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Guest Post: Reflections On The 4th Of July
Submitted by Brandon Smith from Alt Market
Reflections On The 4th Of July
You get what you pay for. Or, more precisely, you get what you work for. Over 230 years ago, a group of colonists on the edge of the new world realized that the freedom they traveled halfway across the planet searching for would never be, unless, that is, they finally confronted the iron fisted enemy they once ran from. Their Declaration of Independence was a struggle in itself. Most Americans at that time were not resolved to support revolution. Many were undecided even after the war was won. Ultimately, the most powerful and pervasive empire on earth at that time, the British Empire, was defeated by a mere portion of the American population; farmers, craftsmen, tradesmen, frontiersmen, who had fought with such force of will, with such passion, that they were able to convince other nations (like France) that such a thing could even be achieved. In that moment, they transformed the shape of the Earth forever. The impossible was now, indeed, possible. The great shadow of elitism and autocracy was not only vulnerable; it could be crushed by the likes of so called “peasants”. The common man could determine his own destiny, and shape his own government. No matter what had happened before, or what has happened since, no one, and nothing, could erase that moment from time, when the leviathan was cast down, and men tasted true freedom.
You get what you work for.
I and many others of my generation have in the past felt lost, as if we were born in the wrong time and faced with a society and a nation so warped and backwards we might never be able to assimilate. At first, you suspect that something must be wrong with you, but later, you begin to realize that you are simply honest, and that something instead is dearly wrong with the world. The question then is whether or not you risk yourself and your sanity by conforming, or risk even greater stakes, and attempt to right the wrongs that came before. Wrongs you were born into. Do you have the guts to clean up the mistakes of generations past and set things right, or do you leave these overwhelming problems for your children? On July 4th, 1776, a courageous organization of men and women offered themselves as a shield to those who would come after. They dared to say “no more”. And, on this day, in this age of renewed tyranny, we must consider if it is not our time to step forward and become the wall that holds fast against the storm.
Independence Day is not about blind nationalism, it is not about statism, it is not about collectivist subservience to a pervasive bureaucracy; it is about the rebirth of the individual in the face of overwhelming despotism, and the creation of a country whose fundamental focus was the nurturance of such individualism above the desires of government. Beyond the often irrational fears of the “majority”. A philosophy of decentralization that was meant to supercede elitist addictions to power and dominance. The 4th of July is a marker, an oasis in the annals of history, when the true potential of humanity could be glimpsed, even if only for a moment.
Ever since, men have longed for another opening in the veil. We have allowed ourselves to be manipulated, conned, conditioned, and enslaved. We have abandoned our self sufficiency, and become utterly dependent upon political and economic systems we no longer have any real influence over. America has lost itself, and the darkness grows ever more heavy. For those who have awakened to this reality, I can say only this; you are not the first. Others have come before you. Others have fought back. Others have been victorious. You have been given the most evocative foundation on which to stand; you have been given heritage. You know now what can be accomplished, if only we have the determination to move ahead. You also know what is required for success. You know what has been sacrificed in the past, and what must be sacrificed again. For every 4th of July for the past two centuries, we are reminded what it takes to be free.
It is important to celebrate the accomplishments of the past, and to learn from the struggles of our ancestry. It is enriching to our character to focus at least one day on that which is best in our natures, to embody and make tangible our principles. It is honorable to give thanks to those who gave so much, if only to prove what can be done. But this is not the end of our responsibilities. We are also tasked with ensuring the legacy carries on. Our very conscience demands that we not only maintain the structures of liberty, but that we build even further. We have much to do, and little time to do it.
You get what you work for. It is time to go to work…
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Today we celebrate the declaration of independence signing. It was written by land “owning”, “Indian” killing, slave driving male chauvinist Z.H. READING invaders who broke free from the “tyranny” of king BENNY 1st. It’s laughable. Down a twelve pack of “light” beer for me.
The guys a couple hundred years ago- they won, and look at how far perspective and propaganda changed opinion in a mere two hundred years.
To those who want revolution today - if you don't sacrifice all that it takes to win - then the TRUTH told about about you will be far worse and won't take 200 years to spread. Even if you do win - if the replacement isn't perfect- you too could be called a land owning indian killing slave driving male chauvinist...
With options like those- why does anyone chose revolution?
When I state stuff about propagandists... Now people are called to worship the FF for their words and do not look at their actions.
But: acts speak louder than words.
