The Civil War

Guest Post by The Zman

America is a land that bans books, has political prisoners and condemns people to a form of internal exile where they cannot have a job or maintain a normal life. Ten years ago, if someone said Americans would lose their jobs because they liked something on social media, only the aluminum foil hat types would have believed it. Such things were considered impossible just a decade ago. In the 1980’s, these were the sorts of things that happened in the Soviet Union, which was why communism was considered evil.

Yet, here we are, seeing things we thought impossible not so long ago. This is a clip from a television show aired on one of the legacy networks. The video is a naked call for violence against whites. Even after all of the outrageous behavior we have seen from the ruling class the last few years, no reasonable person would have thought this was possible even a year ago. Even the Soviets at the worst were not exhorting people to commit acts of violence against enemies of the revolution.

Up until now, it was reasonable to think that the paleocons were right. The Left was using excited language in an effort to keep their coalition of non-white tribes focused on white men, rather than their many grievances with one another. That sounded logical and let’s face it, it is what most normal white people want to believe. After all, the implication of this line of reasoning is that the Left is struggling to keep it together. We don’t have to worry about facing them in a fight, as they will splinter and abandon the field.

The travelling partner to this line of thought comes from the principled conservatives, who are always ready to create a new set of conservative principles to excuse the excesses of the Left. Without acknowledging the paleocons, they implicitly accept the argument, but add on that the more sober minded on the Left will see the folly of their actions and begin to rein in their crazies, before anything serious happens. This is when they accuse the dissident right of harming civility and appeal to the Left for bipartisanship.

It’s not hard to see why normal middle-class white people find this appealing. They live ordered lives and just want to be left to live those ordered lives in peace. What they don’t want to see is violence in the streets and they certainly don’t want to be asked to confront those violent crazies on their streets. The Danegeld gets a bad reputation, but it is easy to understand the appeal in the moment. The current version is the Prog-geld, where the civilized concede a little bit of civilization, in order to avoid fighting the Prog.

This cycle where the Left commits outrages against civility and the white middle-class accommodates it, has led to where we are now. The people calling themselves the defenders of democracy tried to subvert the last Presidential election. The so-called social justice warriors celebrate a black movie star walking free after perpetrating a blood libel against white people. The defenders of open debate on the college campus, rush to suppress any opinion not on the increasingly narrow list of approved opinions.

That is an important clue. Spend time on social media and you see the people claiming to be the vanguard of the proletariat celebrating trillion dollar corporations stomping on poor guys holding the wrong opinions. The pampered Progressives in the ruling class imagine themselves to be the resistance against oppression. This justifies them using any means necessary to defeat their enemy. That video is a justification of preemptive violence, because they believe people like you are a threat to their well-being.

It’s why it is time think about what is impossible today, in terms of social breakdown, as it will most likely happen tomorrow. The blood lust of the ruling class for whites not obediently walking into the void, is now undeniable. Their response to the 2016 election was to declare war on white America. In their minds, it is a defensive war and they are fully justified to use any means necessary to win. There will be no point where they pull back, fearing they have gone too far. Instead they will always seek to go further.

Again, America is a land where books are banned, people are given long prison terms for holding unpopular opinions and the livelihoods of contrarians are destroyed. This is a land where gangs of roving mobs, financed by billionaires, commit violence against citizens without consequence. Now we have a major television network calling for violence against whites and celebrating violent acts against a specific person. All of this was thought to be impossible ten years ago. What impossible thing will tomorrow bring?

