lewrockwell--2020-11-10--A Brief History of Nonwhite Slave Owners in America

The study of slavery is one of the most contentious issues in contemporary America .
But frequently this history is abused by thinkers across the spectrum to score political points .
To understand the complexity of such an institution , we must desist from underestimating the role of minorities such as African Americans and Native Americans in it .
For much of history , slavery was the norm , and by downplaying nonwhites ’ involvement , we diminish their humanity .
Pursuing one ’ s self-interest to acquire profit or power is consistent with human nature .
Depicting minorities as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of infants .
Instead , we should aim to highlight their autonomy as rational agents who sought to fulfill specific objectives in the context of a slave economy .
Blacks and American Indians possessed the capacity to be just as calculating as white slave owners , and it is patronizing to suggest that they failed to perform as self-interested actors .
One of the earliest reports on black slave owners was pioneered by historian and activist Carter G. Woodson .
Woodson advanced what is widely known as the theory of “ benevolent slaveholding.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ slaveholders primarily purchased relatives and friends from white masters to provide them with a better quality of life .
To curtail the growth of the free black population , restrictive laws were instituted , thus making it difficult for black slave owners to manumit slaves without approval from the state .
In South Carolina , for example , after 1820 free blacks who bought relatives , spouses , or friends had to receive permission from the state prior to manumitting enslaved Americans .
Hence , purchasing black slaves from white owners was a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a greater degree of freedom for their loved ones .
Indeed Woodson ’ s thesis remains popular among academics , as adumbrated by Philip J. Schwarz : “ Increasingly restrictive legislation , stringent economic conditions , the choice of many free blacks to own other blacks only temporarily , and perhaps the aversion of other Afro-Americans to human bondage guaranteed , that free black possession of human property would be significant only as an anomaly , not as a typical experience.
” Though Woodson ’ s theory is still influential , many have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of African American slave owners .
Black Slaveowners : Fre ... Larry Koger Buy New $ 23.75 Larry Koger in his groundbreaking text Black Slaveowners : Free Black Masters in South Carolina , 1790–1860 disputes the dominant narrative propagated by disciples of Woodson : Other scholars implore us to not be shocked that blacks in America expressed an interest in owning slaves , as summarized by Calvin Wilson : “ The Negroes brought with them from their native land African ideas and customs .
Many of those brought thence to America had been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had been owners of slaves in Africa .
In both cases , they were used to slavery .
It did not , therefore , seemed unnatural for a Negro in America to hold his brethren in bondage when he had become free and able to buy his fellows.
” Also , like their white peers , some black slave owners were notorious for their brutality .
Ronald E. Hall in his landmark publication An Historical Analysis of Skin Colour Discrimination : Victimism among Victim Group Populations challenges the assumption that black owners were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ellison : “ William Ellison is prominent for both his wealth and the cruelty toward his black slaves , for which he was known among Southern blacks and whites .
Historians for whatever reasons have attempted to justify his version of victim-group discrimination perhaps as a matter of political correctness.
” Yet if you assume that Hall ’ s commentary on Ellison is an anomalous case , then maybe this condemnation of black slave owners by a Louisiana slave featured in Frederick Law Olmstead ’ s Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom @ @ @ @ @ @ @ might think , master , dat dey would be good to dar own nation ; but dey is not .
I will tell you de truth , massa ; I know I ’ se got to answer ; and it ’ s a fact , dey is very bad masters , sar .
I ’ d rather be a servant to any man in de world , dan to a brack man .
If I was sold to a brack man , I ’ d drown myself .
I would dat—I ’ d @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t like to do dat nudder ; but I wouldn ’ t be sold to a coloured master for anything.
” Clearly , Woodson ’ s thesis is untenable .
Black Masters Roark , James L. Best Price : $ 13.00 Buy New $ 18.90 With greater potency than most writers Hall discredits the position that black slaveholders were mainly motivated by humanitarian concerns : Similarly , Native Americans were also players in slavery , and it must be noted that the institution existed before the arrival of Europeans .
According to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ North American Indian tribes practiced some form of slavery before Europeans arrived in North America .
The status of slaves varied from tribe to tribe .
Some slaves were exploited for labor , others were used for ritual sacrifice , a few provided for the needs of women whose husbands had been slain in war , and many were adopted into the tribes.
” However , with the introduction of plantation slavery by European settlers , Native Americans became alert to the financial opportunities that could be gained from this venture .
Barbara @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans had less interest in exploiting black slaves for monetary benefit : White Cargo : The Forgo ... Jordan , Don Best Price : $ 13.99 Buy New $ 16.50 Neither should we entertain the fable that Indian slave owners were universally generous .
R. Halliburton in an intriguing book , Red over Black : Black Slavery among the Cherokee Indians , argued that the treatment meted out to black slaves ranged from kind to excessively atrocious , indicating that generalizations about slave masters are often inaccurate .
To imply that only white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pursue their interests at the expense of others is insulting to blacks and American Indians .
Inherent in humans is the passion to achieve distinct objectives even when they are inconsistent with the goals of the wider group .
Romanticizing the history of minorities to portray them as saints is quite dehumanizing .
The racist subtext is that white people are uniquely human because they possess the fortitude to outwit competitors .
Note : The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute .

The study of slavery is one of the most contentious issues in contemporary America. But frequently this history is abused by thinkers across the spectrum to score political points. To understand the complexity of such an institution, we must desist from underestimating the role of minorities such as African Americans and Native Americans in it. For much of history, slavery was the norm, and by downplaying nonwhites’ involvement, we diminish their humanity. Pursuing one’s self-interest to acquire profit or power is consistent with human nature. Depicting minorities as innately virtuous relegates them to the status of infants. Instead, we should aim to highlight their autonomy as rational agents who sought to fulfill specific objectives in the context of a slave economy. Blacks and American Indians possessed the capacity to be just as calculating as white slave owners, and it is patronizing to suggest that they failed to perform as self-interested actors.
One of the earliest reports on black slave owners was pioneered by historian and activist Carter G. Woodson. Woodson advanced what is widely known as the theory of “benevolent slaveholding.” According to this view, black slaveholders primarily purchased relatives and friends from white masters to provide them with a better quality of life. To curtail the growth of the free black population, restrictive laws were instituted, thus making it difficult for black slave owners to manumit slaves without approval from the state. In South Carolina, for example, after 1820 free blacks who bought relatives, spouses, or friends had to receive permission from the state prior to manumitting enslaved Americans. Hence, purchasing black slaves from white owners was a strategy used by free blacks to secure a greater degree of freedom for their loved ones. Indeed Woodson’s thesis remains popular among academics, as adumbrated by Philip J. Schwarz: “Increasingly restrictive legislation, stringent economic conditions, the choice of many free blacks to own other blacks only temporarily, and perhaps the aversion of other Afro-Americans to human bondage guaranteed, that free black possession of human property would be significant only as an anomaly, not as a typical experience.” Though Woodson’s theory is still influential, many have charged that he minimized the materialistic tendencies of African American slave owners. Black Slaveowners: Fre... Larry Koger Buy New $23.75 (as of 04:41 UTC - Details)
Larry Koger in his groundbreaking text Black Slaveowners: Free Black Masters in South Carolina, 1790–1860 disputes the dominant narrative propagated by disciples of Woodson:
When Carter G. Woodson asserted that free blacks purchased slave relatives and friends, he was quite correct. However, free blacks who held loved ones bought other slaves to be exploited for profit. To classify these transactions as benevolent would be a mistake. Even though these slaveowners usually demonstrated benevolent behavior towards their slave relations and friends, a commercial and materialistic exchange existed between them and their slaves purchased as investments. In fact, the free blacks who maintained a dual relationship with their slaves had no universal commitment against slavery. To them, slavery was an oppressive institution when it affected a beloved relative or a trusted friend, but beyond that realm, slavery was viewed as a profit-making institution to be exploited.
Other scholars implore us to not be shocked that blacks in America expressed an interest in owning slaves, as summarized by Calvin Wilson: “The Negroes brought with them from their native land African ideas and customs. Many of those brought thence to America had been slaves in their own lands. Others had been owners of slaves in Africa. In both cases, they were used to slavery. It did not, therefore, seemed unnatural for a Negro in America to hold his brethren in bondage when he had become free and able to buy his fellows.”
Also, like their white peers, some black slave owners were notorious for their brutality. Ronald E. Hall in his landmark publication An Historical Analysis of Skin Colour Discrimination: Victimism among Victim Group Populations challenges the assumption that black owners were always humane using the example of William Ellison: “William Ellison is prominent for both his wealth and the cruelty toward his black slaves, for which he was known among Southern blacks and whites. Historians for whatever reasons have attempted to justify his version of victim-group discrimination perhaps as a matter of political correctness.”