Bernie Madoff has a better track record than Jamie Dimon, his investment fund beat the market every year for 20 years. America has always been about bigger than life characters doing impossible things. Bernie Madoff fits these criteria, Jamie not so much.
I'd rather know the guy in charge is a convicted felon, than know he is legally untouchable.
America, cause the greatest con requires the greatest con man. Financial magic, Bernie made it look easy and flawless and fooled the rich and greedy. If he did it once, there is no reason he couldn't do it again. I'm surprised Obama hasn't pardoned him and made him his campaign financial manager. He can turn a million into a billion with only a couple of zero's of effort.
Treasury Secretary Bernie Madoff - campaign slogan "Well at least he paid HIS taxes!!"
Bernie Madoff the stuff the American financial empire is made of dreams, just dreams and infinite greed. I'm gonna go with Bernie on this one.
+1
how about Martin Armstrong?
Amen.
This is good, you are a church going nazi amurkin. purrfect!@
Oohh... someone driven to destroy!
TSA employee?
Independence Day is a painful reminder of how passive amerikans have become. How the men of this once great Republic are no longer willing to sacrifice the needed to realize whats celebrated. Its living in a delusional matrix of illusory freedoms and revisonist concepts of liberty. The Fourth to me is a reminder of how men are gone and tyranny is reborn.
who is John Galt?
YOU are John Galt, SpiritBlade. As am I, as is Brandon, as is.....
CH1
"YOU are John Galt, SpiritBlade. As am I, as is Brandon, as is....."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-457pYItC8
Beatles - I Am The Walrus lyrics
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.
See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly.
I’m crying.
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.
Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody tuesday.
Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.
Mister city policeman sitting
Pretty little policemen in a row.
See how they fly like lucy in the sky, see how they run.
I’m crying, I’m crying.
I’m crying, I’m crying.
Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob.
Sitting in an english garden waiting for the sun.
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan
From standing in the english rain.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.
Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don’t you thing the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I’m crying.
Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.
Elementary penguin singing hari krishna.
Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob.
Goo goo g’joob g’goo goo g’joob g’goo.
Fill the screen and turn up the sound to appreciate this power coming soon to the individual and our free market…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HloC4xMg4Z4 2:24
Junk yourself ignoramous.
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Here's another view of the 4th. I think it's the first time I agree with Altucher
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2011/07/july-4th-is-scam.html
The last time I visited my congressman (when I was 12 years old), he was both drunk and senile and I couldn’t understand a word he said. His administrative assistant had to translate everything he said. And then he got re-elected four more times before finally dying. Did he really represent my interests?
I’m the most apolitical person I know. But I do like to think of things that can improve the country. Let’s forget July 4th for a second, which was a war fought mainly between the values of the East India Company and the values of colonial tea smugglers that cost the lives of the children of 35,000 mothers. Note we tried to invade Canada twice to get them to help us but they would have none of it. Now they are our biggest supplier of oil. Go Canada!
Most importantly, lets not view the Constitution as gospel. Countries, people, systems, technology evolves. As they do, its important to see what from the past is good and what can be discarded.
I’m talking about the Legislative Branch in our system of checks and balances. It costs us billions a year, its fully corrupt, and is taking perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars out of our economy through inefficient allocations...
Finally, lets get to July 4th and the reasons we fought for “Independence”. I put it in quotes because the majority of people still couldn’t vote (so couldn’t be considered independent) in the first 20 or so elections. (e.g. women, African-Americans). And after our “Independence” we genocided another 10 million Native Americans so I’m not sure what values make us so great but whatever.
A) We supposedly were upset about taxation without representation. But the Stamp Act, the Sugar Tax, and the Townshend Acts were all repealed before the war even started. So all the things you read about in grade school were just wrong.
B) Two things were happening: the East India Company was going bankrupt because prices on tea were being kept artificially high. So the Tea Act reduced the duties so that we would actually get CHEAPER TEA. But guess what: smugglers were already selling 900,000 lbs of tea (versus East India’s 560,000 lbs) so they were pissed off! Hence they riled people up and organized the Boston Tea Party, which led to the Intolerable Acts, which led to every able-bodied 18 year old in the country invading Canada to get the British out. Canada promptly told us to get the hell out and the rest of the war was fought near our homes.