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Southern Sage
Southern Sage
April 14, 2019 12:07 pm

Civil war is inevitable. The only questions are when will outright fighting start, what will spark it and the exact form it will take. My advice is to prepare yourself mentally by recognizing that leftists and so-called Progressives, together with disloyal minorities and disloyal immigrants – legal or not – are not Americans. Exceptions can be made for loyal, patriotic minorities and immigrants, but the Progs are beyond mercy or compromise.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
  Southern Sage
April 14, 2019 3:18 pm

Wanna prep for what’s coming? Learn Russian or Chinese.

monger
monger
  NoThanksIJustAte
April 14, 2019 6:25 pm

Indeed this is a most likely outcome, providing you survive the initial “scorched earth” policy of the coming conflict

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  monger
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mark
  Southern Sage
April 14, 2019 11:00 pm

Legal maneuvers…as the States line up for sides in Civil War 2

http://thesentinel.net/politics/missouri-bans-all-federal-gun-control-laws-in-23-10-vote/

Harvey Goldbergblattsteinman
Harvey Goldbergblattsteinman
  Southern Sage
April 15, 2019 3:04 am

The fighting will start when the economy finally gives way and the only way the system can go on is to print money to keep the welfare going. Once strong inflation hits food prices the welfare underclass will sack the cities.

Anonym
Anonym
  Harvey Goldbergblattsteinman
April 15, 2019 10:44 am

Harvey, you know that, I know that, and the .gov knows that, and that is why it will never happen. Long before food runs and bank lines, there will be the straw that breaks the camels back, it will be that one singular event that triggers the next global wealth transfer from the many to the few. It will be a catastrophe for all those families that live paycheck to paycheck.

What?…what will be the sign? the suspense is killing me….
Will it be that AOC wins 2020 and begins the new green deal?
Will it be that CIA does a Dealey Plaza on Donney?
Will it be that Obozo comes out of the closet?
no, none of those things.

it will be when the price of a gallon of gas goes to $5, overnight, due to an pre-planned event over in the ME, as a distraction to political events here in the US, as usual.

steve
steve
April 14, 2019 12:10 pm

Cleared – Poem by Rudyard Kipling
(In Memory of a Commission)

Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt,
Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt!
From Queenstown Bay to Donegal, O listen to my song,
The honourable gentlemen have suffered grievous wrong.

Their noble names were mentioned — O the burning black disgrace! —
By a brutal Saxon paper in an Irish shooting-case;
They sat upon it for a year, then steeled their heart to brave it,
And ‘coruscating innocence’ the learned Judges gave it.

Bear witness, Heaven, of that grim crime beneath the surgeon’s knife,
The honourable gentlemen deplored the loss of life!
Bear witness of those chanting choirs that burk and shirk and snigger,
No man laid hand upon the knife or finger to the trigger!

Cleared in the face of all mankind beneath the winking skies,
Like ph]oenixes from Ph]oenix Park (and what lay there) they rise!
Go shout it to the emerald seas — give word to Erin now,
Her honourable gentlemen are cleared — and this is how: —

They only paid the Moonlighter his cattle-hocking price,
They only helped the murderer with counsel’s best advice,
But — sure it keeps their honour white — the learned Court believes
They never gave a piece of plate to murderers and thieves.

They never told the ramping crowd to card a woman’s hide,
They never marked a man for death — what fault of theirs he died? —
They only said ‘intimidate’, and talked and went away —
By God, the boys that did the work were braver men than they!

Their sin it was that fed the fire — small blame to them that heard —
The ‘bhoys’ get drunk on rhetoric, and madden at a word —
They knew whom they were talking at, if they were Irish too,
The gentlemen that lied in Court, they knew, and well they knew.

They only took the Judas-gold from Fenians out of jail,
They only fawned for dollars on the blood-dyed Clanna-Gael.
If black is black or white is white, in black and white it’s down,
They’re only traitors to the Queen and rebels to the Crown.

‘Cleared’, honourable gentlemen! Be thankful it’s no more: —
The widow’s curse is on your house, the dead are at your door.
On you the shame of open shame, on you from North to South
The hand of every honest man flat-heeled across your mouth.

‘Less black than we were painted’? — Faith, no word of black was said;
The lightest touch was human blood, and that, you know, runs red.
It’s sticking to your fist to-day for all your sneer and scoff,
And by the Judge’s well-weighed word you cannot wipe it off.

