Posted on 05/27/2021 8:57:03 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1780, statistician Johann Heinrich Waser.
“One of the most spectacular and horrific treason cases of the late eighteenth century” in the words of Jeffrey Freedman (A Poisoned Chalice | here’s a review) — one that “shattered the complacent belief that such a brutal and cynical act of repression could no longer occur in an age of Enlightenment, let alone in Switzerland, the land of William Tell, republican virtue, and free, self-governing citizens.” Subsequent centuries laugh in bitter commiseration.
Initially a pastor, Waser’s idealism had not been fully wrung out in the seminary and so he got himself fired from his Zurich-area parish for complaining too loudly about the oligarchic graft that left his flock’s poor relief barren.
Nothing daunted, he effected a career change and “threw himself with zeal and success into all researches in natural history, history, agriculture and statistics.” He surely had little notion that this technocratic exercise could imperil his life … but as with his time in the ministry, he suffered for his inability to pay the tithe of politic hypocrisy to the unrighteous mighty. Freedman again...
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Johann Heinrich Waser, may God never let me forget his name.and mission.
Can you imagine what imposing a draft on American females would do to our already pathetic birth-rate?
Well, if they want to vote, they should be subject to the draft just like men.
If they don’t want to be drafted, let them give up the right to vote.
You better hope they don’t vote against our history, prosperity, posterity and sexual gratificatuon with their wombs!
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