America – A Short Story (ver 2.0)

America, a Short Story

Reposting an expanded version for the Fourth of July because it is important on this day to know what was lost.

The American Revolution and Its Aftermath

The American revolutionaries could be subdivided into two allied “factions”:

Faction 1: anti-monarchist patriots who valued and were willing to risk their lives for liberty and freedom consisting primarily of yeoman farmers, small crafts, tradesmen and entrepreneurs; and,

Faction 2: anti-monarchist elites consisting of larger mercantilists, financial elites, other members of the colonial ruling class and Masons who wished to secure the vast new continent as their fiefdom.

The liberty and freedom-loving Americans came to be known as the “Anti-Federalists”. The elites came to be known as the “Federalists”.

 

The Gadsden Flag, Not a Federalist Banner

The opposition of both factions to the Monarch preceeded the Colonial period and continued to play out in the Colonies. Important to recognize is that although both were opposed to the Monarchy, their motivations were inherently incompatible.

The patriots wanted liberty and freedom. The elites wanted to step into the Monarchy’s shoes.

The divisions surfaced soon after the American Revolutionary War ended in 1783; first with “Shay’s Rebellion” (1787 to 1788) followed a few years later by the “Whiskey Rebellion” (1791 to 1794).

Anti-Federalist Rebellion Plaque, as Told by the Federalists

Both post-revolutionary rebellions saw the freedom and liberty-loving anti-Federalist patriots crushed by their elite allies. The principals for which most of the foot-soldiers of the revolution sacrificed, fought and died, ended with the last of the two rebellions.

Insofar as the majority of those who fought for it were concerned, America lasted 11 years.

“[The] popular account of Shays’s Rebellion is a highly distorted one, however. Far from being a mob of destitute farmers, Shays and his approximately 4,000 fellow rebels ranged from the heavily indebted and poor to the wealthy and well-to-do. Moreover, there is absolutely no correlation between debt and the backcountry towns of Massachusetts that rebelled. A large number of the rebels were veterans of the Revolutionary War, including Daniel Shays. The rebellion had popular support in western Massachusetts. Even those who did not actively take up arms were sympathetic to the rebel cause. Indeed, nearly all of the citizen militia either refused to suppress the rebellion or joined forces with the rebels. And the authorities in Boston were well aware of this.” See:http://gaplauche.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SAFC.pdf?x28569

“The authorities” meaning Adams and the Massachusetts elites (i.e., the MA Federalists).

Adams and Washington led the counter-attack against Shays Rebellion and its aftermath. Shays and the Whiskey Rebellions were genuine uprisings of the yeoman farmers, landowners trades and working class, small merchants and former revolutionary soldiers. Shays and the Whiskey Rebellions were direct expressions of popular dissatisfaction with the Federalists and their elite sponsors.

The anti-Federalist writers arguments against the Constitution were consistent with the popular support for Shays and Whiskey Rebellions. They rightly perceived and characterized the threat to liberty and freedom posed by the Federalists and the elites, as did those who rose up in the two rebellions.

The anti-Federalists (and here I refer to the writers, rather than their sympathizers) fought back with words and ideas rather than by taking up arms.

As with Shays and the Whiskey Rebellions, they lost their fight.

Absent the Constitution, the anti-Federalist strains in American politics (as represented by the Shays and Whiskey Rebellions) would have likely continued in the North. With the Constitution, the anti-Federalist strains became increasingly marginalized and geographically isolated to the point they are now seen by most as anachronistic, if not unpatriotic.

Leading the campaign against their former revolutionary allies were men enshrined in the history books as the “Founding Fathers”. These included George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and James Madison.

Not a single anti-Federalist can be found among them, Jefferson notwithstanding.

Jefferson is complicated. He had anti-Federalist sympathies, nevertheless he supported the Constitutional coup over the Articles of Confederation subject to inclusion of the Bill of Rights. Which makes him a lower case federalist.

As he wrote in the draft of his inaugural address: “we are all republicans: we are all federalists”

The anti-Federalists names and the pseudonyms under which they wrote have been largely forgotten. They include: Federal Farmer (Richard Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee’s Uncle) Agrippa (John Winthrop) Brutus (Melacnton Smith) and Centinel (Samuel Bryant).

