“This sir, is my great objection to the Constitution, that there is no true responsibility—and that the preservation of our liberty depends on the single chance of men being virtuous enough to make laws to punish themselves.” ~Patrick Henry
The Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary War that followed, and the Constitution that created the republic that we pledge allegiance to every morning for twelve years. The courageous “Founding Fathers” who dared to commit treason against the Crown and who were willing to write a check—up to and including their lives—in order to secure freedom for the colonies. All so very romantic isn’t it? Most fiction is.
Thomas Jefferson was one of those “Founding Fathers” who signed the Declaration of Independence; and like a true politician, when the British invaded, he famously scurried as quickly as possible across Virginia to hide until the shooting was over and the smoke cleared. Maintaining slave plantations in Monticello and Lynchburg, VA, the man who just signed a document declaring all men are equal—unless you were black, native American, or female—ran like a coward to hide. I don’t think “equal” means what Jefferson thought it meant.
Benjamin Franklin also committed treason against the crown by signing the Declaration, but of course he was too old and fragile to fight, so he sat this one out as well—in France. Remember the story of how Franklin supposedly tied a key to a kite and “discovered” electricity? Speculation on the electrical properties of lightening had been the issue of scientific debate by Jean-Antoine Nollet, Denis Barberet, Jacques de Romas, and others as early as 1749. At that time Franklin was in opposition to the theory altogether. He later changed his mind and had proposed an experiment with conductive rods, but there is no record of him conducting any such experiments. But it sure made for a nice story in school, didn’t it?
John Adams (another “Founding Father” and signer of the Declaration) did not fight. James Madison was a frail man of little stature who also decided that discretion was the better part of valor. It would seem it also gets a university named after you. John Hancock, Samuel Adams the same. I mean come on, Hancock was much too valuable as a political advisor to soil his hands with such proletariat activities like fighting a war he started. That’s what ordinary men are for. War has always been old men sending young men to die. This one was no different.
Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence, few actually picked up arms against the British and, except for George Washington, none of the “Founding Fathers” we are taught about in school did so. I guess their checkbooks didn’t have any checks left in them. Don’t you hate it when that happens?
What the “Founding Fathers” did do was to thrust almost three million colonists into a war against the world’s most powerful military whether they liked it or not. The majority of the colonists were farmers, simple people who had no problem being British subjects and had no interest in going to war against the British. But that didn’t matter. If they didn’t volunteer to fight they were conscripted, and if they refused to fight they were labeled deserters and shot as ordered by Washington. They didn’t teach you about Washington’s firing squads murdering conscripted farmers because they didn’t want to fight in his war did they? I don’t think “freedom” means what Washington thought it meant.
The truth is that the “Founding Fathers” were by and large men of significant means compared to the rest of the colonists. Means that were being taxed by King George and that didn’t sit well with them, so they decided to liberate themselves and their means from British rule. But they couldn’t do it with their rag tag army and state militias, so they sent Ben Franklin to France to charm King Louis XVI and convince him and King Carlos II of Spain to come and overthrow the British government in the colonies for them. It was a foreign coup, regime change, i.e., not a revolution. That’s right, there never was an American Revolution, it was all just fairytales made up from perverted historical pieces created as part of an indoctrination campaign. It was nothing more than a foreign military operation for international political expedience. Mind blown, right?
Nor was there independence for the colonists. The “Founding Fathers” immediately took control of the colonial government and instituted their own set of laws, taxes, and punishments for disobeying them. George Washington even insisted on being referred to as “His Excellency.” Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
The colonists traded one despot across the ocean for a government full of despots across the colonies. In 1787, in violation of the Articles of Confederation, they met in secret in Philadelphia to write a new constitution centralizing power on themselves which included the Bill of Rights. Soon after, in 1798, President John Adams, in direct violation of the first amendment he had just signed, signed the “Alien and Sedition Acts” into law making it a federal crime to criticize the government. I don’t think “freedom of speech” means what Adams thought it meant. I just laugh when I hear about Independence Day in the United States. Independence from what? Freedom? I don’t think “independence” means what people think it means either.
America was never great, how could it be? The “Founding Fathers” were all rich, white slave owners who colonized Native Americans and subjugated women. They were some of the worst of humanity. Then the politicians used things like “Manifest Destiny” to justify stealing millions of square acres of land from the Mexicans and killing anyone who got in their way. The USA was built on the back of slave labor, colonization, genocide, murder, theft, and abuse. Nothing great about that. What you’re taught in government schools is all just part of the illusion created for your mind’s consumption. Eat up! Rinse and repeat.
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