Yet if you assume that Hall’s commentary on Ellison is an anomalous case, then maybe this condemnation of black slave owners by a Louisiana slave featured in Frederick Law Olmstead’s Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom will alter your perspective: “You might think, master, dat dey would be good to dar own nation; but dey is not. I will tell you de truth, massa; I know I’se got to answer; and it’s a fact, dey is very bad masters, sar. I’d rather be a servant to any man in de world, dan to a brack man. If I was sold to a brack man, I’d drown myself. I would dat—I’d drown myself! Dough I shouldn’t like to do dat nudder; but I wouldn’t be sold to a coloured master for anything.” Clearly, Woodson’s thesis is untenable. Black Masters Roark, James L. Best Price: $13.00 Buy New $18.90 (as of 05:32 UTC - Details)
With greater potency than most writers Hall discredits the position that black slaveholders were mainly motivated by humanitarian concerns:
In most instances of black slave ownership, the records suggest that blacks who owned black slaves did so for the same reasons as whites: profit….Astonishingly, in 1860 there existed at least six Negroes—likely light-skinned—living in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves. Among them C. Richards and P.C. Richards who owned 152 of their black brethren as slaves to work their sugarcane plantation. A similarly impressive Louisiana free Negro Antoine Dubuclet owned in excess of 100 dark-skinned black slaves. He was also in the sugar business and boasted an estate estimated to be worth in (1860 dollars) $264,000. To put Dubuclet’s wealth in context, the mean calculation of wealth for Southern white men at the time averaged $3,978.
Similarly, Native Americans were also players in slavery, and it must be noted that the institution existed before the arrival of Europeans. According to the scholar Joyce Ann Kievit: “Many North American Indian tribes practiced some form of slavery before Europeans arrived in North America. The status of slaves varied from tribe to tribe. Some slaves were exploited for labor, others were used for ritual sacrifice, a few provided for the needs of women whose husbands had been slain in war, and many were adopted into the tribes.” However, with the introduction of plantation slavery by European settlers, Native Americans became alert to the financial opportunities that could be gained from this venture.
Barbara Krauthamer shrewdly dispels the notion that Native Americans had less interest in exploiting black slaves for monetary benefit:
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the U.S. Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw men and women held people of African descent in slavery. Like their white Southern counterparts, Indians bought, sold, owned, and exploited black people’s labor and reproduction for social and economic gain. Choctaws and Chickasaws purchased slaves—men, women, and children—to work on their Mississippi farms and plantations and to serve in their homes…Choctaws and Chickasaws understood that slavery allowed for the accumulation of personal wealth.
White Cargo: The Forgo... Jordan, Don Best Price: $13.99 Buy New $16.50 (as of 02:25 UTC - Details) Neither should we entertain the fable that Indian slave owners were universally generous. R. Halliburton in an intriguing book, Red over Black: Black Slavery among the Cherokee Indians, argued that the treatment meted out to black slaves ranged from kind to excessively atrocious, indicating that generalizations about slave masters are often inaccurate.
To imply that only white people have a vicious ability to calculatingly pursue their interests at the expense of others is insulting to blacks and American Indians. Inherent in humans is the passion to achieve distinct objectives even when they are inconsistent with the goals of the wider group. Romanticizing the history of minorities to portray them as saints is quite dehumanizing. The racist subtext is that white people are uniquely human because they possess the fortitude to outwit competitors.
Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.


lewrockwell--2020-11-10--Deliver Us From Evil

Deliver Us From Evil

From my post on a discussion between two pastors , Paul VanderKlay and Paul Anleitner , comments were offered by RMB and ATL that are worth addressing in some detail .
One of the pastors asked , “ How to recognize ‘ this is the evil we are actively to resist.
’ ” This in the context of the current culture wars and riots that are tearing apart the United States and much of the Western world .
I addressed this in the earlier post – the evil we are to resist is the evil that intends to destroy Christianity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ intends to destroy liberty .
Recognizing the perpetrators of this evil is easy , because they have no shame or fear in identifying themselves and their purpose – either against Christianity or against liberty .
In any case , the comments opened new questions and topics .
First , from RMB November 6 , 2020 at 9:40 AM I don ’ t know exactly how to fight the culture war but by standing firm on what I know to be true and to be ready to tell others when the time comes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ It does not require any complicated decisions about taking violent or even political action ( albeit , I know some consider political action to also be violent ) .
It merely requires speaking truthfully .
Speaking for Myself : F ... Sanders , Sarah Huckabee Buy New $ 20.99 We know that the objective of the leaders of those marching in the streets is to destroy Christianity ; they are avowed Marxists and have not been shy about saying so .
We know this is true of many in academia – especially in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it in action in many of our political leaders ; we see it in the major media .
We see it in too many church leaders – the financial , spiritual , and moral corruption have been well-documented , and , for the most part , well-ignored by the leadership .
The advocacy of military aggression , especially in the service of the Scofield Bible and the state of Israel .
The regular praise of military adventurism and those who execute it .
Spanning the globe in search of enemies to destroy .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ church ’ s reaction to the culture war , with confusion about BLM , the role of and purpose for family , and the abdication of responsibility to the state for moral teaching .
So , I can only say : RMB knows exactly how to fight the culture war .
The difficulty is that there are times when this might not be enough .
From A Texas Libertarian November 6 , 2020 at 11:39 AM : The really hard question is : how are we supposed to thwart the plans of those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for them in our hearts as our King commanded ?
It isn ’ t as if we have a clear-cut answer from the Bible – even from Jesus .
Give me a moment to explain .
Jesus offered , in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5 : 43 Ye have heard that it hath been said , Thou shalt love thy neighbour , and hate thine enemy .
44 But I say unto you , Love your enemies , bless them that curse you , do good to them that hate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ despitefully use you , and persecute you ; We are also told to turn the other cheek .
Ultimately , Jesus forgave those who put Him on the cross .
Verses such as these are cited for those who find in Jesus ’ s teachings and life a very pacifist calling .
Some see this as the end of it .
But it isn ’ t .
There are , apparently , over 600 laws and commandments in the Old Testament .
Jesus has , thankfully , summarized these to two , from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is the great commandment in the law ?
37 Jesus said unto him , Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart , and with all thy soul , and with all thy mind .
38 This is the first and great commandment .
39 And the second is like unto it , Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself .
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets .
Now , I could be a little cheeky and say that the “ love your enemy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cut .
Well , there , I said it .
And , of course , just because Jesus didn ’ t include it in the top two ( or add a third ) doesn ’ t make what he said earlier about loving our enemies disappear .
We know , for example , the story of the Good Samaritan .
He was able to love his enemy ; the example is clear-cut and free of truly difficult ethical conflict for a Christian .
But what if loving your neighbor and loving your enemy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ image of the mob going through the neighborhood where the McCloskey ’ s live .
Had the mob turned toward the house to brutalize the family and guests , what would have been the appropriate action for the neighbors ?
Even without this turn , what would have been appropriate for the neighbors to do to demonstrate their love for the McCloskey ’ s ?
How might this have resulted in action against the enemies ?
Does this mean I should love my enemy if he tries to kill me , but love @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do my neighbor harm ?
I don ’ t think so .
It would be hard to love my neighbor if my voluntary self-sacrifice now turned my neighbor into the next victim .
Even after God gave the commandment , Thou shalt not kill , He sure had Israel do an awful lot of killing .
As G.K. Chesterton offered , the commandments were all meant for a purpose – to protect the Ark .
The Ark held within it the order around which Hebrew society would thrive .
Loving one ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society ) , it seems , trumps loving one ’ s enemies .
Why my title to this post ?
From the Lord ’ s Prayer : Matthew 6 : 13 ( a ) And lead us not into temptation , but deliver us from evil How is God to deliver us from evil ?
I have written recently about the spirit behind those working evil in the world today – the prince of the power of the air .
This evil prince is working through real human beings ; does not God @ @ @ @ @ @ @ say ; but how ?
Live Not by Lies : A Ma ... Dreher , Rod Best Price : $ 17.49 Buy New $ 17.99 We are to love our enemies , pray for them ; this is hard enough to do when there is no ethical conflict – e.g .
the Good Samaritan .