It’s obvious which faction won the Revolutionary War by who negotiated the Treaty of Paris that formalized Britain’s surrender of its American colonies. The negotiators were: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson and Henry Laurens. No anti-Federalist was present. Those supporting the principals of freedom and liberty from the revolutionary era were largely forgotten, Patrick Henry and George Mason being perhaps the primary exceptions.

Shortly after adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights the Federalist’s sought to repress and criminalize domestic dissent with passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

The new Constitution that replaced the Articles of Confederation under which the Colonies first allied largely followed “the Virginia Plan”. Under the Virginia Plan large elements of State sovereignty were to be ceded to a Centralist Federal authority in law if not in effect.

Were either of the two post-revolutionary rebellions to have succeeded and spread, the Founding Fathers (save, perhaps Jefferson) might have been marked as traitors. Although clearly reluctant to sell out his patriot allies who best conformed to his ideal of a nation of agrarian citizen (white) farmers, Jefferson remained true to his class if not vulnerable to persuasion (Sally Hemmings, cough, cough).

As originally approved by the Constitutional Convention the Federalist Constitution failed to include the Bill of Rights, without which it would have surely failed ratification.

Although he was in Paris at the time of the Constitutional Convention, Jefferson lent his support for dispatching the Articles of Confederation in favor of a Federalist Constitution provided it contained a Bill of Rights.

Jefferson safely sat out the 8-year long Revolutionary War. He tended to his minimal duties as Governor of revolutionary-era Virginia and his to his two Virginia estates, Monticello and his lesser known estate in nearby Bedford, Poplar Forest. Jefferson’s quiescence during the Revolutionary War is notable given his fellow revolutionaries were being chased through  the colonies. Jefferson’s quiessence stands in stark contrast to his interest in the French Revolution that occurred while he was the American Ambassador to the French Court. Jefferson’s correspondence shows he and his attache’ would regularly walk the streets of Paris to observe the street battles that were occurring.

Jefferson was a chicken-hawk who advocated Indian removal.

He authored the Declaration of Independence in which we find this clause in his recitation of his Bill of Particulars against the British Crown:

“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” — U.S. Declaration of Independence

Yes, those merciless savages who resisted raped  the innocent settlers encroaching upon their lands.

Jefferson would later call for the removal of the Cherokee and the Shawnee.

When Jefferson became the third President of the Federalist Republic he opposed much of the Federalist platform. Jefferson ceased collecting the Whiskey tax and pardoned some who were imprisoned under the Alien and Seditions Act. Against his better inclinations, he left Hamilton’s First National Bank intact.

It’s difficult for those of us born and bathed in the American Federalist Empire to comprehend, but upon winning their independence, the original 13 States were sovereign nations under the Articles of Confederation. Contravening the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution imposed a centralist Federal(ist) power to the detriment of the sovereignty of the independent States and the free men (exclusively) who dwelled therein.

The newly adopted Constitution and the appended Bill of Rights was nothing less than a counter-revolutionary Federalist coup to enshrine a strong Centralist/Statist power capable of exercising control over the 13 colonies they had wrested from the British Monarchy.

The Constitution also enabled the Americans, through the Federalist State, free reign to deal with those troublesome savages on the frontier as they wished.

Westward

The western expansion of the Federalist Republic waspreceded by that of the Colonies whose western most boundaries were indefinite. The British had a tough time managing the frontier to avoid war with the French and their Native allies.

In the post-revolutionary phase westward expansion was no longer constrained by such considerations particularly after the French were relieved of their North American domains in the chaos that ensued after the overthrow of the French Monarchy.

In the wake of the chaos set off by the fall of the French Monarchy the French were paid to quit claim their North American possessions via the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase was accomplished by Jefferson upon his becoming the President after his return from Paris.

North America After the Louisiana Purchase

Most who pushed westward in the aftermath of the American revolution were yeoman farmers, trades and craftsmen, traders, hunters and small merchants seeking free and abundant (formerly Native Indian) land. Among them were those who bore anti-Federalist sentiments, happy nevertheless to receive Native lands ceded to, or appropriated through war, coercion, theft or treaty abrogation by the Federalist government.

