In Part One of this article I explored Thomas Paine’s critical role in the creation of our nation. His Common Sense pamphlets inspired the common people to uncommon acts of courage and heroic feats of valor; leading to the great experiment we call the United States of America. Paine, Franklin and the other Founding Fathers produced a republic, if we could keep it.
John Adams championed the new Constitution precisely because it would not create a democracy, as he knew a democracy “soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.” Their herculean efforts, sacrifices, and bloodshed have been for naught as we allowed our republic to devolve into a democracy and ultimately into our current corporate fascist warfare/welfare surveillance state. Sadly, we were unable to keep the republic Franklin and his fellow revolutionaries gave us.
“From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Some might contend Paine’s Common Sense arguments against a despotic monarchy two and a half centuries ago, with an audience of two and a half million colonists, couldn’t be pertinent today in a divided nation of 325 million people. But when you examine the events, actions and catalysts inspiring Paine to pen Common Sense, you see the parallels with the events, decisions and facilitators of our current Crisis.
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For more than a decade before the eruption of open hostilities, tensions had been building between colonists and the British authorities. An overbearing far flung British Empire began to pillage the colonies to pay for their corrupt kingdom by shaking them down through the Stamp Act of 1765, the Quartering Act of 1765, the Townshend Tariffs of 1767 and the Tea Act of 1773.
This taxation without representation was met with passionate protest among many colonists, who resented their lack of representation in Parliament and demanded the same rights as other British subjects. These demands were met with arrogant indifference by the monarchy and a haughty parliament. Forcing colonists to feed and house the very soldiers who were being paid with their taxes to repress them was the ultimate insult.
Initially, the colonists just fumed at the domineering disrespect shown them by the British ruling establishment. The pillaging of their hard earned wealth by distant oppressors prompted the colonists to initially organize nonviolent resistance and embargoing British luxury goods. As anger against their authoritarian overseers boiled over, the British cracked down harder in their version of a colonial surveillance state. Colonial resistance eventually led to bloodshed in 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists, killing five men in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
Parliament eventually backed down and repealed all of the duties except for one symbolic duty on tea. In December 1773 the Samuel Adams inspired Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. An outraged Parliament passed a series of measures known as the Intolerable or Coercive Acts, designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts. In response, a group of colonial delegates (including George Washington of Virginia, John and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, Patrick Henry of Virginia and John Jay of New York) met in Philadelphia in September 1774 to give voice to their grievances against the British crown.
This First Continental Congress did not mandate liberation from Britain, but it denounced taxation without representation, maintenance of the British army in the colonies without their consent, and issued a declaration of the rights due every citizen, including life, liberty, property, assembly and trial by jury. The Continental Congress voted to meet again in May 1775 to consider further action, but before it convened again Paul Revere made his fateful ride and local militiamen fired the first shots of the Revolutionary War at Lexington & Concord. These events set in motion Paine’s call to arms and the Declaration of Independence shortly thereafter.
The First American Revolution was the result of at least a decade of government overreach, excessive taxation, disregard for the rights of citizens, elitist arrogance of empire builders, and thuggish intimidation of colonists by the British military. The Americans, most of whom had been born on American soil, felt only vague allegiance to a monarchy across the seas imposing their iron fist of taxation and intimidation upon citizens and their means of livelihood.
There had been growing discontent for decades and the Boston Tea Party catalyst triggered a dramatic change in the colonial mood. The chain reactions happened rapidly thereafter and there was no turning back. Paine realized independence was the only true option and proceeded to inspire that result with his Common Sense pamphlets.
“Until an independence is declared the continent will feel itself like a man who continues putting off some unpleasant business from day to day, yet knows it must be done, hates to set about it, wishes it over, and is continually haunted with the thoughts of its necessity.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
With this potent image, Paine concluded Common Sense. This illustration captured Paine’s central point throughout the pamphlets that America must break away from Britain. The only question that remained was when the colonies were to become free. Paine believed the time for action was now rather than later, and exhorted his fellow Americans to rise to arms and vanquish their British oppressors.
The moment for transformation had come. It was time for the American people to take back their country from an overbearing, corrupt, evil establishment. The Crisis had reached its regeneracy with Paine’s Common Sense and Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence, two of the most important documents in America history.
Society is a Blessing/Government a Necessary Evil
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer…” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
If you are blind to the parallels with our current position in this Fourth Turning, you are either wallowing in willful ignorance or you are a functionary within the debased establishment. One of Paine’s main themes was society was a blessing while government was, at best, a necessary evil.
Paine believed in the power of the people. Society constitutes everything constructive people create through working together. The creation of businesses, inventions, scientific discoveries, art, and literature has never required government. Collaboration among individuals brings about positive outcomes and the advancement of society. People transact business, cooperate, follow societal norms, and live their lives on a daily basis with absolutely no intervention or oversight from an oppressive threatening government entity.
Human beings are fallible creatures with a weakness for the vices of greed, envy, lust, pride and a few others. The only true purpose of government is the protection of life, liberty and property. Paine presented government as an organization whose lone function was to inhibit the wickedness in man.
Government’s fundamental purpose is to provide security from foreign invaders and insure property rights are protected. The success of a government should be judged by the extent to which it fulfills these roles. Society is a force which promotes our happiness positively, while government is a coercive force, which at best has a neutral impact on our lives and at its worse, hampers our lives through coercion.
Paine believed the British monarchy had too much power over the lives of the colonists. The hereditary succession of the monarchy led to the elevation of asses to the throne while pretending he was a lion. King George III was just such an ass.
The purposeful complexity of the British system of government was designed to centralize power in the hands of the few, unlawfully and unjustifiably seizing control from the people. A government should be judged on whether it improves society or makes it worse. If the government does not represent the will of the people then it needs to be discarded or overthrown. The larger the government bureaucracy, the more disordered its decision making, and more likely corruption, tyranny, and taxation will burden the citizens.
Paine scoffed at the absurdity of branches of government checking each other. Once entrenched in power the aristocratic civil servants only served themselves and their financial benefactors. The happiness and well-being of the people was not their concern. Every government, even if its initial design had a noble purpose, devolves into a fetid swamp of control freaks, the tyrannical power hungry, egomaniacal sociopaths, and feckless apparatchiks. It becomes a bane and punisher of the people.
“Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Government of the People, By the People, For the People
“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.” – Thomas Paine
“We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Three saeculums have passed since Paine’s words inspired a revolution, but they ring as true today as they did during that fateful year of 1776. We have been ruled by an oppressive tyrannical establishment, bent on controlling and regulating every aspect of our lives, over-taxing hard working Americans to pay for its welfare/warfare surveillance state, indebting unborn generations with over $200 trillion of unfunded promises, enriching themselves and their Deep State benefactors, impoverishing the people through systematic inflation, globalizing their jobs to Asia, and treating hard working Americans with utter contempt.
The 2008 Federal Reserve/Wall Street created global financial collapse and subsequent banker bailout, while throwing senior citizens and the common man under the bus catalyzed this Fourth Turning. Main Street and flyover America did not participate in the faux economic recovery flogged by Obama, his minions, and their media mouthpieces.
Propaganda, fake economic data, and a vacuous divisive empty suit Deep State pawn president, running up the national debt by $9.3 trillion while enriching Wall Street, the military industrial complex, and the sickcare complex, did nothing to benefit average Americans. The result of this blatant disregard for the well-being of millions has backfired on the establishment.
