Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
I’m two thirds of the way through David McCullough’s 1776. Absolutely the best single work I’ve ever read on the War of American Independence.
If there is any measurable difference between the tyranny of King George and the current administration of the US Government it is that today they are far more overbearing, intrusive, reckless, violent and oppressive towards the population than what the American colonists experienced prior to the break-up with England.
I’d say it was amazing that people have allowed this to continue but several changes in the way people live today make it possible:
1) Non-connected populations. In the 1770’s people were separated by distance but they were connected by the common bonds of heritage, language, culture, religion, and livelihood. Today we have few of those connections.
2) Complete absence of government dependency. Today too many people depend on the Government for their sustenance rather than themselves, their family or their community.
3) Luxuries. That’s a word that has fallen into disuse in a time when they are ubiquitous. Today you will hear the constant refrain of people “living in poverty” but that simply isn’t true compared to the 18th century. The impoverished of today live better than the majority of those who lived in Continental America. Virtually everyone has a cell phone, a roof over their head, a television, access to medical care, clothing, etc. The amount of human labor that was required to have the equivalent to those things 250 years ago is unimaginable to the modern American. Self sufficient industriousness has been replaced by Government subsidized indolence.
4) Literacy. You’d think that with the amount of money spent on education in the US that we would be the most literate nation on the face of the Earth and that with universal access to libraries free of charge, the Internet, Government guaranteed higher education, etc that people would be extremely well informed and learned. That simply isn’t true. This lack of knowledge makes populations easier to control.
5) Fear factor. This I believe is the biggest. People who lived on the frontier and had to have twelve children because half would die, or who had to carry a rifle in order to protect themselves against being scalped understood life and death struggles the way a couch potato playing Halo couldn’t imagine. Today we have been so conditioned to fear the loss of life, so distanced from the reality of that struggle that people will accept any debasement before they will risk death.
Whatever happens in Oregon it serves as a demarcation point from the way things have been and the way they are likely to become. There is a lot of anger, hostility and deep unhappiness in the country today and divisions between various groups of people that don’t appear to be resolvable through traditional means. The government is quite clearly fearful of the population or it wouldn’t be spying on them and disarming them. In the past personal freedom and a well armed populace was one of the greatest strengths of the Nation in maintaining it’s position in the world. Obviously something has changed between the State and the People. Most people are never going to understand this because they are historically uninformed, drug addled, dependent upon the continuation of the system for their sustenance, unable to speak the language, etc. Those who can and do will have to decide if they will participate in the systemic dissolution of the Nation into whatever it is becoming or withdraw/resist/expatriate.
What I find curious in all of this is the impression that groups like this are the ones creating the conflict. The conflicts with the population have been ongoing, a constant testing to see where someone will draw a line and say no more and it has been unrelenting.
I guess we’ll see.
The destructive urban welfare maggot takers are constantly complaining ignorant parasites on the suburban makers and the government is a parasite and a plague on the productive rural folks. Please vote for Trump; even with his faults, he is a saint compared to the Harpy. At least he wants to use Common Sense to Restore America, something the Rats and the RINOs have abandoned for the sake of their Elite Paymaster’s selfish gains and destructive NWO political tyrannies.
HSF, I read 1776 several years back and the one thing that struck me about the history of our war for independence is the overwhelming odds Washington and his army faced against the British which as far as I concerned , is just more proof of divine providence from above.
The cause of our common country calls us both to an active and dangerous duty; Divine Providence, which wisely orders the affairs of men, will enable us to discharge it with fidelity and success.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Governor Trumbull of Connecticut
If America is to survive the next 4th turning intact, some high magnitude of national prayer is in order.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCALIA_RELIGION_SPEECH?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-01-02-15-30-00
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country’s constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.
Scalia was speaking at a Catholic high school in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. Scalia, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 is the court’s longest serving justice. He has consistently been one of the court’s more conservative members.
He told the audience at Archbishop Rummel High School that there is “no place” in the country’s constitutional traditions for the idea that the state must be neutral between religion and its absence.
“To tell you the truth there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition. Where did that come from?” he said. “To be sure, you can’t favor one denomination over another but can’t favor religion over non-religion?”
He also said there is “nothing wrong” with the idea of presidents and others invoking God in speeches. He said God has been good to America because Americans have honored him.
Scalia said during the Sept. 11 attacks he was in Rome at a conference. The next morning, after a speech by President George W. Bush in which he invoked God and asked for his blessing, Scalia said many of the other judges approached him and said they wished their presidents or prime ministers would do the same.
“God has been very good to us. That we won the revolution was extraordinary. The Battle of Midway was extraordinary. I think one of the reasons God has been good to us is that we have done him honor. Unlike the other countries of the world that do not even invoke his name we do him honor. In presidential addresses, in Thanksgiving proclamations and in many other ways,” Scalia said.
“There is nothing wrong with that and do not let anybody tell you that there is anything wrong with that,” he added.
The government has a new vision for America and how Americans should be and how they will fit into it.
They are now on a campaign to crush out those who, by nature, won’t be able to fit into it and replace them with those who will.
This is going to be a difficult time for us as those deviating from the newly demanded social norms are repressed, imprisoned, pushed out or killed off. It may not end well for anyone, human nature has a tendency to counter attack those trying to stamp it out.
There is simply no longer a place for everyone here in a country that was founded by those who faced a similar situation in Europe from the 17th century onward, and there is no place left to go to escape it today.
