4919-4923: International Public Notice: Ever Since 1823.... from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
It
turns out that the French Rothschild banking empire has been managing
the Vatican's assets ever since 1823. Doesn't that explain a lot of
history?
Bloody history. Dishonest history. Evil history. Napoleonic history. Payseur history. Even Abraham Lincoln history.
We
consider this the last shoe that needed to be dropped, the last pixel
needed to complete the total picture of depravity, corruption, and
hidden collusion.
Charlemagne would be turning over in his grave, but Mayer Amschel Rothschild would be dancing on it.
It
was a unique coup, to pretend to hate the Holy Roman Empire, while
working for it and using its vast assets to benefit oneself from it --
but also a textbook application of the Sabbatean modus operandi -- to
deceive at all costs and profit from it.
No
doubt the Roman Cult hidden within the Catholic Church --- no slouches
in the realm of deception -- learned a few things themselves.
The
so-called Egyptian Jews were Idolaters who pretended to be Jews; our
best glimpse of them came when Moses confronted them over the Golden
Calf, a new moon representation of the Egyptian Cow Goddess Hathor.
Once
they arrived in Canaan they mixed and mashed with the local Amorite and
Samaritan and Canaanite Idolaters and eventually concocted their own
version of Judaism -- what Jesus called the "Synagogue of Satan".
They
concocted their own version of Christianity, too -- a mixture of
Egyptian monotheism, Babylonian idolatry, Early Christian teachings and
Greek Mythology. They pictured Jesus as Zeus, therefore the name
I-zeus.
This
is the branch of "Christianity" that survived long enough to make it to
Rome, having made a long trek from Samaria to Turkey to the Balkan
homelands of the Romans and finally to Rome itself.
There was no conversion of Constantine the Great.
He
and his Flavian family already practiced this form of Christianity that
was popular among the Dacian nobility. As usual, the story we got was
"true in a way" but also upside down.
Constantine
didn't convert to the Apostles' Christian Church; the Apostles' Church
converted to Constantine's version of Christianity, instead.
This
is how we got the golden-haired, blue-eyed, perfectly formed and
god-like figure of Zeus transferred to Zeus's Son, I-zeus.
Frankfurt,
in the mid-to-late 1700s, is where the Synagogue of Satan caught up
with the Roman Cult of I-zeus. Mayer Amschel Bauer, a Jew who was not a
Jew, made the happy acquaintance of Fritz von Estorff, a Christian who
wasn't a Christian.
The rest is history, or perhaps, fate.
Jews
could charge usury to non-Jews; and, Christians, though as greedy as
everyone else, couldn't charge usury at all. It didn't take long for
the Holy Roman Empire to employ Jews to do all their banking for them,
as the Jews could lend at interest.
So
a bit of Roman Christian hypocrisy combined with Jewish mystical
idolatry, both having their roots in Samaria, and neither one being a
pure form of either religion, formed an alliance based on their mutual
desire to be both rich and powerful.
This
version of Christianity and this version of Judaism, both ultimately
coming out of Samaria, pretended to hate Islam, a religion that they
invented and bank-rolled as a foil -- just as they more recently
invented Israel as a foil for Palestinians.
The moon god of Islam, Allah, would be used as the "necessary enemy" of their own sun god, Amun Ra.
That
deliberately engineered conflict would give them no end of excuses for
war-profiteering and meddling with trade routes and commodity rigging
and, of course, taxation.
Their cousins, the Dacian priests of Cybele, were already the tax collectors for the City of Rome.
Amun Ra is the reason that Romanized Christians say "Amen" at the end of every prayer.
The
Sabbatean Jews and the Roman Flavian Cult embedded in the Church of
Rome both represent offshoots of the far older Babylonian religion; they
were twins formed in the womb of Samaria, more like each other -- under
the skin -- than any outsider might suppose.
Both
actually practice and believe things that are carefully hidden --- and
evil, but perhaps it is simply knowing this that binds them together,
like two blackmailers who have the goods on each other.
