A government that has, since its inception, engaged in despotism domestically and abroad, cannot completely extinguish the flame of liberty amongst the domestic population.
When you look at history, the world, and America, from a human perspective, you have pretty much described an objective summary of what life has taught you so far. But you leave out the one aspect of life, that brought you into being, and lets you choose your own destiny. Our Father and creator God is well aware of everything you have experienced, and written about here, and He cares about each and everyone of us. His plans for His family of believers has always been righteous. Our God given freedom to choose our destiny, has eternal consequences, and God's word gives us wisdom, and a purpose to be a part of His plans. Jesus paid the ultimate price for our bad choices, that lead us away from God, and His will. When we leave out God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, we get what we have always had without them. Evil, despair, war, tyrants, etc. Playing god is for losers. You want hope, a better life, and world to live in, trust in God, not mankind. God's retirement benefits are way better, for now, and all of eternity.
The American experience is only a "curious case" if you view the Constitution as a means of promoting freedom and liberty while implementing a centralized state. The state, however, is the antithesis of freedom and liberty - and therein lies the root of the contradiction. Once you realize that the so-called "Founders" forged the shackles for an otherwise free, self governing populace where the individual was the only sovereign and the free market provided ample governance, you quickly realize that America is far from a curious case. The end result was the same as any other government: "America" simply found another path to the servitude of the masses, and have produced the most content milk-cows that any state in recorded history has managed to ever produce.
Hoppe sums it up well:
"After more than two centuries of "constitutionally limited government," the results are clear and incontrovertible. At the outset of the American "experiment," the tax burden imposed on Americans was light, indeed almost negligible. Money consisted of fixed quantities of gold and silver. The definition of private property was clear and seemingly immutable, and the right to self-defense was regarded as sacrosanct. No standing army existed, and, as expressed in Washington's Farewell Address, a firm commitment to free trade and a noninterventionist foreign policy appeared to be in place. Two hundred years later, matters have changed dramatically. Now, year in and year out the American government expropriates more than 40 percent of the incomes of private producers, making even the economic burden imposed on slaves and serfs seem moderate in comparison. Gold and silver have been replaced by government-manufactured paper money, and Americans are being robbed continually through money inflation. The meaning of private property, once seemingly clear and fixed, has become obscure, flexible, and fluid. In fact, every detail of private life, property, trade, and contract is regulated and reregulated by ever higher mountains of paper laws (legislation), and with increasing legislation, ever more legal uncertainty and moral hazards have been created, and lawlessness has replaced law and order. Last but not least, the commitment to free trade and noninterventionism has given way to a policy of protectionism, militarism, and imperialism. In fact, almost since its beginnings the U.S. government has engaged in relentless aggressive expansionism and, starting with the Spanish-American War and continuing past World War I and World War II to the present, the US has become entangled in hundreds of foreign conflicts and risen to the rank of the world's foremost warmonger and imperialist power. In addition, while American citizens have become increasingly more defenseless, insecure, and impoverished, and foreigners all over the globe have become ever more threatened and bullied by U.S. military power, American presidents, members of Congress, and Supreme Court judges have become ever more arrogant, morally corrupt, and dangerous." – Han Hermann Hoppe, “Democracy The God that Failed”
God never fails! Man and his ideas fail. Our constitution is not only a testament of God's word, it is what gives us our patriotic spirit. It is also a covenant with God, that has given us victories over evil tyrannts, that would not have been humanly possible without Him. Our liberties, and freedoms are possible because the LORD God watches over us, in spite of us, and He is the only absolute author of a government that works in a righteous manner. When we walk away from what has worked for so long, we get what we have now chaos. America was meant to be a blessing, not an experiment. Good vs evil has been around since creation, and the only big bang heard, was when mankind disobeyed God, and Satan deceived us to do so. In spite of our sins, God's love for His family, provided Jesus to pay the ultimate price, to restore our place in the Kingdoms of God. Failure comes to those who make bad choices, and walk away from God. Our life in the flesh is temporary, but we are more than flesh, we have a spirit and a soul that records everything we allow into it. When we appeal to heaven, and pray for answers to the daily challenges of life, we become participants in God's plan for us, and we are no longer pursuing our path to happiness alone. Our battles in this pursuit, are more than physical, they are also spiritual. What we do now in the flesh, has eternal consequences. Choose wisely.
