Michael Scheuer | Non-Intervention

For more than 20 years I have been speaking and writing about the most imminent and dire threat to the United States; namely Israel, Jewish-American billionaires, American politicians who are on the Israeli payroll, and Israeli activist groups in the United States like AIPAC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Anti-Defamation League. My opposition to Israel and these groups seems to have picked up some support in the past several weeks as the traitorous and hateful reality of the U.S. relationship with Israel has become increasingly apparent to all Americans that have yet to be suborned by the Israelis and their jackals, their endless money-seeking whining about the Nazis’ treatment of Jews, and Israel’s shameless use of that that tragic event to extort sympathy, support, and blind-eye turning from governments and citizens in the countries of the now dying Western World. They also use it as a justification to murder any Muslim man, woman, or child who looks or speaks to them in an unsatisfactory manner. (1)

No country on earth has been more consistently and knowingly played the fool for Israel than has the United States. Since President Truman took money from rich Israelis and American Jews to fund his 1948 reelection campaign, it seems much more than likely that America has not had single president who has failed to commit treason in his administration’s dealings with Israel. It is well to point specifically to Lyndon Johnson in this regard. He personally stopped U.S. Naval Forces from trying to rescue the USS Liberty while it was enduring a deliberate and prolonged attack by Israeli air and naval forces that killed thirty or more sailors, wounded many more, and almost sank the ship. At the time, Johnson said he wanted that “boat on the bottom” and he nearly got his wish. It’s a bit harder to speak as comprehensively about U.S. Senators and Congressman, but you couldn’t go wrong by arguing that, today, 100-percent of both groups are on the take – often called collecting election contributions — from Israel and/or Jewish Americans. This is an easy conclusion as suborned legislators like Josh Howley, Ted Cruz, Mike Johnson and Lindsey Graham and more than 500 of their colleagues, and an ocean of senior federal senior civil servants, state governors, generals and legislators, and uncountable media outlets. How many times have we all seen all of Congress and the Senate stand like trained and addled seals to cheer and applaud the gangster Netanyahu during the numerous instances in which he has been sickeningly invited to address a Joint Session of the Congress. In hell, Hitler, Stalin, and Mao must be quite angry that they were never asked to do so, after all their performances could well have been the models for Netanyahu’s policies and actions.

The events of recent weeks have, for the first time really, provided everyday Americans the opportunity to learn a good deal about the extent to which their republic has been surrendered to Israel. Among such examples are:

–37 States now have laws that deny their citizens the right to bid on governmental contracts if they oppose Israel by supporting such things as opposition to new foreign investments in Israel, or by calling for sanctions against the Israel for its routinely barbarous treatment of Palestinians and other Muslims. The laws mentioned above are patently unconstitutional.

–The U.S. Congress is now trying to make the Israeli military an extension of the U.S. military, and instead of putting that measure in the next National Defense Act, the Congress buried it in another piece of legislation so there would be no public debate in the Congress or the media about or making U.S. servicemen and servicewomen into whores for Israel’s use as cannon fodder in its war on Muslims.

–The U.S. government has raised the threat level posed by Israeli intelligence operations inside the United States to “critical”, the highest threat level. We also have learned that Israel’s Mossad Intelligence Service – successor of such glorious, murder-incorporated entities as the NKVD and the SS – is now collecting intelligence and conducting covert operations across the United States, including tapping the communications of the president of the United States and his senior officials.

–There also has been no meaningful progress from the U.S. government in releasing materials pertinent to three lethal operations in the United States in which the Israelis may have been involved; namely the murders of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and the lack of the full truth about who was involved in the 9/11 raids on New York and Washington. The stories about “dancing Israelis” after that attack, and the Israeli “art students” who prior to the raids traveled America’s east coast and sketched various places, many of which appear to have been quite near U.S. military installations. These stories almost certainly are not lies. It also is would be worth knowing how many “retirees” from Israel’s premier intelligence/cryptology units have immigrated to the United States and are now working in top-line, American-owned communications companies and other intelligence-related companies, or have started their own U.S.-based firms in those fields.

–Internally, the people of the United States are consistently confronted by enemies of genuine U.S. national security interests. These foes are the more than 20 million American citizens, who happen to be Evangelicals, who wield strong electoral power, and who appear willing to support Israel come hell or high water, and insure that the United States remains the military slaves and funders of Israel. Many of the Evangelicals base their support on a Biblical passage saying that those who bless Israel will be blessed by God they appear never think that our Lord, Master, and Savior would never expect any of His flock to support a gangster state that exists only by blackmailing the United States for untold billions of dollars and killing as many Muslim men women and children as is needed to satisfy their combination of imperialism and chromic blood lust. It seems, at least to me, that the Lord would not want – indeed He would decidedly, perhaps irately, oppose — those of His creation that support such a gangster state, as well as the Israeli state itself.

