Posted on 10/28/2024 7:23:31 AM PDT by Starman417
Donald Trump and Elon Musk, two men with the world at their feet are risking everything for America. They don't have to, but they do. Not so different than some others about 250 years ago.
Rush Limbaugh used to talk about a story his father told about the signers of the Declaration of Independence: “Of those 56 who signed the Declaration of Independence, nine died of wounds or hardships during the war. Five were captured and imprisoned, in each case with brutal treatment. Several lost wives, sons, or entire families. One lost his 13 children. Two wives were brutally treated. All were at one time or another the victims of manhunts and driven from their homes. Twelve signers had their homes completely burned. Seventeen lost everything they owned. Yet not one defected or went back on his pledged word. Their honor and the nation they sacrificed so much to create is still intact.”
The story had something of a resurrection in the early 2000s and was often shared in various iterations on social media. Not surprisingly, a minor industry emerged seeking to “fact-check” them. An example of such is this from Snopes, which first began fact-checking them back in 2005:
“Five signers were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died."
It is true that five signers of the Declaration of Independence were captured by the British during the course of the Revolutionary War. However, none of them died while a prisoner, and four of them were taken into custody not because they were considered "traitors" due to their status as signatories to that document, but because they were captured as prisoners of war while actively engaged in military operations against the British.”
Snopes concludes that the piece they reviewed (not the Limbaugh piece) was “Mixed” in its accuracy. They’re right. Accuracy matters. Particularly in matters of importance. They then add something that backhandedly drives home the basic premise: “So great is our need for simplified, dramatic events and heroes that even the real-life biographies of the fifty-six men who risked their lives to publicly declare American independence are no longer compelling enough.” This is the theme that most of the gotcha fact checkers miss and indeed, largely ignored by those who seek to debunk the audacity of what those 56 did… They were committing treason. They knew they were committing treason. They knew the penalty for committing treason was hanging. And, yet, they did so, risking everything they had.
Moreover, they weren’t committing treason against just some random monarch with a few colonies to protect. No, they were committing treason against the most powerful nation on the planet whose navy dominated the seas and whose reach stretched across continents and oceans.
Whether they ended up dying of old age as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams did – on the same day, exactly 50 years from the date of the Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1826 – or died during the war itself, as nine of the signatories did, all 56 of them knew they were risking their fortunes, families and their lives if they signed that document. And they did it nonetheless.
Today there are millions of Americans ready to sign a new Declaration of Independence from the tyranny America has become. Tyranny you say?
The American government in 2024 is far more tyrannical than the British government under King George III ever was. And it’s not even close. With over 88,000 laws and rules passed by the federal government just between 1995 & 2016, today it’s almost impossible for the average American to get through a single day, nevermind a single year or life without breaking a law. In his book Three Felonies A Day civil liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate suggests that Americans commit three federal felonies every day without even knowing it. And that doesn’t include the countless state and local laws or authoritarian fictions tyrants create.
From a different perspective, consider this: In 1880 there were 30,000 prisoners jailed in the United States, out of a population of 50 million, for an incarceration rate of .06%. Today there are 1.6 million prisoners out of a population of 350 million, for an incarceration rate of .45%, and if one counts the additional 3.4 million others in the system – i.e. probation and parole, which were essentially nonexistent in 1880, you get a justice system control rate of 1.45%. Are Americans somehow 25 times more criminalized today than they were 140 years ago or are there simply more crimes for which they can be convicted?
As any conscious person knows, it’s the latter.
Which makes what Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing, simply extraordinary. While millions of Americans would be willing to sign a new Declaration of Independence if it came to it, those two are trying to avoid having that be a necessity. And they are risking everything to make it so.
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Two of the greatest Americans ever.
yeah. elon musk is doing more than any other single individual to bring about the omnipresent technocracy. Hooray.
BTTT
Wonderful connection. Really glad you posted it and the photo is magnificent.
The battle for the soul of amERICa:
"I lost her once. I'm not going to lose her again."
ERIC not only saved Ariel, a doubled symbolic name for JerUSAlem, he saved all the ensnared souls by impaling Ursula with the bowsprit of the shipwreck that she herself had resurrected from the dead. Handy, like how Haman built his own gallows. (Work smart, not hard.)
But who's listening to Disney dialog for the Intel. Disney has become the Moab of children's entertainment:
The Little Mermaid was considered by some as "the film that brought Broadway into cartoons". Link
"The daughter of the great seeking is a very precious commodity."
Jerusalem had two names prior.
Jebus and Salem..................
That reminds me, especially within the framework of Revolutionary Boston, long before the Revolution:
Jebus: יבוס
City on a Hill, New Jerusalem...
"The Hub"...
An interesting word play on Boston involves the etym. theories/origins from across the pond -- as Botolph's stone or his town, but coming along as bos בוס + ton טון in any case.
"bos" -- it's not just a protuberance on a shield, or who's in charge, it's a case of "disappearing" vowels, Boston as
Jebus-town: י*בוסטון*
Besides The Hub (compare, compare), and The City on a Hill , Boston is known as the Cradle of Liberty, also shared with Philadephia.
Ebus-town...
ebus [אבוס]: crib, manger, stall
א*בוסטון*
Then there's the matter of Hester, the scorned woman who was forced to wear a scarlet letter "A", as told by the man who was under (had descended from) a thorn bush, fig. tree:
Born Nathaniel Hathorne
July 4, 1804
Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
("Hawthorne's father Nathaniel Hathorne Sr. was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever in Dutch Suriname...")
Crataegus monogyna:
Crataegus: From the Greek word krataigos, which means "flowering thorn"
Mono: Means "single or one"
Gyna: Means "ovary or seed"
The stuff that just sits there, but then watch everyone be surprised.
AHAS-Я-US!
😉
“Great name for a band!”
Funding fathers would be proud of them for saving liberty.
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