Both
indulge in Black Masses and Orgies; both cultivate the ability to lie
convincingly, both practice various kinds of blood sacrifice including
human sacrifice, both use sex as a sacrament, both practice idolatry,
especially the idolatry of money.
And
if one calls himself a Jew and another calls himself a Christian, it's
all the same to them. Anyone that wants to call himself a Muslim and
participate in all of this, will be welcomed as one of them. Religion is
just a means to an end and their cynicism knows no bounds.
The
only actual religion they have is the religion of Mammon, and they are
all in it together, both ends against the middle, which meets in the
High Lodges of the Scottish Rite and spreads out like a spider web from
there.
We
feel quite content having answered the riddles and traced the web back
to its home in ancient Samaria, and thence to its new home in Scotland,
and all around the world from there along every sea lane and byway,
wherever men lust for sex and gold and are willing to wager everything
for it.
The
enemy of humankind is revealed to be humankind itself, and to each of
us a decision is given, to choose life or death, according to what seems
good to us.
The
Black Magic Money Spell has no power; no delusions about money remain.
We recognize the dead things in the realm of the dead and don't concern
ourselves: to each is given a time and a season, and the time of
Babylon, like the season of the Saturnine Brotherhood, is long gone.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
July 4th 2024
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Public International Notice: So We Are Told
By Anna Von Reitz
This morning,
the Fourth of July in the year of 2024, we are told that "President"
Trump, the "Commander-in-Chief" of the British Territorial Corporation
doing business as "the United States of America -- Incorporated" has
given the order to the U.S. Military to disclose what has gone on
here.
We are told that in "3 to 5 days everyone will know".
But will we?
It
seems very doubtful that those who have been chiefly responsible for
the ruses and abuses will come clean, and far more likely that they will
come forward with some fictional Hollywood narrative seeking to excuse
themselves and make themselves look good ---- while continuing to use
and abuse.
Historically,
when cornered and accused of their vile religious practices and other
criminal acts, the Vermin double-down and accuse others of what they
have been doing themselves.
So expect that.
They
use bit players as the Fall Guys to satiate public outrage, while the
actual leaders and perpetrators escape to pleasant vacation homes and
retreats. They sit in comfy leather recliners and watch their whipping
boys go to the guillotines and gallows.
Expect that, too.
The whole political furor, the phony prosecution of Trump and the January 6th protestors,
the staged election, the attacks against our food production facilities
and oil refineries, the entire pandemic complete with rehearsals, the
continued slow march toward the UN CORP 2030 goals, the so-called "Open
Borders Policy", the whole criminal house of cards that makes up the
current financial system --- all that they are going to explain?
Without, however, incriminating themselves?
How?
We've
been led to expect a full-on Hollywood extravaganza of unbelievable
proportions, a combination of phony movie footage and Project Blue Beam
illusions designed to make Donald Trump look like at least Moses, if not
the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
They've
been telling us to "enjoy the show" for a decade. We haven't enjoyed
it yet, but the Queen Anons and others keep saying we are going to love
it and love the way this Big Production ends.
Our Shinola Sensors are set on High. We don't expect any of this to pass the credibility test, but who knows?
What
we expect is a Hollywood-style softcore Horror Movie seeking to excuse
and explain away all the things that we have directly observed for
ourselves.
We will be told that all the lies and cheating and stealing were necessary, part of a brilliant 160 year Master Plan. Yup.
Never fear. Uncle Sam had it all in hand.
We
will be told that "aliens" or some other unknown entity or force was to
blame, but a cult of Sabbatean Jews, based out of Frankfurt, Germany,
and having secret ties to the Holy Roman Empire, will always be closer
to the truth, and the truth will remain.
They will make up an enemy of the people one way or another, and do their best to pin their donkey on the scapegoat.
They
will pay actors to play every role from Valiant Thor to JFK, Jr. and
Princess Di ---- and because we are chumps, because we are endlessly
gullible, they will count on us to believe them.