All told, Israel is a nation that cannot in any conceivable way be described or accepted as an “ally” of the United States, a country which, in any event, can take care of itself nicely without any allies at all, and, indeed, needs little more than friendly and reliable foreign trade partners, the gaining of which would be much easier to come by if Washington was not always at Israel’s beck-and-call for helping to fight its wars and thereby making a mess of the international economy in various dimensions. In the same vein, American citizens should be able to be confident that their government isn’t eager to play the bitch for Israel, thereby wasting their taxes and getting their military sons and daughters killed or maimed in the process. For decades. Israel has sucked oceans of taxpayer dollars out of the U.S. Treasury and used much of that bounty to create a military that is proud to engage in the murder of unarmed Arabs. Israel’s existence is now finally threatened for this behavior by two entities – Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah – and probably the minds of hearts of many millions of people across the Muslim world.

–Endnote:

1.) For what it is worth, I draw readers’ attention to testimony I gave to a Congressional Committee – in 2007 (?) — about the causes of America’s war with Islam. This video gives a good sense of the deranged and genuinely iron-headed support for Israel that is found in the U.S. Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egnsDDJdKuk. My words that day also touched a few nerves. It moved New York Democratic Congressman Gerry Nadler, for example, to block me from any more such presentations. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/democratic-congressman-blasts-republicans-for-inviting-antib I saw this morning that Buzzfeed had deleted this article between my searching to find the url on 8 June 2026 and this morning. The note on the buzzfeed page says “This page does not exist.”

Since 1948, and even before, the nation of Israel has been the enemy of most the  Muslim states in the Middle East region. Interestingly, it also has been the enemy of the American republic for roughly the same period. This statement, of course, can be disagreed with and argued against, but it is observably true nonetheless, and it is likely a fatal bane — together with the suborned U.S. Congress, media, and presidency it controls — on America’s existence as a thriving republic

Currently, the Iranians and their allies in Lebanon have put Israel on its knees via an onslaught of modern weaponry that neither Israel nor its paid-off and so fully owned hit-man — the United States — seem capable of recovering from. The reason for that, of course, is not being discussed in the media or from either the flopping lips of U.S. and Western leaders , nor those of the Israelis gangsters. Those attacking Iran are now earning the horror and grief that are always commonly associated with major intelligence failures. The pattern to follow such a failure is to never admit an intelligence failure and then try your best to defeat those against whom you failed to collect accurate intelligence, and the,, in turn,  pay massively in blood and treasure for the failed intelligence agencies, who, naturally, will live on and to fail another day. In the United States, for example no punishment has been handed out for failing to prevent 9/11 — a fairly easy job for which the CIA collected, vetted, and distributed intelligence to the overall U.S. intelligence community, none of the leaders of which gave a good damn about trying to stop bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden could have been killed on any of multiple occasions after mid-September 1997, but no one in the senior levels of the U.S. Intelligence Community or in the White House tried to act on the basis of collected and vetted intelligence and instead acted shocked when the attack came. They and their political chiefs then acted like idiots, sending large armies led by incompetent flag officers to lose wars to the world’s best guerrilla fighters in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Bush Administration then prepped Americans by telling  them an untrue but bellicose tale of U.S. military invincibility — based on the 1945 model — and assuring them that Afghans and Iraqis or Iraqi’s could never beat the U.S. forces that beat the Reich and Japan. Clearly, those wars did not work out to script. We got our clocks cleaned in  both wars, telling defeats that were earned in spades by U.S. flag officers. Now we are trying the same effort on Iran although we clearly have infinitely worse intelligence on Iran’s capabilities than on those we faced in Iraq and Afghanistan. Likewise, the vaunted Israeli intelligence services have failed even more profoundly than the U.S. services, and their massive failures may soon permanently put the Israeli state six-feet under, the survivors of which will find very few people who want or have reason to weep over that result.

And what about the thinking and planning (?) that is driving this war against Iran toward failure. Hopefully, it will yield, at long last, bring the climax of this phase of always-losing war-making in American history, a phase that might be called “all big talk and no win.” This phase has also been marked by the belief that those we consider enemies always shiver because of our threats. Well how man shivers have we seen from those we fought in Afghanistan, Ukraine (Putin seems far from shaky, and like Xi smiles a lot), Iraq, and, now, Iran.  The answer is none. And how much success have we had in those places? Again the answer is none, other than our usual specialties; namely, smashing many millions of tons of  concrete, thousands of dead civilians, and some dead  enemies thanks to our air power and the U.S. Marines. Perhaps most importantly, we have left in wake of each air war enemies who have been hardened by U.S. actions and are determine to fight to the last. Any Americans out there willing to do the same thing for a goal that the President has yet to define, save for the non-stop chanting of “no nukes for the Ayatollahs” and the defense of “our grerat ally” Israel.”

