Happy 250-87 Birthday America

By July (250 years) the bands will be playing, the Media and Midea-etts will be cheering the 250th anniversary of our “nation” (with the usual brouhaha about some idiotic “American Dream” materializing from some preposterous city on a hill somewhere).  They, of course date this from the corrupt and monstrous killer and destroyer “Honest” Abe Lincoln and his magical flute tune: “The Gettysburg Address.” Yankees almost put it to music. H.L. Mencken seemed to put it out with the garbage.


For many, Lincoln’s sympathetic views toward European socialists help explain his opposition to Jefferson’s philosophy of governance, as well as the Republican Party’s Hobbesian, statist view of the individual colonies and their separate declarations of independence—later consolidated during the war into a single document for delivery to the King—as independent states of the world.
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So, what did Menchen say about that Gettysburg Address?​

“But let us not forget that it is oratory, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it! Put it into the cold words of every day! The doctrine is simply this: the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination — “that government of the people, by the people, for the people,” should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i.e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle an absolutely free people; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and vote of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that vote was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely any freedom at all. Am I the first American to note the fundamental nonsensicality of the Gettysburg address? If so, I plead my aesthetic joy in it in amelioration of the sacrilege.”

Perhaps these firecracker soldiers and beer-drinking bravados along with their political rube raconteurs should examine the history of the Founders and their Union against their falsely created and contemporary DEEP STATE NATION. This singular Grendel monster and its national bank that prints OUR money, its national constitution with its (added) income tax that seizes OUR property, its endless unlawful wars that kill OUR sons and now even OUR daughters. This is a birthday party for “the consent of the governed”?



And its sorrowfully created, though once admired, Congress that has become a bilge of men and women who live largely by fraud and venality. These same paupers who feint attention as the bands play something they have renamed without authority as the “‘National Anthem,’” though properly and loyalty christened, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”



"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..." is the opening line of the United States Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776.



That, to quote Jefferson’s biographer, Dumas Malone (history Pulitzer Prize author) was the “radical” Jefferson. Not that misinterpreted “equality” business.
But more to the point:


“The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America”: This is the opening sentence! “The thirteen united States of America”; not the United States of America.


“That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States (emphasis added); that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”


​Today, most have been turned away from conservative truth via a conglomeration of would-be patriots who today think the fighting at Saratoga in 1777 was a great battle for “national” brotherhood, when in fact, one of the first (New Hampshire was first) to draw a sword for independence, with its own declaration of independence, was Virginia in June of 1776.


And Virginians fought not in a newly found nation magically founded on July 4th, 1776 but in a union of independent states for which they were a part, in the name of strength bringing peace; that it was an independent state was stated in the July 4th DOI after their own, earlier, DOI, and just as each of the colonies had signed.


Conservative is written as a derivation of “conserving.” And conserving has one purpose—to keep that which is wholesome and worthy and keep it intact. Keep the good, abandon the bad. It does not mean war, money, and social godliness for the flesh of man to be loved and honored. Nor does it mean politicians can promote themselves through their slabbering and slobbering drivel in hopes of having their personal replica, as a self-portrait or marble statue, adorning the capitol--at least it seems we’ve moved away from such sloppy labels of politicians and their narcissism and at least call Washington, D.C. what it honestly is—The Deep State.  Mostly “deep” into the public pockets.


Most of today’s radio chatterers and podcasters are well-meaning fellows (some are not and they are particularly proud of their Southern hatred) and count Southerners as friends who, they have been instilled, were misguided. But supposedly these Southrons have redeemed themselves at places like San Juan Hill, Meuse-Argonne, Normandy, Iwo Jima, Chosin Reservoir, and Khe Sanh and frequently raised the Stars and Bars in honor of the Bonnie Blue and their heritage (for the record, a disproportionate number of Southerners fought [and died] in these battles).


Of course, any sacrificial bloodshed offerings by Southerners against The British soldiers circa 1775-1883 are coincidental to any honor, as the fictitious stories of Southern kidnapping and killing (mostly through horrible labor) of negroes took top priority, so say contemporary Yankee “academicians” of Lincolnian ilk.


A new world of academics absent Dickens or Tocqueville, of course.


But the messages of these “chatterers” are far beyond what had/has become known as “Independence Day.” So…


It was the Virginians, through Thomas Jefferson who for the most part offered the well-known July Fourth Declaration of Independence for the additional 8 states (5 had already seceded: South Carolina, New Jersey, New Hampshire-first to secede, Rhode Island, and Virginia) for a signal of strength in its battle against the English Crown and the Crown’s constitutional parliament (not personally against King George III as some histrionic-historians claim).



It was under the July Fourth Declaration of Independence that 13 former colonies seceded from the British crown and declared (in the document itself) themselves free and independent states of the world. They declared themselves no nation! They declared union!



The Virginians, their fellow Southerners of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland nor most colonies to the North excluding Hamiltonian national statists wanted a nation, nor necessarily fought for one at Saratoga (considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War by many) or any other place. As far as that goes most of the battles and slugfests, men and materials took place in the Southern states (colonies before July 4).



A republic of 13 independent states was later formed (1781) under articles establishing a republic confederation and by unanimous consent, later, 1787-1790 this same republic abandoned itself (effectively another secession) and ratified a new constitution after the independent states agreed to come together in convention for structure.



This constitutional government (as a union) lasted until 1861 when the Union split over the South’s paying disproportionately for Union costs and the North treating the Constitution as no more than by-laws within a fraternity clubhouse.  It was at this time that Lincoln and his Yankee army invaded the new Republic of The Confederate States of America (the C.S.A. having dissolved the political bands--got it?).  The Yankee army overwhelmed The Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) with large numbers of European socialist immigrants and Northern mercenaries and through monstrous burnings, lootings, and pillaging forced the South into surrender after 4 years of war.


At that time Yankee racism and reconstruction began its long march through the South. The North didn’t beat its weapons into plowshares; it beat the South into a “national submission.” No longer a union, now a national state. Today, as now known, The Deep State.


No?


Fourscore and seven years ago---whatever?


Imagine one of your birthday parties as a child and your mommy says after you blow out the candles: “By the way we don’t know who your real daddy is.”


Happy 250 minus 87.