Feed
us some bread and circuses, or what passes for it in the modern day,
popcorn, and eight hour loops of movies to sell the narrative of the
White Hats, right?
They
will do their best to scare the pants off us as they reveal the
terrible danger that they were fighting against this entire time, the
horrific lizard-like humanoid invaders and insectoid robots that they
protected us from. The evil swamp creatures that live inside the
Beltway....
Think of mini-Godzillas and Praying Mantis-like robots ready to bite your heads off.
We'll
be so grateful to them that any cost for their operations and upkeep
will be happily accepted, even if it means being enslaved for another
300 years.
Their
leadership will be proven, their candidate the only choice. Mr. Trump
will be so gracious in victory, we will forget that he's an egotist and
learn to love his nasal foghorn voice.
They
will try to sell us the faked Princess Di as a replacement for the
failed (and actually non-existent) British Monarchy, and the faked JFK,
Jr. as the American equivalent.
Why not have a fake President for a fake government? And a fake Queen to run a non-existent Constitutional Monarchy?
It's all just actors on a stage, put there to distract attention away from what's going on behind the curtain.
It
will be as staged as the "attack" on the World Trade Center, designed
to sweep the ugly old elephants under the rug and open up a whole new
day of accepting any lie they tell us.
With or without Blue Ribbon Commissions to back them up.
We
expect a Hail, Mary attempt to keep the same old Players (albeit,
wearing different masks) in place and in power. We don't expect any
sincere offer to change or admit mistakes.
We expect more lies. More masks. More "confidence" tricks and illusions.
So should you.
They've all been caught red-handed, so what can they do?
Answer: whip around and hand-cuff the guy standing next to them--- and present him as the problem.
See
here? We captured all these criminals who used to be in league with
us. Now we are going to bring them to justice....Gunslingers v Horse
Thieves, in Technicolor.
It
was all a brilliant plan to draw out the Bad Guys, who were being bad
in plain sight and mostly in public for decades at a time.
We are told that this long-awaited theater production to end all theater productions is almost upon us. Almost.
So we are told.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
July 4th 2024
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Thursday, July 4, 2024
International Public Notice: Entrapment by Non-Disclosure
By Anna Von Reitz
A
few days ago we issued an International Public Notice disclosing that
this entire country, the former British Commonwealth, the seventeen
nations of Western Europe that are still illegally occupied ever since
the Second World War, plus numerous other nations worldwide that have
been invaded by British-controlled mercenary forces since World War II,
have all been swindled and subjected to their own version of the British
Raj.
The
mechanisms used to deploy, excuse, and promote this fraud against
humanity and our respective sovereign nations have also been discussed,
including the human trafficking and personage schemes resulting from the
issuance of foreign birth certificates for Americans, Aussies, and all
the other nations impacted by this British Bunko.
The
first entrapment created by an undisclosed (and to the victim,
unconscionable) foreign citizenship contract is quickly followed by a
series of supplementary adhesion contracts promoted by demands that
people participate in various programs sponsored by the corporations
masquerading as governments.
These
adhesion contracts include but are not limited to various additional
enrollments and registrations that are induced under color of law and
which are not fully disclosed, either.
Americans,
Canadians, Aussies, and Brits, as well as people from many other
nations have been told that they "have to" sign up for Social Security
programs and enroll in these private corporate pension and social
welfare programs in order to have a job in their respective countries.
This
is only true if one is applying for a job with one of these
incorporated government services providers, but that fact gets
conveniently glossed over, and the Social Security program is enforced
on the General Public at large, with the result that it looks like
everyone in the whole country "volunteered" for no discernible reason to
enroll themselves in a government pension program for Federal workers
with or without the nicety of a Federal paycheck.
They
are all presumed to voluntarily convert between 15 and 25% of their
lifetime net earnings to the service of a privately managed Social
Security Fund, and to tax their employers an equal amount as they tax
themselves, in order to receive pension benefits that they don't control
and which are substandard at best.