The elevation of Donald Trump to the presidency has marked the regeneracy moment of this Fourth Turning. The mood of the country has taken a dramatic turn, with the normal people attempting to take back control of the government from malevolent Deep State financial, military, media, and corporate interests. This invisible government establishment is far more entrenched and malignant than the British monarchy confronted by Thomas Paine.
Just as the Loyalists supported the armed clampdown upon the liberty seeking revolutionaries by the redcoats, the deranged leftist useful idiots rioting in DC and in the liberal urban bastions around the country this past week are at war against normalcy, self-reliance, fiscal responsibility, the family values that built this nation, and the geographic will of 85% of the country.
Despite the wailing, gnashing of teeth, breaking of windows, setting limousines on fire, dressing as vaginas, calling for the assassination of Donald Trump, and overall infantile behavior of the losers in this recent election, the fact remains Trump won the popular vote in 30 states, accumulated an electoral landslide victory, and struck a chord with normal average family people who have been left behind by a government designed to benefit an autocratic few and buy off special interests for their votes.
These supposedly grass roots rallies representing all women were nothing more than another George Soros/Democrat Party funded propaganda effort to discredit Trump’s overwhelming victory. The dying left wing media mouthpieces for the establishment felt a tingle up their legs as they breathlessly reported on the prodigious hatred for a man who has been in office for one day.
Where were these patriots for the last eight years as their savior president droned wedding parties, blew up hospitals in the Middle East, and oversaw the unlawful collection of personal data by his rogue NSA spies? You didn’t hear any of the fake news pundits on CNN or MSNBC mention that 30 million deplorable women had voted for Trump and he crushed Hillary among white women with 53% of the vote.
The vitriolic, unhinged reaction to Trump’s victory by a fearful establishment, their fake news corporate media hacks, and the parasitical special interests dependent upon free shit, should be a wake-up call for the normal, hard-working, tax paying, self-reliant, liberty minded people in this country. The deeply rooted evil establishment and their feckless, toady, easily manipulated, useful idiot minions have declared war on Trump and the normals (aka deplorables) who voted for him.
After the battles of Lexington & Concord the British Empire declared war on the colonies. Many colonists still longed for reconciliation, but Thomas Paine and his fellow patriots knew that was impossible. This was going to be a fight to the death. If they lost, Paine and his brethren would be hanged.
Paine’s simple facts, plain words and common sense bolstered the morale of the American colonists, provided backbone to those on the fence, appealed to the English people’s consideration of the war with America, clarified the issues at stake in the war, and denounced the advocates of a negotiated peace. There was no time to be a summer soldier or sunshine patriot in 1776. We now stand on the precipice of another era of revolution. These are new times, but they will also try our souls. Words do matter. This really is a war and must be fought on all fronts.
The dumbing down of the American populace through the government run public education system results in tens of millions being intellectually incapable of resisting the never ending onslaught of Deep State propaganda through critical thought. Restoring the public’s ability to use common sense, sound reasoning, and good judgement is a virtual impossibility today, as a vast swath of the populace couldn’t name a Founding Father, why we celebrate July 4, or even voted in this past election. There were approximately 231 million eligible voters on November 8 and only 136 million voted. The apathy of the 95 million non-voters is a reflection of our iGadget addicted, debauched, feeble minded, bread and circuses distracted, confederacy of fools culture.
With a population of 325 million, versus the 2.5 million in Paine’s day, the question is how many patriots will be required to vanquish the Deep State sycophants and their useful idiot followers. It has been noted only 3% of colonists truly fought for independence during the American Revolution. One third remained loyal to the crown, one third passively supported independence and another third didn’t support either side. We have a similar dynamic today with about 30% supporting Trump’s revolution, 30% supporting the corrupt establishment, and 40% choosing to not participate. If the 3% still applies, it will only take 7 million out of Trump’s 63 million voters to successfully see the revolution through to its conclusion.
The venomous reaction from the fake news corporate media to Trump’s plain spoken, direct, and truthful, common sense inaugural address reveals his opponents true nature. They called the speech dark, gloomy, scary, and Hitler like. Trump derangement syndrome has clearly infected this insane clown posse of brainless talking heads and vacuous spokesmodels as they mouth the lines written by their establishment employers.
He directly confronted his establishment enemies as they sat in front of him by declaring war on their petty world of corruption, malfeasance, idolatry of power, world domination, globalization, and disregard for the lives of the common people. Just as Paine had declared in 1776, Trump declared this week – there will be no reconciliation, no negotiated peace, and no truce. His war on the establishment will be fought to the finish, with a clear winner and a clear loser. His address is the new Common Sense for common people looking to take back control of their government.
Trump immediately struck at the heart of the Washington DC beltway beast. The people out in the hinterlands, beyond the DC, NYC, LA, SF elitist enclaves, have been left behind and discarded while the connected few reaped unwarranted riches.
“For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.”
Just as Paine delineated between the liberty seeking patriots and the despotic monarchical regime of King George III, Trump doesn’t play the standard political party games. This is a revolutionary movement. It’s the forgotten men and women versus the non-responsive imperious government.
“What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people. The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens.”
Trump demolished the fake news storylines of economic advancement, low unemployment, reduced crime rates, and a thriving middle class. The media pundits were aghast when he told the truth about a nation in decay. After 50 years and $10 trillion of Great Society welfare programs, the poverty rate is near all-time highs; 43 million (up by 12 million since recession officially ended in 2009) people depend on food stamps to survive; over 100 million working age Americans aren’t working; real wages are lower than they were thirty years ago; and millions of family sustaining blue collar jobs have been off-shored to Asia in the name of globalization.
Our government run public schools are nothing more than social engineering indoctrination centers wasting $12,000 per student by having mediocre overpaid union teachers flog common core pabulum to disinterested students. They graduate functionally illiterate morons into society, further degrading the civic character of our nation, while in liberal run cities, like Chicago, murder rates skyrocket as black communities implode due to the breakdown of the family unit, welfare mentality, drugs, and placing no value on education. Trump’s assessment of this carnage is dead on.
“But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”
Trump scorched the globalization acolytes and neo-cons with his common sense appraisal of how we’ve wasted our wealth benefiting other countries and global corporations, while disregarding our own decaying infrastructure and families’ dependent upon decent paying jobs to make an honest living. The priorities of the establishment have enriched their corporate masters while destroying a once thriving middle class.
“We spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We’ve made other countries rich, while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon. One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind. The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world.”
It is telling how low we’ve sunk as a nation when the intellectual elitists reference Hitler when pandering to their disturbed demagogues of despair while describing Trump’s speech. I guess the author of the Declaration of Independence would be classified as a Nazi by today’s standards, as his words were directly echoed by Trump:
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none” – Thomas Jefferson
“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.” – Donald Trump
If CNN, MSNBC, or the Washington Post had existed in 1776, they would have classified Thomas Paine as a terrorist, exposing his failed business ventures, failed marriages, and revealing him to be too pugnacious and nasty to be taken seriously. They couldn’t demand that he release his tax returns, since the individual income tax didn’t get enacted until 137 years later in the dreadful year of 1913. They would have glorified King George III as a benevolent father figure and boldly predicted a landslide victory for the British Army against Washington’s ragtag army of farmers.
The dying legacy media are the propaganda arm of the establishment and will need to be crushed without impunity by the Trump administration and the hundreds of alternative truth telling media websites representing the Thomas Paines of today. One Thomas Paine cannot influence 200 million people the way he influenced 2.5 million in 1776, but an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men, can make an impact during the most crucial period of this Fourth Turning Crisis.