But when Jesus boiled the hundreds of laws down to two , He didn ’ t find this “ love your enemies ” teaching sufficient to put on the list , whereas loving our neighbors is identified .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; perhaps from this we can find an answer to how we are to act when loving our neighbor and loving our enemy come into conflict .
I am sure that there are far more sophisticated answers out there to this issue .
I also know that there are numerous wrong-headed answers as well : I find neither the extreme of pacifism nor the extreme of searching the globe for enemies to destroy satisfactory from a Biblical sense , yet there are many Christians who strongly advocate for one or the other extreme @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : I think Christians should still focus on the central message of our guilt before God as sinners , His payment for our sins on the cross , and our access into grace and peace with Him through believing in that message .
Despite the slight variations that Catholics , Orthodox , and Protestant denominations of all stripes might put meaning to these words , all I can say is : Always .
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From my post on a discussion between two pastors, Paul VanderKlay and Paul Anleitner, comments were offered by RMB and ATL that are worth addressing in some detail.
One of the pastors asked, “How to recognize ‘this is the evil we are actively to resist.’” This in the context of the current culture wars and riots that are tearing apart the United States and much of the Western world.
I addressed this in the earlier post – the evil we are to resist is the evil that intends to destroy Christianity; it is the same evil that intends to destroy liberty. Recognizing the perpetrators of this evil is easy, because they have no shame or fear in identifying themselves and their purpose – either against Christianity or against liberty.
In any case, the comments opened new questions and topics. First, from RMB November 6, 2020 at 9:40 AM
I don’t know exactly how to fight the culture war but by standing firm on what I know to be true and to be ready to tell others when the time comes.
This is exactly where to start. It does not require any complicated decisions about taking violent or even political action (albeit, I know some consider political action to also be violent). It merely requires speaking truthfully. Speaking for Myself: F... Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Buy New $20.99 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
We know that the objective of the leaders of those marching in the streets is to destroy Christianity; they are avowed Marxists and have not been shy about saying so. We know this is true of many in academia – especially in the various social sciences. We see it in action in many of our political leaders; we see it in the major media.
We see it in too many church leaders – the financial, spiritual, and moral corruption have been well-documented, and, for the most part, well-ignored by the leadership. The advocacy of military aggression, especially in the service of the Scofield Bible and the state of Israel. The regular praise of military adventurism and those who execute it. Spanning the globe in search of enemies to destroy.
We see it in much of the church’s reaction to the culture war, with confusion about BLM, the role of and purpose for family, and the abdication of responsibility to the state for moral teaching.
So, I can only say: RMB knows exactly how to fight the culture war. The difficulty is that there are times when this might not be enough. From A Texas Libertarian November 6, 2020 at 11:39 AM:
The really hard question is: how are we supposed to thwart the plans of those enthralled to it while still maintaining love for them in our hearts as our King commanded?
It isn’t as if we have a clear-cut answer from the Bible – even from Jesus. Give me a moment to explain. Jesus offered, in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
We are also told to turn the other cheek. Ultimately, Jesus forgave those who put Him on the cross. Verses such as these are cited for those who find in Jesus’s teachings and life a very pacifist calling. Some see this as the end of it. But it isn’t.
There are, apparently, over 600 laws and commandments in the Old Testament. Jesus has, thankfully, summarized these to two, from Matthew 22:
36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Now, I could be a little cheeky and say that the “love your enemy” part didn’t make the cut. Well, there, I said it. And, of course, just because Jesus didn’t include it in the top two (or add a third) doesn’t make what he said earlier about loving our enemies disappear.
We know, for example, the story of the Good Samaritan. He was able to love his enemy; the example is clear-cut and free of truly difficult ethical conflict for a Christian.
But what if loving your neighbor and loving your enemy come into conflict?
I have this image of the mob going through the neighborhood where the McCloskey’s live. Had the mob turned toward the house to brutalize the family and guests, what would have been the appropriate action for the neighbors? Even without this turn, what would have been appropriate for the neighbors to do to demonstrate their love for the McCloskey’s? How might this have resulted in action against the enemies?
Does this mean I should love my enemy if he tries to kill me, but love my neighbor if my enemy means to do my neighbor harm? I don’t think so. It would be hard to love my neighbor if my voluntary self-sacrifice now turned my neighbor into the next victim.
Even after God gave the commandment, Thou shalt not kill, He sure had Israel do an awful lot of killing. As G.K. Chesterton offered, the commandments were all meant for a purpose – to protect the Ark. The Ark held within it the order around which Hebrew society would thrive. Loving one’s neighbors by protecting the Ark (the society), it seems, trumps loving one’s enemies.
Conclusion
Why my title to this post? From the Lord’s Prayer:
Matthew 6: 13(a) And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
How is God to deliver us from evil? I have written recently about the spirit behind those working evil in the world today – the prince of the power of the air. This evil prince is working through real human beings; does not God do the same? Sure, you say; but how? Live Not by Lies: A Ma... Dreher, Rod Best Price: $17.49 Buy New $17.99 (as of 07:13 UTC - Details)
We are to love our enemies, pray for them; this is hard enough to do when there is no ethical conflict – e.g. the Good Samaritan. But when Jesus boiled the hundreds of laws down to two, He didn’t find this “love your enemies” teaching sufficient to put on the list, whereas loving our neighbors is identified. Perhaps there is a reason for this; perhaps from this we can find an answer to how we are to act when loving our neighbor and loving our enemy come into conflict.
I am sure that there are far more sophisticated answers out there to this issue. I also know that there are numerous wrong-headed answers as well: I find neither the extreme of pacifism nor the extreme of searching the globe for enemies to destroy satisfactory from a Biblical sense, yet there are many Christians who strongly advocate for one or the other extreme.
Epilogue
Returning to the comment from RMB:
I think Christians should still focus on the central message of our guilt before God as sinners, His payment for our sins on the cross, and our access into grace and peace with Him through believing in that message.
Despite the slight variations that Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestant denominations of all stripes might put meaning to these words, all I can say is: Always.
Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-10--The Secret Files of Clint Peoples, the Indefatigable Texas Ranger on LBJ’s Trail for Decades

The only true “ hero ” in the quest for justice for the crimes of Lyndon Johnson , was Texas Ranger ( later U.S .
Marshal ) Clint Peoples .
Yet he was unable to “ close ” his 22-year case until eleven years after Johnson died , in 1984 , with a small but significant victory in a grand jury hearing which heard his evidence that Johnson was behind the murder of a man named Henry Marshall in 1961 .
In the process of hearing this evidence — including his findings that Johnson and his aides Cliff Carter and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the jury determined that it proved Marshall ’ s death was not a suicide , as originally recorded , but a murder .
But because all three of the perpetrators were dead , nothing further could be done in the legal system .
Thusly could Johnson ’ s biographers ignore this event as though it never happened .
Lyndon Johnson , aided and abetted by his mole in the Department of Justice , U.S. Attorney ( later becoming a Federal Judge ) H. Barefoot Sanders , had managed to impede Peoples for decades @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Oral History document and gifted it to the Dallas Public Library , however he stipulated that certain pages of it be completely restricted until after his own death , his wife ’ s death and his daughter ’ s death , for fear that Barefoot Sanders would destroy those pages if he had that chance .
LBJ : From Mastermind t ... Phillip F. Nelson Best Price : $ 4.00 Buy New $ 16.58 ( Interestingly , that is exactly what some researchers [ including me ] believe happened to the original autopsy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of JFK ’ s head and back wounds which disappeared during the time [ October , 1966 ] that Sanders conducted the procedure of adding other materials given by the Kennedy family to the National Archives ) .
Clint Peoples said , after that 1984 hearing , “ Before I die , there will be one of the most jarring international scandals that has ever been as a result of this investigation , ” but , after considering the brutal treatment he had received from Sanders ( described at length in the oral @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decided that the threats on his life , as well as his wife and daughter , were too great to allow the truth to be told until all three of them had passed away ( just in case Sanders would outlive him and his wife , he included his daughter as well [ Sanders died in 2008 ] ) .
This change probably saved those files from destruction , since they remained closed at the Dallas Public Library until April 2012 , well after he and his wife passed , when his daughter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ remaining pages of his lengthy oral history , which had been closed until then , were opened to the public at the Dallas Public Library in the Clint Peoples collection .
[ 1 ] In 1984 , with the help of a reformed and contrite witness named Billie Sol Estes , Peoples finally won his long battle , even though it was too late to administer justice to the the guilty parties whom a Grand Jury agreed were behind the death of an Agriculture Extension Agent named Henry Marshall , whose case will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was convened to prove that Mr. Marshall did not commit “ suicide , ” which had been absurdly stated by a sheriff back in 1961 , despite the fact that Marshall had been shot five times within a 4″ circle in his chest .
