Allison Bricker

THE REGION, INDIANA – The term neoconservative may have come into more common use during the eight nightmarish years of the Bush Administration, but let us be candid, its core ideology has existed since the founding of the Republic. For there have always been those amongst us who felt that security and obedience is achieved only by pummeling into submission any slight towards the state’s fragile ego executed by the hands of its unsophisticated warmongering political administrators. Whilst Alexander Hamilton might be the pious genesis of the American embodiment towards this philosophy, whereby he was sent to meet his Creator unto the hyper-masculine ritual of pistol dueling, its renaissance began in earnest with the Wilson Administration.

President Woodrow Wilson enabled by the creation of the limitless purse provided by the then newly formed Federal Reserve, collateralized by the confiscation of current and future wages decreed under the 16th Amendment, and unchecked federal authority promulgated by tying Senators to popular knee-jerk sentiment all achieved in 1913, now began a course of “Making the World Safe for Democracy”¹. So fell the first domino in a sustained effort to forever alter American foreign policy into that of a new tradition, one of a perpetual war-footing and imperial expansion.

At the dawn of the Twentieth Century, the American people were very much opposed to intervening in the growing conflict in Europe. However, Woodrow Wilson’s personal ambition wholly contrary to his public rhetoric, was to see American entry into World War I. He saw this as an opportunity to propose his machination for global governance, i.e. The League of Nations. So much was Wilson’s desire towards achieving that end, his Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan resigned in protest², citing Wilson’s Warmongering Diplomacy.

Further, President Wilson so decidedly intolerable of any form of dissent pushed for and achieved a legislative muzzle to stifle Anti-War sentiment in the form of the “Sedition³ and Espionage Acts”. Now with statutory authority, Wilson could jail and silence outspoken opponents of the war, claiming the now tired phraseology of “National Security”. The most famous of theses un-American incarcerations was Eugene Debs, the Cindy Sheehan of his day.

By the middle of the century, the American consciousness was becoming successfully manipulated into lockstep with an interventionist foreign policy. With the Central Authority spewing endless propaganda capitalizing upon the rapid growth of technology, i.e. nuclear annihilation and philosophical boogie-men, ergo “The Communist Red Scare” the state seized upon the manufactured fear to begin its chess game in earnest, funded of course by the private Central Bank. Few things fellow readers make a Central Banker’s eyes gloss over quicker than the thought of mountainous interest payments received on loans required to rebuild a war ravaged nation, continent, et al. As it is said, War is the Health of the State and a secure retirement for the Central Banker.

Fully intoxicated with the rise to superpower status, the Central Authority flexed its muscle under “The Marshall Plan” and thus now began to truly resemble the British tyrants cast off by the Founding Generation not even 200 years earlier.

It remains my conviction that through understanding history in its full prism, We the People can more fully understand the continued saber rattling on Iran and return the neoconservative philosophy to the plane of Hell especially reserved for warmongering tyrants and their Central banker puppet-masters.

While the glorious struggle to reclaim our foreign policy to that of commerce with all, tangling alliances with none will indeed be a difficult task, let us take proper stock of the situation and know that we are making progress. Last week former Vice-President Cheney became so deluged unto his hawkish tendencies that he felt it necessary to reach out to former Democrat and Rand Paul’s Senate primary opponent, Trey Grayson to try and extol the vice that is the Whig neoconservative philosophy.

For while Mr. Cheney is indeed a most tormented soul full of rage, he is no fool; a win for Ron Paul’s son in the Kentucky Senate race will be a referendum on his legacy, the Bush Doctrine. Moreover, it will further solidify that the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts was not merely dissatisfaction with President Obama, but a wider more raucous, growing dissatisfaction with Statist political philosophy in general. That it will illustrate an awakening and realization that regardless of whether a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ follows a politicians name, government continues to grow exponentially, its vacuous nature devouring our Liberty and the posterity’s financial security.

Further, it is time once and for all to refuse to accept the terms offered by the neoconservatives that those of us who prefer the wisdom of the Founder’s foreign policy, “Blame America”, as it is utter logical fallacy to the first degree.

We do not blame America; we blame the small pricked political looters who seek to enrich themselves whilst standing upon the bloodied corpses of American Soldiers killed in senseless wars upon sovereign nations of which are no threat to us outside of the contrived commotions at the behest of the CIA⁴, i.e. Iran:

Source(s): 1Making the World “Safe for Democracy”: Woodrow Wilson Asks for War – George Mason University, “History Matters” • ²The Resignation of Secretary of State William J. Bryan, 1915 JSTOR • ³Sedition Act of 1918, Brigham Young University Archives • ⁴ “Iranian scientist defects: US covert ops hurt Iran nuclear program” – Christian Science Monitor By Scott Peterson, Staff writer / March 31, 2010

Allison Bricker

THE REGION, INDIANA – Although not an “official” Federal nor state holiday in my home in Indiana; let us disregard such governmental formalities and please join me in celebrating “Lafayette Day”.

For the uninitiated or perhaps anyone not an American history nerd, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was a French military officer born on September 6th, 1757. Upon hearing of the American War for Independence against Britain he wrote:

“When I first learned of that quarrel, my heart was enlisted and I thought only of joining the colors.”

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Memoirs
1779

Shortly after his arrival in America, the Continental Congress commissioned upon him the rank of Major General. During his time on the battlefield against the British, he displayed bravery, cunning, and an unshakable loyalty to the American cause. He went on to win major battles at both Gloucester and Monmouth. In addition to his tactical skill on the battlefield, Lafayette successfully lobbied Louis the XVI for additional French troops and for full support of the French Naval fleet in the form of five additional frigates.

Upon his return to America, he successfully trapped British General Cornwallis between his troops and the York River, thanks to the timely arrival of the French Naval fleet. Lafayette and General Washington knowing that General Cornwallis and his men were low on supplies due to the naval blockade launched what would become known as “The Siege at Yorktown”. The siege succeeded, resulting in the surrender of the British by General Cornwallis to General Washington; effectively ending the American War for Independence.

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette’s wife, Adrienne gave birth the to the couple’s only son, Georges Washington de La Fayette, who they named in honor of George Washington.

After the successful siege at Yorktown, Lafayette returned to France where he went on to work with Thomas Jefferson to normalize trade relations and debt reconciliation. He then returned to America in 1782 where he and his heirs were awarded honorary natural-born citizenship in several states and the nation as a whole upon ratification of the U.S. Constitution. During his time spent in America after the War for Independence, he visited all of the several states except for Georgia. During his travels around the newly independent nation, he gave impassioned speeches on the inherent natural liberties of mankind and pushed vehemently for the abolition of slavery.

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette passed away on the 20th of May 1834 at the age of 77.

Source(s): The Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson by: William Howard Adams • “The Marquis de La Fayette in the American revolution: With some Account of the Attitude of France Toward the War for Independence” – Volume 1, By Charlemagne Tower published: J.B. Lippincott Company (1895)