Trump has pointed out what is wrong with our government. The outcry from those comfortable with the status quo has been spiteful, lashing out irrationally in a crazed manner, which will surely bring more normal people over to Trump’s side. Time and results will convert more to the right side of history.
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Just as the British levied taxes on the colonies to pay the debts of their French & Indian War adventures and their sprawling empire, our malevolent surveillance state wages undeclared wars across the globe, having wasted over $6 trillion in the Middle East since 2003, and extracts taxes from our paychecks at the point of a gun to pay for these neo-con wet dreams. The $20 trillion of accumulated debts and the $200 trillion of unfunded future obligations are nothing but tax obligations of our children and unborn generations.
Just as the British military invaded the homes of American colonists, police state thugs roam our streets with impunity, intimidating, shaking down and acting as the truncheon for the establishment. The Fourth Amendment has been gutted by the powers that be, with the First and Second under constant attack.
Paine believed in the common sense golden rule.
“When I was teaching children I began every day writing this on the blackboard: “Do to others what you would like them to do to you”, telling them how much better the world would be if everybody lived by this rule.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
But he realized everyone does not live by that rule. In fact, very few people live by that rule. They believe they are owed something for being born. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness isn’t good enough. The leftists fighting Trump tooth and nail believe they are entitled to special rights, privileges, and benefits. These special snowflakes have been triggered by the big bad mean talking Trump and after getting their paychecks from Soros will angrily protest within their liberal urban blue safe zones. If they ever violently venture into the 85% of the country colored red, the carnage will be instantaneous.
The contemptible fake news media continues to flog the popular vote drivel of a country divided. This map shows a much unified country, unified against the liberal elite and their enslaved welfare state dregs occupying the miniscule blue areas on the map. Those in the blue believe it is their right to subdue the will of those in the red. We disagree. Let the hostilities commence. Over 90% of the legally owned firearms reside in the red areas.
“Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavored to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Donald Trump had much more to lose than to gain by putting himself through the gauntlet of a presidential campaign. He was ridiculed, scorned, attacked, and dismissed by the ruling oligarchy and their prodigious array of propaganda mechanisms. The surveillance state used all their unlawful powers to discredit him.
He has taken on the thankless task of trying to rectify decades of bad decisions, bad policy, bad finance, bad people, and an entrenched bureaucracy of DC swamp creatures. Trump is a billionaire and could have spent his waning years golfing, mentoring his sons, and enjoying the fruits of his labor. But, like the wealthy colonial landowners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, Trump has taken a huge risk in fighting the Washington Deep State establishment to make government work for the people again.
His inauguration speech was the first salvo in what will be a long and bloody fight. Common Sense was written in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution was still thirteen bloody years in the future. Fourth Turnings never end in compromise. They end with a clear victor and a clear loser. The next eight years will surely try men’s souls.
Trump is fighting against a half a century of establishment rule. As we have seen already, they will not go down without a fight. Are we ready to stand and fight, or will we be summer soldiers and sunshine patriots during this crisis, shrinking from the service of our country? The future of our country depends upon our answer.
Aldous Huxley foretold the willful loss of our freedoms back in 1959. Our chance to vanquish the oligarchs has arrived.
“Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but Democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
It’s a priveledge to comment first. Jim, this is really outstanding. Your understanding of Trump has expanded immensely. Each one, teach one, your writing gets disseminated far and wide. You are teaching a lot of people. And each one adds strength to the cause. We will win this. America won’t be exactly the same as it was, but the historical and tragic mistake that was clinton/bush/ obama looks like it’s headed for the ash heap of history. Keep up the great work. It counts. Big props.
I think you meant “tragic mistakes that were Roosevelt, Wilson, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Ford, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama”
A true tour-de-force, Admin! Lately your “part twos” eclipse the part ones.
Very inspiring writing.
Another coin to your fund from me is forthcoming.
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Btw, I read this fantastic piece. I didn’t mean to cheapen it by posting a link. I just wanted to show what we are up against.
Part II exceeded expectations, thank you.
The juxtaposition of our 1st Fourth Turning with our current has been informative. Your use of President Trumps Inaugural Speech in comparison with Paine’s ability to simply identify and communicate the reality of the political environment through Common Sense has strengthened in Part II.
Further, identifying the next 8 years as the crux of this fourth turning, crystallizes the significance of the Trump Presidency.
I am thankful he won.
When comparing 1776 to today, I am not sure if the same proportional percentage of freedom fighters could prevail against the vast aresonal of high-tech weaponry that is currently under the control of the technocrats?
There would need to be Snowden-like patriots operating from within.
But given the Deep State surveillance capabilities of today, how would that be possible?
Not trying to be a buzzkill here. Just speculating at this point.
Also, how does the Trump factor change the overall dynamic? Not much at all? Or, in YUGE ways?
Why are you thinking armed revolution? The coming revolution cannot be fought with arms, it must be fought peacefully. War begets war, it never begets peace.
Peace as the outcome can only be achieved though peaceful means. The war must be fought by appealing to the hearts, minds, and spirits of the American people. No arms can prevail against converted hearts and minds.
Never, ever even think about using arms to attain our Creator endowed freedom. That will become a lost cause, as you postulated, and will simply change one set of evil dictators for another set.
BTW the evil establishment is no match even to just one person on the Creator’s side. There are numerous examples of just one person charging society. I predict that a few of these Creator inspired and powered people will soon show up, driven by Trump’s example of courage and their inextinguishable passion for freedom. It won’t take many.
When the robber is standing at the cash drawer, his glock aimed at the head of the store clerk his voice demanding the till, there is only one thing that perpetrator of violence will heed. You know what that one thing is.
The Bible, in the Old Testament, declares that when the thief is caught within the house, uninvited, at night, the Head of the household may strike him that he die, and there shall be no bloodguilt upon him.
When lethal force is brought against anyone(s) unrightfully it is perfectly acceptible, even mandatory, to meet that with lethal force.
Yes, the current government forces of the US are highly trained and equipped…. and until much of the swamp is drained, some COULD move against the rest of us with force. that rioting could very easily have torned VERY badly…. remember, not long ago, Ferguson, Baltimore, etc. I am convinced the rioters we saw this past week are in the main the came group of paid mercenaries. Few will truly put their lives on the line for someone else’s fight. And few of them were there because of their own deeply held convictions. The REASON Ferguson and Baltimore pesisted, and resulted in so much destruction, is that govermnent forces, under direct orders from high ranking idiots, laid down stupid rules of engagement that tied the hands of law enforcement behind their backs. Remember, in Ferguson, the small group of Patriots who posted armed sentries in, on, and near a few businesses in the path of the destruction? WHY did the rioters make a sudden change of course? Same reason the Rodney King rioters in Los Angeles did as they approached the small enclave of Vietnamese owned businesses… with residences on the upper floors. Seems those shopkeepers/homeowners had some tools that helped the approaching rioters, torches and clubs in hand, wreaking destruction as they made their way up the street…. to make an informed decision: that a new TeeVee set, stolen out of the shop they were going to bust into, was worth just a little bit less than their own lives… clearluy endangered by the well trained and organised “street militia” deployed on the roofs of those buildings, the ones toward which the masses of mayhem wreakers were headed.
