To which of the god’s eternal did Jefferson take his oath? Conspiring to instill tyranny over the minds of those deemed to be inferior, was a sort of strategic delicacy for Jefferson.
It was not international bankers who seeded Americas policy of debt enslavement of the poor outside or inside American borders, it was Thomas Jefferson. Take notice though, in this letter Jefferson reveals how America was early on deceiving its people by holding public and private policies. America was born taunting others and using its own population to dig into the trenches of warfare in order to protect the interests of the educated land owners, and secure the expansion for capital gain, as well as the foothold of government over the whole; by Manifest Destiny from east to west.
President Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory, 1803
“You will receive from the Secretary of War…from time to time information and instructions as to our Indian affairs. These communications being for the public records, are restrained always to particular objects and occasions; but this letter being unofficial and private, I may with safety give you a more extensive view of our policy respecting the Indians…To promote this disposition to exchange lands, which they have to spare and we want, for necessaries, which we have to spare and they want, we shall push our trading uses, and be glad to see the good and influential individuals among them run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands. At our trading houses, too, we mean to sell so low as merely to repay us cost and charges, so as neither to lessen or enlarge our capital. This is what private traders cannot do, for they must gain; they will consequently retire from the competition, and we shall thus get clear of this pest without giving offence or umbrage to the Indians…As to their fear, we presume that our strength and their weakness is now so visible that they must see we have only to shut our hand to crush them, and that all our liberalities to them proceed from motives of pure humanity only. Should any tribe be foolhardy enough to take up the hatchet at any time, the seizing the whole country of that tribe, and driving them across the Mississippi, as the only condition of peace, would be an example to others, and a furtherance of our final consolidation.” [1]
Is it no wonder then, that Jefferson understood the following, “Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing Armies.” Unfortunately though, We only hinder our own progress as a whole, when we pull snack-sized quotations from the greater context of policy and foundation.
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World, pg.120
“…Jefferson, for example, who in 1807 instructed his Secretary of War that any Indians who resisted American expansion into their lands must be met with ‘the hatchet.’ ‘And…if ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe,’ he wrote, ‘we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or is driven beyond the Mississippi,’ continuing: ‘in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them.” These were not offhand remarks, for five years later, in 1812, Jefferson again concluded that white Americans were ‘obliged’ to drive the ‘backward’ Indians ‘with the beasts of the forests into the Stony Mountains’; and one year later still, he added that the American government had no other choice before it than ‘to pursue [the Indians] to extermination, or drive them to new seats beyond our reach.’ Indeed, Jefferson’s writings on Indians are filled with the straightforward assertion that the natives are to be given a simple choice—to be ‘extirpate[d] from the earth’ or to remove themselves out of the Americans’ way. Had these same words been enunciated by a German leader in 1939, and directed at European Jews, they would be engraved in modern memory. Since they were uttered by one of America’s founding fathers, however, the most widely admired of the South’s slaveholding philosophers of freedom, they conveniently have become lost to most historians in their insistent celebration of Jefferson’s wisdom and humanity.”[2]
When it comes to the Founders, I concede to their eloquence of pen. But, I do not acknowledge their humanity in works. The founders constituted a government where land owners ruled over those who did not own land. This fact in itself was the American birth of class war.
“You probably know that in the beginning only white males who owned property could vote. Property owners were thus privileged and got the right to decide for everyone else. In some states there were also religious based restrictions so it was not only necessary to be a white male with a certain amount of property, one had to practice a certain religion as well. Today this form of discrimination is unthinkable and yet it happened less than 200 years ago, right here, in America. The religious requirements for voting lasted until the end of the 18th century.
Then , close to the mid 19th century, a man called Thomas Dorr fought for the right of those who were not property owners to vote as well. He was imprisoned, found guilty of treason and sentenced to hard labor for the rest of his life. Fortunately he was released after only one year.”[3]
Even in the Revolutionary war, the poorer classes were exploited to shed their blood, and yet were denied the vote under their new government. The founders truly handed, “We the People” over to clever lies cloaked by eloquent disguise. It is therefore necessary, that “We the People” cast off the chains of heritage and foster an evolutionary mindset. Thomas Jefferson was well equipped at building the case for the 4th of July and secretly conceiving genocidal driven policies for the noncompliant, but either failed with his equals at evaluating the hypocrisy of such cases, or failed at concealing the infernal reality from the eyes of posterity. Where do we find perfection though, in an imperfect world? The point here, as previously repeated, is not to pound the dead horse, but to here and now, encourage less Founding Father idolatry. It’s not simply that these men were products of their time; they were guilty of instituting or supporting through complicity the very methods they aligned at the Kings feet in 1776. A government cannot long promote peace within itself if it also lays a yoke of slavery on a portion of its population and uses the cover of night to subvert peace outside itself.
The fact that so many freedom lovers resort to Jefferson as some great addition to any cause of liberty only enables the furtherance of the notion, “Ignorance is Strength.” Not strength for the people, but strength for this system born of bestiality to persist as it’s only done; consume freedom. If we want the truth to set us free, we must question authority, think for ourselves, and reconcile the incoherency of State sanctioned indoctrination. To understand the present situation of unfulfilled global exploitation, we must get closer to seeing the reality of a nation that was born expanding locally through unquenchable exploitation.
What is the alternative? To stay the course as one with machine and madness? Shall it never be. The road has been long and hard within the framework of a little over two hundred years bandaging and healing the wounds of origin. There are no political solutions to what perpetually ails us under this system. Without education though, we’ll continue to crawl towards a truly equal restart. As education spreads, so iron will sharpen iron. The system plays games. Is it not our desire to end the games? Check…
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