The behaviors and words of  the U.S. and Israel military and political in this war seem not to strike much fear into Iran’s clerical big wheels, especially now that the United States has proven to them that Iran is surely deadest of ducks without nuclear weapons and so cannot give them up and hope to survive Bibi’s itchy trigger figure and Trump’s simultaneous “Aye, Aye Sir”. Where does Trump go from here, perhaps a land war?  Yes, but in the past decades have we yet seen Iranian or Hezbollah fighters turn tail and run away from either the words or the deeds of their foes? Nope. Should we expect such fleeing if Trump starts a land war? Nope, although some Iranians might laugh themselves to death if that land force is the 8,000 troops that is being bandied about for our the latest remake of Normandy. We also have not yet come to grips with the fact — knowable since the first shot was fired in this war — that whatever absurd number of Iranians the U.S. intelligence agencies claimed would from would flock to support a U.S. war to rid themselves of religious rulers is a blatant lie. Millions of Iranians — beyond those already in the country’s array of military organizations — will prove they don’t share the America’s hatred for Iran leaders or, more especially, the country itself and will support the guerilla and conventional warfare forces Iran surely has ready ready to take on 8,000 U.S. superheros. On this issue, we  Americans have heard no information from our sainted government about how much guerrilla-warfare-related equipment has been sent to Iran by Russia, China, Pakistan, and other Muslim countries, nor do we have the slightest handle on what the Intel boys anticipate to be number of Young Muslims — many trained or at least  weapons-savvy — who will travel to Iran to have a shot at the Americans they have long hated, many would say with some reason.

Enough is enough Mr. Trump. For reasons unknown to us simple Americans who are paying for your illegal war — now with money, soon with our kids’ lives — that is paving a path toward a U.S. catastrophe in Iran, one which would not be worth the costs even if Israel ends up six-feet under. Why not use some commonsense for a change and realize a war with Iran can only hurt the United States by earning more hatred across the Muslim world, as well as more disdain for a U.S. military that has been roving the world since V-J day looking for monsters to destroy and has yet to find one that it can beat. Indeed, the best we could do in the years since 1945 is to weld the republic to a genuine world monster named Israel, whose minions and suborned U.S. citizens have thoroughly corrupted nearly all aspects of the U.S. political system. Responsibility for this miss can only be accorded to you, the above named culprits, all other presidents since 1948.

On returning from China to the dying American Republic, President Trump awoke from his Golden Slumbers and announced success in his mission, a statement still unconfirmed by Beijing and likely to remain so. Since arriving the President probably has read many reports about the Iranians and Hezbollah giving the Israel the sound pounding it has richly earned over many decades. Whether or not Netanyahu and his intelligence officials lied about the potential costs of the war to America is by now beside the point. The U.S. military’s performance since the war’s start again has been at best mediocre, a tradition that began on V-J Day in 1945 and remains a trademark today. No American flag officer since 1945 has been on the winning side of the dozens of unnecessary wars started and lost by America’s War-Lord Presidents.

The America Trump encountered on his return consisted of a great many citizens who were snarling at him, except the old men of the media, all Israel Firsters to the core and to the bank. The rest of the population remembers that it voted for Trump because he pledged there would be no more unnecessary interventionist wars waged by the United States. It seems such pledges on important issues – like wars – are vote-getters that often turn out to be lies. But those voters tend to dislike being double-crossed, a dislike that will multiply when and if this government finally releases the true number of American military personnel that have been killed fighting and losing against Iran as well as against Russia in Ukraine. Both of course are, in their own way, Israel-First wars.

On the home front, Americans are watching the efforts of Trump, his billionaire buddies, the AI gangsters, and most wealthy Democrats complete the effort begun by Franklin Roosevelt to completely centralize the federal government, to create a ruling elite that is drawn from the same sections of society and from the same elite colleges, large businesses, and billionaire cronies, and to keep Americans convinced that whatever the government did – including unnecessary wars — was in their own and the republic’s best interests.

The current gang of New Deal-like do-gooders – AKA: centralizers of government power – are and all-American gang of billionaires seeking to create limitless numbers of data centers. In recent months, the media reporting has begun to appear noting that the dire emergency claimed by those pushing for ever more datacenters, like Larry Ellison, does not actually exists. The United States is not falling behind the Chinese in terms of data centers, such a claim is merely a cover for the ongoing New Deal-like effort to centralize all power in Washington and keep it there. The goal of the data-center gangsters is to overwhelmingly increase not only their power, but also that of the centralized Globalist government in Washington. The real goal of the data-center tide is to collect gargantuan levels of intelligence about all Americans and use it to develop ways to better control, and if necessary kill, parts of the population – as in the Globalists’ Hitler-and Stalin-like Covid slaughter of innocents in America and worldwide. At the moment, there appears to be no way to stop the data-centerites. They will go on building their centers on land that has not been approved by state, city, or county authorities. They will defy efforts to control or limit their efforts – dressing their refusal in the holy and always believed words “National Security — and by knowing that they control unlimited amounts of money and so have no fear of going to court. In all likelihood, this newest version of the New Deal will successfully and greatly increase the power and wealth of not only the data-center builders, but of those in both parties in Washington which have the billionaires’ backs. Moreover, Washington’s powerful are not waiting for the data-centers’ yield of knowledge about the activities and words of everyday Americans from the rapidly expanding network of datacenters. The U.S. government also has a decades long head start on this criminal activity. For a good look at the continent-wide collection of this kind of U.S. government eavesdropping look into the Monkeywerks podcast once or twice a week and see how arduously and thoroughly the Federal Government’s anti-republic minions are spying on every conceivable aspect of the lives of the citizenry in every part of the Union.