C) Well what about our “values”? England got rid of slavery in all of its colonies in 1833 and allocated money to directly buy the slaves from slaveowners in every colony. 620,000 people died in the Civil War 30 years later. A war that would’ve been totally avoided if we had no Revolutionary War. And the only reason Lincoln freed the slaves was because we (“the North”) were losing that war and needed help. That war was also fought over economics: the South wanted to control their own tariffs on the enormous amount of cotton being shipped abroad. So they seceded so the wealthier North wouldn’t get to play with that money. Again, Britain would’ve just freed the slaves 30 years earlier than they would’ve been if we were still a colony or, by then, a commonwealth. (I’m summarizing 50 history textbooks so I’m sure there’s room to criticize me but I’m largely correct here).
D) Canada is still a commonwealth. Queen Eizabeth is their queen. Does it matter at all? Of course not! Canada avoided Iraq also. Politics is not only useless, it kills people.
Re I’m talking about the Legislative Branch in our system of checks and balances. It costs us billions a year, its fully corrupt, and is taking perhaps hundreds of billions of dollars out of our economy through inefficient allocations...
Add defense warfare to the welfare establishment to the Federal Reserve interest and we are talking about a 65.76% takeover of the budget by Big Sis and Bro = $2.4798 T.
Here's the latest Fed Budget link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/b...
Apparently this administration wanted to hide some numbers. You have to go to page 175 to learn the President's proposed budget is $3.771 T, with a proposed deficit of $1.144 T. If last year's deficit is any guide, ($1.645 T), this year's budget and deficit are likely to be even bigger.
Last year's budget burned 25.3% of our GDP.
Fed Inflation took another -17% haircut on the dollar, for a real 42.3% cost of government, not including the millions of dollars and man hours it takes to fill out income tax forms and comply with government regulations.
(Another good argument for replacing the Private Fed and Treasury IRS with the 28 basis point APTT:
http://www.apttax.com/faq.php)
Maybe all this explains why Congress, charged with representing the people, defending, protecting and serving our Constitution, failed to pass budgets the last two years.
By the way, when the President writes in the intro about creating jobs, Korean trade and cutting the budget deficit a trillion dollars, he ignores the fact that new unemployment claims increased over 400,000 workers each of the last twelve weeks, the Korean trade is one way, and the trillion dollar deficit reduction is not during his term, but the next ten (or twelve) years when he will be out of office.
Such is the state of politics in the District of Criminals...
What self serving drivel. Canada avoided Iraq? Nice. What about Afghanistan? Not so much. Just pick your facts to support your points and ignore everything else. Since the Brits got rid of slavery twenty years before the USA they are morally superior. But the Brits supported the Confederacy, slave states, how odd. Canada is superior because they have a hereditary "Queen" as a ruler? A "Queen" that is really a German by family tree, with a Greek husband. What a moral ignoranmous you are.
Remember Terminator folks, SKYNET loses.
Little John
"Remember Terminator folks, SKYNET loses."
Skynet lost like four times at the theater and another series of times on tv.
Not quite the decisive victory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZEJ4OJTgg8 0:52
Brilliant piece, Brandon. Thank you!
Brandon Smith’s article, one of the best I’ve ever read, is the reason I come to Zero Hedge, every day; not only does it accurately portray our nation’s beginnings but, sadly, it accurately identifies the work we have to do to put its ideals back on track.
Historians have found it surprising that the Declaration of Independence does not mention the British Parliament. Was this omission intentional? I believe yes because in directing all of the complaints against the King the Colonists were identifying the true reason for the establishment of a new nation - a land which would be free from the rule of a tyrant.
Later, in setting up the Constitution, the new Americans tried their best to avoid any birth of tyranny in their new nation. Tragically, this tyrant has now emerged in our country; and it is not a parliament and it is not a Congress. The tyrant is a cartel of oligarchs that seized control of the nation’s currency and, now, dictates every pertinent instruction to our so-called representatives of the people.
The cartel that rules America and now extends its tentacles through the IMF to plunder the world, is much worse than any monarchy facing the Colonists. A closer comparison would be the mass murderers of the twentieth century, such as Stalin.
The fervor of Sam Adams and the brave men who signed the Declaration of Independence (a document whose natural rights” [inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness] that Obama’s Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refused to support) went beyond establishment of a government. Their love and their desire was not government; it was freedom.
“Patria cara, carior Libertas.” Dear is Country, but Liberty is dearer.
This sentence sums it all: on this site, posters never conceived before they would fall victims to the tyranny the US has been exerting from its inception.