Only two hundred or so rioters were arrested in DC… many times the number arrested during the weeks of rioting in Baltimore and Ferguson. Most face years of prison time. How many more will be that stupid? And when the police refuse/fail to deal with this behaviour, it will fall, precisely as that Second Article of Ammendment declares, onto the shoulders of THE PEOPLE….. just as it did the vietnamese family men in Los Angeles back then. they were armed, and know well how to deal with such threats. Until/unless the encroachments of the nasty destroyers are met with greater force, they WILL have their way. Gage was convinced that, in sending his 800 men, he was being rather foolish, as the Colonials would melt at the first sign of physical force deployed against them. Oh how wrong he was.
These government goons will be no different. Corruption always weakens the heart along with the morals.
Hey Tionico, like many people with a libertarian leaning, I think that it is wrong to initiate aggressive force, but when violence and aggression are started against you, there is nothing wrong with responding the same way.
Let us remember that when the “Progressives” use the power of the state in violation of our rights, that IS the use of aggression. They have rammed through laws so that a peaceful baker can not refuse to provide services which conflict with his religion or conscience, without having government men with guns lock him up or steal his property. If he resists their unlawful actions he will be killed. A peaceful, church sponsored hospital MUST provide services to patients or employees that violate the church’s religious standards, or men with guns will shut them down.
The point is that once a group invokes governmental action for things which do not actually threaten them, at that point they are using aggressive violence. That is why (in my opinion) the government should only enforce laws that are a response to actual and immediate threats. “I don’t like what they are doing!” is not a justification for a law.
There is no such thing as peaceful people who support laws against things like “that soda is too large”, “you must provide cakes for gay marriage”, “your income needs to pay for my housing”, “you have not hired enough people with dark skin”, “you can’t fly in a plane unless we feel your crotch”, “you may not put a fish pond on your farm unless we say you can”, etc. As soon as they support those kinds of laws, they (whether left wing or right) have already given up peaceful persuasion and taken up aggressive violence.
As you say, “some COULD move against the rest of us with force.” A lot of people seem to believe that the military are still loyal to Obama and the elites. Whilst that is surely the case where those having their palms greased by the elites are concerned, I think they are most likely in the minority and that the bulk of America’s military will be behind Trump. If I am correct, then all those expensive killing toys could well be turned against the bastards that paid for them.
Trump’s coming to power has awoken the masses and inspired them. What this means is that the blue touch paper has now been presented. It can be lit by various means:
1. assassination of the president (maybe an attempted assassination would be enough),
2. collapse of the financial system (when people cannot feed themselves they will go berserk but now they know who is to blame),
3. terrorist activities within the US (or maybe even Europe),
4. continued attacks on Trump supporters by Soros backed entities,
5. any attempt to ignite another war, especially where Russia and China are concerned.
Basically, we have reached the point where the slightest spark will light that blue touch paper and I doubt the so-called elites are intelligent enough to realize that. They will just push ahead in an attempt to solidify their power and discredit Trump. It ain’t gonna work!
How ’bout revolution by moving truck ? Geographically re-locate 40 or 50 largest govt. agencies out to 40 or 50 states. Pick up the whole Dept. of Ag headquarters staff and make them move to Omaha or Sioux Falls. Move the Dept. of Ed to say St. Louis or Memphis. Boot the Fish and Wildlife service up to Montana or Alaska. Relocate the whole FBI headquarters to Chicago and the DEA to Maimi.
The point is to change the character & mindset of people who regulate & govern.
Reply to Lee above
“God plus one equals a majority”–Saint Mark of Ephesus
While most of today’s Patriots/3%ers are not as visible as they were then… I do believe the percentages are quite close. Consider, too, until 19th April 1775 (Lexington/COncord) that three percent were well hidden. Everyone KNEW, and had for a decade, that armed conflict was inevitable. But as Captain John Parker said to his Miliitamen at Lexington, dawn that day. “don’t fire unless fired upon. We don’t want a war, but if they mean to have one, let it begin here”. Until the point of the first ragged volley fired by the Colonials at His Majesty’s Best that morning, almost all of the Three Percent were invisible. The bare fact of them FIRING upon British military changed that. In a few seconds, they all became traitors, under sentence of death. They had passed the point of no return, and were in it, for good or ill, to the end. There were 14,000 men had taken the field, armed, against the Redcoats that morning. Tuesday morning there were perhaps a half dozen rebels.. Revere and Dawes, along with Warren, Prestcott, and most likely General Gage’s wife Margaret, were the only individuals could have been run up on charges of treason.
I am certain the outcome of that day, 19th April, was as shocking to the sensibilities and morale of General Thomas Gage as Trump’s election is to the present ruling elites, a short few weeks previously who did not even see any cracks in the mortar of the brick castle they had built in their minds. In both cases, the ruling elites utterly failed to comprehend the strength of the driving force within those rising up and throwing off the chains. In both cases the thrust of the resistance to liberty was, in the main, carried by mercenaries, paid to BE the dog in the fight, many of them soon wearying of the meaningless (to them) struggle. We shall see how “comitted” the rioters will be in another month when Soros’ checks cease coming, and the chartered busses are off serving clients of greater merit.
In the earlier case of our rising up, the war was won long before those first few ball flew across the Commons at Lexington a few moments after dawn. It was won in the hearts and minds of the Colonials who, when the time was forced upon them, rose up and stood firm. No phoney “red line in the sand past which they cannot cross without our throwing a hissy fit and stomping our widdow feets”. Nope. It was “sight alignment, sight picture, pause, squeeze, follow through, call he shot. Quickly reload and repeat.
Though I doubt it will come to actual open warfare, I feel compelled to remind you that that the Viet Cong, initially a relative few rag-tag part-time guerrillas, eventually with the help of their North Vietnamese allies, eventually fought us to a draw and finally got us to throw in the towel and just go home. We in the US are already far better armed collectively than are all the police forces in the nation. As for our military, most are hard-right libertarian types who’ll not fire on their own, whatever the future occupant of the Oval Office orders them to do.
I wonder whether Trump will undo all the gun control garbage Obama put in place?
Unlikely mind you, because the snowflakes could also take advantage of such a move.
On the other hand, the red/blue map suggests that blues would be wiped-out in the wink of an eye.
Slobotnavich,
You are not even close!! Most of the military will fire upon Americans, they have done it before and they will do it again. They have been trained to follow orders, not to think for themselves. It’s all good, you are not going to live forever anyway!
Jim, you really have put your heart, soul, and brain in service to us all. Thank you.
Here is something hopeful for you readers. Meet Big Joe, refreshing colorful common sense.
http://govtslaves.info/viral-video-big-joe-annihilates-crowd-of-sjws-at-womens-march/
There is a revolution already very much under way and growing fast of people replacing tyrannical systems with new smaller more agile systems. They are finding ways to “unparticipate” in the establishment systems. Personal responsibility and self reliance are key. Opt out to kill the beast. Learn to take care of yourself and solve your own problems and there will be no more excuse for a nanny state.
I am reminded of the video posted a few days ago here of the motorcycle guys and gals streaming into DC for the inauguration. The juxtaposition of that image against the image of angry left-wing millennials dressed in black with bandana’s over their faces, grossly overweight screaming and unattractive she males dressed like pussies followed by their beta male lackeys sort of makes one realize that should things get physical there is a clear winner here – the left vs the right would be a short fight physically speaking.
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The world is changing rapidly and it’s just getting started. The marxists are finished in NA. Their days are numbered north of the border too. Don’t get me wrong, the snowflakes will whine, bitch, moan, throw hissy fits, stamp their feet and generally act like two-year-olds. They’ll keep screaming “racist, bigot, misogynist etc” for years to come. None of it will matter. They are finished. In a decade they will be gone as they realize that name calling and threats no longer put food on the table or pay the rent.
