AYFKM? The rest of the world has known and just naturally assumes that all of their governments and politicians have been ongoing criminal conspiracies since before Alulim of Eridu. The Sumerians were just the first ones that were able to write it down.
It's Americans, the relative late-comers to the game who have been kidding themselves for years with the illusion that their government was any different. That they were "the good guys".
That illusion should have ended right about 1789. The state governments had amassed $25 million in debt in addition to the $54 million borrowed by the previous Congress to pay for the Revolution, when Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (whose jewish friends put him very much in favor of a central bank) sought to use this debt to create a financial system.
In his Report on Public Credit, he urged Congress to consolidate the state and national debts into a single debt that would be funded by the federal government. Congress approved these measures in June and July 1790.
Hamilton believed that import duties, the government's primary source of revenue, had already been raised as high as possible (which had naturely led to an increase in smuggling).
He backed passage of an excise tax on domestically produced distilled spirits. This was the first tax levied by the national government on a domestic product. This became known as the "whiskey tax."
Which shortly thereafter led to the "Whiskey Rebellion".
Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton, PhiladelphiaAttorney General William Bradford, and federal district attorney Rawle intentionally pursued a course of action that would provoke "the kind of violence that would justify federal military suppression".
Hamilton had been working towards this moment since the Newburgh Crisis in 1783, where he conceived of using military force to crush popular resistance to direct taxation in the same vein as the Whiskey Rebellion. Hamilton, in general, wished to enforce the excise law "more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue".
Saint George Washington himself, under the authority of the recently passed federal militia law, called up the state militiasof New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The federalized militia force of 12,950 men was a large army by American standards of the time, comparable to Washington's armies during the Revolution.
Few men volunteered for militia service, so a draft had to be implemented.
Two civilians were killed in these operations. On September 29, an unarmed boy was shot by an officer whose pistol "accidentally fired". Two days later, an "itinerant person" was bayoneted to death by a soldier while "resisting arrest". President Washington ordered the arrest of the two soldiers and had them turned over to civilian authorities. A state judge determined that the deaths had been accidental, and the soldiers were released.
Any of this starting to sound familiar?
TLDR? Stop whatever you're doing and take a good look around you, right now. Is this what, "Of, By, and For the people", is supposed to look like? There are no fucking "good guys", and there never were. Anyone that tells you any different is selling something.
[ + ] BulletStopper
[ - ] BulletStopper 3 points 8 monthsSep 12, 2023 10:40:08 ago (+3/-0)*
It's Americans, the relative late-comers to the game who have been kidding themselves for years with the illusion that their government was any different. That they were "the good guys".
That illusion should have ended right about 1789. The state governments had amassed $25 million in debt in addition to the $54 million borrowed by the previous Congress to pay for the Revolution, when Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton (whose jewish friends put him very much in favor of a central bank) sought to use this debt to create a financial system.
In his Report on Public Credit, he urged Congress to consolidate the state and national debts into a single debt that would be funded by the federal government. Congress approved these measures in June and July 1790.
Hamilton believed that import duties, the government's primary source of revenue, had already been raised as high as possible (which had naturely led to an increase in smuggling).
He backed passage of an excise tax on domestically produced distilled spirits. This was the first tax levied by the national government on a domestic product. This became known as the "whiskey tax."
Which shortly thereafter led to the "Whiskey Rebellion".
Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton, PhiladelphiaAttorney General William Bradford, and federal district attorney Rawle intentionally pursued a course of action that would provoke "the kind of violence that would justify federal military suppression".
Hamilton had been working towards this moment since the Newburgh Crisis in 1783, where he conceived of using military force to crush popular resistance to direct taxation in the same vein as the Whiskey Rebellion. Hamilton, in general, wished to enforce the excise law "more as a measure of social discipline than as a source of revenue".
Saint George Washington himself, under the authority of the recently passed federal militia law, called up the state militiasof New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The federalized militia force of 12,950 men was a large army by American standards of the time, comparable to Washington's armies during the Revolution.
Few men volunteered for militia service, so a draft had to be implemented.
Two civilians were killed in these operations. On September 29, an unarmed boy was shot by an officer whose pistol "accidentally fired". Two days later, an "itinerant person" was bayoneted to death by a soldier while "resisting arrest". President Washington ordered the arrest of the two soldiers and had them turned over to civilian authorities. A state judge determined that the deaths had been accidental, and the soldiers were released.
Any of this starting to sound familiar?
TLDR? Stop whatever you're doing and take a good look around you, right now. Is this what, "Of, By, and For the people", is supposed to look like?
There are no fucking "good guys", and there never were. Anyone that tells you any different is selling something.
[ + ] con77
[ - ] con77 1 point 8 monthsSep 12, 2023 11:57:37 ago (+1/-0)