, how the lowly chicken, no brave bird, knew how to protect her brood. Should a chicken hawk be winging overhead in the yard, the mother hen would immediately spot it, sound a screeching alarm to her flock of little chicks, and all would scoot for cover as quickly as possible.

In contrast, should a crow, or a flock of wild ducks, or any other large or small bird be flying over the yard, it would not so much as raise a chicken’s eyebrow.

Similarly with the prairie dogs, which proliferated in our pastures. If a hawk would be flying overhead, they would run for cover, their holes in the ground. But prairie dogs have a host of other enemies that consider them as fair game for a square meal, such as coyotes, badgers, and even weasels. Now a weasel is about the size and shape of a prairie dog, but slightly larger in body, and much more fero ...

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