It was thanks to LBJ ’ s sycophant , Barefoot Sanders , that the ridiculous finding of “ suicide ” had stuck when the first attempt to have it corrected , by Ranger Captain Peoples , in 1962 , was unsuccessful .
The jury had asked for Marshall ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 87 % of it withheld , because those pages implicated Johnson .
In persuading Estes to come forward and testify , Peoples asserted that he was the lesser party to the frauds committed , and that he had been exploited by a grubby politician .
This excerpt , out of an oral history that ran for hundreds of page — including over thirty pages devoted to this single chapter of his stellar career in the Texas Rangers and as a U.S. Marshall — is a study in contrast to his assessment of Lyndon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the numerous glowing accounts written by revisionist historians and fawning biographers : Captain Peoples , later made a US Marshal , was a man who received multiple awards over an unblemished lifetime of law enforcement ( eventually appearing on Johnny Carson ’ s Tonight show as a consequence ) .
Captain Peoples had worked on his case against convicted murderer and LBJ hitman Malcolm Wallace , and Wallace ’ s direct ties to Cliff Carter and Lyndon Johnson , for over three decades .
LBJ : The Mastermind of ... Phillip F. Nelson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ $ 11.23 Most of Lyndon Johnson ’ s biographers have chosen to disregard the charges originally made by Billie Sol Estes and Madeleine Brown , based upon their tainted pasts , with scarcely a footnote about Johnson ’ s own inglorious history .
But Billie Sol ’ s and Madeleine ’ s veracities were vindicated by many other credible people who knew them personally , including especially Texas Ranger Clint Peoples , whose impeccable credentials and long history of law enforcement eventually made him a Texas legend .
The murder of Agriculture Extension @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to set the context for what followed : After having intensively investigated frauds involving Estes ’ circumvention of U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations , the department ’ s local district agent , Henry Marshall , was disturbed that — rather than reaching a settlement of the issues according to usual procedure — he was bribed with an offer of a promotion to a high position in the U.S.D.A .
in Washington ( a patently-axiomatic proof of Estes ’ connections to LBJ ) .
Knowing that this offer was made simply to get him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the continuance of the crimes — and made through Estes ’ s ties to Lyndon B. Johnson , Henry Marshall refused the offer .
Shortly after Marshall refused that offer , Estes ’ s farm manager A .
B .
Foster wrote to Clifton C. Carter , a close aide to Lyndon B. Johnson , complaining about Marshall ’ s zealousness and how he was impeding the continuing frauds that were so lucrative to the swindler Estes and his facilitator , Senator Lyndon B. Johnson .
Foster wrote that “ we would sincerely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anything can be done.
” On January 17 , 1961 , Estes took this problem personally to Washington to discuss it with Lyndon Johnson on the evening before the inauguration , with LBJ ’ s aide Cliff Carter and the aforementioned Mac Wallace .
On that snowy night as they stood on Johnson ’ s back patio , his code words for what would happen to Mr. Marshall if he didn ’ t accept one last chance to look the other way and allow the frauds to continue , were succinct , deadly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rid of him.
” And so it was that on June 3 , 1961 , Henry Marshall was beaten so fiercely that one of his eyes hung out of its socket and his blood was found on both sides of the dented truck .
He was then forced to breath carbon monoxide from his own truck and finally shot five times by a long barrel rifle within a four-inch circle on his left chest .
Sheriff Howard Stegall , a long-time friend of Cliff Carter , pronounced it “ death by suicide ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do by Carter , or possibly through the Sheriff ’ s cousin Glynn Stegall , who happened to work in the Executive Office Building within Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson ’ s suite of offices , next door to the White House .
As thoroughly demonstrated by Professor David Denton , Mac Wallace also participated in the assassination of President Kennedy , as subsequently and absolutely proven through a 1998 fingerprint match of previously-unidentified latent prints found on November 22 , 1963 on boxes in the “ sniper ’ s lair ” of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 2 ] For three decades Ranger Clint Peoples worked the Marshall case as hard as he possibly could .
His investigation lasted from 1962 until his mysterious one car “ accident ” in 1992 , an incident which was witnessed by a woman too afraid to report it officially , but who confided to Peoples ’ secretary that she had seen his car being run off the road and into a culvert by a “ big red truck.
” Someone , nearly twenty years after Johnson ’ s 1973 death — concerned that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to certain secrets — decided that “ he had to go ” when they learned that he was about to divulge that Malcolm Wallace ’ s fingerprint was found on a box in the sniper ’ s lair of the Texas School Book Depository .
That news was finally brought forth six years later , in 1998 , and is now widely known and hotly debated with certain researchers — still playing cover-up — while polluting the real story with made-up contradictory “ facts ” that are not true [ Ibid ] .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ s deep tentacles into , and corruption of , the Texas judicial system was even longer , having spanned forty-one years : 1951–1992 .
His knowledge of the crime spree he watched unfold before his eyes in 1961-63 , knowing that the vice president of the United States was behind it , must have been immensely frustrating for him .
To suggest that these assertions are “ speculative ” in nature and not factual because they were never heard in a court of law ( which is the very reason other authors use @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is specious reasoning , irrespective of the limited consequences of grand jury actions .
In the middle of his conducting the 1984 grand jury , Judge H. Barefoot Sanders — having recruited two other judges to participate — called ( then-U.S .
Marshal ) Clint Peoples in to the courthouse to explain why he was persisting to investigate the death of Henry Marshall in order to change the “ Cause of Death ” from “ suicide ” to “ homicide.
” Sanders was not doing this in a polite and judicious way , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ should be “ ashamed ” of himself ; that scene can be found in Part 6 of the Oral History .
Reacting to that , Peoples responded loudly to the scurrilous attack , stating in part : Clint Peoples finally succeeded in convincing that 1984 grand jury of the truth , that Marshall had been murdered at the hands of Lyndon Johnson , Cliff Carter and Mac Wallace .
The only thing missing were the guilty parties , because they were already officially dead .
It was probably not coincidental that they would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ knowledge of the worst of his criminal activities .
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: ... Phillip F. Nelson , Ron ... Best Price : $ 12.75 Buy New $ 10.00 It is Clint Peoples ’ s unquestioned professionalism that imbues truth to his belief in Billie Sol Estes ’ s and Madeleine Brown ’ s accounts and injects both with the essential credibility that now demands our attention : Clint Peoples ’ s career ambition and his fight against the political machine of Lyndon B. Johnson can not —must not—be ignored .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ still resonating from his grave as you read his words below , that must be heard now , a man who had investigated many of the other crimes that constituted the case against Johnson .
Clint Peoples was one of the most honorable , highly awarded Texas Ranger in history , and as his record showed , he was relentless in pursuing the truth of all facts in his assigned cases , even when it was against the highest-level official in the U.S. government in the 1960s .
His oral history , reproduced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pieces of evidence of Lyndon B. Johnson ’ s guilt .
It was his unimpeachable forty year record that must be factored into this metric ; to ignore it is to reject arguably the most credible and important witnesses to the crime of the century .
[ 1 ] This story ( except the copies of Clint Peoples ’ Oral History documents attached to this piece ) was the subject of the 48 page Chapter 1 of LBJ : From Mastermind to The Colossus .
Regarding the release of the closed section presented @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entire 31 pages of his statement regarding the murder of Henry Marshall shortly thereafter , which , to my knowledge , have never been published elsewhere .
Recently I made attempts to review the material again from the Dallas Public Library but received multiple rejects of them .
This gives rise to a suspicion that his documents have been removed from public access completely , and if that is true it can only mean that someone very powerful ordered them to be suppressed .
[ 2 ] See : Denton , David @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy , Midnight Writer News Publications , Lulu Press , 2020 , pp .
24-34 The Seven Parts of Clint Peoples ’ Oral History document ( 30+ pages in total ) : The pages reproduced below may be the only place they can still be accessed ( and downloaded and saved for posterity ) .
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• PAGE 3 / Interview Part 2 – Description of how he began investigation of Marshall ’ s murder in 1962 .
• PAGE 4 / Interview Part 3 – Billie Sol agrees to cooperate ; Mac Wallace gets secret high-level clearance for classified work despite his history as murderer , child molester , communist and bi/homosexual philander .
• PAGE 5 / Interview Part 4 – Mac Wallace ’ s involvement with LBJ ’ s sister Josefa ; how Peoples had not suspected Wallace in Marshall @ @ @ @ @ @ @ informed him of that in 1984 in their preparation for the grand jury held that year .