Hold up those hands of innocence — go, scare your sheep together,
The blundering, tripping tups that bleat behind the old bell-wether;
And if they snuff the taint and break to find another pen,
Tell them it’s tar that glistens so, and daub them yours again!

‘The charge is old’? — As old as Cain — as fresh as yesterday;
Old as the Ten Commandments — have ye talked those laws away?
If words are words, or death is death, or powder sends the ball,
You spoke the words that sped the shot — the curse be on you all.

‘Our friends believe’? — Of course they do — as sheltered women may;
But have they seen the shrieking soul ripped from the quivering clay?
They! — If their own front door is shut,
they’ll swear the whole world’s warm;
What do they know of dread of death or hanging fear of harm?

The secret half a county keeps, the whisper in the lane,
The shriek that tells the shot went home behind the broken pane,
The dry blood crisping in the sun that scares the honest bees,
And shows the ‘bhoys’ have heard your talk — what do they know of these?

But you — you know — ay, ten times more; the secrets of the dead,
Black terror on the country-side by word and whisper bred,
The mangled stallion’s scream at night, the tail-cropped heifer’s low.
Who set the whisper going first? You know, and well you know!

My soul! I’d sooner lie in jail for murder plain and straight,
Pure crime I’d done with my own hand for money, lust, or hate,
Than take a seat in Parliament by fellow-felons cheered,
While one of those ‘not provens’ proved me cleared as you are cleared.

Cleared — you that ‘lost’ the League accounts — go, guard our honour still,
Go, help to make our country’s laws that broke God’s law at will —
One hand stuck out behind the back, to signal ‘strike again’;
The other on your dress-shirt-front to show your heart is clane.

If black is black or white is white, in black and white it’s down,
You’re only traitors to the Queen and rebels to the Crown.
If print is print or words are words, the learned Court perpends: —

Harvey Goldbergblattsteinman
Harvey Goldbergblattsteinman
  KaD
April 15, 2019 3:06 am

99% chance the victim was white. There was a story like this a few days ago of some black man randomly grabbing a 5 year old white boy and throwing him through a 3 story window at a mall.

KaD
KaD
April 14, 2019 12:23 pm
BB
BB
  KaD
April 14, 2019 12:38 pm

Fucking parasites niggers . This is the reason I carry a gun on my person or in my truck everywhere I go.

NoThanksIJUstAte
NoThanksIJUstAte
  BB
April 14, 2019 5:34 pm

I’ve seen enough decent black people to not want to generalize like that.

steve
steve
  NoThanksIJUstAte
April 14, 2019 6:48 pm

There’s the talented 10% like Ms Owens and her grandfather. The rest are garbage and never forget it. If you do you will regret it.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr
  NoThanksIJUstAte
April 14, 2019 9:44 pm

You’re right, it’s the 95% that vote Democrat for racial discrimination laws and programs that give the rest a bad name.

Anonymous
Anonymous
April 14, 2019 12:44 pm

At the end of the day the Deplorable can’t be bothered to take time away from the NBA finals and his beer. He enjoys being spat on by Lebron and Stephen Curry too much.

That goes for the Deplorables in the military as well. Not a peep from a 1 of them as Obamma watched a SNUFF film in the war room while real heroes fought .

Can’t be bothered with Boycotting Starbucks . Can’t be bothered with sending their high school punk out to bag groceries or work for a landscaper either.

I feel no pitty for those stuck in Blue States either. None. Hope the Deplorable losses half the current value of his house.

In truth , I ve always hated the Deplorable more then the Bully. Ever since I was the fastest but smallest kid on the playground shooting my mouth off at every cheat.

You see . My hate is deeper for you then radical left.

AC
AC
April 14, 2019 1:04 pm

It’s worth noting that Spencer’s, apparently outrageous, position is that white people have rights, too.

The Left wants every last white person murdered, thus their outrage at Spencer’s position.