If the above prose seems too critical of the “sainted” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his Cabinet, and some of his party’s other members, and the claim that they intended and succeeded in gradually centralizing power and moving forward to spy on and deceive Americans, that’s tough. These men and women, and members of both political parties were quite active in subverting media honesty, lied profusely to Americans get the United States into the wars in both Europe and the Pacific, specialized in indifference for the lives of Blacks – including lynching — in the United States, and those of Jews in Hitler’s Europe, and FDR, some of his Cabinet, and other New Dealers were often pro-Stalin and pro-socialist and created a comfortable hive in Washington for wartime and postwar Soviet spies.

For the accuracy of the foregoing see the following extraordinarily valuable, brilliantly written, and meticulously detailed and sourced book, Professor David T. Beito. FDR. A New Political Life. Chicago: Open Universe, 2025. Professor Beito also definitively shot-up FDR’s reputation as the protector of the American people and their Constitution in an earlier book, David T. Beito. The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance, Independent Institute, 2023

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The war in Iran is steadily approaching the status of the most stupid and dangerous interventionist war ever to have been started unconstitutionally by a U.S. president. American forces flew and sailed off toward the Middle East as if it were 1944-45, not 2026. Apparently, Trump and the generals thought that this war would be a short and victorious affair, forgetting that nothing in World War Two was short and victorious, notwithstanding the Cult of World War Two’s favorite photo, that of Japan’s leaders surrendering on a sunny day on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay in September 1945.

The bloody reality of the Pacific war – multiple blood-lettings at places called Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Peleliu, Guadalcanal, Saipan, and many other such brutal Pacific battlefields – have been mostly deleted from America’s modern memory, and only the photographs of huge U.S. Navy Fleets sailing the blue Pacific and the U.S. Marines – God love them all – raising Old Glory on Mount Suribachi.

The blood, gore, and heroism are now little remembered, save in old movies that are ever less watched. Memories of the war in Europe are likewise dominated by the film of President Reagan honoring the Army rangers who took Point Du Hoc from the Germans, photos of smiling and apparently amiable meetings among Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, the famous photo of a sailor kissing a woman in the middle of a New York City street on V-E Day, Little is recalled about the fact that D-Day at Normandy came within an ace of being just another bloody and war-prolonging failure.

Today, the Curse of World War Two is in full flower in America’s unnecessary interventionist war in Iran. U.S. forces left for the Middle East – complete with the World-War-Two style photos and videos of carrier battle groups ready to conduct the complete destruction of Iran and the humiliation of Iranians in the process. In addition to refighting a war in the style that is now 81 years in the past, those war fleets sailed not to protect the United States from an imminent threat, but to respond to the demands, bribery, and worse than gangster behavior of a foreign government, one that resides in Israel but does much of its damage through the efforts of billionaire American citizens who have everything but love for and loyalty to the American Republic.

The war in Iran has not been the cakewalk that President Trump told Americans to expect. Our guest today, Mr. Joel Skousen, correctly claimed that the American citizenry has received little in the way of genuine information from the Trump team, although there have been many pieces of data that the president, his office, or his cabinet members have provided that seem to have little or no truth to them.

As is his want, President Trump has bragged multiple times about the war he is fighting for Israel, but the deal-making he said his administration and Iran are involved in seems to be his desire, not a reality. Indeed, the U.S. “peace plans” that have found their way to the media are arrogant demands for complete Iranian surrender. This foolish nonsense comes from a foe that Tehran is now beating hands down; Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Rubio, and Israel’s many paid spokesmen in the U.S. Senate have treated Americans to what must be called a “litany of untrue boasts” telling them about U.S. military successes, while Israel is in flames from north-to south and is about to runout of anti-missile ammunition; no remedy has been found for Iranian missiles that are demonstrating technical capabilities the U.S. does not have in its own missiles.

Our blessed World-War Two-like carrier battle groups have been seen, in repeated instances, dashing for the maritime exits to escape Iranian bombardment; we are losing combat aircraft at a pace that has not been seen in decades; and there is increasing media reporting that as many as 40 of the far too many generals that plague the efficiency and war-fighting capabilities of the U.S. military are opposing the Commander-in-Chief over Iran, perhaps because they are military geniuses or, much more likely, because they support the Democrats’ Wokism in the military and in the nation at large, and get paid for their unfortunately successful and traitorous labor in that regard.

What to do about this mess while the Trump administration seems to be building toward an invasion of Iran by U.S. ground forces? Again, this is a plan that smacks of the Cult of World War Two. We have no logistics nor naval capability like that of World War Two, which simultaneously supplied enormous, creative, and steadily victorious U.S. military operations across two oceans. Neither do we have the same overwhelmingly powerful industrial base. We also have no allies that are worth a good damn, and who, for the most part, treasure the path toward disaster that Trump and his crew have designed.

Perhaps it is time for the American people and those few of their representatives in Congress who are not owned by Israel, the ADL, AIPAC, the media-supporters thereof, and the American weapons companies, to put intense pressure via telephone calls, letters, e-mails, and peaceful demonstrations. This to let Trump, his Israel-First riven cabinet and his DEI-loving flag officers that it is time to stop his unnecessary Iranian intervention; to declare the cessation of that war on America’s part, and then get out let the mess resolve itself, recall all U.S. forces that are involved in that theater back to America immediately, and let the Israelis stew in the deadly pot they have built since 1948.

