5th Letter to the American People
January 18, 2021
My American neighbors,
The evils of insurrection have been portrayed with all the fearsome imagery and rapturous language in media that they could conjure; the frightened mind is now left trembling to the threat of insurrection led by President Trumps army of Deplorables and whose only means of safety and happiness lies in the wholesale annihilation of this phantom enemy. With an animalistic sense of survival and wish to avoid such evils the movement to the extreme is occurring and seduced by the tendency to accelerate into the sure arms of safety, permanent misery and subjugation is the necessary attendant to the benign conservative who is being placed in the sights of those so affrighted. A state of subjugation, lacking civil liberties for one half of the population based upon belief can never be continued for long; the greater power tends towards violence and the resistant party strikes back. A phantom becomes reality as the self-fulfilling prophecy is born into existence. Order and security are to be sought out by those who wish only to live unmolested beneath the trappings of equal protection under the law and considerable restrain of government is the only way this occurs. However, should this not occur, and my belief is now uncertain, absolute power shall rest with the most enterprising and successful, he who bares the most powerful arms, powerful narrative, and financial security in the face of any foe, phantom or real. If resistance or strife were the only matter of recourse or redress available to those suffered under true tyranny, it would be in many ways the preferable option to incur, for in resisting therein lies the hope for something of value to evolve from it and present itself in the name of good government for all those who live beneath its shelter. But to see those we now live among rushing headlong into despotism as a result of a phantom threat, I can only find myself cautioning against such acceleration. What small delay would be harmful if those at the helm were to observe a brief pause to seek a more visionary path forward? Already fences go up around the Capital City and the Capitol building is becoming a pillbox. 25,000 troops walk the streets of our Capital City, a division’s worth of troops. In what world of good governance does a nation of people who have lived mostly peaceably and productively among one another for 240 years require such an invasion of our own Capital? To jump headfirst into despotic rule because there is a phantom threat at hand and narrative to drive the point is catastrophic to our foundations. Should there be no correction of the now proposed narrative? Is the system so superlatively weak, so frighteningly panicked, that any person whose common understanding asks for clarity in an election should be branded “terrorist”? A fatal blindness falls over the land when the ability to question those in power becomes an act of insurrection or sedition. What flimsy and deceptive doctrine leads men into subjugating their neighbor based not upon his actions but upon his sentiment? Where then do the blessings of Liberty exist when a belief is to be charged as crime? How many do we see whose education and supposed enlightenment precedes my own, who are called upon as our best and brightest, yet should prove to be so short-sighted to what is abundantly clear to most common people, that such witless judgement should evolve in a land where so much forethought occurred in its creation.
Tell this now, to the common man, that to trust one’s own good judgement before the narrative, and to see with one’s own two eyes is the path forward. For the narrative is written by those who charge themselves as great men but view the land and its inhabitants through a distorted lens of their own creation, many years in the making. Their Constitutional doddering’s dictate less the foundations laid bare in our great document; Truly, their opinions on the matter are predicated on the ambition of private interest and the consolidation of power.
The source of their apprehensions to this “phantom” threat that seeks the roundly expressed words of the day: sedition and insurrection – arise not from a rational threat grounded in the realities of the day. The actual state of affairs differs from that which we are told through big tech and media. Even slight reflection and observation should be enough to illuminate the fallacy upon which they seek to justify their actions. And contrary to what the short term may bring, to the utter disbelief of those now charged with our arrest for sentiments “dangerous” for their conservative leaning, the scheme that the state is to carry out will not play well for those in power. Free people across this land will inevitably produce an ungovernable attitude destructive to the ends of tyrannical government, a darling to liberty and may light that flame so long held kind in the souls of an amiable people. For to trespass on civil rights, free speech, and the sacred promise that this nation holds that a person’s beliefs are their own and not criminal should force a storm to gather so terrible that their dearest concerns of a “phantom” foe should not pale in comparison to the attitudes of patriots under true assault.
The other angle that proposes fear in many, both on the right and the left, is that this exercise in control should bring about the dreaded splitting of our nation. The talks have already commenced about the exit of the Republic of Texas. Should such happen, rival powers and contentious existence would place our motives one against the other. This is still more probable than the thought of millions willingly subjugating themselves to the “reeducation” that has been so often mentioned as of late or the imprisonment for sentiment. This new model of alignment holds growing support in the Republic of Texas and many outside her borders trumpet the sound of independence. Some opponents of independence strenuously contend that for America to exist, all states must fall under and embrace the Federal Republic which has so long existed and with whom sovereignty is placed, for in our current structure of Lincolnian Democracy the states are subservient to the whole. Thus, the matter of secession is moot. But for this to be true the matters laid out in our founding must now be obsolete for our very own Declaration of Independence states otherwise: When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. This conundrum admits that founding documents supersede and exist before the Lincolnian argument and the necessary consequence is that the rejection of the whole for the preservation of the part is righteous when examined at length. The establishment of such a nation would by its very practice dissolve the union and the Constitution to which we all ascribe ourselves so fully. But in an effort to avoid disunion is it so bad that we face occasional civil wars that result in a preserved government, but altered people? As Jefferson once wrote to William Stephens Smith “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.” Now, whether he meant that the tree of liberty existed as a continuance within the nation is up for debate, meaning, do we find ourselves practicing disunion and replanting the “tree of liberty” or, as one may read, does the bloodshed water the same tree in perpetuity? I admit I do not know the answer to such a question. What I do know, is that he intended, or rather, he expected bloodshed among the citizenry and those who rule from time to time in an effort to maintain some semblance of good government. In our modern experience we have seen civil wars in Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and many others. The horrors that these presents are unparalleled in many ways and classically expected in others. For it is often true that those at the top escape the greatest horrors and experience fewer of its greatest evils. And as time passes the common man, placed in harms way a hundred times over and killed a thousand more, find in the rising and the setting of the sun a splendor that outweighs the initial breach of confidence that led to such calamity. But it doesn’t force him to forget it. As wars interrupt the welfare of mankind so do tyrannical despots extinguish the fortunate happiness that is so natural to man. And not a single ray of comfort shall pierce the mind devoid of hope; the power of those Aristocrats who rule is limited only by paper and free people who act to remain so. For, like a slave driver, the governments consolidation of power under the guise of better government is the lash upon the back, never satisfied with the feast of flesh each crack of the whip brings new. Utter domination, abject servility, and grand oppression are the course that such a government charts when the betterment of man is left up to so few who see the world through a distorted lens, chasing phantoms into the night.
We are taught that violence is never the answer. Yet Washington led an army, Lincoln invaded his own nation, and every President in recent memory has killed upon foreign land by edict and order. So which are we to believe is worse: Continual civil war, which is unconscionably destructive and delivers daily such scenes of human horror – OR – the wretched uniformity, misery, and prison-like confinement that tears at a man’s soul should one be forced to live under the actions of tyrants? My fear is that of those evils, the worst and most dreaded is the lifetime under tyranny, the yoke upon the neck, the chain upon the wrist and the mind unfree and unkept.
I pray with you all, my fellow citizens, that we are to keep good government, that the Lord’s blessings are bestowed upon us and that our circumstances turn favorable once again. But let it be known that the course which has been so recently charted which intends to criminalize and jail people for their sentiments, brand them as “terrorists”, charge them with sedition and insurrection for their conservative attitudes will bring nothing but calamity to this great land whose guiding light still illuminates a path forward for us to follow: The Constitution. May posterity know that in time's of strife and political unrest, the document is sound. Let us follow it now.
Cultural Husbandry, 1776/2021