Here’s nine minutes of President Trump sitting down with business leaders today (including, of course, Elon Musk, LOL) explaining the path forward. Anybody who doesn’t think he is serious needs to think again. We are going to have a border. We are going to have a country. Our economic base will be manufacturing, mining, and agriculture. He may go down as one of the greats.
The fly in the ointment will be when the fed res banksters begin raising interest rates as they have said they intend to. Under the right circumstances, which we do have now, this would start the collapse of this house of cards. And as a fan of the bank it is unlikely that Trump will be able to make pre-hike adjustments- whatever that could be -to prepare for them.
Blessings:-}
True unless “audit the Fed” comes into fruition.
The FED is nothing more than a straw, used to control and syphon wealth! Once the straw is cut a new one will be created….TBP has chronicled the FEDs insolvency well so it should come as no surprise to anyone who hasn’t been living under an I-Gadget induced rock somewhere when it outlives its usefulness for the global oligarchy!
Should we get to work on Mount Rushmore?
For a second I thought you were being sarcastic. Then I saw the image you chose.
Brilliant assessment!
As Canadians, we have the added benefit of the perspective of distance. Many of us have been following the events of the last 15-20 years with growing apprehension, and we were almost literally on the edge of our Canuck seats, dreading a Deep State election win in the form of the clearly criminal Clinton.
Poor old Donald Trump, the Grey Champion, does he really know what he’s managed to get himself into???!!! He and I are the same age, so I can understand to some degree how and why he has sacrificed the easy path of an easy retirement with his wife and children to turn his outrage into real action. He really does appear genuine and committed.
I’m really posting this only for one reason. Regardless of whether or not he succeeds, we should not forget the sacrifices of Snowden, Assange, Manning, Binney, Wikileaks and the many other whistle-blowers who made a significant impact by helping to prepare the ground for Trump by waking up millions of unconscious people, regardless of the consequences to themselves. My hope is that Trump will acknowledge and reward the invaluable contribution made by these true Heroes.
Is it crazy to suggest Trump is the ultimate long term thinker? By joining the ranks of the world elite (I think there is an elite above a mere billionaire), he has set up his progeny for centuries.
If Trump and his people can keep the establishment media at bay he stands a good chance at getting through to a greater amount of people who would otherwise continue to be led around by the globalist elite. Kellyanne Conway has made a good start.
Great article!
Blessings:-}
The British monarchy whom we defeated in our war for independence was, ironically, related to the very biblical families Thomas Paine wrote about. He recognized a conflict in that God had promised that “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples (Genesis 49:10, ESV).” The problem for Paine was that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, took the king captive and killed his sons effectively cutting off the monarchy. Or so he thought.
Remember, Judah was father to twins. Pharez, the firstborn’s line led to King David and Jesus. But Zarah stuck his arm out first and got the scarlet ribbon. By studying heraldry it is possible to follow the path of the scarlet ribbon through history. Irish legend has it that around 500 BC a wise man on a ship arrived with the daughters of a king, and an ancient stone called LIAFAIL that is also called Jacob’s Pillar! It has been used since then as a coronation stone for the kings of Ireland, then later in Scotland, and ever since, in London. The coronation stone provides the authority to the monarch being crowned. Without it, the monarchy would not be legitimate. It was last used in 1953 during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
“As Eochaidh was from the Zarah (of the ‘Red Hand’) branch and Teia Tephi was from the line of David of the Pharez branch of Judah, their marriage-union sealed the “breach” caused centuries earlier when Judah’s twin sons had been born. This marriage-union, that took place at “Rath na ri” (the Fort of the kings) at Tara, in Royal Meath, is symbolised on the Ulster flag, where the ‘Red Hand’ of Zarah is mounted upon the ‘Star of David’ under the single Royal Crown, symbolizing the union of the two royal lines, that sprang from Judah.”
I like that story. I am related to them. So is Jim. He is Quinn, of the sacred kindred you speak of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branches_of_the_Cen%C3%A9l_nE%C3%B3gain
The Voyage of Zarah – well written
http://www.magnificatmealmovement.com/study-points/the-voyage-of-zarah/
Just as promised in the Bible, there would be numbers of descendants like grains of sand.
However, I still do not like that the Bible has been edited by politicos. We shall see.
Thanks, Breeze! Great links!
Love the Biblical references. I often find that G+d usually chooses the younger born for His work. Twins always seem to cause trouble. David was the seventh son.
The prophet, Jerimiah, took Tamar, the daughter of the king to Ireland to wed the Irish king when the Babylonians were destroying Judea. He also took Jacob’s Pillow, the stone headrest Jacob was sleeping on when he had the vision of the angel ladder from heaven. This stone eventually became The Stone of Scone. However, the Scotts have hidden it, until they get their freedom. The English have been crowned sitting over a sandstone door stop.
I don’t know, Virginia. I spent a lot of time in Westminster Abbey studying the coronation stone before they moved it to Scotland and it looked pretty authentically ancient to me with the weathered iron rings and the large groove on the top presumably caused by the friction from being carried by poles in the wilderness for 40 years. The stone itself appeared to be like a type of granite with lots of different colors when you got close to it. If it’s a fake, it’s an exceptional one.
Masterful use of the english language, perhaps some of the best rabble rousing written since Thomas Paine himself. Had to stop several times to give a fist pump and shout YES!
Lets hope this gets picked up by the burgeoning real media and cross posted in places like Brietbart and Zero Hedge. The only way to defeat these Trotskyites is if the populace is truly aware and the Cheka are shot on sight. And the Cheka are coming don’t doubt it a bit. They will try to describe it as home invasions or car accidents or other seeming “normal” occurrences. Don’t travel alone once you speak out like The Mighty Quinn. Hope he knows his mechanic and never parks his car in public places. Seriously sir, elevate your situational awareness.
I think Quinn’s article is sublime however Beeherder, I can’t help but feel this is kinda what Larken Rose has been saying for the last 6 years…
What’s your take on that?
A lot of the readers here are clearly sympathetic to the libertarian creed.
I would point out, however, that Paine lived in an America with almost literally no government organized infrastructure.
The same cannot be said for the Britain he left.
The true purpose of government in general is not defense or protection of property rights, but rather the development and maintenance of public works. Utilities, roads, dams, irrigation canals, railroads – the list goes on and on. There is one form of government which does primarily focus on property rights and defense: feudalism.
I agree that our present government has long since overstepped its mandate into self-serving corruption, but the solution is not to slay the golden goose.
The solution is to bring back into focus what government is supposed to be doing as opposed to the Congressional/Presidential/wealthy donor feudal system we have now – eerily mimicking the feudal lord/feudal king/moneylender setup of yore.
My favorite piece ever on this site. Particularly resonant to me since I am working on a book about ancestors prominent in the Revolutionary War. Can Trump really liberate us from the neocon betrayers of the nation for whom 9/11 was the corner stone of new police state superstructure and an excuse for enriching certain interest groups? Will he fall into line, not truly understanding the nature of the beast ? I don’t know. It may depend on how seriously some of those serving in the military and intelligence agencies take their oath to the Constitution. We cannot load our muskets and surround the capital building demanding a proper investigation of 9/11, nor can we allow a government of corporate bureaucrats to replace the ranks of state functionaries. We are faced with the very difficult task of ridding ourselves of some very dangerous people who have shown themselves willing to attack their fellow citizens or sacrifice them in wars motivated by private gain. Yet we have to remain civil and indeed kind to each other across a wide spectrum of the population. The more we dig into the truth the more we should see that our
political differences pale compared to the differences between us regular citizens and the Washington power brokers. But it is going to a hard time. One of my ancestral grandfathers signed the Declaration of Independence and saw all his property put to the torch and his wife so abused in a British prison that she died shortly after Washington arranged for her release by threatening the wife of a prominent Tory with similar treatment.