LOL...wow. Talk about drinking the koolaid. When you wrap up the violence and depravity of the state in the cloak of God, all you prove is that you are a completely lost soul. It shows that you worship not at the altar of God but at the altar of the state. Proof positive that statism produces sick, brainwashed minds.
If you know how to read, and comprehend what I wrote, you would not make such a foolish statement. God is light, and doesn't need a cloak for anything He does. It is mankind that mocks God by thinking he knows more than his creator, and needs a cloak to hide behind to cover up his foolish arrogant decisions, and then blames everyone else for all the problems they create. This is called Marxism, and it is , what you are seeing now. Kool-aid is for cults, that worship false gods. Apparently you have no use for your creator, and the only curiosity you indulge in is to fantasize about people as contented cows in some fictitious governing state. You need to have total control of everything in your life, which is your kool-aid, or it is not part of your realm. To take any reply, or criticizm of your thoughts, as not a rational thing to do, is immature, and not how you resolve differences. When you remove your self imposed cloak , that life consist of a state, that needs to fit in your idealogical box, for you to be happy, you might expose yourself to a new source of light, that birthed you into existance. Just saying.
LOL...wow. Talk about drinking the koolaid. When you wrap up the violence and depravity of the state in the cloak of God, all you prove is that you are a completely lost soul. It shows that you worship not at the altar of God but at the altar of the state. Proof positive that statism produces sick, brainwashed minds.
And I suppose I should add more... I saw your article here was featured on Lew Rockwell's website, so you are making some serious waves in the libertarian pool. Congratulations on that! Let's never stop fighting the good fight.
The reason we are administered "oaths" in court, the reason we are trained in childhood to "always tell the truth" is to eliminate or simplify the burden of proof from the claims of sociopathic liars and hoaxers. Take for example Saul of Tarsus, a first century Jew, who came to be known as St. Paul. Out of little more than a few fictional tales and a stream of letters expanding on these tales he created what today is known as the Roman Catholic Church. An additional problem though is that human nature yearns for a psychological comfort zone. Anything tailored to fulfill this yearning is almost reflexively latched onto and held uncritically until the next liar's half truths replace it.
"Hillary Clinton Presidency would have implemented one of the most draconian national lockdowns on the planet." This wouldn't have worked. She was deeply hated and there are too many Republican controlled areas. The state I live in is Washington and nobody outside of Seattle to Olympia area listens to Inslee. He mandated lock downs, track and trace, is trying vaccine passports.... nobody in the red counties pay any attention to him. Some sheriffs even openly stated they wouldn't enforce his dictates as he announced them. He has not been able to control this state inspite of large election margin wins. He has no support outside the large Western metro areas. Everyone in the red counties despises him. Same is true of Oregon who has a bill to outlaw animal husbandry which I'm watching closely. I am assuming this is a trial run for Bill Gates's new insect farms and lab grown food industry. What army does Governor Kate Brown have to send into the red counties to enforce this? It should be very interesting.
Dennis, you're probably right about that, and as you noted, many red areas of "shutdown" states simply didn't comply. However, the federal bureaucracy is a behemoth, so to have someone in the Presidency who would be hell-bent on destruction of the country, and willing to weaponize federal agencies to meet her goals, would likely have created a much more challenging scenario.
You're definitely right that she was disdained by many..a Clinton Presidency may well have sparked war before 2020, anyway.
It is a huge step. The Bundy ranch conflict came close. It is a lot of bad publicity for the feds and reinforces opposition. They have to collect the guns otherwise they can't enforce their will with impunity. As soon as they start the heavy handed tactics resistance grows. They have been walking that line for decades and other than a few isolated cases like Waco have been reluctant to cross it. Just too much opposition. It could tear the country apart
Very very good. I hope and pray that you are you are correct. (A long time ago, I was in Ohio, at Ohio State, for track meets. It was even bigger than my school, the University of Illinois.)
I'm very impressed with your knowledge of the true history of the world for such a young age. My own "awakening" didn't begin until I was nearly 50 years old. So, I applaud you for having the wisdom to look outside of the matrix and do your own research. My only advice is that you step out of the false left/right paradigm that has been constructed to give us the illusion of choice. An excellent source to begin down this rabbit hole is James Corbett of the corbetreport.com.
You have excellent writing skills. Thank you for your contribution. Best wishes, sincerely, a fellow Ohioan.
