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Title: "Question 46," Revisited
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URL Source: http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com/
Published: Dec 20, 2008
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Post Date: 2008-12-20 09:04:09 by PSUSA
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“Hey, Will – we just got a letter from a Marine saying that he was part of a project dealing with civilian arms confiscation by the military. Are you interested?” It had been a fairly slow morning up until the point Dave Bohon, at the time the managing editor at The New American, came down to the research department with the aforementioned letter clutched in his hands and a puzzled expression inscribed in his aquiline features. Practically leaping out of my chair, I grabbed the proffered letter, a handwritten missive attached to a multi-page document called a "Combat Arms Survey" (scroll down). I read both the letter and the questionnaire with a sense of mingled dread and excitement. Poster Comment: More at link. It's long and interesting.
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More at link. It's long and interesting. Very...thanks. LOTS of good stuff there. [btw, it was the first time I heard about the incident that sparked the Mukasey fainting spell. Did a 4um search and found it had been posted, but I missed it. I just tacked Grigg's editorial on to that post: http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bi...gi?ArtNum=91440&Disp=7#C7] This one was too good not to post to your thread for posterity: "....Hamilton's vision of a unitary state with unlimited powers was not the union of "free and independent states" for which the American Patriots had fought. Instead, the vision that caused Hamilton's pulse to race and loins to stir was that of "a United States woven together by a system of tax collectors," as James Madison sardonically observed. Up the rebels! The Whiskey Rebels of western Pennsylvania, that is. At left: The Whiskey Rebel flag. Below right: Rebels introduce a tax collector to the latest fashions in tar-and-feather couture. Sic semper tyrannis! It was in the service of that vision that Hamilton afflicted Americans with various excise taxes, and then abetted the invasion of western Pennsylvania in the first use of military power by the central government against Americans -- the campaign to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. Farmers in western Pennsylvania, who used whiskey as an instrument of barter, heroically refused to pay Hamilton's excise tax, and quite commendably introduced the officials sent to collect it to the decorative uses of hot tar and goose feathers. This uprising was squarely in the hallowed and admirable tradition of patriotic anti-government radicalism that had precipitated the War for Independence. But where King George III failed to exterminate American radicalism, Hamilton -- through his influence with Washington, and his entente with the eastern seaboard mercantilist elite -- was successful. Washington's decision to assemble and lead an army of 13,000 conscripts to overawe the Whiskey Rebels is the largest stain on his noble biography. It also laid bare the malignant ambition that resided in Hamilton's breast, and the corruption that festered even then at the heart of the corporatocracy he devised. Notes DiLorenzo: "The rank-and-file soldiers [in the army assembled by Washington] may have been mostly conscripts, but many of the officers who accompanied Hamilton and Washington to Pennsylvania were `from the ranks of the creditor aristocracy in the seaboard cities.... These officers were eager to enforce collection of the whiskey tax so that the value of their government bond holdings could be enhanced and secured." The punitive expedition against the Whiskey Rebels illustrated "why Hamilton was such a vociferous proponent of a standing army," writes DiLorenzo. "He wanted a standing army of tax collectors. This is how King George III collected stamp taxes and other levies from the American colonists prior to the Revolution, and it is how Hamilton intended to collect his whiskey tax" and any other impositions he could devise. The new "sovereign" asserts itself: Washington, urged on by Hamilton, assembles an army to put down the Whiskey Rebellion. So it was that, thirteen years after Yorktown, Hamilton and Washington deployed an army larger than the one that defeated the British in that climactic battle in order to validate the central government's power to shake down the poor and the entrepreneurial class on behalf of wealthy, well-connected political clients. And Hamilton's treatment of captured American tax rebels displayed an imperious cruelty eclipsing that displayed by the Brits toward American P.O.W.s. As DiLorenzo recounts, Hamilton's army "treated their captives -- including `old men who had fought for American independence ... some pale and sick' -- most inhumanely. The tax protesters were `run through the snow in chains, toward various lockups in town jails, stables, and cattle pens, to await interrogation by Hamilton.' This went on all the way across the state of Pennsylvania, until they reached Philadelphia." Washington, whose heart was never really in this expedition, made the mistake of leaving Hamilton (of whom he entertained much too high an opinion) in charge, and unsupervised. This permitted him, in DiLorenzo's words, to play "the role of Grand Inquisitor," in which he, as if in anticipation of Gitmo-era proceedings, "`prompted