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Was Andrew Jackson A Fraud?

by Anton Chaitkin

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Look back, from our present national disintegration, into the defiantly optimistic thinking of the Americans of the 1776 Revolution. They foresaw their grandchildren prospering, with power over nature beyond all prior experience.

Understand them by reading the prophecy of Benjamin Franklin, in the accompanying box.

The founding Americans’ passion for improvement could bring a profound result for prosperity, but only if the Revolutionary country could control its own economy against the global power of the British Imperial enemy.

Acting for their grandchildren’s survival, the Founders set up the Bank of the United States to guide the economy and foster the necessary fundamental change.

This founding nationalist framework of our first Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, disputed by Thomas Jefferson and his allies, was nevertheless retained by them; when it expired, they revived it.

Britain’s American political agents made Andrew Jackson President, and with populist noise, he took down the National Bank, ceding control to the Money Power centered in London.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“A standing military force, with an overgrown executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”

James Madison

“Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.”

George Washington

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”

C. S. Lewis

“We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something about it.”

Ron Paul

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“When the government’s boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.”

Gary Lloyd

“We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties.”

Ron Paul

“Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”

James Madison

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”

Milton Friedman

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”

H. L. Mencken

“All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.”

Ayn Rand

“A standing military force, with an overgrown executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”

James Madison

“Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.”

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future.”

Marcus Aurelius

“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.”

William S. Burroughs

“Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”

James Madison

“And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

Real Patriotism on Memorial Day Means Losing Fewer Soldiers in Meaningless Wars

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Most people, when thinking of Memorial Day—if they don’t confuse it with Veterans Day—think of the start of the summer season or great sales at the stores and online. Yet the holiday is supposed to honor those who died in America’s wars. Even some of the limited remembrance on TV and in the news is more superficial than deeply reflective.

Perhaps the greatest tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice might be to reduce the number of those who die in future wars. Unfortunately, throughout US history, but especially after the Cold War ended, politicians of both parties have been too quick to send American boys (and now girls) into harm’s way, rather than thinking of war as a last resort – as the nation’s founders did.

The original patriots realized the expenditure of blood and treasure for the leaders’ political goals usually fell to common citizens. The founders believed that war severely undermined the American republic.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country.”

James Madison

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Robert Heinlein

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COMMON SENSE – 2017 (PART TWO)

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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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”

James Madison

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

James Madison

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

James Madison

“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”

James Madison

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

James Madison, Federalist Papers