Yes, that surely will be a great embarrassment, but how much more can America be embarrassed than it is at the moment? More delay in getting out may soon make the U.S. military and intelligence performance in the war disgraceful as well as embarrassing. Finally, China has warned Israel to stop its plan to permanently evict 600,000 Lebanese from the Litani River area and to steer clear of any effort to create a new Gaza in that area. Given this clearly demented confrontation between two nuclear powers, the time to get U.S. military forces out of the region is now

After reviewing the media reporting and comments by governments about the war with Iran, it must be said that the consensus appears to be that, while there are a variety of positive reports from officials in Washington and even a few in the mainstream media, the open-source reporting available increasingly seems to be misleading. Needless to say, Americans are not watching anything that looks like near-term victory, and are being given no accurate reports on the number of American military and intelligence personnel who have been killed or wounded in this extremely violent war. And, of course, Americans are still waiting for the first accurate report on the current total of U.S. casualties that have occurred in the Ukraine war.

Indeed, the sum of the media reporting about the Iran war on YouTube and other international platforms, shows that the war continues at a steadily increasing pace and that the Iranian arsenal not only continues to supply the means for Tehran to launch heavy daily attacks on Israel, but that the Iranian attacks have all but destroyed Israel’s so-called air-defense miracle – namely, the Iron Dome and its partner systems. Odd that this task has been performed by the same Iranians who the Israelis and their few friends never tire of describing as inferior people or animals. It must be imagined that the arrogant and all-knowing Israelis are more than a bit surprised that Iran-made, highly sophisticated missiles are piling up civilian casualties, breaking up Israel’s cities, military facilities, accommodations for nuclear scientists, military cohesion, the facilities for producing nuclear weapons, and dozens of other vital facilities a process that will leave Israel – if it survives – with a nightmarish period of body recovery, reconstruction, and political unrest. The media, moreover are now suggesting that Yemen’s Houthi forces are firing effective missiles into Israel in support of Iran’s offensive. Earlier 2026 reports suggesting that the Houthi’s military power had been negated now appear somewhat premature. Every Israeli also is being taught an awful but appropriately painful lesson about the price of extreme arrogance, hubris, and the foolishness of defining people as less than human beings simply because they are Muslims and Americans.

For the U.S. population, the war appears, at this point, to be a continuation of the 75-year long string of U.S. interventionist military debacles. Each of these wars have been conducted without Constitutional sanction and were started by one man’s decision – the president. Each of these illegal, unnecessary, costly, and losing interventionist wars were started and ended at his pleasure. The currently developing debacle in Iran surely must be persuading many voters that ultimately the only plausible interpretation of the Constitution must be reapplied so America is no longer led by dictatorial War-Loads who ignore the Constitutional requirement that the majority approval by each houses of Congress – and with that, the clearly implied approval of the American people — to draft and sign a formal and lawful declaration of war, without which no president has the constitutional authority to start or wage war, save in a case of U.S. territory being subjected to a surprise attack. As things now stand, every war America has fought since 1945 has been a thoroughly illegal affair that was proclaimed from the White House by the War-Lord of the day. In the current case, the War-Lord is Trump.

Once our War-Lords are decisively neutered by the reapplication of law, and Congress’s sole constitutional power to declare war is cemented back into place, these 500-plus cowards will be forced to man-up and begin to exercise their clear and sole responsibility on the issue of starting wars. On that issue, voters must make it clear – possibly via nationwide referendum — that no American life can be expended simply because all of the Congress, the president, and the corps of U.S. flag officers are willing to sacrifice the lives of America’s young by fighting for countries that long have suborned the U.S. Congress, generals, presidents, media leaders, large religious groups, state governments and U.S. based, but foreign-controlled, treasonous organizations that lobby and bribe generals, politicians, businessmen, and media in favor one specific foreign nation.

In sum, such countries, as well as alliances like NATO, are only interested in receiving American funding and seeing its young service men and women be used to die trying protect their interests, perhaps even their existence. There is not one nation on the face of this earth that even remotely merits the performance of such a task by the U.S. citizens who form the U.S. military.

Although Americans are focused on the war, the United States is currently losing in Iran. It’s important that they do so because their conduct reflects the same kind of failures that President Trump pledged but failed to resolve when he was elected a bit more than a year ago. Indeed, his war for Israel appears to be undoing his main success, which was economic improvement. Mr. Trump increasingly seems like so many of his predecessors. Many American problems are hard to solve, but only in the sense that they have not been fully assessed and then pursued until they are solved. The remaining Trump to-do list is long, important, and if it remains unresolved, it will lead to disaster. Indeed, solving a variety of serious problems at home seems much more vital than any problem in the Middle East or any order from Israel or the ADL that arrives in the Oval Office.

1.) What has happened to all the stolen taxpayer money that was reclaimed by Doge, the White House’s pledges of refunding some of that money to the taxpayers, and where are the indictments and convictions for those who engineered the long-continuing theft? And what about the Great Somali Rip-off of taxpayer money that is headquartered in Minnesota? Do we just cross off that dough and let the bastards win?