Many who pushed west were financed, and soon followed and taxed, by the eastern elites. After the War Between the States (aka, “the Civil War”), and with the onset of the industrial era, those elites became the robber baron and rent-seeking monopolists who became know as “the Trusts” in the latter part of the 1800’s. The owners of these trusts included such names as the Morgans, Mellons, Pierpont, DuPonts, Rockefellers, et. al., ad nauseum.

Whether by treaty, starvation, extermination, slaughter or force of arms, the native Nations were obliterated, confined or pushed further west.

This pattern played out until much of the American continent was ultimately secured for the Federalists.

Revenge of the Anti-Federalists

After the post-revolutionary rebellions were put down and the new Constitution codified their victory the Federalists faced their old enemy again.

The Federalists represented the interests of the non-Noble elites, primarily the banking, financial, mercantilist, trade, industrial (later) and shipping sectors. Andrew Jackson referred to these interests as “the money power”.

The money power represented a competing power base to the Monarchy that sought to either destroy the Monarchy (as in France) or become independent thereof (as in the American colonies).

In America the money power imposed and created a path to seize control from the independent States through the Federalist Centralist government with the constitutional coup over the articles of Confederation.

The War of 1812 renewed the alliance of the rump anti-Federalist and Federalist factions against the British Monarchy over their shared interest in western expansion and anti-Monarchism.

Among those who pushed west into Indian country was Andrew Jackson. Jackson was the first of two anti-Federalists to gain the Presidency. Jackson made his reputation as an “Indian fighter” and as an advocate for the “common man”. He gained even greater acclaim as the victorious General in the Battle of New Orleans that saw the end of the War of 1812.

Jackson was denied the Presidency by the eastern elites when he first ran for the office.

Jackson persisted. After he gained the Presidency in 1829, Jackson continued the wars against the native Nations as he won key victories against the Federalists. Most notably, he secured Georgia, the Carolinas and Florida by removing the Cherokee (who allied with the British and Spain) and subjugating or exterminating other southern Tribes. He helped to remove Texas from the domains of Mexico. Jackson also defeated the Hamiltonian Second National Bank, the agent of the eastern elites and financial interests. It was the most decisive defeat the Federalists ever sustained.

The Factions Join for the Last Time

The Mexican-American War (1846 to 1848) secured Texas and the southwest for the Federalists from Mexico. The war was started by the Americans whoclaimed that the Texas border extended to the Rio Grande, rather than the more northerly Nueces River. The Mexicans did not take it well when the Americans moved troops into the disputed territory.

Few remember it today, but American troops, Commanded by General Winfield Scott, landed in Veracruz, Mexico. Together with his aides and Generals and junior officers including Ulysses Grant, Robert E. Lee and George Armstrong Custer, Scott’s forces fought their way into the Mexican highlands and occupied Mexico City. Demonstrating yet again the Federalist and anti-Federalist’s common cause in territorial expansion.

Terms were dictated to the Mexicans that saw the remainder of the Southwest and California annexed into the Union. Shortly thereafter gold was discovered in the newly acquired California territory.

The Federalists Strike Back; The War Between the States

Fort Sumter, the Federal Redoubt guarded the Federal Tariff collection point in Charleston Harbor.

Little more than a dozen years after the Mexican-American War, Scott’s aides, generals and junior officers went on to fight each other in what was characterized by Lincoln as the War to Preserve the Union. Lincoln offered Command of the Federalist Army of the Republic to Robert E. Lee.

Lee had to think about it. He stayed true to his family anti-Federalist tendencies and to his country, the sovereign state of Virginia.

The owners of the vast Southern plantations arguably had greater commercial ties to the British than to their Northern countrymen. Nor did too many of the South’s free men have much sympathy for the Federalist cause. As the last redoubt of anti-Federalists advocating their Constitutionally enshrined “states rights”, the South had to be brought into submission.

The South, was unwilling to commit economic suicide by allowing their economy to be destroyed by punitive Federal tariffs, or political suicide by ceding their rights under the reserve powers clause. The South wanted the punitive Federal tariffs and the Federal agents and forces who enforced their collection removed. The tariffs were economic warfare against the South that was largely dependent upon exports of raw goods to England and finished goods in return.

