Jefferson Battles "Secret Monarchists"
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(Conspiracy Nation, 01/05/06)
-- Something called "True Americanism"
has ironically done tremendous harm to this nation. The word "fascism"
has been devalued through over-use; a different term would be what
Thomas Jefferson (image, left, with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams)
called "secret monarchism."
Henry Adams, great-grandson of John Adams (seated, middle,
image
left) and grandson of John Quincy Adams, describes Jefferson's struggle
in
his classic history of the Jefferson administration. Some who
constantly prate about the founding fathers would do well to read what
follows.
Background
Preliminary to examining Thomas Jefferson, Henry Adams
provides a background of what America was like in 1800.
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There was no stock exchange, no stock-jobbing, and few stocks. The
multinational corporations had no stranglehold upon America. The
national debt was $80 million. There was "a general hostility to
banks." Jefferson believed that "Banking establishments are more
dangerous than standing armies." He would be appalled at modern, yearly
budget deficits. "The principle of spending money to be paid by
posterity," he admonished, "is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
Americans as a people "were never loquacious, but inclined to be
somewhat reserved." Contrast that with "Mr. True American" Rush
Limbaugh, a blabbermouth, and he is seen to be a mutation. Even forty
years after 1800, "Charles Dickens found complaint with Americans for
taciturnity."
Thomas Jefferson embodied this ideal of the quiet American. He was "shy in
manner, seeming cold; awkward in attitude, and with little in his
bearing that suggested command." In other words, Jefferson was not
pretentious. He was definitely not
a "super salesman."
Jefferson's Beliefs
The Rev. Pat Robertson and others of that ilk reiterate "America is
a Christian nation." Yet founding father Thomas Jefferson, says Henry
Adams, was "notoriously a deist." Jefferson believed, "Let men manage
their own salvation." He "could not tolerate a priesthood, a state
church, or revealed religion." ("Revealed religion" means those
persons, "holier than thou," to whom God supposedly speaks in private.)
President James Madison, Jefferson's Secretary of State, "carried the
law which severed Church from State."
Crybaby "Christians" squeal about "Christianity under attack." News
flash to "Christians": You
lost your virginity when you entered politics. Do not hike up
your skirts amidst the mud and claim, "I am but a maid."
What Henry Adams calls "Puritan
politics," forebearers of so-called "conservative" "Christians,"
sniped at Jefferson's heels. He was attacked as an "Ephraim" who had
"apostatized from his God and religion, gone to Assyria, and mingled
himself among the heathen"; he was defamed as "Jeroboam, who drove
Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin." Yet "'Peace to the world' was the essence
of Jeffersonian principles." (Adams, Henry. op. cit.)
Banking Establishments
War is "a blunder, an unnecessary risk," believed Thomas Jefferson.
He favored what today are called "trade sanctions." Any foreign power
giving offense would be cut off from America's markets. Overall,
Jefferson favored "economy in the public expense, that labor may be
lightly burdened."
Jefferson also believed in "the honest payments of our debts." To
that end, he chose Albert Gallatin to be Secretary of the Treasury.
Gallatin implemented a plan to completely pay off the government debt
in 16 years. The payment of
debt was to take precedence over all other expenditures. The
heretofore "habit of mortgaging the future to support present waste was
the most fatal to freedom and purity."
Albert Gallatin's financial policy "carried into practice the
doctrine that the powers of
government, being
necessarily irresponsible, and therefore hostile to liberty,
ought to be exercised only within the narrowest bounds."
Secret Monarchists
One observer, a reporter with London's The Independent newspaper, is
currently alarmed by the drift in America toward a "Jesus monarchy."
Sovereignty, in the United States, resides in the people, not in any
"divinely appointed" person or persons. Yet George W. Bush insinuates
he possesses a "divine right" to rule. Thomas Jefferson, in his time,
had to deal with such secret
monarchists.
The Federalists, in Jefferson's view, "had involved the government
in difficulties in order to destroy it, and to build up a monarchy on
its ruins." Order from chaos.
Jeffersonians were opposed by a conspiracy of these secret monarchists
hiding behind a pseudo-republican mask. Government centralization in
Washington, DC, was a basic monarchical principle.
Look around you. For the past 25 years these secret monarchists have
done superbly well at one thing: ruining this nation. The
government debt has shot skyward on the charts. The country is
overwhelmed by so many immigrants it is impossible to assimilate them.
Our strength is sapped by ruinous foreign adventures. The culture is
debased. Thomas Jefferson perceived a plot to involve the country in
difficulties in order to destroy it. Ordo ab chao. Compounding the
outrage is, such secret monarchists claim to be the "True Americans."
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