Well said, John!
So much universal truth compacted in one in one article JQ, but what would Paine think of the fruits of his efforts to free the colonists today? Could remaining loyal to the King turned out any worse ?
“Paine believed the British monarchy had too much power over the lives of the colonists.”
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“Three generations have passed since Paine’s words inspired a revolution, but they ring as true today as they did during that fateful year of 1776. ”
Typo alert……. three.
Great article.
It’s been 240 years which equals 3 long human lives of 80 years. Ties in exactly with the three Fourth Turnings since the American Revolution.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to attempt to correct that.
GREAT article! Tying current events to our original revolution is powerful. The clarity, insight, impact and scope of your writing is outstanding. You’ve created a masterpiece for sure. Wow!
I believe that the normal time/duration in reference to a “generation” usually means about 35 years, but is a very trivial comment.
I take astrology with a pound of salt, but there seem to be various correlative phenomena throughout our unfathomable universe. The last time Pluto was in Capricorn, 240-odd years ago (3 X 80), there was the American Revolution; and here is a list of the rest of historical revolutions, or giant ends to eras, including the rise of Christianity:
Also, Uranus goes around the sun approximately for each Fourth turning, or average human lifespan (a bit over eighty years); so, three times around the sun for each time Pluto does it. If we’re at the cusp of a Fourth Turning AND at a Pluto-in-Capricorn societal revolutionary period . . . cue Rod Serling – or the Manhattan Transfer:
I have been looking at that too. I am no astrology expert, but our ancestors certainly were.
Who knows, we seem to be discovering that history itself needs to be reviewed.
Also, you might notice if you look at Bible analogies, Moses and the golden calf, Don’t worship the Bull (Taurus) it was the Age of Aries at that time. (Lamb of God?) Also Jesus, lots of fish analogies there – Age of Pisces? Hmmn.
This is a very good look at it, No offense to anyone intended.
http://www.usbible.com/Astrology/bible_dates.htm
from Wikipedia:
A familial generation is a group of living beings constituting a single step in the line of descent from an ancestor.[4] In developed nations the average familial generation length is in the high 20s and has even reached 30 years in some nations.[5] Factors such as greater industrialisation and demand for cheap female labour, urbanisation, delayed first pregnancy and a greater uncertainty in relationship stability have all contributed to the increase of the generation length from the late 18th century to the present. These changes can be attributed to both social factors, such as GDP and state policy, and related individual-level variables, particularly a woman’s educational attainment.[6] Conversely, generation length has changed little and remains in the low 20s in less developed nations.[5][7]
Michael. It is lifespan than drives turnings not age when folks that have kids. The Great Depression lives now only in history books. Sure there are a few that still lived thru that but soon they will be gone. Things come to pass because folks deny the lessons learned. Sensible people don’t repeat horrible experiences if they can help it. For those who just read about it there has and always will be the strong urge to feign ignorance, comfort themselves by saying it can’t happen to me.
Stats from around this time last year;
There were 94,044,000 Americans not participating in the labor force according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Overall, the labor force participation rate is 62.8%. So how does the gov’t run media report a 5% unemployment rate? When the real unemployment numbers are above 30%. They lie.
The height of the Great Depression saw an unemployment rate of 25%. The Great Depression is now. The gov’t is able to hide it in the EBT cards and welfare checks and SSDI etc. The gov’t prints money from thin air then uses it to pay people to not work. Someone must pay the debt accruing from this.
That is why the collapse that is happening will dwarf anything the world has ever seen before. This Ponzi scheme will now meet it’s pre determined end. I am in agreement with Ron Paul when he says not Trump or anyone else will be able to stop it. That is, if they really want to. Especially when the fed res bank starts raising interest rates. Just sayin’
You know why this news does not upset me. You too could have the same peace.
Blessings:-}
I’m good Ed.
So glad that you can cut and paste stats!
Keep fapping when you aint yapping!
You’re awesome!
Strauss/Howe’s table of saeculums and generations is on Wikipedia. Generally they display a generation anywhere between around 17-29 years, while a saeculum (long life as Admin describes) is 74-112 years, better said as approximately 80 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
Carl Icahn Praises Trump Speech: “Our Dangerous Slide Towards Socialism Is Over”
by Tyler Durden
Jan 23, 2017 10:30 AM
Having used words never before heard in a Presidential inauguration address:
bleed, carnage, depletion, disrepair, flush, Islamic, ripped, sad, rusted, sprawl, stealing, stolen, subsidized, tombstones, trapped, trillions, unstoppable…
President Trump has face criticism for his no-holds-barred speech – confirming his stance as an anti-establishment “America First” president. Trump advisor Carl Icahn told CNBC on the afternoon of the inauguration…
“Donald surprised me coming on so strongly about the establishment. I admire him for doing that.”
“I admire him for not just trying to say, ‘Wow. Let’s smooth it over. Let’s be buddies.’ I mean, he came on extremely strongly and he’s giving you a look at what the future, I think, is going to be.”
Icahn, Trump’s special advisor on regulatory reform, said he expects the 45th president of the United States to take a confrontational approach, to some extent. Yet he argued that may be a good thing because it will promote change.
“I think you have to break up this establishment. You have to stop the perception which we have in this country that the government is at war with business, that the government doesn’t like business and that’s what you’ve had for eight years with Obama,” Icahn said.
But his tweet this morning is perhaps the most succinct confirmation of what just happened…
@realDonaldTrump ‘s brilliant inaugural speech, defying worst critics, leaves no doubt our dangerous slide towards socialism is over.
He’s saying the right things and he’s doing the right things. I don’t know how we can ask more. Great job so far. Keep it up Trump.
Atlas Shrugged is happening, with President Trump as a combined Francisco D’Anconia, Hank Reardon, and Ragnar Danneskhold.
Is Ivanka (who is brilliant) our John Galt? ????
Definitely one of the best articles I’ve read for the cause of real liberty. I’ve seen it linked to at other sites already. A must read for the true patriot.
Blessings:-}
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The libs seem to equate “dark” with “evil”. Of course that was also the justification back when the Democrats kept slaves.
A great article and spot on. The next few years will be interesting for sure.
@JQ. Thomas Paine is a personal favorite for me too. However your statement rings false, “… like the wealthy colonial landowners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, Trump has taken a huge risk in fighting the Washington Deep State establishment to make government work for the people again.”
Sorry to bring rain on this inauguration parade but, it is much more likely that Trump was elected because the Deep State intended for him to be elected. Trump does talk different, but
talk is cheap. I find the essays of Allan Weisbecker to be most persuasive regarding it being extremely unlikely that The Deep State didn’t know and select who would win the presidential election. The idea that Trump will fight the Deep State is -unlikely in the extreme.
Thanks for the link Davido.
Blessings:-}
Davido,
Spot on player!! While Trump represented the general populace’s dissatisfaction with the two major political parties, he had to allow the RNC access to his inner circle in order to run a competitive campaign. From his VP on down the line there are hardcore, establishment Republicans on his staff. It is the same ol’ game…..give a few speeches, live up to a few insignificant campaign promises, and all the while the establishment boys will have their hands in the cookie jar. The untamed masses are truly that!! Easily distracted and ripe for the harvesting, once again!!!
