This discussion about revolution brings to mind Garet Garrett’s "The Revolution Was" written in 1938.
"There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.Garet's words are more important today as the bail-outs make absolutely no sense - unless you look deeper, it is another revolution within our government. FDR used the great depression to forever change and undermine our nation. The Constitution never intended to give the president anything like the power he has today.There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, "Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don’t watch out." These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago he wrote of what can happen within the form, when "one thing takes the place of another, so that the ancient laws will remain, while the power will be in the hands of those who have brought about revolution in the state."
Worse outwitted were those who kept trying to make sense of the New Deal from the point of view of all that was implicit in the American scheme, charging it therefore with contradiction, fallacy, economic ignorance, and general incompetence to govern.
But it could not be so embarrassed and all that line was wasted, because, in the first place, it never intended to make that kind of sense, and secondly, it took off from nothing that was implicit in the American scheme. It took off from a revolutionary base. The design was European. Regarded from the point of view of revolutionary technic it made perfect sense. Its meaning was revolutionary and it had no other. For what it meant to do it was from the beginning consistent in principle, resourceful, intelligent, masterly in workmanship, and it made not one mistake."
FDR began the "imperial presidency" which set us squarely on the road from republic to empire. "When FDR took office and declared the Great Depression a "national emergency," few would disagree. In his first inaugural address, he announced that he would treat the Depression like a war. If Congress did not approve his policies for fixing the economy, he would take the same powers that presidents had previously assumed only in wartime. The emergencies of his day allowed him to take all that power with the blessing of most Americans."
"Roosevelt’s successors used the cold war to justify continuing the imperial presidency. They all claimed that, as long as we were fighting communism, there was a permanent state of national emergency. They used their power to create a genuine American empire. The greatest emergency today is that we all accept the imperial presidency as an unchangeable fact of life."
And so we find ourselves in revolution again. And again it is the international banking cartel quietly pushing revolution under the guise of another "emergency."
I hope that this time, the illegal revolution will be stopped as we are about to lose what is left of our crippled republic and national sovereignty.
Larry