- I celebrated the conclusion of another election cycle
with some old friends last night.
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- Westbrook Pegler got the party off to a boisterous start
by quoting something he had written in the New York Journal in 1951: "Did
I say 'republic?' By God, yes, I said 'republic!' Long live the glorious
republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent
term used often by ignorant persons, but no less often by intellectual
fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, miscegenation, graft,
confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose
virtuous principles make them offensive."
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- Ben Franklin's spoke next, holding up a copy of the Constitution,
quoting a statement he had made over two hundred years ago; "This
is likely to be administered for a course of years and then end in despotism...
when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government,
being incapable of any other."
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- Thomas Jefferson was in attendance of course and followed
Franklin, quoting; "Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But
will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory
of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction."
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- Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler quoted from something
he had written on the decline and fall of the Athenian Republic while our
thirteen original states were still colonies of Great Britain: "A
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist
until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public
treasury. >From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate
promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that
Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed
by a Dictatorship."
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- Cicero spoke next, lamenting the fall of his beloved
Roman republic; "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less
formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the
traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling
through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For
the traitor appears not traitor, he speaks in the accents familiar to his
victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to
the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul
of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the
pillars of a city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer
resist. A murderer is less to be feared."
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- Thomas Jefferson spoke again reminding us of the whole
point of a republican form of governance: "In questions of
power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down
from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
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- We then turned to more contemporary times. Author
Ayn Rand, invited because of her insiders knowledge of the elite as the
mistress of one of the Rothschild brothers, addressed the idea of 'mischief'
in stating; "We are fast approaching the stage in the ultimate inversion:
the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while
the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest
period of human history; the stage of rule by brute force."
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- Vladimar Lenin made a brief appearance, just to tell
us that we were fools on a fools errand, and to gloat that the forces of
atheism and collectivism were winning the day; "If we can effectively
kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will
have won that country. Therefore, there must be continued propaganda abroad
to undermine the loyalty of citizens in general, and teenagers in particular.
By making drugs of various kinds readily available, by creating the necessary
attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness, and by preparing him psychologically
and politically, we can succeed."
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- Lenin had arrived with John Dewey, the father of American
Progressive Education, and considered the leading educator from 1924 to
1974. Dewey reminded us that it is he of whom it is claimed that
' no individual has influenced the thinking of American educators more',
before torturing us with his ideology; "There is no God and
no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion.
With dogma and creed excluded then immutable truth is also dead and buried.
There is no room for fixed, natural law or permanent absolutes."
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- The thought briefly entered our minds to debate with
them the idea of 'better to reign in hell than serve in heaven,' but decided
to just caution them to not let the door hit them in the butt on the way
out.
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- Texan and journalist Jim Marrs pointed out in his southern
drawl that Germany too, was once a greatly admired republic before its
fall from grace, and that the German word Reich simply means 'empire.'
He stated, "The biggest question I've always had is how could the
German people of the 1930's, who were among the most highly educated, cultured
people in the world, allowed themselves to get sucked in to Hitler's nightmare?
I never could really understand that until recently, when I saw it happening
in my own country." We all nodded in sympathy.
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- I pointed out that I was sure that Greece, Rome and Germany
had it's Karl Rove types, making the same mad hatter type of statements;
''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And
while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act
again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's
how things will sort out. We're history's actors ... and you, all of you,
will be left to just study what we do.''
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- We spent the rest of our time together discussing the
key junctures in modern history that have brought us to the situation that
we, as a civilization, find ourselves. All in all, it was a grand evening
spent with good friends.
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- Gary Jacobucci
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- jacob48@citlink.net
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