Dutchman
Dutchman
April 14, 2019 1:06 pm

Niggers are only good when it’s five against one.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte
April 14, 2019 3:11 pm

“Looks like we won’t have to fire a single shot to get rid of these stupid motherfuckers after all!”

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monger
monger
  NoThanksIJustAte
April 14, 2019 6:29 pm

that is not unfunny at all

TC
TC
April 14, 2019 9:14 pm

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WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable
April 14, 2019 10:55 pm

What’s with this phrase “Overton’s Window” I’m seeing all the sudden….2 uses in the past hour once in an article and just now in that video link to CBS raycism. Somebody is controlling the discourse in the U.S. and I’d like to know who???? We must break down the echo chamber.

AC
AC
  WestcoastDeplorable
April 14, 2019 11:45 pm

‘Overton Window’
https://www.mackinac.org/7504

The Left is whining about having completely lost control over defining the limits of political discourse.

The hatred of the Saxon is fully awakened. The killing is probably going to start in earnest soon.

Just a thought
Just a thought
April 15, 2019 12:59 am

So there are 2 Romans around ad 300 talking about what is. One says to the other – geese , I mean we are Rome – surely what can happen tour greater than great society. The other says, Visigoths – schmisigoths – I mean , give me a break. Meanwhile all of the newly imported slaves found the keys to the gates …

Harvey Goldbergblattsteinman
Harvey Goldbergblattsteinman
April 15, 2019 3:03 am

Jewish ruling class, projecting their hatred for the circumcisor onto the dominant force in whatever country they have infected..

wdg
wdg
April 15, 2019 7:59 am

And who is funding the thugs…George Soros of course. And who owns the propaganda and subversive MSM and social media? Who has taken over our banking and financial system and is running the US into the ground. Who now controls Congress and the presidency and is using this power to wage a War OF Terror around the planet? Who owns Hollywood and uses it to attack the European people and their civilization? Read the Talmud and then you will understand the satanic agenda. Focusing on symptoms and not the ultimate cause of our demise will waste a lot of energy and achieve little. The fact of the matter is that the New Bolsheviks are in charge and if you want to see the future, read Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago”.

grace country pastor
grace country pastor
April 15, 2019 6:33 pm

“…only the aluminum foil hat types would have believed it.”

I’ve always felt comfortable in such attire.

mark
mark
April 15, 2019 8:22 pm

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WAR WITHOUT END

State Colin Powell, and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz.

A sampling of their false statements is as follows:

1. On August 26, 2002, in an address to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vice-President Cheney said: “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”

2. On September 8, 2002, Cheney appeared on Meet the Press and announced: “We do know, with absolute certainty, that he [Saddam Hussein] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.”

3. On September 19, 2002, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told Congress that Saddam “has amassed large, clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX, sarin, and mustard gas.”

4. On September 28, 2002, President Bush in his weekly radio address to the nation said: “The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more, and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as forty-five minutes after the order is given . . . this regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one
within a year.”

5. On March 16, 2003, Vice-President Cheney appeared again on Meet the Press.
This time he said: “We believe he [Saddam Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

6. On May 29, 2003, President Bush, in an interview with Polish TV, declared: “We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They’re illegal. They’re against the United Nations resolutions, and we’ve so far discovered two. And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.”

BLOOD FOR OIL AND NATURAL GAS
None of it was true. No weapons of mass destruction had been found. No plans to develop nuclear bombs had been made. No biological laboratories that were fabricating sinister germ warfare. The laboratories that Bush declared the US invading forces had found turned out to be innocuous facilities that were manufacturing hydrogen for weather balloons.

Despite the fact that Saddam Hussein was dragged from a hole, placed on trial before a kangaroo court, and lynched, no ties between the Iraqi ruler and al-Qaeda were ever substantiated.The war was launched to create a strategy of tension within Iraq. This allowed Anglo-American big oil companies under control of the money cartel to seize Iraqi oil fields and to further their control over the world’s supply of energy.

