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Does the federal government ever defend Americans' freedom?

Posted by freedomforall 1 year, 10 months ago to Government
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"It seems to me the U.S. military – which might more accurately be styled the federal military – is simply the enforcement division of the federal government and the corporations that own and so control it.

Marine Major General Butler elaborated this fact some 100 years go, from the perspective of a top-level enforcer, who came to realize (and regret) his “service.” I suspect there are many such now but more who cannot deal with the fact and so suppress it by convincing themselves they are “fighting for freedom” and “defending democracy.”

But, I ask – and gently: How, exactly, has the federal military fought for our freedom? Yours and mine?

I mean since the War for Independence?

It did fight – or threaten to – after the war was over, to take away the freedom of rural American farmers who objected to being told they must pay taxes in currency they didn’t have, because they lived mostly by barter using the whiskey they distilled from the crops they grew. They did not see that they “owed” taxes to the federal government or anyone else, not having agreed to them.

Washington – the general – sent federal troops to make sure they did pay them."
SOURCE URL: https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2022/06/12/the-federal-military/


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  • Posted by LarryHeart 1 year, 10 months ago
    Freedom? What Freedom? We idiots are passing around bucks that are just IOUs which the Federal government routinely reneges on by printing up and spending more IOUs that have no basis in revenue. Instead this causes devaluing those Fed note IOUs in circulation and causing prices to equalize to the new amount of IOUs needed to purchase an item. That is the main cause of so-called inflation. Hey nothing to see here in the lesser value of the IOUs you hold. Oh wait Squirrel. Look there , the prices have gone up. Not our fault it's Putin, Castro, the greedy Corporations. the Republicans, the Jews, Trump, Israel, Iran, the poor, the rich,...etc. everyone but the main culprit ... the FED, They created Currency no longer backed by precious metals which, before 1913 prevented the government from eroding the currency's value. In sum the government stole most of the value from everything valued in Fed Note IOUs we still call a dollar even though it maybe is worth a penny in purchasing power compared to 1913 when this thievery scam started. Lots of run on sentences. LOL
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    • Posted by LibertyBelle 1 year, 10 months ago
      I don't think the government should be allowed to print currency in the first place. Let it be done by private companies who would be allowed to advertise how much metal would be paid to a turn-in on a specific bill or note (as I have seen printed on certain obsolete "Reserve Notes"), and, if they declined to pay, they could be prosecuted for fraud.
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      • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 10 months ago
        I believe the government had control over the currency as stipulated in the Constitution, but it abdicated its responsibility in 1913 when it turned over the nations currency to a private corporation known as the "Federal Reserve", which is neither Federal nor Reserve, and then gave it monopoly status with government backing. Think of it as if the government gave Amazon the only rights to sell products over the Internet in the USA. All other sellers and businesses that use the Internet to sell/move their products are now illegal. We've been screwed ever since.
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        • Posted by 1 year, 10 months ago
          Inflation was zero from 1781 to 1912 (except for wartime.) In 1913 the federal reserve was given authority
          to create credit from nothing and charge everyone interest on that credit. Since then inflation has destroyed
          the value of the US dollar so it now takes $100 paper currency to buy what $1 in gold/silver 'money' would buy in 1912.

          Every time the banksters issue too much credit (so they have greater profits from the interest) the economy
          overheats and inflation is the result. The way to stop inflation is to reduce creation of credit - which would
          reduce the banksters unearned profits. So, instead of doing that directly, the bankster federal reserve increases
          interest rates which increases the amounts the banksters STEAL from everyone else.
          Banksters cause the problem and everyone else is forced to pay for it in higher interest rates.
          This also increases the carrying cost of government debt, which screws the People AGAIN
          while the banksters get bigger bonuses.
          The entire banking 'industry' is one entirely based on stealing.
          They are all looting traitors who deserve the death penalty as accomplices and conspirators in treason.
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          • Posted by mccannon01 1 year, 10 months ago
            Exactly!

            "Banksters cause the problem and everyone else is forced to pay for it in higher interest rates." They get away with it now because government has given them leave and legal protection since 1913. After over 100 years it's going to be tough to end the scheme especially since ending it depends on the people running it. Or a peoples revolt, but since there aren't many who understand the problem (or care) such revolt is unlikely. More likely a crash and rebuild loop and the next thing is crash. There will be suffering and most will have no idea why.
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  • Posted by mhubb 1 year, 10 months ago
    you'd never know that those in the Military swore an Oath to the Constitution

    you'd think they swore it to the demorcrat party

    guess most are worried about their pensions....
    like the FBI, ATF, ect
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 1 year, 10 months ago
    I could side with the farmers in the "Whiskey Rebellion", but I cannot have any sympathy with the Southern States which seceded in order to make sure that they could "govern themselves" by continuing slavery. I recognize individual rights, not "states' rights".
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    • Posted by rhfinle 1 year, 10 months ago
      Those were the same Southern states that, incidentally, banned importation of slaves before the North did.
      Slavery was already economically un-viable by 1860, even in the South. Lincoln (whose wife was a slave owner) passed the great Emancipation Proclamation, which didn't free slaves in he North, but rather, in 'that other country down there'.
      Slavery was a propaganda tool, but the real issue was an overbearing and all-controlling Federal government. Like we have now, since the South was defeated.
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    • Posted by 1 year, 10 months ago
      Read The Real Lincoln for an unbiased commentary using contemporary sources instead
      of the federal propaganda that has been unrelenting in government schools.
      We have been conned by the feds about the reasons for secession for over 100 years.
      Yes, slavery was bad, but Lincoln was a war criminal who did much worse and we are
      still suffering from that tyranny and genocide.
      Lincoln was a master of fake news and censorship
      (using confinement of those who disagreed in federal prison.)
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