soft secession 5

SOFT SECESSION 5

Yeoman farming, today. No, I'm not an expert in the subject. Certainly not in the forebears over in England, nor in the pre-Revolution era here. I think this is going to be my new Deep Study project. James LeFond has a whole series on “plantation America” which looks intriguing. The history of the colonies not as such, but as slave plantations. It seems there were more white slaves than a simple indentured servant contract for passage would account for. Unfortunately, I think I picked up the wrong book in the series of about a dozen, which is more like reference to an already established theme than the starter book itself.

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No worries there, as I am tickled pink I can support an author directly, a step above Kindle, so the money spent wasn't the issue. It is more the lust for understanding, money be damned. Ultimately with some of those books, as well as Rothbard's “Conceived In Liberty”, I want to gain a better understanding of the history before the Revolution. Who was in control, the money interests, a better picture of the poor and working class. The difference in the classes and cultures. And I want a REAL history of how we came to all bear arms. We are fish in water, largely unaware of how rare and special that freedom is.

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Nomads or even non-centralized states have always been armed and independent, but that is not my focus. Nor are pre-firearms weapons. Armed men in a nation state is my focus. I knew I needed more research here, but until now didn't have a reference book to start. There have been teasers in books debunking a lot of the Black Slave mythology ( hopelessly poisoned by Federal government propaganda justifying subjugating states and individual rights ), but it never explored deep enough. So, my previous attempts at covering this, as well as this one, are by necessity incomplete.

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All this background to promise more, better, at a later date, and to apologize for my perfunctory knowledge here. If you don't know that you don't know, well... Anyway, to the best of current knowledge, a history of armed America. I've said that the rich elite in this country armed the militia for the express purpose of having a free army. Mainly to displace the Indians for more land, which was wealth. Remember, we had been settling this rock for two and a half centuries prior to the Revolution. A good two centuries which were pre-Industrial Revolution. Land, not industry, was wealth.

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What I missed was the possibility a good deal of the activity of this militia was in tracking down slaves-which were mostly White rather than Indian or Black, for some time. The first Black slave took a century to show up. With all the mental midgets trying to steer Political Correctness into a Globalist Apologist direction, the 9% strawboss class deliberately confusing race with class, acting as if skin color superseded wealth, the discussion of slavery never takes on any glimmer of reality. Slavery does and will happen, because it is free energy.

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Energy is wealth. Hence, slavery is normal, except for our century and a half of Petroleum Slaves. Don't think that the underclass nominally free and armed weren't part of the system of slavery. They were soldier slaves, a Janissary class. They were enslaved by those controlling the financial system, and they in turn fought the indigenous population and any actual slaves attempting to flee or be free. And western expansion did have an element of fleeing slaves. Not a romantic vision of armed freemen, is it?

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So this line of thinking is dangerous, both to the elite and to the patriots who thought that a right springs from the hand of god, rather than being birthed in blood. If I piss off commies AND gun owners alike, this research will be well worth my time! I don't think many of you comprehend the vicious delight of slaughtering sacred cows! It clenches my sphincter. But let us continue, with the fleeing slaves now armed and either joining Indian tribes or killing them to settle in the mountains, trying to remain free of the plantation owners. Would this not account for the conflict between the rich and the poor, far better than in mere monetary terms?

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When today we speak in rhetoric about communists enslaving us, do we even realize we are channeling our folk history of the rich coastal elite working the poor Whites, yes-the Deplorables, to an early grave? Have things changed in the slightest? Is being armed, living in a financial system that enslaves us, allowing us to live free, or is it all a mere illusion? I stipulate to you all that it is an illusion. A dangerous illusion, as we think the apocalypse will be dwelt with our rifles, holed up in our compounds.

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Both Rawlsians and homesteaders share this delusion, that patrols outside our fences will keep us free, as long as the ammunition lasts. You might want to ask the Indians how that worked out for them. Hint, it didn't. It wasn't superior firepower that defeated them. They were armed with the same weapons. It was demographics and excess energy ( in the form of carbon fuels ). Ah-HA!, you proclaim. Jim, you are always yammering on about Peak Oil. Now everyone will be on an equal playing field.

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Or will they? Anarchy will not rule the land, each lot of land an autonomous unit impervious to assault. Not unless that land is up in the mountains, AND lacks a strategic advantage the lowlanders desire. Then you are impoverished from lack of trade. Appalachian folk were dirt poor not just from substandard soil, but from their need for trade goods, with little to trade in turn. Survivalists think they will live dependent on machinery and fuel and industrial goods, and still remain free? And unless you devolve into Stone Age tools, you'll retain a vulnerability. Blacksmithing only takes you so far, and certainly NOT into a precision machine tool existence.

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You don't think the surviving elite from today won't have control of the means of surplus energy to continue at a higher level of manufacturing? I'll leave it at that.  End series.

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note: according to one much smarter than myself in economics, the US is already Japan ( in its decades long economy after its 80's peak ).  But the differences are why we will see inflation.  Hyper-inflation when the PetroDollar collapses ( he doesn't get into that, just mentioning it the last minute of the video-but think about it.  If oil demand crashed 70-80%, how many dollars do fuzzy foreigners need, to buy oil?  You know the answer! ).  George Gammon, about 20 minutes long HERE 
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