(The current Hammond Ranch action is one example of this, they are the type that no longer have a place left to fit in.)
In a nutshell: it’s all part of the narrative, that white guys with guns are certifiably crazy, and should be feared, and it’s constantly pounded into everyone’s heads by mainstream nooz media. Combine that with our highly educated populace, with the attention span of a gnat. Few will go to the trouble of looking further into ANYTHING, let alone try to analyze and process the information, and EVERYTHING is far more complicated than a sound byte or twitter post.
That being said, our local radio guy just read the following fairly balanced article. Note the amount of land the feds control. Blows my mind!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-oregon-frustration-over-federal-land-rights-has-been-building-for-years/2016/01/04/9bc905a2-b330-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_oregon-standoff-930pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Without a doubt it is worse. And it is all being done on purpose on the road to total control, although the luxuries will probably end soon. We are becoming more and more Balkanized. And with the technology of today and the future, there will be no escape without some more divine intervention. Reminds me of the groups of Jews hiding and living in the forests during World War II. That won’t be happening again.
HSF, how/when/if can I order a turkey or two for next Thanksgiving, I am in NH…
I can see another civil war – between the doer’s / producers, and the takers / entitlement people.
I can see conservatives leaving blue states, with Democrat cites: Mass, Pa, NY, NJ, MD, IL, CA, MO, and just saying: Fuck it, fund your own entitlements.
I’ve done considerable research into the period of our revolution in preparation for a book I’m working on about a box of family letters from some of my ancestors who were prominent figures in the War for Independence. Your points are all well taken. Over and over again, I am struck by how tough AND literate the American revolutionaries were. Among the characters I’ve encountered in my own family are men who would read poetry in Latin while camped out during the brutal Canadian winter of 1775 as they attempted to take Quebec from the British. These were the kind of men who led the military. Can you imagine today’s beltway warmongers, the pampered spawn of corporate sponsored think tanks, trudging through snow drifts to lead an attack? It wasn’t just the wealthier officer class who were literate. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense sold something like 500,000 copies if I recall correctly. Think of what that number would be as an equal % of today’s population. Can you imagine that many people out of today’s population reading a political tract? The military leaders like Washington sometimes complained about the anti authoritarian attitude of their troops, but ultimately they were glad to have citizen soldiers who were tougher and much more resourceful than their professional British counterparts. Consider the surprise of the British when they woke up one morning to find that a bunch of New England farmers had dragged cannons from upstate New York across these very hills where I now live and placed them aiming down on the fleet in Boston Harbor. I wonder if
they teach that bit of history in Common Core.
Maybe the biggest corrupting influence has been the ability of the Federal Reserve to create money out of thin air. The welfare /warfare state would be much smaller .Even wall street would be smaller if the debt monetary system didn’t exist . Through the years the Federal Reserve has given out trillions ofdollars to corporations and individuals who has bought all the real assets of the country. This is the primary reason so few own so much. I wish someone would give me a 40 billion dollar loan at 2% interest.You could buy any company or asset you wanted.
“Liberty and Freedom” Lyrics : Rancid
Out in the open
They ain’t gonna hide
Police state upon us
Prepare to collide
They’re gonna keep you down
step on your neck
Can’t move no more
The weapon of their choosing
is censorship and war
And I can see the line up now
Everyone one is just partisan
You see one side claims victory
But it’s just a zero sum
Liberty and Freedom
In quotations spray painted on the wall
Verbalized explosion
we will come back some day
If your ideas are suspect
Now your in contempt
Report to the committee
No one is exempt
And the zealots and crusaders
They can’t justify with threats
and intimidation
Designed to terrify
Liberty and Freedom
In quotations spray painted on the wall
Verbalized explosion
we will come back some day [x2]
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. Revelation 13:11-18
The Seventh Day Adventists have always held that this beast from Earth was the USA. Pretty amazing for the 1860s but pretty obvious in 2016. We all watched Obama fawn all over the Pope last September.
NBC News: All Americans Will Be Microchipped In Less Than 3 Years
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Yes, I can see it, wanted for domestic terrorism, G. Washington; for treason, T Jefferson etc.
Hardscrabble, suburbanites have Zero ability to survive the coming Fourth Turning collapse, their words are leaves in the wind. Even putting a saddle on a horse is beyond their ability and or education. I know Doctors and very few can saddle a horse despite a stellar education. Ive got four fine horses that will work to exhaustion for me, I own the world right there, that’s all I need! Those animals will feed me and protect me from the lack of anything man made. Your Great, Great, Grandfathers would understand every word I just laid down. If you don’t get it……..well…….you don’t get it.
Sensetti says:
Hardscrabble, suburbanites have Zero ability to survive the coming Fourth Turning collapse, their words are leaves in the wind. Even putting a saddle on a horse is beyond their ability and or education. I know Doctors and very few can saddle a horse despite a stellar education. Ive got four fine horses that will work to exhaustion for me, I own the world right there, that’s all I need! Those animals will feed me and protect me from the lack of anything man made. Your Great, Great, Grandfathers would understand every word I just laid down. If you don’t get it……..well…….you don’t get it.
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There’s a few who get it. I get it, my TB mare gets it. We don’t even need to tack up. Just a short piece of rope looped over her nose to make a single rein, swing up and we can cover distance like a Comanche from the days of old. One horseman, one horse working together is a direct connection to what I can only describe as a great understanding. A way to feel a grand power that commands everything and seeks nothing.