The US tyranny was meant for others, not for them. Too bad, hungry people are hungry and want to eat.
tremblez-vous tyrans du peuple sont à venir
"And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free" We just might be headed for the one world gov't at this juncture, but maybe only more of the US's MEism. There are more birth pangs to come. The hippies were right in wanting to go back to Eden. But you have to get your timing right. At the time of the Roman Empire's disolution there was much chaos but also much creativity as it gave way to a new form witin the same system. A new system comes later. You've got to study.
www.ariel.org
come and see program
mp3 and turn on the speakers.
Democracy is a tool for decision making - not a guiding principle for human interaction. It is amoral and as such can be used for good or evil purposes (like a gun right?). It is simply a mechanism for interaction within any given form of government. As such why do we hold it in such high esteem?
Democracy has come to mean something much different in our age but really - like all things connected to government power should be treated like fire. Use it with caution and only in the the right places unders the proper set of circumstances. Democracy as a "form" of governance is a fools errand and has led us to destruction.
It makes for a nice story, anyhow. But if we are to really gain independence in the truest sense of the word (not what our "founding fathers" left us and certainly not what we have today) then the fight will have to be real, unassisted by European elites and not staged by hidden forces to result in a planned outcome.
This will have to be the real deal.
I am Chumbawamba.
It’s a mistake, IMO, to believe that French assistance was a central factor in America’s revolution. There were many critical factors, but the only one that made the difference was the courage of those individuals who stepped forward first...to face the powerful foe.
A passage in Rose Wilder Lane’s The Discovery of Freedom credits one man with the spark that began the revolution against the British Empire :
“One man began that war. And who knows his name?
“He was a farmer, asleep in his bed, when someone pounded on his door and shouted in the night, ‘The troops are coming!’
“What could he do against the King’s troops? One man. If he had been the King, that would have been different. Then he could have done great things. Then he could have set everything to rights, he could have made everyone good and prosperous and happy, he could have changed the course of history. But he was not a King, not a Royal Governor, not a rich man, not even prosperous, not important at all, not even known outside the neighborhood. What could he do? What was the use of trying to do anything? One man, even a few men, cannot stand against the King’s troops. He had a wife and children to think of; what would become of them, if he acted like a fool?
“Most men had better sense; most men knew they could do nothing and they stayed in bed that night in Lexington. But one man got up. He put on his clothes and took his gun and went out to meet the King’s troops. He was one man who did not consent to a control which he knew did not exist.
“The fight on the road to Lexington did not defeat the British troops. What that man did was to fire a shot heard around the world, and still heard. One finger on one trigger began the war for the revolution…”
Lane’s point: It’s still continuing, one man’s fight against tyranny. Mohamed Bouazizi.
Propaganda. Have you in store a propaganda text for slaves and their fight for freedom in the US war for independence?
I doubt it will add to the discourse - but I just need to get it out of my system...
It all starts with a belief that "you know better". Unless you are a true libertarian, most political groups seek to impose their will on the rest. If I had a dollar for every "freedom loving patriotic American" that I know - that doesn't have a problem with the "Patriot Act" - because "I have nothing to hide" - I would not need to earn a living - ever.
The American citizen f--ked up! They "trusted" our leadership - politically, spiritually and economically. Instead of greeting politicians with the suspicion that they deserve - they believed. The "greatest generation" started the ball rolling - they accepted the so-called American Dream.
It has now grown to mythic proportions in the conscious of America. The baby boomers thought that it was terrific and once they got that "rebellion thing" out of their systems - they embraced the American Dream and were willing to do anything to achieve it. Of course they kept moving the bar higher - 1,200 sq. feet became 1,600 became 2,000 became 4,000 - 2 cars became 4...etc. In the last 20 years or so - the American citizen extended that trust to every piece of shit with a CEO title...
Along the way - they gave up the ability to think for themselves and to use their own reason. Formal education sucks at this time because the attainment of certain levels or degrees is the goal - and not to actually develop knowledge/reasoning capabilities. Just turn on the TV - they'll help you to know how to think.
If you have children - you will see it - passive acceptance; a desire to be like everyone else, to fit in, incredible ignorance... If it doesn't fit in a 30 second sound bite - it's not worth knowing.
+1
A bit of a rant, but it hits the right mark.
True Freedom never considers itself a victim....Bitch!
Save your "Bitch!" for someone who cares about your opinion.
Do something useful - define "True Freedom" for the rest of us. I could use some enlightenment - or a laugh.