Unknown
to the victims, the same Social Security Fund is ear-marked to provide
bankruptcy protection to the invisible public trust franchises that have
been named after the victims.
In
this way, the victims are made to pay for their own life insurance so
that the titular "owners" of these fraudulently constructed public trust
franchises don't have to; the parent corporations responsible for this
and their shareholders receive the life insurance benefits upon the
victim's death and "life force value annuities" during the victim's
lifetime.
The
Perpetrators are similarly insured against any business losses that
their so-called "public trust" franchises cause by going bankrupt and
those costs for bankruptcy protection are passed on to the victims as a
group as well.
This vast personage and adhesion contract scheme is never disclosed and is promoted under color of law.
This
is backed up by other coerced and undisclosed adhesion contracts such
as "voluntary agreement" to collect and pay Federal Income Tax, whether
or not one receives any Federal Income, and more "voluntary agreements"
to register private property such as children and automobiles as public
interest property owned and controlled by the same crooked government
services corporations.
Does anyone believe that any of this is fully disclosed to and voluntarily accepted by the victims?
How
about "voluntary" enrollment in Selective Service, which establishes a
"pre-induction contract" allowing the same governmental services
providers to illegally press-gang and conscript the enrollees as
ill-paid mercenaries bound to storm the beaches in the name of foreign
corporate profit?
All
of this is unlawful, illegal, and immoral; the "government services
corporations" have only gotten away with it by operating in secrecy and
under color of law, and now they are discovered for what they are---
organized crime.
The
most recent pandemic fiasco is nothing but a thinly veiled scheme to
collect on the life insurance, reduce the aging (and expensive) baby
boomer population, and set up new business opportunities (that is,
spread diseases via injection) for the for-profit health services
industry owned and operated as franchises of the crooked parent
corporations responsible for all of this.
All
of these convenient adhesion contracts which are used to bully and
pillage and control the victims are never disclosed, just as the nature
of the entities making these demands to enroll and participate and sign
up and so on, are not disclosed.
The
Selective Service uses young ladies from Puerto Rico to lead the
pre-induction enrollment drive; they call up the targets using U.S.
telephone exchanges and tell them that they "must" sign up and "have to"
enroll in Selective Service.
If
they don't enroll, they won't be honorable men. They are refusing to
serve their country and don't care about freedom....or the protection of
the sweet little things on the other end of the telephone line.
Besides that, they won't qualify for service-related benefits....
This
is an entrapment scheme aimed at innocent young people, with the full
intention of gaining legal means to force them to serve as cheap
mercenaries and gun fodder. Enrollment in Selective Service gives
permission to draft the victims at will, assign them wherever and to
whatever task needed, and pay them only rock bottom wages.
Nobody
is ever told that these demands are coming from foreign, for-profit
corporations that are merely in the business of providing government
services -- and not from any actual government.
The
end result is that all these various contracts are null and void for
lack of full disclosure and any enforcement against the victims is
unlawful, illegal, and immoral in the extreme.
As
the American Government and the English Government and the German
Government and....and....and....come roaring back onto the world stage,
there will be hell to pay, but it won't be the kind of hell that these
perpetrators relish.
It
won't involve war for profit and racketeering under color of law,
illegal arms sales, drug running, unlawful conversion, illegal
confiscation of assets, or passing off I.O.U.s as money. It won't offer
any "government sponsored" insurance scams or benefit swindles. No
identity theft. No mortgaging of American property to pay off British
debt. No undisclosed adhesion contracts promoted under color of law.
As
it becomes more and more apparent that con artists and swindlers have
taken over the governments of the western world, and as the people of
each nation wake up to this unpleasant fact, the freedom that so many of
us fought for will come into view and nobody will need to explain the
difference between freedom and liberty again.