2.) Election rigging remains a flamingly lethal issue as the 2026 midterms approach. Obviously, my youngest grandchild would conclude that this was the one issue that had been resolved prior to the midterms. We have had several flashy announcements about proof of rigging in places like Arizona and Georgia, but very little has been said about which, if any of the culprits, have been arrested and are being tried. How can anyone expect fair midterms if the vote-riggers are still running free, and if the same election machines are used again, and no convictions have been secured for riggers who cooperated with China to make the notion of a fair U.S. voting system an utter farce?

–3.) Wars have been the bane of the republic’s existence since President Woodrow Wilson’s arrogance, ego, and madness powered the U.S. military intervention into an exclusively European war over the continent’s balance-of-power. FDR appears to have allowed Japan to attack Pearl Harbor by deliberately failing to alert the on-the-scene alert commanders to the solid information about the coming Japanese attack that had been provided by American cryptologists who had broken the Japanese naval and other codes well before the attack. The parade of lost, unnecessary, and interventionist wars has continued without relief since V-J Day in 1945.

4.) Currently, America is again involved in what surely looks like another ride down the highway of failed interventionist wars, this one again being waged on Israel’s behalf against Iran or one of its many enemies. The depth of the clear and cynical lock that Israel and rich Jewish-Americans have on U.S. policy in the Middle East can be seen in the head of the ADL’s current teary-eyed campaign, in which he complains that it is only anti-Semitism that makes Americans claim that Israel drove the United States into the Iran war. It must be said that the ADL chief has more than his share of nerve, but a much greater supply of what it takes to be a bald-faced, anti-American, and anti-Christian liar.

–5.) There is also the issue of how Democrats’ monstrously successful DEI program has been in cultivating hatred for the United States within the U.S. Federal bureaucracy and the U.S Military. Can it be remotely possible that the civilian bureaucrats at the Pentagon just forgot to order and verify the delivery of sufficient munitions to ensure the U.S. military has enough munitions to fight its current interventionist war?

–6.) With a trillion taxpayer dollars to spend each year, sufficient funding is available to make sure such a travesty never occurs in wartime, or any other time, for that matter. Were these bullet-buyers incompetent or simply DEI-trained freaks with a chip on their collective bisexual shoulders, and allegiance to a Democrat taught anti-America agenda?

-7.) And what about the eagerness shown by so many former and serving military officers to criticize the President publicly for the conduct of the war with Iran? There is a long, essential, and admirable tradition in the U.S. military – and, if you can believe it, some of the republic’s intelligence agencies – that serving officers are to follow orders and keep their personal views to themselves, not only to prevent recruited personnel from being corrupted by their officer’s self-serving complaints, but to avoid the public perception that mutiny is in the air and that such complaining from senior and flag officers are working against the Commander-in Chief. Such statements probably are the result of the officers’ taxpayer-funded educations at such redoubts of Democratic anti-American hatred as Stanford, Harvard, Yale, and some academic departments in the service academies, and other such educational shitholes offering Democratic indoctrination.

–8.) Trump and War Secretary Hegseth are reportedly bent on cleaning up the service academies and ending IVY League educations for would-be flag officers. The events of the past few weeks ought to put a top priority on completing the process. On the issue as a whole, take a long look at America’s defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq and see that Ivy League educations for flag officers guarantee only one thing: the perpetual extension of the U.S. military’s record of having not won a war since 1945.

–(9.) Finally, there is still the issue of overwhelming importance that lies in the fact that nothing has been done to legally deliver the imprisonment, or worse, from those U.S. citizens – medical doctors, nurses, federal and state medical bureaucrats, the heads of vaccine developers working in Big Pharma, the media and Holywood personalities who were paid to lie about the safety of what we now know were lethal vaccines.

10.) Media reports claim that up to three million Americans died from the death shots, with nearly 30 million such deaths worldwide. It’s time for Trump to stand up like a man and take hold of this American massacre with two hands. He was out of his water on the issue, and he either got slicked by the killer-scientists, or refused to act on the advice and warnings of the courageous medical doctors and scientists who identified the dire threat of the vaccines from the start. Trump owes the American people and himself the truth about these vaccines, and even more, he needs to use the law to punish the responsible predators and provide monetary recompense to those who lost loved ones. The money, of course, should come from the accounts of all the personnel, at every level, who were participants in blithely killing so many Americans.

Today, the United States is paying dearly for the cult that has been deliberately established by U.S. presidents, the media, Hollywood, the Pentagon, and the grifters who have made an industry of collecting money to “honor” the heroes of World War 2 and thus building the cult, while simultaneously knowing full well knowing that our so-called “Greatest Generation” was exactly that and so needed none of its burnishing and hurrahs.

Those men went into the service to fight a war because their country was attacked, and so it was the right thing to do. They didn’t fight for Roosevelt – who seems to have known Pearl Harbor would be attacked — nor for fame, nor for the love of fighting There was no enthusiasm among those men for going to war – as there was in spades among their predecessors in 1917 – and when those who survived came back, their memories of the war more often than not remained in the minds of the men who fought it and were nor shared far and wide.

Indeed, many of the veterans never shared their gruesome experiences with their wives or their children, as the latter came of age. In their silence and quiet pride over a job well done was their true greatness. They let the media, politicians, and historians who never served create a cult that has now come back to burn our republic repeatedly, but probably never so fiercely as in the current war with Iran.