detainees to manufacture evidence' against his political opponents from Pennsylvania. One of his assistants, a General White, `ordered the beheading of anyone attempting to escape' and was not overruled by the treasury secretary, who was apparently willing to play judge, jury, and executioner. Indeed, Hamilton ordered local judges to render guilty verdicts against the twenty men who were eventually imprisoned, and he wanted all guilty parties to be hanged." Due in no small measure to Washington's influence, Hamilton's crusade never reached that bloody fruition. Twelve rebels were prosecuted; two were convicted, and pardoned by Washington. None of them ever paid the abhorrent whiskey tax. This was perhaps the last significant victory against Hamilton's system. After his death in 1804, Hamilton's disciples would succeed -- briefly -- in creating a central Bank of the United States. A generation later, an otherwise undistinguished Illinois lawyer who made himself wealthy in the service of the Hamiltonian railroad combine would wage a war of consolidation against the South in order to preserve the tax revenues that were indispensable to the corporatist system. That was indeed the causus belli for Lincoln's war to prevent southern independence, even though the Regime demands that we perceive it to be a sacred crusade to liberate enslaved black people, rather than a conflict intended to make tax slaves out of everybody. Hamilton's system reached its full, malignant maturity in 1913 under the unspeakably vile Woodrow Wilson, the presidential sock-puppet of "Colonel" Edward Mandell House -- who was himself the instrument of the same creditor class Hamilton had served so faithfully. That year brought about the imposition of the income tax, the creation of the Federal Reserve System, and the effective abolition of the United States Senate (originally designed to protect the interests of the separate states) via the Seventeenth Amendment. Since that time, Americans have lived under a unitary state fueled by taxation, debt, and inflation, in which the earnings of the middle class are plundered for the benefit of corporate welfare whores. Those living today enjoy the unique, albeit unsettling, blessing of watching the death throes of Hamilton's system, or at least the post-1971 version of the same. From Herr Henreich Paulson, the heir to Hamilton's throne, we hear the same kind of self-contradictory persiflage that littered the various "Reports" Hamilton wrote on behalf of his mercantilist designs. As trillions of dollars are created by the Fed to slop the troughs of Wall Street speculators and their creditors, we are seeing Hamiltonian governance in its purity: The unblushing transfer of wealth from productive private interests into the hands of the politically favored elite. Monsters immortalized: Bank robber-turned-secret police founder Felix Dzerzhinsky, father of the KGB, depicted in a statue outside Moscow's Lubyanka Square. Below, right: Alexander Hamilton, who devised schemes to rob people through the banks, as idealized in a statue outside the Treasury Department Building. Just as the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Soviet KGB, still stands outside the Lubyanka Square headquarters of the "post-Soviet" secret police, Hamilton's marble likeness resides in front of the Treasury Department Building, headquarters of the agency that oversees our own three-letter terrorist organ, the IRS. And the abiding cult of the imperial presidency attests to Hamilton's success in refashioning what was intended to be a modest executive office into a fully realized elected dictatorship. The unfolding economic collapse is nothing less than an extinction-level event for the dollar system devised by Hamilton. I have no idea what will replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, but the greenback will lose that status very soon -- most likely sooner than most of us would suspect. When that happens, the brutality encoded in the Hamiltonian State's genotype -- recall the forced marches of elderly tax rebels through the snows of Pennsylvania, the coerced confessions and accusations, the threats of beheadings and summary hangings -- will manifest itself quite forcefully as it seeks to extract the means of paying its bondholders. Wisdom dictates that we preserve what we've earned by withdrawing from the dollar system (to the extent that we can), learn how to protect it and those close to us from predators both private and public, and find suitable refuge as we witness the death throes of the existing order. And in preparation for the Second American Revolution, we should read and re-read Thomas DiLorenzo's enlightening and elegantly written indictment in order to understand how the first one was betrayed." ============== I think it was reading about George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion many years ago, long before 9/11, that first made me stop and think, WTH? Thanks again for posting this link. It was a most enjoyable read [Grigg is a tremendous writer], and would be very informative to any sheeple who might have it put under their noses.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
Couldn't go on without saying that hamilton should have been challenged to a duel and been gunned down early on.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Ole Abe, that son of a bitch, should have been whacked a lot sooner, too.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Seems to me I recall reading John Adams stating his view that Burr should have shot him 10 years earlier.