Very well done. Best summation ever of the parallels between conditions present at the founding of the nation and what we face now. Sadly, too few people read anymore. Written ideas are beyond comprehension for many people.
I pray that many who still do read will read this and grasp the significance, the gravity of it.
Sincere thanks.
“…Where were these patriots for the last eight years as their savior president droned wedding parties, blew up hospitals in the Middle East, and oversaw the unlawful collection of personal data by his rogue NSA spies?….”
Gerald Celente says liberals are hypocrites. I agree.
Instead of attacking Trump, they should be making common cause against our true enemies.
Jim,
Benjamin Franklin, the American ‘hero’ was in reality an agent of British intelligence working towards the goal of transition of the American colonies from overt to covert control in a microcosm of what was taking place on a worldwide basis, as openly, monarchies were replaced by a manufactured ‘democracy’ to create the false impression of ‘government by the people, for the people.’
According to official history, the spark that ignited the conflict was when a band of men dressed as Mohawk Indians dumped all the tea from the British clipper, Dartmouth into Boston harbor. In reality, the ‘Indians’ were members of the St. Andrew’s Freemasonic lodge in Boston, led by their junior warden, Paul Revere. The easy access to the ship was facilitated with ‘insider’ help from the colonial militia detailed to guard the waterfront at Boston harbor.
The American War of Independence is a perfect example of a ‘people’s revolution’ being nothing of the kind.
The United States system of government was deliberately set up as a means of oppressing the needs and wishes of the population at large in favor of a wealthy elite.
The presidential system Americans live under is a uniquely American invention whose primary purpose is to obstruct legislative initiative.
The early American oligarchy wanted to keep democracy at bay. It also wanted to keep government at bay so it could conduct its business unhampered by government interference, except in those instances where it was looking for a handout.
Secrecy was written into the fabric of the U. S. Constitution.
The government, operating in secrecy, has a monopoly on truth. They know what they are doing. We don’t. And that is the way it is supposed to be.
It’s time for people to stop ignoring the reality we live in, with the continual heralding of the sacrosanct ‘founding fathers’.
Could it still be that so many still don’t understand that the victors write the history?
And the history we’ve been indoctrinated with, by our ‘educational’ system is not the reality underlying the so-called American Revolution.
And it’s also time to realize that Trump is just another in a long line of accomplices in the march toward Fascist Feudalism.
Cheers
I agree with much of your assessment of our country’s beginnings, yet there is countervailing evidence to the contrary. I don’t doubt that Franklin, Hamilton, and others were operatives. But Paine and Jefferson? Washington? Find a quotes site online and read Jefferson’s quotes. The insights are brilliant, numerous, and all against a powerful gov’t. He read history in the Greek and Latin. He understood the lessons of history, the consequences of all forms of governments that had been formed in the past. He wrote from the heart and the head and his words ring true to those of us who have seen for ourselves what liberty is and why we don’t have it now. He only gave a f ew speeches while president and when his term was up he left DC for Monticello and never came back, but he was a diligent correspondent. These are not traits of a man bent on helping along a deep state agenda.
I think one could made a compelling comparison between Trump and Julius Caesar. Not because Trump is Caesar’s equal, but because each of them recognized that the existing order of things had not kept up with the times and did not serve the interests of the people. Now if only Trump could emulate Caesar and cuckold his enemies 🙂
Davido- your assertions rest on the assumption the deep state is monolithic.
Tirebiter- So? All tangible results for individual liberty in these United States seem to render your contention invalid or meritless.
Who would you align with, Masons or Royals?
How about today, Masons or Marxists?
“War begets war, it never begets peace. ” ——- Lee @4:56
Awwwwww ….. that sounds sooooo niiice!!!
It’s also the one of the Biggest Piles Of Horseshit ever said on TBP, and that’s saying something.
one solid and long standing definition of “peace”
Peace is the result of war”.
One party wins, the other loses. The ones that lose have no more resistence, thus hostility ceases.
Tell it like it is Stucky.
That slogan could have started life in the Vagina Marches that festooned this Continent on Weekend. War does Beget War! So that first part is right. Where was all the righteous indignation was during previous Obama years. That man took a presumptive Nobel Peace Prize and parlayed it by running amok in MENA, The Former Soviet Union and of course Eastasia.
How the world has changed. During the counter culture protests of the 1960’s many rose up to fight the Established Order. What happened next would have likely surprised even George Orwell. As those in charge co-opted those opposed. No longer at war with Eastasia. They march now as the shock troops, the Red Coats, of the New World Order.
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The Facists have co-opted the Marxists. Used to implement a plan that doesn’t free but enslaves. Cheered on by washed up and worn out Media Icons like Madonna, the useful idiots marching in the streets protesting have been convinced that
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The results of this are that Sense is now seen as Uncommon.
Played, bought and paid for, these Renegades have been turned into a commercial enterprise by those working in the shadows of the Bohemian Grove. Some even get a Guest Starring role in the West wing.
Protesting that was once a fight for freedom, has devolved into a demand for continued enslavement. It should be hardly a surprise that the world has subsided into a pervasive Funk.
Rob, I actually went and saw that little band of marxists (Rage) twenty years ago. My electrician and the guy that runs my place dragged me along, I had never heard of them, they packed a big place. Very impressive band. I was surprised they had gotten that big and were totally off my radar.
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I like their music, the anger seems raw and real. The problem they had and have is that their popularity set them up to fail. It is I suppose the same for any Champion of the Left.
In accumulating wealth they join the very class they were supposedly fighting against. It must be hard to struggle with this dichotomy. It is a Con-game the players must embrace to prevail with ambition on the road to success.
In Politics it is the same way. Bernie Sanders made a career out of spending other peoples money. In doing so he became a Champion of the poor which made him very rich. But you wouldn’t know that from listening to him speak.
Still listen though to RATM. Maybe they are now imposters. For me, sometimes a song, like a Cigar, is just a song. Bernie on the other hand is an Old Man that is out of tune and off in beat.
OK, I don’t want to derail a great discussion from a great article but generations don’t start when you die at age 80. They start when women start having their babies. In the US, since 1970 this has been on average between 20 and 25 years of age. So let’s say that while women back in the 1700s were more likely to have their first child, and thereby start the next generation, in their teens, one can take a mean number of 20 years old for each mother and 20 years for the next generation to roll by. That clearly isn’t anywhere near three generations. It’s more like 12 generations. But that doesn’t change the authors point even slightly.
What are you going to do about it? It seems to me that the only real remedy is to make sure that none of frauds and chatelaines are ever allowed to pollute the halls of power again. Just vote and don’t vote for them. No matter who they are. No matter how good they are. No matter what party they are for or against. Once and done. Even the drooling masses can understand that mantra. It doesn’t matter who gets in as long as it isn’t them. And for now Trump appears to be the first once of the new “anybody but them” world order.
Thomas Paine would be down with this ditty….
After we sort this stuff out, we will have to deal with the Mohammedans. Armed conflict is a strong possibility some time in the next 10 years. I hope Jim is wrong but he makes a good case for his opinion.
Brilliant essay, Jim. Your BEST Work IMHO.
This should be in Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, NYT and LA Times but NEVER will be because they are ALL ELITIST STATISTS POSING AS POPULISTS
Thank you for the great article.
The Donald must find a way to get control over the dollars printing press immediately.