War is never about anything other than victory, and a war that is worth fighting is never won without a profusion of blood, severed limbs, damaged minds, and the complete mangling of the enemy. It is never, ever, about simply sailing carrier task groups into foreign seas and being cock-sure that they will carry the day against the foe. Indeed, when Americans fight against men whose attitude toward war is similar to theirs, the U.S. servicemen always encounter a bloody and backbreaking task, as we are now experiencing in the war with Iran.

The Iranians, like Americans, are fighting for home, nation, family, and faith. Their fighting is also fueled by the pent-up anger acquired over nearly a half-century of U.S. and Western ridicule, hatred, and defamation, which has been joyously hurled at their ancient culture and country. This is not to say that the Iranian government has not been responsible for murderous attacks on U.S. military personnel via surrogates like Hezbollah and via its own military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both sides have drawn blood from the other, but the only reason for that reality is the fact that the United States government, since long before the Ayatollahs took power in Tehran, has been the reliably mindless champion of Israel’s security and existence, both of which are of utter irrelevance to the security of the United States.

Indeed, the close relationship between American leaders and Israel contributes nothing to American security. That relationship does nothing but undermine U.S. security at every turn, from Israel publicly paying all but one member of the U.S. Congress to do its bidding, thereby controlling it, to conducting espionage against the American military and then selling the stolen data and technology to China and Russia, to running Epstein and his espionage, pedophile, and blackmail organization to further undermine U.S. security, and to controlling every American president from Truman via payoffs, political threats, and or physical threats such as those manifested in the deaths of the Kennedy brothers and likely Charlie Kirk.

Currently, billionaire Jewish-Americans, the ADL, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and 20 million pro-Israel American Evangelicals (AKA: Christian Zionists) are working to negate the protections provided to Americans by the 1^st Amendment of the Constitution. Imagine, if you will, how proud those Christian Zionists must be of being able to brag that they have helped the murderous Israelis permanently reduce the Christian population of Palestine from eight percent to three percent. Israeli operatives in Congress and elsewhere also have worked their way deeply into the U.S. military. Reports show that we now have commanding officers in the U.S. Navy who have told their crews that they are currently striking a blow for the creation and expansion of Greater Israel; some sailors and troops are wearing a patch expressing the same support; and our foolish Secretary of Defense is wearing a tattoo of the Crusaders’ cross on his chest. We also see that these so-called American leaders never mention the fact that Americans visiting Israel are spat upon by our imagined Israeli allies.

It is an oddity of the first order that in a purportedly Christian nation like America, so much of the population of believers and most of the federal and state governments and their bureaucracies proudly support Israel, the greatest enemy of the United States and its effort to suborn the entire nation to its anti-Christian and imperialistic whims. In our minds, at least, one can only hope that the Christian God is planning a very warm welcome into hell for the Israelis and all those Americans who have been the well-paid abettors and facilitators of their innumerable crimes against the United States and much of the rest of the world.

There are times when the United States government’s foreign policy is just plain mad. The last few weeks have been such an occasion as the U.S. military gears up and deploys forces for a war with the Iranian regime. This sort of drill has occurred against the bad-nation of the moment so many times in my life that I tend to skim over some of media coverage once I can identify who the president-of-the-day has identified as the most-dire threat to American liberty. We have survived such threats repeatedly. The mighty Noriega threat was squashed, powerful Granada was tamed, Vietnam became a friend and trading partner of the United States after Kissinger sold-out the U.S. military by welcoming America’s defeat, and after 9/11, the United States Government and its flag-officer geniuses conducted a combined 30-plus years of interventionist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not only losing both wars but achieving the real goals for which all  interventionist wars are conducted, namely the largest reduction in the civil liberties of Americans since Lincoln ruined both the Union and the Constitution while running his unconstitutional war against the legally seceded Confederate Republic. Today we stand on the edge of a new interventionist war Iran, perhaps because the last attack on that country’s nuclear capability –  which Trump was ordered to conduct by Netanyahu, the ADL, and Trump’s Jewish-American donors — was less effective than claimed by the Department War and the President.

Today we’re told by our government to prepare for war with Iran, a war for which the U.S. military has been deploying in recent weeks. The question that should occur in the minds of all Americans is why are we again going to war with Iran. Indeed, what is the genuine reason we are again headed toward war with Iran. What has Iran done to us? The answer to that question is obvious, not very much, but here is a brief list of the claims that come to mind for the words of all those congressman and senators who get regular checks from AIPAC.

–When the CIA and Mi6 overthrew the Iranian Shah in 1953, they thereby started a ball rolling down the road to leading to continual geopolitical disasters for America. That ball was labeled; “Hey, U.S. military and intelligence leaders, why would you make Iran into an enemy of the United States. Are You Nuts”. Two quick answers come to mind (1.) Because the U.S. Congress has refused to reclaim its sole power under the Constitution to declare war and (2.) Because Israel ordered us to do so.