I disagree with your assertion that all politics are designed for distraction. Though I wouldn't consider myself a supporter of his, I believe that Trump is in fact an "unauthorized" outsider, and this explains why the global capitalist establishment lost their mind over his election, and have subsequently done everything they can to destroy him and the movement behind him.
Consider:
-The corporate media, Silicon Valley and the Democratic party were genuinely shocked that Trump won. This, following a 2016 Democratic primary that was proven by WikiLeaks to have been stolen from Sanders; it would not surprise me at all if the Democratic party machine was engaged in huge fraud in the 2016 general election as well.
-From 11/4/2016 onward, the establishment did everything in its power to undermine and smear Trump and his supporters, and ultimately launched several efforts to remove him from the Presidency.
--They essentially prevented his National Security Advisor from assuming office;
--They spent three years baselessly claiming that Trump was an asset of Putin;
--After that narrative collapsed into a pile of dust, they pivoted to impeachment hoax #1;
--A month or two after that charade ended, the entire world was shut down, which provided the excuse to make numerous changes in U.S. election law;
--On 11/3/2020, they staged one of the most blatant election coups in U.S. history;
--From 11/6 to 1/5, the establishment demonized anyone who questioned the election, resulting an ever-increasing censorship on social media (censorship being a sign of weakness, not strength, in my opinion);
--On 1/6, they staged a false flag at the end of a peaceful Trump rally at the U.S. capitol to prevent evidence of election fraud being presented in the Senate, blamed it on Trump and his supporters, and used it as justification for further criminalization and censorship of Trump and conservatives, and to militarize the capitol.
--After Biden was inaugurated, the new administration has weaponized the alphabet agencies against former Trump allies like Giuliani, engaged in a campaign to harass as many that were at the 1/6 rally as possible, and have otherwise waged all-out war against the rival political party.
From my perspective, the above actions, in sum, represent a textbook case of a political party aligning with powerful interests (Silicon Valley, the corporate media and other large corporations) in an attempt to pull off a coup.
I believe otherwise astute observers like Icke and Corbett have allowed their biases to distort their understanding of the Trump phenomenon. As well, it's really about the movement behind Trump, rather than Trump himself; they, in their tens of millions, are ready and willing to die to defend freedom in the United States.
When you look at history, the world, and America, from a human perspective, you have pretty much described an objective summary of what life has taught you so far. But you leave out the one aspect of life, that brought you into being, and lets you choose your own destiny. Our Father and creator God is well aware of everything you have experienced, and written about here, and He cares about each and everyone of us. His plans for His family of believers has always been righteous. Our God given freedom to choose our destiny, has eternal consequences, and God's word gives us wisdom, and a purpose to be a part of His plans. Jesus paid the ultimate price for our bad choices, that lead us away from God, and His will. When we leave out God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, we get what we have always had without them. Evil, despair, war, tyrants, etc. Playing god is for losers. You want hope, a better life, and world to live in, trust in God, not mankind. God's retirement benefits are way better, for now, and all of eternity.
The American experience is only a "curious case" if you view the Constitution as a means of promoting freedom and liberty while implementing a centralized state. The state, however, is the antithesis of freedom and liberty - and therein lies the root of the contradiction. Once you realize that the so-called "Founders" forged the shackles for an otherwise free, self governing populace where the individual was the only sovereign and the free market provided ample governance, you quickly realize that America is far from a curious case. The end result was the same as any other government: "America" simply found another path to the servitude of the masses, and have produced the most content milk-cows that any state in recorded history has managed to ever produce.