It's
up to us to make sure that our freedom and our national identity is
never stolen again, that our people and our property assets are never
again pillaged by evil men posing as Public Servants, that our banking
institutions are honest, and that our government is our government ---
not a consortium of self-interested foreign opportunists in the business
of providing government services.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger, Fiduciary
The United States of America
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
July 4th 2024
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Thursday, July 4, 2024
If You Think It's Bad Here
By Anna Von Reitz
The Brits have it even worse.
Take
a look at this photo of the "British Armed Forces" participating in a
"Pride Parade" in central London. Look at how they have defaced the
Union Jack!
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| Pride Parade in London |
So tell us, please, what someone's private sexual preferences have to do with government?
Nothing.
Perhaps
the Brits have lost their minds or simply lost control of their
government, which is no longer functioning as a Constitutional Monarchy;
though most of them know that something is wrong, they haven't quite
caught up on what has happened.
The reason that their own "Armed Forces" are skipping around town defacing the Union Jack with rainbows and glitter.
Great
Britain, which was always a trading company and National Trust, is no
more. That means the Union Jack is no more. So the Armed Forces or
what pitiful bit is left of them, can deface the former British flag at
will with no consequences.
Nobody
in the flipping excuse for a government remembers what the flag of
England looks like, but they'd better dig around and find out.
At
present, they have no King of England. Charles the Third was crowned as
his Imperial Majesty in the air jurisdiction --- a pawn of the Holy
Roman Empire, just like Napoleon Bonaparte.
So
the Throne of England is vacant as it has been since the early 1700s.
Nothing new, just something coming out of the closet like a monster
slipping out from under the bed, or 50,000 gay trollops emerging from
the shops and pubs on Broad Street.
Judging from this photo England doesn't have to worry about overpopulation. They are all homosexuals. And proud of it.
Let's see how their experiment works and how many babies come out of it.
Those
(apparently) few Englishmen who still have their brains attached to the
rest of their physiology certainly need to do something brave and
desperate.
They don't have a King really. Haven't had a singular one of those since 1087 AD and haven't noticed the loss.
Meantime,
Great Britain has been caught red-handed on the receiving end of one of
the most audacious fraud schemes in human history, and in the rush to
fold the tent and get rid of Great Britain and their culpability for
that, we've got them all parading around in tutus and dress blues,
waving a new company flag, and hoping the rest of us won't notice what's
going on.
Too late.
England
stands vacant except for the now-gathering traditional assemblies of
the English people and one faithful member of the nobility -- their
Hereditary Lord High Steward, Lord Shrewsbury.
Great Britain is gone.
What
remains is an "Imperial Majesty" of the thoroughly discredited Holy
Roman Empire, functioning as the Overseer of His Holiness and the Roman
Catholic Church's Commonwealth land in England--- the exact same
position that every "King" since King John has held.
Except
for Lord Shrewsbury, who clearly knows his role and remembers who he
is, all the other members of the (formerly) British aristocracy appear
to be taking a long time in the bathroom. And celebrating Gay Pride as
if that had something to do with sane government.
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Thursday, July 4, 2024
In a Few Hours.... Thoughts About July Fourth
By Anna Von Reitz
In a few hours Americans will begin celebrating something that happened 248 years ago in a different world.
Contrary to what most of us believe, July 4th was
not the day that The Declaration of Independence was signed; it was the
day it was published and made available to the world. Due to the
requirements of the various State Assemblies and the rigors involved in
travel and communication, the actual signing of The Declaration by
various delegations would not be complete for months after the
publication.
Nothing is ever as simple as we could wish it to be.
Once
The Declaration of Independence was published, it had to be published
in three iterations mostly distinguishable by changes in style and the
means of dating the publication, as July 4, 1776, July the Fourth 1776, and Fourth of July 1776.
No
doubt that then as now, most people didn't notice this and other slight
differences in the multiple publications and everyone but the lawyers
put it down to different strokes for different printers and publishers
--- but no, they were dutifully posting The Declaration of Independence
in all three jurisdictions of air, land, and sea.
