Posted on 10/07/2021 3:02:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
One of my favorite political cartoons from the end of America's War for Independence comes not from the colonies, but from a printer in London. Entitled "The General P__s, or Peace," it shows an Englishman, a Dutchman, an American Indian, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman all urinating into a pot with their swords and national flags lying on the ground. In sixteen lines of verse accompanying the drawing, the unhappy engraver bemoans the loss of America and ends with an acerbic final stanza: "Tis vain for to fret or growl at our lot, / You see they're determin'd to fill us a pot, / So now my brave Britons excuse me in this, / That I for a Peace am obliged to write Piss."
That always makes me smile. "How on Earth," I imagine that printer grumbling to himself, "did a ragtag bunch of colonists end up dictating terms of surrender to the world's pre-eminent empire?" Now it also reminds me of a popular internet meme juxtaposing the picture of a woman dancing in warm rain under the caption "People Who Trust the Government," with the picture of her neighbor urinating over their mutual fence and captioned appropriately, "The Government." So it would seem we Americans have come full circle and are now on the receiving end of our government's piddling affections.
Isn't it remarkable how everything the federal government does in the name of "general peace" ends up as a pot of the other stuff that we're expected to drink right up with a smile? For the life of me, I can't think of anything helpful or good that has come from Washington's Leviathan or the D.C. despots that control that ungrateful monster in quite some time.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Peace is lack of opposition.
Ain’t gonna happen when individual Liberty and Economic freedom is at stake.
The US government is the enemy of the people. That may seem extreme but too bad.
In 1787, at or close to the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Elizabeth Willing Powel, wife of the Mayor, asked Benjamin Franklin; ‘well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?’ ‘A republic,’ replied the Doctor, ‘if you can keep it.’
Well, we kept it, more-or-less, for 126 years, until the passing of the 17th Amendment (1913) for the popular election of the US Senators. To me, this is the initial action that killed the Federal Republic. It emasculated the States as a separate power structure and, from that time since, power has accumulated at the great dismal swamp of DC!
The government has no peace to offer! it’s a nightmare!
God in Heaven, Jesus Christ, is where the peace lies.....
the only peace there is on this side!
This United States is in such a mess.. the dems and biden and obama, have done their thing.. which is always a disaster..
this time they created a monster that may not be fixable!
They had to put lost biden in....what were they thinking!!!!!!!!!!!
The Lord Jesus has the only plan for peace & justice. The other plans presented to the world just end in chaos.
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