Hoppe sums it up well:
"After more than two centuries of "constitutionally limited government," the results are clear and incontrovertible. At the outset of the American "experiment," the tax burden imposed on Americans was light, indeed almost negligible. Money consisted of fixed quantities of gold and silver. The definition of private property was clear and seemingly immutable, and the right to self-defense was regarded as sacrosanct. No standing army existed, and, as expressed in Washington's Farewell Address, a firm commitment to free trade and a noninterventionist foreign policy appeared to be in place. Two hundred years later, matters have changed dramatically. Now, year in and year out the American government expropriates more than 40 percent of the incomes of private producers, making even the economic burden imposed on slaves and serfs seem moderate in comparison. Gold and silver have been replaced by government-manufactured paper money, and Americans are being robbed continually through money inflation. The meaning of private property, once seemingly clear and fixed, has become obscure, flexible, and fluid. In fact, every detail of private life, property, trade, and contract is regulated and reregulated by ever higher mountains of paper laws (legislation), and with increasing legislation, ever more legal uncertainty and moral hazards have been created, and lawlessness has replaced law and order. Last but not least, the commitment to free trade and noninterventionism has given way to a policy of protectionism, militarism, and imperialism. In fact, almost since its beginnings the U.S. government has engaged in relentless aggressive expansionism and, starting with the Spanish-American War and continuing past World War I and World War II to the present, the US has become entangled in hundreds of foreign conflicts and risen to the rank of the world's foremost warmonger and imperialist power. In addition, while American citizens have become increasingly more defenseless, insecure, and impoverished, and foreigners all over the globe have become ever more threatened and bullied by U.S. military power, American presidents, members of Congress, and Supreme Court judges have become ever more arrogant, morally corrupt, and dangerous." – Han Hermann Hoppe, “Democracy The God that Failed”
God never fails! Man and his ideas fail. Our constitution is not only a testament of God's word, it is what gives us our patriotic spirit. It is also a covenant with God, that has given us victories over evil tyrannts, that would not have been humanly possible without Him. Our liberties, and freedoms are possible because the LORD God watches over us, in spite of us, and He is the only absolute author of a government that works in a righteous manner. When we walk away from what has worked for so long, we get what we have now chaos. America was meant to be a blessing, not an experiment. Good vs evil has been around since creation, and the only big bang heard, was when mankind disobeyed God, and Satan deceived us to do so. In spite of our sins, God's love for His family, provided Jesus to pay the ultimate price, to restore our place in the Kingdoms of God. Failure comes to those who make bad choices, and walk away from God. Our life in the flesh is temporary, but we are more than flesh, we have a spirit and a soul that records everything we allow into it. When we appeal to heaven, and pray for answers to the daily challenges of life, we become participants in God's plan for us, and we are no longer pursuing our path to happiness alone. Our battles in this pursuit, are more than physical, they are also spiritual. What we do now in the flesh, has eternal consequences. Choose wisely.
LOL...wow. Talk about drinking the koolaid. When you wrap up the violence and depravity of the state in the cloak of God, all you prove is that you are a completely lost soul. It shows that you worship not at the altar of God but at the altar of the state. Proof positive that statism produces sick, brainwashed minds.
If you know how to read, and comprehend what I wrote, you would not make such a foolish statement. God is light, and doesn't need a cloak for anything He does. It is mankind that mocks God by thinking he knows more than his creator, and needs a cloak to hide behind to cover up his foolish arrogant decisions, and then blames everyone else for all the problems they create. This is called Marxism, and it is , what you are seeing now. Kool-aid is for cults, that worship false gods. Apparently you have no use for your creator, and the only curiosity you indulge in is to fantasize about people as contented cows in some fictitious governing state. You need to have total control of everything in your life, which is your kool-aid, or it is not part of your realm. To take any reply, or criticizm of your thoughts, as not a rational thing to do, is immature, and not how you resolve differences. When you remove your self imposed cloak , that life consist of a state, that needs to fit in your idealogical box, for you to be happy, you might expose yourself to a new source of light, that birthed you into existance. Just saying.
LOL...wow. Talk about drinking the koolaid. When you wrap up the violence and depravity of the state in the cloak of God, all you prove is that you are a completely lost soul. It shows that you worship not at the altar of God but at the altar of the state. Proof positive that statism produces sick, brainwashed minds.
Well written. I agree almost 100%. An historical perspective.
Joseph, you have an ally in me here in Mogadore, OH.
And I suppose I should add more... I saw your article here was featured on Lew Rockwell's website, so you are making some serious waves in the libertarian pool. Congratulations on that! Let's never stop fighting the good fight.
Thanks, I sent my article to Lew, and he decided to feature it.
The reason we are administered "oaths" in court, the reason we are trained in childhood to "always tell the truth" is to eliminate or simplify the burden of proof from the claims of sociopathic liars and hoaxers. Take for example Saul of Tarsus, a first century Jew, who came to be known as St. Paul. Out of little more than a few fictional tales and a stream of letters expanding on these tales he created what today is known as the Roman Catholic Church. An additional problem though is that human nature yearns for a psychological comfort zone. Anything tailored to fulfill this yearning is almost reflexively latched onto and held uncritically until the next liar's half truths replace it.