• PAGE 6 / Interview Part 5 – Discussion of Billie Sol ’ s grand jury testimony regarding the Marshall murder ; BSE ’ s comments that a second person ( unnamed by him ) had been involved in that murder .
• PAGE 7 / Interview Part 6 – The part that caused Peoples to keep these pages to be restricted for fear that Barefoot Sanders would destroy them if he had access : they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Peoples before a three-judge panel to explain his actions , which he obliged , in a brutal shouting match , probably the worst any federal judge ever provoked .
• PAGE 8 / Interview Part 7 – His discussion of the recriminations that he and Billie Sol Estes encountered and his opinion that he did not vindicate Billie Sol , but it was Billie Sol himself who did that with his deeds after he left prison : that his coming forth and stating the truth was the way he accomplished that .
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The only true “hero” in the quest for justice for the crimes of Lyndon Johnson, was Texas Ranger (later U.S. Marshal) Clint Peoples. Yet he was unable to “close” his 22-year case until eleven years after Johnson died, in 1984, with a small but significant victory in a grand jury hearing which heard his evidence that Johnson was behind the murder of a man named Henry Marshall in 1961. In the process of hearing this evidence — including his findings that Johnson and his aides Cliff Carter and Malcolm Wallace were behind the murder — the jury determined that it proved Marshall’s death was not a suicide, as originally recorded, but a murder. But because all three of the perpetrators were dead, nothing further could be done in the legal system. Thusly could Johnson’s biographers ignore this event as though it never happened.
Lyndon Johnson, aided and abetted by his mole in the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney (later becoming a Federal Judge) H. Barefoot Sanders, had managed to impede Peoples for decades.
Knowing this, Peoples recorded an Oral History document and gifted it to the Dallas Public Library, however he stipulated that certain pages of it be completely restricted until after his own death, his wife’s death and his daughter’s death, for fear that Barefoot Sanders would destroy those pages if he had that chance. LBJ: From Mastermind t... Phillip F. Nelson Best Price: $4.00 Buy New $16.58 (as of 07:20 UTC - Details)
(Interestingly, that is exactly what some researchers [including me] believe happened to the original autopsy evidence, the X-rays and photographs taken of JFK’s head and back wounds which disappeared during the time [October, 1966] that Sanders conducted the procedure of adding other materials given by the Kennedy family to the National Archives).
Clint Peoples said, after that 1984 hearing, “Before I die, there will be one of the most jarring international scandals that has ever been as a result of this investigation,” but, after considering the brutal treatment he had received from Sanders (described at length in the oral history document reproduced below) he later decided that the threats on his life, as well as his wife and daughter, were too great to allow the truth to be told until all three of them had passed away (just in case Sanders would outlive him and his wife, he included his daughter as well [Sanders died in 2008]). This change probably saved those files from destruction, since they remained closed at the Dallas Public Library until April 2012, well after he and his wife passed, when his daughter died. At that point, the remaining pages of his lengthy oral history, which had been closed until then, were opened to the public at the Dallas Public Library in the Clint Peoples collection.[1]
In 1984, with the help of a reformed and contrite witness named Billie Sol Estes, Peoples finally won his long battle, even though it was too late to administer justice to the the guilty parties whom a Grand Jury agreed were behind the death of an Agriculture Extension Agent named Henry Marshall, whose case will be examined below. The Grand Jury was convened to prove that Mr. Marshall did not commit “suicide,” which had been absurdly stated by a sheriff back in 1961, despite the fact that Marshall had been shot five times within a 4″ circle in his chest. It was thanks to LBJ’s sycophant, Barefoot Sanders, that the ridiculous finding of “suicide” had stuck when the first attempt to have it corrected, by Ranger Captain Peoples, in 1962, was unsuccessful. The jury had asked for Marshall’s file on Estes but Sanders barred 87% of it withheld, because those pages implicated Johnson.
In persuading Estes to come forward and testify, Peoples asserted that he was the lesser party to the frauds committed, and that he had been exploited by a grubby politician. This excerpt, out of an oral history that ran for hundreds of page — including over thirty pages devoted to this single chapter of his stellar career in the Texas Rangers and as a U.S. Marshall — is a study in contrast to his assessment of Lyndon B. Johnson, not at all like the numerous glowing accounts written by revisionist historians and fawning biographers:
Captain Peoples, later made a US Marshal, was a man who received multiple awards over an unblemished lifetime of law enforcement (eventually appearing on Johnny Carson’s Tonight show as a consequence). Captain Peoples had worked on his case against convicted murderer and LBJ hitman Malcolm Wallace, and Wallace’s direct ties to Cliff Carter and Lyndon Johnson, for over three decades. LBJ: The Mastermind of... Phillip F. Nelson Best Price: $7.91 Buy New $11.23 (as of 06:30 UTC - Details)
Most of Lyndon Johnson’s biographers have chosen to disregard the charges originally made by Billie Sol Estes and Madeleine Brown, based upon their tainted pasts, with scarcely a footnote about Johnson’s own inglorious history. But Billie Sol’s and Madeleine’s veracities were vindicated by many other credible people who knew them personally, including especially Texas Ranger Clint Peoples, whose impeccable credentials and long history of law enforcement eventually made him a Texas legend.
The murder of Agriculture Extension Agent Henry Marshall is summarized below, to set the context for what followed:
After having intensively investigated frauds involving Estes’ circumvention of U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations, the department’s local district agent, Henry Marshall, was disturbed that — rather than reaching a settlement of the issues according to usual procedure — he was bribed with an offer of a promotion to a high position in the U.S.D.A. in Washington (a patently-axiomatic proof of Estes’ connections to LBJ). Knowing that this offer was made simply to get him out of the way, and facilitate the continuance of the crimes — and made through Estes’s ties to Lyndon B. Johnson, Henry Marshall refused the offer. Shortly after Marshall refused that offer, Estes’s farm manager A. B. Foster wrote to Clifton C. Carter, a close aide to Lyndon B. Johnson, complaining about Marshall’s zealousness and how he was impeding the continuing frauds that were so lucrative to the swindler Estes and his facilitator, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. Foster wrote that “we would sincerely appreciate your investigating this and seeing if anything can be done.”
On January 17, 1961, Estes took this problem personally to Washington to discuss it with Lyndon Johnson on the evening before the inauguration, with LBJ’s aide Cliff Carter and the aforementioned Mac Wallace. On that snowy night as they stood on Johnson’s back patio, his code words for what would happen to Mr. Marshall if he didn’t accept one last chance to look the other way and allow the frauds to continue, were succinct, deadly and shrouded in euphemism: “Get rid of him.”
And so it was that on June 3, 1961, Henry Marshall was beaten so fiercely that one of his eyes hung out of its socket and his blood was found on both sides of the dented truck. He was then forced to breath carbon monoxide from his own truck and finally shot five times by a long barrel rifle within a four-inch circle on his left chest. Sheriff Howard Stegall, a long-time friend of Cliff Carter, pronounced it “death by suicide” as he had apparently been instructed to do by Carter, or possibly through the Sheriff’s cousin Glynn Stegall, who happened to work in the Executive Office Building within Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson’s suite of offices, next door to the White House.
As thoroughly demonstrated by Professor David Denton, Mac Wallace also participated in the assassination of President Kennedy, as subsequently and absolutely proven through a 1998 fingerprint match of previously-unidentified latent prints found on November 22, 1963 on boxes in the “sniper’s lair” of the Texas School Book Depository.[2]
For three decades Ranger Clint Peoples worked the Marshall case as hard as he possibly could. His investigation lasted from 1962 until his mysterious one car “accident” in 1992, an incident which was witnessed by a woman too afraid to report it officially, but who confided to Peoples’ secretary that she had seen his car being run off the road and into a culvert by a “big red truck.” Someone, nearly twenty years after Johnson’s 1973 death — concerned that his intensive investigation was getting too close to certain secrets — decided that “he had to go” when they learned that he was about to divulge that Malcolm Wallace’s fingerprint was found on a box in the sniper’s lair of the Texas School Book Depository. That news was finally brought forth six years later, in 1998, and is now widely known and hotly debated with certain researchers — still playing cover-up — while polluting the real story with made-up contradictory “facts” that are not true [Ibid].