The Colonial-era Townshed Act tariffs imposed by the British on tea and other items imported to the colonies were to collect a trifling 40,000 Pounds. The tea tax that sparked the Boston Harbor Tea Party was trivial compared to the confiscatory 40 percent tariff the Federalists imposed on vital Southern imports.

The South’s refusal to commit economic and political suicide compelled the Federalists to bring the rebellious Southern states to heel by force of arms.

The purpose for the Federalist War to Preserve the Union was not to free slaves, but to extinguish the anti-Federalists as a political force once and for all. Abolishing slavery was the result of the Civil War, it was not its cause. Conflating abolition of slavery as the North’s purpose is historical revisionism to justify the greatest slaughter of non-Natives on the North American continent.

Lincoln’s economic War against the South turned into a shooting war when South Carolina attempted to evict the Federalist tariff collectors and troops occupying forts in Charleston Harbor.

It took the Founder’s generation to die off for the Federalists to finish off their domestic opposition for good. Few who experienced the Civil War retained a living memory of the confiscatory Colonial-era tariffs, the Articles of Confederation, Shay’s and the Whiskey rebellions.

When the Southerners realized their position within the Union was untenable they began to exercise their Constitutional right to secede from the Union consistent with the Constitution’s reserved powers clause.

As Greece is learning now with respect to the EU, the Federalist Constitution was a non-revocable suicide pact for the States. The Southern States could secede, but they would never be allowed to leave. Lincoln invaded and Federalist supremacy was imposed at the cost of 500,000 American lives and the decimation, through total war waged upon the south and its civilian population at the hands of Lincolns Generals.

Freeing slaves was a tactic by Lincoln to foment a slave revolt in the still unconquered areas of the Southern states.

In the South, Lincoln’s War was known as the War of Northern Aggression. Whatever it was, it was NOT civil. Rather, it was the first example of total war waged (by the North) against a white civilian population (the South).

The North’s prosecution of the War to Preserve the Union was ruthless. Cities, towns and farms were burned and pillaged.

Sherman Burns Columbia, South Carolina

In the aftermath of the South’s defeat, anti-Federalism was purged as a significant force in American politics. The anti-Federalists have been nearly erased from public consciousness. Nary a statue marking the South’s resistance will remain. History must be made to conform to myth.

 The Federalist Empire

Abraham Lincoln’s militant brand of Federalism killed and wounded more Americans than all other Presidents combined.

At the end of the War of Northern Aggression the Federalists controlled all the land, wealth and a powerful war machine. The subjugation of the South proceeded along with the subjugation of the western Native Nations. Western expansion would continue westward under an exclusive (northern) Federalist franchise.

It hasn’t stopped since.

Before the close of the 19th century the Federalists under President William McKinley extended the Federalist Empire to as far as the Philippine archipelago.

The pretext for extending the Federalist Empire into the Pacific and the Caribbean was that the Spanish had supposedly blown up the U.S.S. Maine while it was anchored offshore Havana, Cuba. William Randolph Hearst and Mr. Pulitzer’s newspapers were instrumental in beating the war drums and distributing the propaganda. E.g., “Remember the Maine”, the Rough Riders and Battle of San Juan Hill in which Theodore Roosevelt played a minor role compared to that of the black Americans troops, the “Buffalo Soldiers”.

It is just as plausible the coal-fired U.S.S. Maine suffered a fuel bunker fire of unknown origin that caused its own munitions to explode. Nevertheless, the sinking of the Maine was an auspicious opportunity to provoke war hysteria among the American public. The sought-after Spanish-American War accomplished its purpose by enabling the Federalists to seize Spanish domains in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It also made Theodore Roosevelt famous in the mythologizing of his supposed “charge” up San Juan Hill in Cuba. Three years later, Theodore was elected President.

The Federalists found war abroad be quite very lucrative and useful. As with the U.S.S. Maine and the crossing of the Rio Grande by Mexican troops, the Federalists made sure to supply the necessary pretexts that were to precede every subsequent U.S. war.