The U.S. Constitution is no impediment to our form of government.--PJ O'Rourke
I concur with President Adams.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
T Jefferson despised him and his fellow travelers.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Aaron Burr Kills Alexander Hamilton in a Duel Vice President Aaron Burr was replaced on the Republican ticket in 1804 with George Clinton, the New York political boss. Burr's power base rested in a delicate balancing act between the parties. Since he was neither a confirmed Republican nor completely opposed to all Federalist policies, Burr never built the kind of following he needed in either party to assure further success. Because the influential politician Alexander Hamilton failed to oust Burr through his influence with the Federalists, he was thrown into despair. "What can I do better than withdraw from the scene?" Hamilton pouted, "Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me." For Hamilton, Burr was a modern Caesar, whose defects cut him off from the principles of the Republic as Hamilton understood them. The truth was that both men had lost their credibility through political machinations not in step with the reigning political etiquette of the day. John Adams described Hamilton as the "most restless, impatient, artful, indefatigable and unprincipled intriguer in the United States." Many also felt the same about Burr. Burr's behavior antagonized both parties. Burr ran for governor of New York in 1804 with some Federalist support, as well as that of Tammany Hall, but nevertheless lost the campaign, primarily due to the Clinton and Livingston factions. Burr's loss sealed his political doom. At a political dinner for the Federalist Party held in New York, Alexander Hamilton voiced a despicable slur upon the name and reputation of Aaron Burr. What Hamilton exactly said was not printed at the time, but rumors and newspaper reports reached Burr, who wrote Hamilton and demanded an apology. Hamilton waffled in his response, Burr protested in another letter, and after receiving no satisfaction challenged Hamilton to a duel. When Burr and Hamilton met on the dueling grounds of Weehawken, New Jersey on July 11, 1804 Burr shot Hamilton, who fired into the air either as a reflex after being shot or purposely to avoid shooting Burr. Hamilton was rowed back across the river to New York City, where he lingered until the next day and died in great pain. Burr was indicted for murder in New York State, but never prosecuted. After completing his duties as Vice President in 1805, Burr entered into a conspiracy to wrest the lands west of the Mississippi River from Spain; these intrigues included the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson saw Burr as a clear and present danger, and began a campaign to ruin his reputation, noting that "I never thought him an honest, frank-dealing man, but considered him as a crooked gun, or other perverted machine, whose aim or shot you could never be sure of." Jefferson penned perhaps the most devastating comment of all when he added that "A great man in little things, he is really small in great ones." "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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#2. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#1)
#3. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#1)
Lincoln's war to prevent southern independence, even though the Regime demands that we perceive it to be a sacred crusade to liberate enslaved black people, rather than a conflict intended to make tax slaves out of everybody.
#4. To: Rotara (#2)
Couldn't go on without saying that hamilton should have been challenged to a duel and been gunned down early on.
#5. To: DeaconBenjamin (#4)
Seems to me I recall reading John Adams stating his view that Burr should have shot him 10 years earlier.
#6. To: DeaconBenjamin (#4)
#7. To: tom007, DeaconBenjamin (#6)
Here's one view of this history:
Alexander Hamilton 
Site of Burr-Hamilton Duel in Weehawken 
Hamilton's Grave, Trinity Churchyard,
New York City
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