Peoples’ knowledge of Lyndon Johnson’s deep tentacles into, and corruption of, the Texas judicial system was even longer, having spanned forty-one years: 1951–1992. His knowledge of the crime spree he watched unfold before his eyes in 1961-63, knowing that the vice president of the United States was behind it, must have been immensely frustrating for him. To suggest that these assertions are “speculative” in nature and not factual because they were never heard in a court of law (which is the very reason other authors use in deciding to avoid the subject) is specious reasoning, irrespective of the limited consequences of grand jury actions.
In the middle of his conducting the 1984 grand jury, Judge H. Barefoot Sanders — having recruited two other judges to participate — called (then-U.S. Marshal) Clint Peoples in to the courthouse to explain why he was persisting to investigate the death of Henry Marshall in order to change the “Cause of Death” from “suicide” to “homicide.” Sanders was not doing this in a polite and judicious way, in fact he told Peoples that he should be “ashamed” of himself; that scene can be found in Part 6 of the Oral History. Reacting to that, Peoples responded loudly to the scurrilous attack, stating in part:
Clint Peoples finally succeeded in convincing that 1984 grand jury of the truth, that Marshall had been murdered at the hands of Lyndon Johnson, Cliff Carter and Mac Wallace. The only thing missing were the guilty parties, because they were already officially dead. It was probably not coincidental that they would all die before Johnson, given their knowledge of the worst of his criminal activities. Remember the Liberty!:... Phillip F. Nelson, Ron... Best Price: $12.75 Buy New $10.00 (as of 07:20 UTC - Details)
It is Clint Peoples’s unquestioned professionalism that imbues truth to his belief in Billie Sol Estes’s and Madeleine Brown’s accounts and injects both with the essential credibility that now demands our attention: Clint Peoples’s career ambition and his fight against the political machine of Lyndon B. Johnson cannot—must not—be ignored. It is the voice of this man, still resonating from his grave as you read his words below, that must be heard now, a man who had investigated many of the other crimes that constituted the case against Johnson.
Clint Peoples was one of the most honorable, highly awarded Texas Ranger in history, and as his record showed, he was relentless in pursuing the truth of all facts in his assigned cases, even when it was against the highest-level official in the U.S. government in the 1960s. His oral history, reproduced below, is one of the single-best pieces of evidence of Lyndon B. Johnson’s guilt.
It was his unimpeachable forty year record that must be factored into this metric; to ignore it is to reject arguably the most credible and important witnesses to the crime of the century.
Endnotes:
[1] This story (except the copies of Clint Peoples’ Oral History documents attached to this piece) was the subject of the 48 page Chapter 1 of LBJ: From Mastermind to The Colossus. Regarding the release of the closed section presented here, I was able to receive the entire 31 pages of his statement regarding the murder of Henry Marshall shortly thereafter, which, to my knowledge, have never been published elsewhere. Recently I made attempts to review the material again from the Dallas Public Library but received multiple rejects of them. This gives rise to a suspicion that his documents have been removed from public access completely, and if that is true it can only mean that someone very powerful ordered them to be suppressed.
[2] See: Denton, David, “Nexus Redux”, Essays on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Midnight Writer News Publications, Lulu Press, 2020, pp. 24-34
The Seven Parts of Clint Peoples’ Oral History document (30+ pages in total):
The pages reproduced below may be the only place they can still be accessed (and downloaded and saved for posterity).
NOTE: If your device does not show the print in large enough type, right-click the image and select “Open image in new tab” then go to the new window and left-click the image to expand it into more readable format.
Reprinted with the author’s permission.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-11--US Presidential Election: Open Your Eyes!

The result of the U.S. presidential election marks the triumph , not of the Democrats and a senile senator , but of the Puritan current over the Jacksonians .
It does not reflect the political views of American citizens and masks the crisis of civilization in which their country is sinking .
The U.S. presidential election of 2020 confirms the general trend since the dissolution of the Soviet Union : the U.S. population is going through a crisis of civilization and is inexorably heading inexorably towards a new civil war that should logically lead to the partition of the country @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end of the West as a hyper-power .
In order to understand what is happening , it is necessary to overcome the fear of the European elites in the face of the impending disappearance of the power that has protected them for three-quarters of a century ; and to look honestly at the world history of the last thirty years .
It is necessary to go back into US history and reread its Constitution .
John Cotton : Patriarch ... McClure , A. W. Buy New $ 16.99 The hypothesis of the dissolution @ @ @ @ @ @ @ America When , after three-quarters of a century of undivided dictatorship , the Soviet Union collapsed , all those who wanted it to disappear were surprised .
For years , the CIA had organized systematic sabotage of its economy and denigrated all its achievements , but it never foresaw that it was the Soviet people who would overthrow this regime in the name of its ideals .
It all began with a catastrophe to which the state failed to respond .
( Chernobyl , 1986 ) .
A population of a quarter of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ land for good .
This incompetence marked the end of the dictatorship ’ s legitimacy .
In the five years that followed , the allies of the Warsaw Pact regained their independence and the USSR broke up .
This process was led from start to finish by the Young Communists , but at the last moment it was taken over by the mayor of Moscow , Boris Yelstin , and his team trained in Washington .
The ensuing looting of public property and the economic collapse it caused set the new Russia back @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States should in turn disappear .
They will lose their centripetal strength and be abandoned by their vassals , before collapsing .
Those who will have left the ship before it sinks will have a better chance of escaping .
NATO should die before the USA , just as the Warsaw Pact died before the USSR .
The centrifugal force of the United States The American Puritans Nate Pickowicz Best Price : $ 13.00 Buy New $ 13.51 The United States is a very young country , it has only two hundred @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Its population continues to grow with successive arrivals of immigrants from the most diverse parts of the world .
According to the British model , each one retains its own culture and does not mix with the others .
The concept of the “ melting pot ” only existed with the return of the black soldiers of the Second World War and the abolition of racial segregation , which under Eisenhower and Kennedy it brought about , only to disappear afterwards .
The U.S. population moves widely from state to state .
From @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Vietnam War , they tried to live together in certain neighborhoods .
For about twenty years , it has remained static .
And since the break-up of the USSR to the present day , it has been ghettoizing again , no longer along “ racial ” lines , but along cultural ones .
In fact , the country is already divided .
The United States no longer forms one nation , but already eleven separate ones .
The 11 rival cultural communities that share the United States today .
Source : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ culture The Puritans : Their Or ... D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Best Price : $ 23.56 Buy New $ 23.40 American mythology links the existence of the country to the 67 “ Pilgrim Fathers ” , the immigrants of the Mayflower .
They were a group of fanatical English Christians who lived in a “ community ” in the Netherlands .
They were given the mission by the Crown to settle in the “ New World ” to fight the Spanish Empire .
One of their groups landed in Massachusetts and built a sectarian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 1620 ) .
They veiled their wives and used harsh corporal punishment for those who sinned and strayed from the “ Pure Way ” , hence their name “ Puritans ” .
Americans ignore both the political mission of the Pilgrim Fathers and their sectarianism .
However , they celebrate them on Thanksgiving .
These 67 fanatics had a considerable influence on a country of today 328 million inhabitants .
8 presidents out of 46 are their direct descendants , including President Franklin Roosevelt or Presidents George Bush .
The Puritans organized a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
They beheaded the king , founded an intolerant Republic , the Commonwealth , and massacred the “ heretical ” ( papist ) Irish .
These events are referred to by British historians as the “ First Civil War ” ( 1642-51 ) .
More than a century later , the settlers of the New World revolted against the crushing tax burden of the British monarchy ( 1775-83 ) .
These events are known to American historians as the “ War of Independence ” , but British historians see them as the “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if the settlers who fought this war were poor , hard-working people , those who organized it were descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers who wanted to assert their sectarian ideal against the restored British monarchy .
Eighty years later , the United States was torn apart by the Civil War ( 1861-65 ) , which some American historians refer to as the Anglo-Saxon “ Third Civil War .
It pitted the states , who , true to the original constitution , wanted to maintain tariffs among themselves , against other states who wanted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and thus create a large internal market .
However , it also pitted the Puritan elites of the North against the Catholic elites of the South , so that the cleavages of the two previous wars were repeated .
The Anglo-Saxon “ Fourth Civil War , ” which is taking shape today , is still being waged by the Puritan elites .
What masks this continuity is the transformation of these elites who no longer believe in God , but retain the same fanaticism .
They are the ones who are now dedicated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
According to them , the United States is a racist project of the Europeans that the “ Pilgrim Fathers ” have not managed to correct .
They are convinced that it is necessary to re-establish the “ Pure Way ” by destroying all the symbols of Evil such as the statues of the Monarchs , the English and the Confederates .