Cry me a river....True Freedom doesn't considers itself a victim. It says to itself: I'm refuse to be a victim bitch!!! Freedom was greater than being a victim of someone else s sick ass image. This was their object of devotion twerp and everything took a back seat to it. Clear it up any?
"I'm refuse to be a victim bitch!!!" Yes - thanks ever so much - it is all very clear now.
John Locke has nothing on you.
I can only speak for myself, but I believe that freedom is about choice. We make them every day we must live with the results and the consequences. Sometimes we enjoy a greater range of choices than at other times.
The folks at the top of the heap are always attempting to limit those choices for the "little people". It has been true in most societies and it is true here today. It is up to the individual to choose whether he wants to play the game as it has been set up - or not.
You ask me to define true freedom..."You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free" set you free from what? I know, my forefathers knew. Do you know JAC?
Hint: It's what my Forefathers were willing to give their life for and did not just for themselves but for the sake of American generations to follow. Their example is something that most in America cannot identify but those that live under destructive sick ass images can.
Oppression?
Taxation without representation?
Satan? Sin? (since you are quoting NT)
I have no clue what your forefathers knew and didn't know. But, I am glad that you do and that it provides you a measure of comfort in this world.
I sure hope that you have a fine July 4th holiday in any case.
Peace.
JAC...I admire and appreciate you fervor. I happen to use a bit of drama to stir the pot and I am having a "fine" and grateful 4th of July thank you and I hope you do too.
Without going into great detail my point is thus:
First off...What is and was good enough for the Carpenter is good enough for me and I believe I understand what he means in the statement: "You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free", and what I think it meant to most of our God fearing Forefathers.
I hope the simplicity of what I am about to say resonates with you because it is a perspective that resonates with me.
What the truth sets us free from is the pursuit of happiness.
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence and considered by some as part of one of the most well crafted, influential sentences in the history of the English language.[1] These three aspects are listed among the "unalienable rights" or sovereign rights of man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life,_liberty_and_the_pursuit_of_happiness
The point is that the more limitiation one places upon another the more difficult it is to pursue happiness. This is why the Declaration of Independence was written.
http://www.slate.com/id/2298195
Bottom?
If America lost itself, when did it "have" itself? Put another way, when was the supossed American golden age?
The reign of Elizabeth I has often been called England’s Golden Age and for my part, those first settlers who headed for the new Colony on these shores, under her rule, were to form the roots of an era, or an age if you like, when men would establish on this earth the most important manmade object under God ever built – a nation with a written creed that would protect man’s God-given right to individual liberty.
That wouldn’t be called a Bronze Age, Maniac; that’s a Golden Age.
So according to you, JR, America's golden age was when various aristocrats were debating how much of a person slaves should count as during subsequent electoral proceedings?
Your Bronze Age comment is a non-sequitur. If that was meant to be humor, it fell flat.
[deleted by Continental Congress Committee of the Whole Jul 3, 1776]
[chopped to bits by Continental Congress Committee of the Whole Jul 3, 1776]
Snowball, thanks for bringing back Jefferson’s views on slavery and the British in general. In his recorded “notes,” Jefferson later explained:
“The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out less they should give them offense. The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in compliance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our Northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho’ their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carrier of them to others.”
Is there a chance that Jefferson’s “Northren brethren” were already influenced by Jewish businessmen in that the Jews owned more than 300 slave-running ships and that the Rhode Island seaport of Newport was commonly referred to as “The Jewish Newport – World Center of Slave Commerce”?
One lone Jewish businessman, the Portuguese Aaron Lopez, personally controlled more than 50% of all the Colonies' commerce dealings (including those of RI) for almost 50 years, from 1726 to 1774, and played an important part in the overall story of the Jews and slavery. The details are in Walter Smith’s book, “Who Brought the Slaves to America?”
The cause of opposition to importation of slaves by US citizens is simple: the US had no navy and wanted not to depend on foreign powers for such important part of the US scheme.
Wow JR - excellent sluething. You've managed to locate an obscure pamphlet that supports your anti-semitic views. Umm - calling Walter Smith's screed a "book" is a bit of a stretch. It's a few dozen pages and its contents are dubious at best.
When you're done reading Chick Tracts and other whiny, ahistorical zines at your local Amvets, be sure to read actual historical research by the likes of Ira Berlin and Peter Kolchin. Works by Eric Foner and Thomas Bender aren't bad either.