Immediately after Bush announced “mission accomplished,” Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP set up shop in Iraq along with a slew of oil service companies, including Halliburton.

Another purpose was to further the plans for the construction of a natural gas pipeline that would run from the North Pars, an Iranian port city on the Persian Gulf, to Damascus, Syria, via Iraq. Most European countries remained dependent upon Russia for its supply of natural gas. Therefore, the pipeline would serve to cripple Russia economically while furthering the interests of the House of Rockefeller and the House of Rothschild.

Plans for the conquest and occupation of Iraq had been in the works for several years. In Winning Modern Wars, General Wesley Clark writes of meeting Pentagon officials shortly after 9/11 who said the military campaign included the invasion of seven countries, “beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Libya, Iran, Somalia, and Sudan.”

Saddam Hussein: Despite the fact that Saddam Hussein was dragged from a hole, placed on trial before a kangaroo court, and lynched, no ties between the Iraqi ruler and al Qaeda were ever substantiated.

FALSE FLAG #4 – GADDAFI AS A MASS MURDERER
In 2011, when Islamic extremists took up arms against the government of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, the US national news outlets, in tandem with the CFR administration of President Barack Obama, announced that the Libyan ruler was planning the mass murder of men, women, and children in Benghazi to cower the populace into submission. Therefore, Libya had to be bombed to smithereens for the sake of humanity.

Justifying the bombing, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: “We had a murderous dictator . . . threatening to massacre large numbers of the Libyan people. We had our closest allies in Europe burning up the phone lines begging us to help them try to prevent what they saw as a mass genocide, in their words. And we had the Arabs standing by our side saying, ‘We want you to help us deal with Gaddafi.’”

UNMASKING MENDACITIES
Of course, it wasn’t true. On March 17, 2011, Gaddafi announced to the rebels in Benghazi, “Throw away your weapons, exactly like your brothers in Ajdabiya and other places did. They laid down their arms and they are safe. We never pursued them at all.” Subsequent investigation revealed that when Gaddafi regime forces retook Ajdabiya in February 2011, they did not attack or kill any innocent civilians. The
Libyan ruler also attempted to appease protesters in Benghazi with an offer of development aid before finally deploying troops in an attempt to end the rebellion.

What’s more, an Amnesty International investigation in June 2011 could not corroborate any allegation of mass human rights violations by Gaddafi regime troops. It rather uncovered evidence that rebels in Benghazi made false claims and manufactured evidence. The investigation concluded: “Western media coverage has from the outset presented a very one-sided view of the logic of events, portraying the
protest movement as entirely peaceful and repeatedly suggesting that the regime’s security forces were unaccountably massacring unarmed demonstrators who presented no security challenge.”

SIDING WITH THE ENEMY – PART II
The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, the organization of the rebels who opposed Gaddafi, was closely associated with al-Qaeda. Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama were well aware of this fact before they deployed bombers and troops to topple the Gaddafi government. A US intelligence report issued months before the bombings contained this finding: “There is a close link between al-Qaeda, jihadi organizations, and the opposition in Libya.”

Oil-rich Libya was the most prosperous country in Africa. Education, medical treatment, and electricity were free, and gas sold for forty-two cents a gallon. Women who gave birth were supported with cash grants and couples, with cash gifts from the government on their wedding day. Libya’s state bank provided loans without interest and provided free startup capital to farmers.

GADDAFI’S CRIME AGAINST THE MONEY CARTEL
Gaddafi’s independence from big oil and the money cartel was the cause of his demise. Earlier in life Gaddafi’s goal was to organize Arabs as a bloc that could withstand Western demands and depredations. He turned to Pan-Africanism and refused to join the US Africa Command. Gaddafi also attempted to introduce a gold-based African currency that would free Africans from American financial hegemony.