They speak of “ political correctness , ” claim that there are several human “ races , ” write “ black ” with a capital “ black ” and “ white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the abstruse supplements of the New York Times .
Entrance to the headquarters of the Pilgrim ’ s Society .
England and the United States together hold the torch that lights the world .
The recent history of the United States Every country has its demons .
President Richard Nixon was convinced that the first danger the United States had to prevent was not a nuclear war with the USSR , but this possible Anglo-Saxon “ Fourth Civil War .
He surrounded himself with the specialist on the subject , the historian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ adviser and allowed him to accede twice to the US presidency .
However , the heirs of the Pilgrim Fathers did not accept his fight and made him sink into the Watergate scandal ( 1972 ) , brought to light by the deputy and successor of J. Edgar Hoover after his re-election .
When US power began to run out of steam , the imperialist lobby , dominated by the Puritans , placed in power one of the direct descendants of the 67 Pilgrim Fathers , Republican George Bush Jr..
He organized an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11 , 2001 ) and adapted the armies to the new financial capitalism , under the tetanized gaze of his fellow citizens .
His successor , Democrat Barack Obama , continued his work by adapting the economy .
To do this , he chose the bulk of the team for his first term of office from among the members of Pilgrim ’ s Society ( the Pilgrim ’ s Association ) .
The Puritans : A Transa ... Hall , David D. Buy New $ 24.95 A disruptive event occurred in 2016 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ transformation of capitalism and the September 11 attacks , Donald Trump , ran for president .
He won first the Republican Party and then the White House .
All those who had brought down Richard Nixon came after him even before he took office .
They managed to prevent his re-election by clumsily stuffing the ballot boxes .
What is important is that during his term of office , centuries of unsaid things resurfaced .
The U.S. population has once again fractured around the Puritans .
Therefore , while it is obvious that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ vote for a senator who is senile , it seems to me wrong to say that this election of 2020 was a referendum for or against Trump .
It was actually a referendum for or against the Puritans .
A result in line with the Pilgrim Fathers ’ project When the War of Independence or Second Anglo-Saxon Civil War was over , the successors of the Pilgrim Fathers wrote the Constitution .
They made no secret of their desire to create an aristocratic system on the English model , nor of their contempt @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Constitution of the United States does not recognize the sovereignty of the people , but that of the governors .
The people , who had fought and won the war , accepted this state of affairs , but imposed ten amendments , the Bill of Rights , according to which the ruling class could in no way violate the rights of citizens in the name of an alleged “ raison d ’ état ” .
The amended constitution still applies .
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Although it is not provided for in the constitution , the popular vote for the presidential election has gradually become the norm in every state in the last two centuries .
Governors are required to follow the guidelines of the popular ballot when appointing their 538 delegates to the Presidential Electoral College .
As a result , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ without much expertise : in more than one county in 10 , the number of voters is higher than the number of adult residents .
With all due respect to commentators , it is therefore perfectly impossible to say how many voters actually voted and who they would have liked to be president .
Under these conditions , President-elect Joe Biden will not be able to ignore the justified fury of his challenger ’ s supporters .
He will not be able to reunite his people .
I wrote four years ago that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States .
I was wrong ; he has been able to breathe new life into his country .
In the end , it will be Joe Biden who will have to take the blame for failing to maintain the territorial unity of his country .
The Allies who do not see the catastrophe coming will pay a heavy price .
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The result of the U.S. presidential election marks the triumph, not of the Democrats and a senile senator, but of the Puritan current over the Jacksonians. It does not reflect the political views of American citizens and masks the crisis of civilization in which their country is sinking.
The U.S. presidential election of 2020 confirms the general trend since the dissolution of the Soviet Union: the U.S. population is going through a crisis of civilization and is inexorably heading inexorably towards a new civil war that should logically lead to the partition of the country. This instability should result in the end of the West as a hyper-power.
In order to understand what is happening, it is necessary to overcome the fear of the European elites in the face of the impending disappearance of the power that has protected them for three-quarters of a century; and to look honestly at the world history of the last thirty years. It is necessary to go back into US history and reread its Constitution. John Cotton: Patriarch... McClure, A. W. Buy New $16.99 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details)
The hypothesis of the dissolution of NATO and the United States of America
When, after three-quarters of a century of undivided dictatorship, the Soviet Union collapsed, all those who wanted it to disappear were surprised. For years, the CIA had organized systematic sabotage of its economy and denigrated all its achievements, but it never foresaw that it was the Soviet people who would overthrow this regime in the name of its ideals.
It all began with a catastrophe to which the state failed to respond. (Chernobyl, 1986). A population of a quarter of a million people had to flee their land for good. This incompetence marked the end of the dictatorship’s legitimacy. In the five years that followed, the allies of the Warsaw Pact regained their independence and the USSR broke up. This process was led from start to finish by the Young Communists, but at the last moment it was taken over by the mayor of Moscow, Boris Yelstin, and his team trained in Washington. The ensuing looting of public property and the economic collapse it caused set the new Russia back a century.
This is how the United States should in turn disappear. They will lose their centripetal strength and be abandoned by their vassals, before collapsing. Those who will have left the ship before it sinks will have a better chance of escaping. NATO should die before the USA, just as the Warsaw Pact died before the USSR.
The centrifugal force of the United States
The American Puritans Nate Pickowicz Best Price: $13.00 Buy New $13.51 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details) The United States is a very young country, it has only two hundred years of history of its own. Its population continues to grow with successive arrivals of immigrants from the most diverse parts of the world. According to the British model, each one retains its own culture and does not mix with the others. The concept of the “melting pot” only existed with the return of the black soldiers of the Second World War and the abolition of racial segregation, which under Eisenhower and Kennedy it brought about, only to disappear afterwards.
The U.S. population moves widely from state to state. From the First World War until the end of the Vietnam War, they tried to live together in certain neighborhoods. For about twenty years, it has remained static. And since the break-up of the USSR to the present day, it has been ghettoizing again, no longer along “racial” lines, but along cultural ones. In fact, the country is already divided.
The United States no longer forms one nation, but already eleven separate ones.
The 11 rival cultural communities that share the United States today.
Source: Colin Woodard
The inner conflict of Anglo-Saxon culture
The Puritans: Their Or... D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Best Price: $23.56 Buy New $23.40 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details) American mythology links the existence of the country to the 67 “Pilgrim Fathers”, the immigrants of the Mayflower. They were a group of fanatical English Christians who lived in a “community” in the Netherlands. They were given the mission by the Crown to settle in the “New World” to fight the Spanish Empire. One of their groups landed in Massachusetts and built a sectarian society, the Colony of Plymouth (1620). They veiled their wives and used harsh corporal punishment for those who sinned and strayed from the “Pure Way”, hence their name “Puritans”.
Americans ignore both the political mission of the Pilgrim Fathers and their sectarianism. However, they celebrate them on Thanksgiving. These 67 fanatics had a considerable influence on a country of today 328 million inhabitants. 8 presidents out of 46 are their direct descendants, including President Franklin Roosevelt or Presidents George Bush.
The Puritans organized a revolution in England around Lord Oliver Cromwell. They beheaded the king, founded an intolerant Republic, the Commonwealth, and massacred the “heretical” (papist) Irish. These events are referred to by British historians as the “First Civil War” (1642-51).
More than a century later, the settlers of the New World revolted against the crushing tax burden of the British monarchy (1775-83). These events are known to American historians as the “War of Independence”, but British historians see them as the “Second Civil War”. Indeed, if the settlers who fought this war were poor, hard-working people, those who organized it were descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers who wanted to assert their sectarian ideal against the restored British monarchy.
Eighty years later, the United States was torn apart by the Civil War (1861-65), which some American historians refer to as the Anglo-Saxon “Third Civil War. It pitted the states, who, true to the original constitution, wanted to maintain tariffs among themselves, against other states who wanted to shift tariffs to the federal level and thus create a large internal market. However, it also pitted the Puritan elites of the North against the Catholic elites of the South, so that the cleavages of the two previous wars were repeated.
The Anglo-Saxon “Fourth Civil War,” which is taking shape today, is still being waged by the Puritan elites. What masks this continuity is the transformation of these elites who no longer believe in God, but retain the same fanaticism. They are the ones who are now dedicated to rewriting the history of their country. According to them, the United States is a racist project of the Europeans that the “Pilgrim Fathers” have not managed to correct. They are convinced that it is necessary to re-establish the “Pure Way” by destroying all the symbols of Evil such as the statues of the Monarchs, the English and the Confederates. They speak of “political correctness,” claim that there are several human “races,” write “black” with a capital “black” and “white” in lower case, and rush to the abstruse supplements of the New York Times.