In any case, you ought to read more and whine about Jews less. If you don't care about being convincing outside the wingnut crowd, feel free to continue repeating bullshit you read without looking at other works in the field.
dude, you're hilarious.
The copy of Smith's "zine" that I saw was stapled and xeroxed.
The only question this weekend:
How large are Casey Anthony's breasts??
http://www.google.com/search?q=casey+anthony&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=C...
tiny.
unappealing.
AnAnonymous:
Because America’s government has been seized by oligarchs, controlling its currency and politicians and using mobs to override its representative government, I, like many, fear the tyranny that’s coming.
But it is only helping these very dangerous enemies of ours to call America’s founding principles propaganda or tyranny. Please don’t use your words to give these enemies more power. The principles that made America the strongest economic, and yes, moral force, the world had ever known began with our Founders.
America’s economic miracle would bring a revolution in food production with technology that, when applied by the U.S. and other nations, would feed the world.
Its inventions would push the world into incredible advances in health and standards of living.
For its moral leadership, until oligarchs began their takeover, America was the world leader in helping the hungry, the disadvantaged and the politically exploited populations everywhere, and in consistently opposing the enemies of freedom.
J.R.
When one justifies slavery as the US did by proclaiming freedom, that is propaganda.
What is that story about arming dangerous enemies? What would those enemies find in my words they do not find in the actions of US citizens and the FF?
The US is not the solution. The US is the problem.
The US success story is one of a very successful expansion scheme over a short period of time. There is no economic miracle.
It is known since ages that farming the poor, extorting the weak works. It is not a miracle but a well proven method to grow richer. That is the story of the US.
And if there is a miracle that extorters or farmers can not achieve, it is the one of promoting extorted and farmed to the ranks of farmers or extorters.
An extorted only exist if there are extorted to extort.
Nothing that the 'enemies' ignore.
It’s a little difficult on the Fourth of July to argue that the U.S. should never have been formed. When you finally get to that point, AnAnonymous, it’s time to stop visiting the tub of beer. Or you’ll miss the fireworks display.
well, asshole, please explain why millions from other shit-holes on planet Earth - from the beginning to right fucking now, today - were and are literally "dyin' to get in".....
It took 5000 years of recorded history for humans to redefine their relationship with the universe in the American Declaration of Independence.
The 1215 Magna Carta merely gave some, especially the noble class, some rights under a still sovereign King.
The American founder's brilliantly invoked the creator, and God given rights, to declare the individual was supreme and that Kings were obsolete, because this meant there could be no going back since there is no higher authority Kings were subserviant to deities as well. Marxists don't like it though.
FYI, gwar: Your exampes are good, but it did not take 5000 years - there were very often smart guys who knew better, and even outbreaks of liberty.
1776 was a wonderful moment, and arguably the most productive, but not the only such moment.
A MUST WATCH video for Independence Day!
The American Dream
http://silverdoctors.blogspot.com/2011/07/american-dream.html
Just what the Doctor ordered...I see said the blind man as he picked up the hammer and saw!
Very nice SD. I admire it's simplicity. Good job!
The funny thing is, if I'm thinking of this correctly....we could be in a pure dictatorship come aug 3rd.
How?
Well you see...the executive can already send us to war without congress. (we could impeach obama on these grounds and SHOULD)
But with all this 14th ammendment talk, should debt talks fail...comes Aug 3rd....we could have....
A president/executive branch who takes over the power of the purse from congress, to pay our fraudulent debts, to banksters, on our TBTF bank's behalf. (that's what the debate is about....raise the limit, so we can borrow more fraudulent money to pay off older fraudulent money.....if you don't we take away what many people need)
If the executive branch takes over the power of the purse and war powers, and is using both. Then congress will have been neutrued, and we will be in a dictatorship.
Power of the purse
War Powers
1 of the 2 has already been usurpred in the past few months.
Here's the real deal
There is no need to be going through this constitutional crisis because of fucking libya
The debt is fraudulent, thus if we'd enact Glass-Steagall we wouldn't be anywhere close to the 'debt limit'.....thus boys and girls....what would that mean??? No need to have a debt limit raise debate....nor it's fascist...unneccessary....throw helpless people to the wolves and kill them via hunger, homelessness, and lack of medical care.
Christian nation my ass. We will have given up the right to call ourselves that. (of course that only effects some, but those dumbasses would still think they are)
Glass-Steagall before it's too late to stop this express train to metaphoric hell.
Reflections On The 4th Of July:
less bombs, more fireworks