This
would then go through more iterations and finally result in The Supreme
Unanimous Declaration of Independence of the United Colonies --- a
document that American schoolchildren never see, and which we wouldn't
even have a copy of, if it were not for certain families and
collectors.
Our thanks to them forever.
The
myriad debates occurring over the three years prior would fill
textbooks from sea to shining sea, and the even more robust secret
debates raging on every hand would have resulted in even more
interesting paper.
The Big Players were from the Big Colonies, which meant Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, and South Carolina.
Pennsylvania, because it was by far the richest and largest colony in America in terms of land, resources, and money.
Massachusetts for its naval history and the wealth and commercial acumen of Boston.
Virginia because of its rich plantations and long history as the First Colony.
South Carolina for its rich plantations and mercantile facilities, warehouses, banks, and ports.
Each
of these four played distinctive roles in the discussion leading up to
the publication of The Declaration of Independence --- whichever version
you read.
Pennsylvania
was the most conflicted of the Colonies, in that it had both the most
to lose, and both the most adamant proponents and most determined
antagonists of the idea of independence.
Benjamin
Franklin, by this time, an elder statesman and business mogul and
inventor famous throughout the colonies --- but mainly famous for his
publication of Poor Richard's Almanac, work that he considered
"entertaining drivel" -- was the chief proponent and architect of
American Independence.
He'd
been working toward American Independence for fifty years, envisioning
it from his earliest days as an apprentice, when he scraped his elbows
against the British Guild System and learned Postal Law.
Franklin's
chief opponent, a wealthy British landowner named John Dickenson, was
younger than Franklin and less adroit in business and diplomacy, but
every bit as determined against the proposition of American
Independence.
Why
not leave well enough alone, Dickenson argued? After all, King George
was far enough away from Pennsylvania to be of relatively little
concern.
Not
so for the wiry and weary Mariners and Shipping Captains and Bar
Attorneys of Boston, who labored all day and every day against a flood
of new British taxes, tariffs and impositions of every kind impacting
their ability to trade and make a profit.
It
seemed to John Adams that Boston was the special target of the entire
British hegemony, and that King George must stay up at night,
considering what action he might take to best bollux up the Boston
Traders, encumber Boston's harbor, and cut off the "life blood" flowing
into the Colonies as a result of Massachusetts and its maritime trade.
Not
so for the South Carolinians, who, for the most part, were content to
grow their cotton and sorghum, their corn and wheat and tobacco, their
pumpkins and pine trees. The British needed them as happy trading
partners so the impositions placed on the Southern Planters had been
mild compared to the outrages suffered in Massachusetts.
The
South as a whole was unprepared for war and entertained distaste for
it, but for the sake of unity would go along --- only so far and so long
as their "cherished institution of black slavery" was allowed to
continue.
They
drew the line and insisted on that, because they knew that their entire
trading advantage in the world commodity markets was a direct result of
slave labor, and that they could not possibly make such excellent
profits and market margins without it.
And
while these sidebar discussions about money and slavery and markets and
transportation and taxes and tariffs and property rights and personal
freedom raged, the Virginians sat in the middle and listened to all
sides of all the debates and said little or nothing outside the borders
of Virginia for almost five years. They were, as they still are today, close-mouthed observers, and yet....
Certainly nothing was getting past the Virginia Delegation, and it was there that North met South.
Already,
the Lee Family was famous throughout Virginia and Richard Henry Lee was
more than reckless enough to propose Independence, while Thomas
Jefferson, another Virginia Delegate, was able to give the concept of
Independence both heart and soul.
It
was Jefferson's carefully crafted recitation of the wrongs inflicted by
the British Hierarchy, it's self-interest, brutality, dishonesty, and
injustice, that galvanized the other delegates into a fever-pitch of new
discussions about Independence.
Like
stirring up a beehive, Jefferson noted, he was likely to get stung for
his efforts, and yet, his words stirred the conscience and addressed the
grievances he had heard endlessly repeated at dinner tables and hotels
and pubs, in courtrooms and churches.