Entrance to the headquarters of the Pilgrim’s Society. England and the United States together hold the torch that lights the world.
The recent history of the United States
Every country has its demons. President Richard Nixon was convinced that the first danger the United States had to prevent was not a nuclear war with the USSR, but this possible Anglo-Saxon “Fourth Civil War. He surrounded himself with the specialist on the subject, the historian Kevin Phillips, who was his electoral adviser and allowed him to accede twice to the US presidency. However, the heirs of the Pilgrim Fathers did not accept his fight and made him sink into the Watergate scandal (1972), brought to light by the deputy and successor of J. Edgar Hoover after his re-election.
When US power began to run out of steam, the imperialist lobby, dominated by the Puritans, placed in power one of the direct descendants of the 67 Pilgrim Fathers, Republican George Bush Jr.. He organized an emotional shock (the attacks of September 11, 2001) and adapted the armies to the new financial capitalism, under the tetanized gaze of his fellow citizens. His successor, Democrat Barack Obama, continued his work by adapting the economy. To do this, he chose the bulk of the team for his first term of office from among the members of Pilgrim’s Society (the Pilgrim’s Association). The Puritans: A Transa... Hall, David D. Buy New $24.95 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details)
A disruptive event occurred in 2016. A television presenter who had challenged the transformation of capitalism and the September 11 attacks, Donald Trump, ran for president. He won first the Republican Party and then the White House. All those who had brought down Richard Nixon came after him even before he took office. They managed to prevent his re-election by clumsily stuffing the ballot boxes. What is important is that during his term of office, centuries of unsaid things resurfaced. The U.S. population has once again fractured around the Puritans.
Therefore, while it is obvious that a majority of Americans did not enthusiastically vote for a senator who is senile, it seems to me wrong to say that this election of 2020 was a referendum for or against Trump. It was actually a referendum for or against the Puritans.
A result in line with the Pilgrim Fathers’ project
When the War of Independence or Second Anglo-Saxon Civil War was over, the successors of the Pilgrim Fathers wrote the Constitution. They made no secret of their desire to create an aristocratic system on the English model, nor of their contempt for the people. This is why the Constitution of the United States does not recognize the sovereignty of the people, but that of the governors.
The people, who had fought and won the war, accepted this state of affairs, but imposed ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, according to which the ruling class could in no way violate the rights of citizens in the name of an alleged “raison d’état”. The amended constitution still applies.
Before Our Very Eyes,... Meyssan, Thierry Best Price: $29.44 Buy New $24.97 (as of 05:40 UTC - Details) If one is willing to acknowledge that, constitutionally, the United States is not and never has been a democracy, there is no reason to be outraged at the outcome of the elections. Although it is not provided for in the constitution, the popular vote for the presidential election has gradually become the norm in every state in the last two centuries. Governors are required to follow the guidelines of the popular ballot when appointing their 538 delegates to the Presidential Electoral College. As a result, some Governors have stuffed the ballot boxes without much expertise: in more than one county in 10, the number of voters is higher than the number of adult residents. With all due respect to commentators, it is therefore perfectly impossible to say how many voters actually voted and who they would have liked to be president.
A bleak future
Under these conditions, President-elect Joe Biden will not be able to ignore the justified fury of his challenger’s supporters. He will not be able to reunite his people. I wrote four years ago that Trump would be the Gorbachev of the United States. I was wrong; he has been able to breathe new life into his country. In the end, it will be Joe Biden who will have to take the blame for failing to maintain the territorial unity of his country.
The Allies who do not see the catastrophe coming will pay a heavy price.
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lewrockwell--2020-11-11--Powerful Presidents Are Incompatible With Liberty

The mainstream media has declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election .
However , this does not mean the 2020 Presidential campaign has come to an end .
President Donald Trump is continuing his legal challenges to the vote counts in some key states .
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The president serves as Commander-in-Chief of the military following a Congressional declaration of war , with no authority to unilaterally send troops into foreign conflict .
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Progressives , who are responsible for the rise of the American welfare-warfare state , have an affinity for a strong Presidency that is not surprising .
A government that aspires to run our lives , run the economy , and run the world requires a strong executive branch unfettered by the Constitution ’ s chains .
The Cold War also provided a boost to presidential power , as it justified presidents assuming more unchecked authority in the name of “ national security.
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For example , even though presidents are judged by the state of the economy , the unelected , unaccountable Federal Reserve Board typically has greater influence over the economy then the president .
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This is why presidents spend so much time and energy trying to influence the “ non-political ” Fed .
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Liberty Defined : 50 Es ... Paul , Ron Best Price : $ 1.27 Buy New $ 6.79 It has become cliché to say that “ politics stops at the water ’ s edge.
” This means no one—not even Members of Congress , should ever oppose or second-guess a president ’ s foreign policy decisions .
However , this rule does not apply to those comprising what has become popularly known as the “ deep state ” : the military-industrial complex , the national security bureaucracy—including the CIA— congressional @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
This deep state serves a permanent government and has an agenda it pursues regardless of the wishes of the president or the American people .
The deep state has derailed President Trump ’ s ( modest ) efforts to fulfill his campaign promise to pursue a less interventionist foreign policy and end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq .
Members of the deep state were instrumental in the Russiagate hoax and the impeachment of President Trump .
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The 2020 election has awoken many Americans to the corruption of the modern welfare-warfare state .
These Americans are ripe for the message of liberty .
They can help with the vital task of demystifying the US Presidency , destroying the deep state , restoring our constitutional republic , and regaining our lost liberties .
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The mainstream media has declared former Vice President Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election. However, this does not mean the 2020 Presidential campaign has come to an end. President Donald Trump is continuing his legal challenges to the vote counts in some key states.
The emotional investment of many Americans into the race between Trump and Biden would have shocked the drafters of the Constitution. The Constitution’s authors intended the presidency to be an office of strictly limited powers that would not impact most Americans. The Constitution authorizes the president to administer laws passed by Congress, not create laws via executive orders. The president serves as Commander-in-Chief of the military following a Congressional declaration of war, with no authority to unilaterally send troops into foreign conflict.
Rules for Deplorables:... Chamberlain, Cathi Best Price: $15.25 Buy New $13.99 (as of 06:03 UTC - Details) The Founders did not intend for the president to set the “national agenda, “ and they would be horrified to see modern presidents assume the authority to order American citizens indefinitely detained and even killed without due process.
The idea that the president should exercise almost unlimited powers is a legacy of the progressive movement. Progressives, who are responsible for the rise of the American welfare-warfare state, have an affinity for a strong Presidency that is not surprising. A government that aspires to run our lives, run the economy, and run the world requires a strong executive branch unfettered by the Constitution’s chains. The Cold War also provided a boost to presidential power, as it justified presidents assuming more unchecked authority in the name of “national security.”
The concentration of power in the executive branch does not mean presidents are all-powerful. For example, even though presidents are judged by the state of the economy, the unelected, unaccountable Federal Reserve Board typically has greater influence over the economy then the president. Presidents often must tailor their economic policies to deal with the consequences of the Fed’s actions. This is why presidents spend so much time and energy trying to influence the “non-political” Fed. Fed Chairs usually, but not always, reciprocate by attempting to tailor polices to be “useful” to the incumbent president. Liberty Defined: 50 Es... Paul, Ron Best Price: $1.27 Buy New $6.79 (as of 07:10 UTC - Details)
It has become cliché to say that “politics stops at the water’s edge.” This means no one—not even Members of Congress, should ever oppose or second-guess a president’s foreign policy decisions. However, this rule does not apply to those comprising what has become popularly known as the “deep state”: the military-industrial complex, the national security bureaucracy—including the CIA— congressional staffers, and members of the media. This deep state serves a permanent government and has an agenda it pursues regardless of the wishes of the president or the American people.
The deep state has derailed President Trump’s (modest) efforts to fulfill his campaign promise to pursue a less interventionist foreign policy and end the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Members of the deep state were instrumental in the Russiagate hoax and the impeachment of President Trump. Many supported impeachment because President Trump’s actions contradicted the DC “consensus” on US -Ukraine relations and the need for a new Cold War with Russia. President Trump is not the first president to be undermined by the deep state and he will certainly not be the last.
The 2020 election has awoken many Americans to the corruption of the modern welfare-warfare state. These Americans are ripe for the message of liberty. They can help with the vital task of demystifying the US Presidency, destroying the deep state, restoring our constitutional republic, and regaining our lost liberties.
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