"Hillary Clinton Presidency would have implemented one of the most draconian national lockdowns on the planet." This wouldn't have worked. She was deeply hated and there are too many Republican controlled areas. The state I live in is Washington and nobody outside of Seattle to Olympia area listens to Inslee. He mandated lock downs, track and trace, is trying vaccine passports.... nobody in the red counties pay any attention to him. Some sheriffs even openly stated they wouldn't enforce his dictates as he announced them. He has not been able to control this state inspite of large election margin wins. He has no support outside the large Western metro areas. Everyone in the red counties despises him. Same is true of Oregon who has a bill to outlaw animal husbandry which I'm watching closely. I am assuming this is a trial run for Bill Gates's new insect farms and lab grown food industry. What army does Governor Kate Brown have to send into the red counties to enforce this? It should be very interesting.
Dennis, you're probably right about that, and as you noted, many red areas of "shutdown" states simply didn't comply. However, the federal bureaucracy is a behemoth, so to have someone in the Presidency who would be hell-bent on destruction of the country, and willing to weaponize federal agencies to meet her goals, would likely have created a much more challenging scenario.
You're definitely right that she was disdained by many..a Clinton Presidency may well have sparked war before 2020, anyway.
It is a huge step. The Bundy ranch conflict came close. It is a lot of bad publicity for the feds and reinforces opposition. They have to collect the guns otherwise they can't enforce their will with impunity. As soon as they start the heavy handed tactics resistance grows. They have been walking that line for decades and other than a few isolated cases like Waco have been reluctant to cross it. Just too much opposition. It could tear the country apart
Very very good. I hope and pray that you are you are correct. (A long time ago, I was in Ohio, at Ohio State, for track meets. It was even bigger than my school, the University of Illinois.)
I'm very impressed with your knowledge of the true history of the world for such a young age. My own "awakening" didn't begin until I was nearly 50 years old. So, I applaud you for having the wisdom to look outside of the matrix and do your own research. My only advice is that you step out of the false left/right paradigm that has been constructed to give us the illusion of choice. An excellent source to begin down this rabbit hole is James Corbett of the corbetreport.com.
You have excellent writing skills. Thank you for your contribution. Best wishes, sincerely, a fellow Ohioan.
Diana, thanks for your comment.
I disagree with your assertion that all politics are designed for distraction. Though I wouldn't consider myself a supporter of his, I believe that Trump is in fact an "unauthorized" outsider, and this explains why the global capitalist establishment lost their mind over his election, and have subsequently done everything they can to destroy him and the movement behind him.
Consider:
-The corporate media, Silicon Valley and the Democratic party were genuinely shocked that Trump won. This, following a 2016 Democratic primary that was proven by WikiLeaks to have been stolen from Sanders; it would not surprise me at all if the Democratic party machine was engaged in huge fraud in the 2016 general election as well.
-From 11/4/2016 onward, the establishment did everything in its power to undermine and smear Trump and his supporters, and ultimately launched several efforts to remove him from the Presidency.
--They essentially prevented his National Security Advisor from assuming office;
--They spent three years baselessly claiming that Trump was an asset of Putin;
--After that narrative collapsed into a pile of dust, they pivoted to impeachment hoax #1;
--A month or two after that charade ended, the entire world was shut down, which provided the excuse to make numerous changes in U.S. election law;
--On 11/3/2020, they staged one of the most blatant election coups in U.S. history;
--From 11/6 to 1/5, the establishment demonized anyone who questioned the election, resulting an ever-increasing censorship on social media (censorship being a sign of weakness, not strength, in my opinion);
--On 1/6, they staged a false flag at the end of a peaceful Trump rally at the U.S. capitol to prevent evidence of election fraud being presented in the Senate, blamed it on Trump and his supporters, and used it as justification for further criminalization and censorship of Trump and conservatives, and to militarize the capitol.
--After Biden was inaugurated, the new administration has weaponized the alphabet agencies against former Trump allies like Giuliani, engaged in a campaign to harass as many that were at the 1/6 rally as possible, and have otherwise waged all-out war against the rival political party.
From my perspective, the above actions, in sum, represent a textbook case of a political party aligning with powerful interests (Silicon Valley, the corporate media and other large corporations) in an attempt to pull off a coup.
I believe otherwise astute observers like Icke and Corbett have allowed their biases to distort their understanding of the Trump phenomenon. As well, it's really about the movement behind Trump, rather than Trump himself; they, in their tens of millions, are ready and willing to die to defend freedom in the United States.