Thomas
Jefferson, quite apart from his other extraordinary gifts, was an
excellent listener. And he had heard every word from every corner of the
Colonies.
In
the end, a series of miraculous bits of serendipity, or as most
Delegates admitted, the Hand of God, brought the whole question of
American Independence to open debate and the duel that fate envisioned
came down to two questions --- one, deeply personal and individual, and
the other, practical and public.
Judge
James Wilson was a shy and vacillating character whose dearest wish was
to pass by unnoticed -- totally unremarked, acceptable, respectable,
and otherwise, not present.
As
John Dickenson raged against separation from England, and Ben Franklin
pressed inexorably from the other side, Judge Wilson, the third and
deciding member of the Pennsylvania Delegation waivered back and forth
without a settled mind, seeking only to discern which position was most
popular and where he might best hide himself from any criticism.
In
the end, Franklin deftly engineered things so that the entire question
came to rest on Judge Wilson, a position that Wilson was unable to
endure.
Wilson
simply couldn't face the notoriety of being the lone opposing vote, and
so, he voted yes for American Independence --- based on a personal
aversion to public controversy and very little else.
The
other question came from South Carolina and the head of their
delegation, Edward Rutledge, a young and wiley plantation owner whose
commitment to independence was decidedly secondary to his concern for
his State's economic well-being, which he equated with the institution
of slavery, and in particular, black slavery.
It
was well-known at the time that anyone could be enslaved, black or
white; in fact, Irish slaves were imported in vast numbers during the
early colonial days and often worked to death. But for Rutledge, the
best workers, and therefore, the most valuable commodities, were black
slaves, and that made race-based slavery and the guarantee of its
continuance the prime, and indeed, only, demand of the Southern
Colonies.
The
original prohibitions against slavery of any kind which Jefferson had
written into the draft Declaration of Independence were Rutledge's only
concern. Those prohibitions had to go, or the entire South would walk
out and leave the Northern Colonies to stand against England ---if they
had guts for it, without supplies and without guns from the South.
It
wasn't a matter of right or wrong in Rutledge's mind. He was agreeable
enough to think that freedom was the greatest good and to cherish it,
but on the other side of the balance was economic survival, not only for
himself, but in his mind, the survival of the entire South.
Even
the black slaves would not live long or well without the institution of
slavery so far as Rutledge was concerned, and so, the Southern Colonies
stood behind him to the final hour, when Jefferson bowed his head and
struck the prohibitions against slavery from the draft declaration.
"Mark me, Franklin," he muttered, "this is not the end of this."
Less than a hundred years later, the topic would be revisited.
Once
again, the South would insist on guarantees for the institution of
slavery. Once again, a genuine concern for the welfare of their black
slaves and their local economy led the Southern Delegates of the
Confederation's Congress to walk out.
This
time, in 1861, there would be no Thomas Jefferson and the pleadings of
the Federation President to settle the issue of slavery with a generous
government-sponsored settlement paying the entire cost of the slaves and
their lifetime upkeep, fell on deaf ears.
It
would lead to a mercenary conflict disguised as a war, and ironically,
the Southern Democrats would have the last word: the institution of
slavery was retained---only translated and transformed.
Private
slavery was abolished, but public slavery was born, a situation
enforced as the 13th and 14th Amendments to The Constitution of the
United States of America.
Such
is the history of the Land of the Free, where the enslavement of some
people has led inexorably to the enslavement of all people, and where
the dream of freedom remains a dream.
Please
take a moment to consider what our Founding Fathers endured --- not as
fear-mongering against what we might yet endure, but as inspiration and
determination to know what freedom is worth:
And
when you have contemplated that much, consider these words of Larken
Rose, delivering a quiet rant that isn't just aimed at "Conservatives",
but at every thinking man and woman in this country:
Love you and love this country!
Happy Fourth of July!
Granna
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