Jim, your writing has always been solid but you are entering a level of excellence that few American essayists have nailed in their careers. This is the kind of stuff that Emerson, Twain and McPhee would have been proud to put their name to. The perfect blend of facts, historical relevance and forward thinking that very few- if any- could put together.
I stand in awe of this last piece, thank-you.
And for the Trump doubters who cannot get past the persona, remember this; the times maketh the man. That gentleman may have entered this for a host of reasons, but the responsibility of what has taken place in the past two years has transformed him into a vessel of history and I think he knows it. Whether he is able to live up to the role remains to be seen, but we should pay close attention to what he has accomplished thus far and the direction we are headed today when one short year ago it would have been unimaginable.
It wasn’t unimaginable, hardscrabble. A year from now, people will be asking, If it was this easy, why didn’t we do this before?
“times maketh the man” and they will make James Quinn. He is becoming more widely read in multiple venues and people are recognizing wisdom when they see it.
You’re being way to harsh on HRH King George III. The man was hardly a “monarchial despot”. There were several undercurrents in the American Revolution that many people ignore. One is that the landed aristocracy in America, those vaunted “Founding Fathers”, were being prevented by the British government from expanding the colonies past the Appalachian Mountains and into the Ohio Valley. This is because such incursions before had led to a world war. The incursion into French territory (led by one George Washington) directly led to the Seven Years War (known here in the USA as the French and Indian War). Yup, George Washington started a world war.
As a result of this war, the British government said no more colonizing past the Appalachian Mountains, which put a real crimp in the Virginia land owner’s real estate speculation schemes.
Another aspect of this is that the taxes “tyrannically imposed upon the colonists” were being used to finance the British regulars who were DEFENDING THE COLONIES. In other words, the colonists, from the British point of view, wanted something (defense) for nothing (no taxes). The Americans were saying “no taxation without representation!” and the Brits were saying “What the hell America? You go and start wars that spin out of control, then demand defense, then don’t want to pay for it? Seriously?”
American historians condemn King George III for his “tyranny” in America, then they turn around & praise his brilliance in defeating a real tyrant (Napoleon) just a few years later!
Do you realize that the British, under King George III freed all their slaves? Yeah, that King George III.
Washington was a traitor who was looking to make a buck, and so were his “founding father” cohorts. Thomas Paine was a rabid atheist who lent his pen to legitimize the “Revolution”.
Lay off George III.
Poor King George. Like Dr. Pepper, so misunderstood.
That’s some serious revisionist history there. Guess it shows that Brits have their own share of mental midgets.
Hey, how’s that muslim town of London working out for ya? Got sharia? I’ll bet King George is turning in his grave.
Edit: Well, it looks like your taxi company is in Phoenix AZ. Doesn’t matter. I still think you’re a dumbfuk Brit.
Fantastic Strawman cabbie! Thomas Paine a rabid atheist. So what!
Hey, SOMEONE has to stick up for the Tories!
Wow! What part of the history that I cite is incorrect? (OK, I’ll admit I got it wrong on Paine being an atheist when he really was a Deist, but aside from that…)
Great Paul so you used Fantastic Deist Strawman. There is nothing wrong with your history. I just dont understand what Thomas Paine’s views on afterlife had to do with revolution. Maybe you can elaborate. There is no reason for myself or Admin to try and deconstruct that portion of your argument. You own that!
Thomas Paine was a deist you dumbfuck. Fuck inbred George and his rotten British teeth. I really should require an IQ test to weed out total fucking morons like you.
“Washington was a traitor who was looking to make a buck, and so were his “founding father” cohorts.”
“I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
I personally blame a bottle of fantastic Singleton single-malt scotch.
Seriously, though, King George III was a very complex character, and a quite devout Christian, who did several amazing things in his administration. His reign saw the end of slavery in the British Empire (peacefully I might add) and the defeat of the real tyrant, Napoleon Bonaparte.
From my personal observation, I think the British, rather than deliberately being tyrannical, made a series of serious political miscalculations, and did not realize the degree of anger they had engendered in the American colonies. If Lord Frederick North had been more in tune with what was going on in the colonies, and had listened to Sir Edmund Burke’s advice, the war could have been averted.
The anti-establishment reasons for voting for Trump, will fail as Trump shows himself to be a big spending moderate Repubicrat/Demoblican. He was great as a symbol, but in practice, fanning nationalist and protectionist flames will be bad for the country and its people. Perhaps if we can turn the lefts hatred of Trump into general hatred of govt, he can make a difference
Another great read. Bravo! Agreed that the ‘word’ is getting out as to the root of the deep state. This is crucial because it will be too easy to deflect blame away from the bankers and their worldwide scheme of having the sole right to create currencies from nothing and charge the world interest on it. Way too easy. There are too many TV watchers in this country and those folks sadly will be easily led by the puppet masters. The centuries old Dumbing Down, Distracting, Dividing, and making the population Dependent has been a monumental success.
I pray that you are correct in your assessment of Trump. Yes the speeches and the first week in office look good for the cause of freedom. But look at what kind of people he chose for his administration. Bankers and billionaires. Look at his fortune, who his kids are married to, and how close he has to be to the banking establishment – his wealth is based on debt and the ultimate wealth creation activity in any fiat currency – asset trading. Do you really think he plans to throw the bankers under the bus and end the only thing responsible for bankers owning the world? Sorry, I don’t buy it.
When Trump audits and ends the Fed and brings this country back on the constitutional gold and silver standard then, and only then, will we know that he is for real. I’m afraid that he can and will do a world of good rolling back the ridiculous taxation, regulation, corruption, legislation and the insane gay, transgendered, unisex bathrooms, weird shit that the recent ’empty suit’ faggot in chief pushed so heavily.
But to ease up on the tyranny and throw a few bones to the populace is simply a very smart distraction designed to appease people and misdirect them. There is no chance of removing the yoke of tyranny if bankers still create currencies from nothing, buy up all of the world’s resources and politicians, and then have their media/academia/entertainment industries spin it so that the people are happy to wrap chains arounds their own necks.
How Trump deals with the Fed will be the tell. I sincerely hope I am dead wrong and Jim Quinn is right. I predict Trump will not end the Fed (might possibly conduct a sham audit), but will throw ole Yellen under the bus, install another puppet Fed head, and thus preserve the bankers hammerlock on humanity.
Too bad comments on a spectacular article always degenerate into infighting about irrelevant topics.
Cab Driver, by the way, Napoleon marched his armies to Italy and imprisoned the pope and Napoleon re instituted the gold standard in a totally burned out by inflation France. Napoleon was a good guy despite history fake news, so there!
Fantasy cellmates I’d like to see, Clinton and Soros.
As it was in the time of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Scientists just successfully cloned a pig human embryo. If all the elites are traveling to Antarctica to see PlanetX, Niburu, come in, things will get interesting. Hell is going to be very crowded, I pray I and some good folks are going the other way.
If you want to get a feel for what it was like living under British rule in the colonial era, read Timothy Egan’s “The Immortal Irishman,” a biography of Thomas Meagher. The book’s chronicles of what the Irish had to deal with gives a person a good idea of what American colonists were experiencing from the British government. It is no wonder that rebellion grew in America first, then later in Ireland. America’s great fortune was in having arms nearly equal to the British and an ability to make more. Ireland’s misfortune was to have only pitchforks and torches resulting in another century of monarchial subjugation.
Now after two centuries of substantial freedom for most inhabitants, we have witness a growth of imperial government in America with power that far exceeds that which the Founders complained of in the indictment of tyranny we call the Declaration of Independence.