Gaddafi used Chinese energy companies to develop Libya’s energy resources, thereby passing the interests of the Anglo-American big oil and banking establishments. The power elite, already upset with Russian presence in the Mediterranean, became faced with Chinese presence as well. Gaddafi was playing ball with the wrong people and that he had to go.

On October 20, 2011, during the Battle of Sirte, Gaddafi was found hiding in a culvert by the rebel forces. He was beaten with rifle butts, sodomized with bayonets, and shot several times in the head.

Upon receiving word of Gaddafi’s demise, a gleeful Hillary Clinton said: “We came. We saw. He died.”

Al Qaeda: The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, rebels who opposed Gaddafi, was closely associated with al Qaeda. A US intelligence report, months before the bombings, disclosed that there is a close link between al Qaeda, jihadi organizations, and the opposition in Libya.War Without End

AN UNANSWERED QUESTION
Is ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) a creation of the Obama Administration, the CIA, and the US State Department under Hillary Clinton? This question, which was raised by Donald Trump during his campaign for the White House, was dismissed as absurd by the national media.

But evidence points to an affirmative answer. Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, confirmed that the ISIS terrorists were trained in Jordan and Syria by US Major General (retired) Paul E. Vallely and other senior military consultants.

Vallely is a Fox News military analyst and the founder of the US Army Psychological Warfare School.53 To establish his case, Duff has provided videos of Vallely and other American military officials with ISIS commandos.

Support for this startling assertion was provided by Aaron Klein of World Net Daily, who unearthed evidence that the ISIS forces were and are trained at a secret US military base in the Jordanian town of Safawi. This report has been corroborated by Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading news magazine. Additional support came from Edward Snowden, the NSA (National Security Agency) whistleblower, who produced classified government documents that show that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, is a CIA operative.

MUSLIM CONFIRMATION
Leaders from the Muslim world confirm these findings. Nabil Na’eem, the founder of the Islamic Democratic Party, who appeared on the pan-Arab TV station al-Maydeen to say that all current al-Qaeda affiliates, including ISIS, work for the CIA. Mr. Na’eem could be imparting false information, but his claim is upheld by Bahaa al-Araji,
Iraq’s deputy prime minister, and other leading Iraqi officials. Mr. Araqi is a devout Shia and Mr. Na’eem is a militant Sunni. The two men share little in common and have completely different political and religious agendas.

THE COVERT PURPOSE OF ISIS
According to several news analysts, the purpose of ISIS is to create a state of “endless war” that will serve to exhaust Saudi and Iranian military resources, to bring about the dissolution of Syria and Iraq, and to collapse the Arab countries into small states that can be manipulated by US-dominated money cartel, which seeks control of their natural resources.

This thesis is supported by classified CIA documents that affirm that arms for ISIS came, compliments of the U.S., from the arsenal of Muammar Gaddafi. The shipment of these weapons to ISIS in

Syria was supervised in 2012 by David Petraeus, the CIA director who would soon resign when it was alleged that he was having an affair with his biographer.

THE PATRIOT ACT
As a result of the endless wars without borders, the citizens of the United States became stripped of the liberties, once viewed as God-given, by the Patriot Act of 2001. No longer did they possess freedom of association. The government now could monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity to assist terror investigation. No longer were they granted freedom of information. The government closed once-public immigration hearings, secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and encouraged bureaucrats to resist requests for the disclosure of public records. No longer did they possess freedom of speech. The government could prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they told
anyone that the government was seeking information related to a terror investigation. No longer did they retain a right to legal representation. The government could monitor federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes. No longer were they free from unreasonable searches. Government could search and seize their belongings, including their personal papers, without probable cause for the sake of a terror investigation. And no longer were they granted the right to a speedy and public trial. The government now could jail anyone, including its citizens, without a trial on charges of terrorism. In the past, these rights characterized the citizens of the United States, who deemed them so precious that they were willing to die to sustain and uphold them. But, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, they had surrendered them without a whimper. They were no longer Americans. They had become citizens of the world.