It’s an old trick that has yet to fail.

Under President Wilson the Federalists were strong enough to establish an alliance of equals with the old enemy, Britain. The purpose of which was to defeat Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the only Western powers that might thwart their hegemony.

Mount Rushmore, in the Land of the Sioux

Mount Rushmore, begun in 1927 and sculpted in the sacred Black Hills of the vanquished Sioux, is the pre-eminent monument to the most accomplished Federalist Presidents until that time. Here we have (from left to right) a slaveholder and Mason; the first liberal hypocrite being a slaveholder who consorted with and sired children with his slave, Sally Hemmings, as he advocated liberty and freedom exclusively for white men; a Federalist “progressive” whose legend as war hero in the War that established the Federalist Empire was largely manufactured by the mass media; and a mass murderer and war criminal.

Separation of Powers

The last vestige of State sovereignty in the Constitution fell in 1912 when the 17th Amendment was ratified that allowed for direct election of the U.S. Senate.

We are taught the genius of the Founding Fathers was the separation of Federal power across three branches of government – the Executive, Legislative and Judicial. In fact, the Constitution separated power into four branches: Executive, Judicial, the People (the House) and the States (Senate).

The Constitution’s separation of powers was not a wobbly three-legged stool. Rather, it was a solid four-legged chair, one leg of which was sawed off and discarded in 1912.

That fourth leg was the ultimate constraint upon the powers of the other three. The fourth leg became a useless appendage after Lincoln eviscerated the reserve powers clause by invading the Southern states after which Reconstruction assured sufficient Federalist sympathizers and allies represented the South in both legislative bodies.

The 17th Amendment was the last nail in the anti-Federalist coffin. It prevents any hope the States can re-assert their lost sovereignty as a fourth center of power. The States, whose independence was the original purpose of the American revolution, are nothing insomuch as subservient Duchy’s and administrative arms of the Centralist Federalist government.

Jackson’s crowning victory over the Federalist/Hamiltonian Second National Bank was overturned a year later when the Federal Reserve was established. The Federal Reserve Act  realized the dream of the eastern elites and Federalists to control money, debt and credit. Originally given a 20-year charter, in a final Congressional act of perfidy Congress granted the Federal Reserve an indefinite Charter in 1927 at the beginning of what was to become the Great Depression. It was an unusual reward. The Federal Reserve created the economic catastrophe as a result of the “Roaring Twenties” credit boom it fueled by its reckless policies.

Maintaining economic stability is not and never was the purpose of the Federal Reserve, which is a private corporation. Rather, its purpose was and remains to place the Federalists and their elite allies in firm control of the money supply, public and private debt.

Had it had been sculpted in the late 1940’s, Mount Rushmore would surely have included the visages of Woodrow Wilson (yet another war criminal who re-imposed Hamilton’s National Bank as the Federal Reserve) and Franklin Roosevelt (another liberal poser who created the imperial Executive Office of the Federalist Empire, the national security and the welfare state).

The Federalist national security state emerged from World War II firmly entrenched. It has been seriously challenged only once with the election of the second anti-Federalist President, John F. Kennedy.

And we all know how that ended.

The End

On July 4th, 2017, the Articles of Confederation are long-forgotten and any limits on Federal power retained in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been amended or litigated away, or simply ignored by the Federalist National Security State of America. We live in a Federalist Controlled State in which secret courts, torture, and virtually every form of public and private communication is monitored and collected.

We are in what may be the final stages of the Federalist Empire. Resistance its subjects and vassal states is futile. Non-vassals are dealt with as necessary according to the laws of the jungle.

Barring a nuclear exchange, as with every empire before the Federalist Empire will need to collapse of its own weight through over-reach. None can say when or the circumstances by which the Federalist Empire will end. But it won’t be pretty.

Trump’s election was the last desperate expression of the anti-Federalist strain in American politics. The incoherent Trump, however, has shown himself to be a stealth Federalist pushing anti-Federalist buttons.

We can only hope the Federalist neo-con Empire will not end in a mushroom cloud.

If so, it will be triggered or instigated by a Federalist.

From the Federalist Occupied States of America, July 4th, 2017

Author: Centinel

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