–Next the saddest excuse for a U.S. president until Biden, Jimmy Carter, made America look like a perfect ass after the Ayatollah’s boys seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held hostage many of its staff. Now there was a casus belli. But what did Carter and his generals do? They adopted a clearly halfwit plan to stage a helicopter rescue of the Americans hostages. The April, 1980 mission failed to do so, as the planners apparently did not know sand could play hell with engines if they were not adequately protected from the well-known ability of sand to gum-up the works of engines of all kinds. Ironically, this ridiculous response to an attack on the U.S. embassy in Tehran was the first or two genuine incidents that called for a large and highly destructive U.S. military responses. The second was 9/11, which only occurred because there was strong, durable, and successful opposition to more than ten chances to kill bin Laden well before the 9/11 attack in the Clinton and Bush administrations, including from CIA, the FBI, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

–On 23 October 1983, the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah organization killed more than 240 U.S. Marines in a barracks in Beirut, after President Reagan’s foolish decision to send the Marines to help end the civil war in Lebanon and let his generals to place the force in an area that was already infested by Hezbollah and other Islamist groups. In essence, Reagan rattled his war saber, Hezbollah responded audaciously, the Marines got massacred, and the Iranians had good chuckle.

–During the decades of the Afghan and Iraq wars, U.S. presidents all but screamed bloody murder about Iranian forces – especially Hezbollah and the IRGC – killing American service personnel while they were fighting and losing wars Afghanistan and Iraq. Well, can there really be anyone who does not know why that was happening? The Iranian regime allowed military actions against U.S. troops because the United States and the rest of NATO parked their over-confident butts inside Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which have long borders and longer relations with Iran The real surprise was not that Iran ordered attacks on the U.S. and NATO interventionists, but that they were able to do so by muzzling their laughter long enough to watch the U.S. military’s flag officers endlessly fail to make their operations look pertinent to the capabilities of the Superpower they represented, rather than operations designed by class of ROTC trainees.

So, as this piece is finished there are still U.S. military forces from all services flowing into the region around Iran. The United States has never operated a major military force on the ground in Iran, and it has had virtually no regular on-the-ground intelligence-collection In Iran since the U.S. embassy and its officers were seized in 1983. The importance of the latter is that the planners of a monster air war on Iran, which is said to be Trump’s first choice, probably will not have definite data about what the Mullahs have been planning as a regime-survival strategy since they took power in 1972. If the air war is insufficient to solve the Iran problem to Israel’s satisfaction, the sole remaining option probably is an unnecessary interventionist ground war, the kind of war which U.S. flag officers and their commanders-in-chief have failed to win – despite several dozen opportunities – since Japan surrendered in September, 1945.

As ever, the interventionist road is an unconstitutional and rocky one that promises nothing but disaster, expense, death, domestic disunity, and the breaking of another president’s pledge to stay out of wars that are none of America’s concern. This is an irrefutable fact for any American who does not remain intoxicated in the now archaic Cult of World War Two, which is used religiously by presidents, congresses, the media, donation seekers, and is pursued for riches, fame, and, the ability to tell Americans that the U.S. never losses a war. On this point, think here of folks such as Senators Graham, Cotton, Cruz; anyone named Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Obama, vicious Israel-First Americans like Mark Levin, Ben Shapiro, that clear agent of a foreign power Jonathan Greenblatt and his America-hating ADL, and currently all but one of the U.S. congressmen and Senators who are on the payroll of Israel and its wealthy U.S. citizen henchmen in receiving bribes that are said to be election contributions.

If the foregoing paragraph seems harsh … tough.  I have long argued that Israel is not worth one U.S. dollar, nor the life of a single U.S. marine, sailor, or airman, and that Iran would be a minimal threat to the United States if it were not for the fact that every president, starting with Truman, has preferred to protect Israel and yield to well-funded-American demands, rather than the protecting republic’s sovereignty and population. For decades. we have heard Israeli leaders and their countless American shills insist that “Israel has a Right to Exist”, which is a clear lie. No nation – including the United States — has the right to exist if it cannot protect itself by itself. Let’s leave Israel to defend itself against Iran, and led Americans look homeward to solve their own problems, which consists of long list of tangible economic , electoral, debt, and social troubles, but starts with the corruption, expense, and corpses that flow from Israel’s ability to dominate the U.S. and state governments, to repress Americans and their Constitution through some of the reportedly Epstein zed leaders of the U.S. political, banking, business, media, and NGO systems that are its allies, and its ability to whistle America’s soldier-children into their wars whenever they deliberately create a situation in the Middle East that can be used to order the U.S.  president of the day to fight another unnecessary interventionist war on its behalf.

Finally, it is not only useful but essential to remember that as we prepare to celebrate the 250^th Anniversary of American independence this July, the tragic fact is that American independence and sovereignty began ending not only with signing the NATO Treaty (1949), but also with the founding of Israel (1948) and Truman recognition thereof ten days after. The presidents following Truman have sealed the deal and now our presidents and military personnel are forever at its war-loving, expansionist, and America-hating service.

For those not living in Virginia, it is worth explaining about the quickly forming disaster of Abigail Spanberger’s Democrats and their intensely anti-American administration. Among the topics covered below are guns, crime, infanticide, and the evolving development of Spanberger as the “Crime Queen”.

After Supreme Court decisions that closely mirrored the original intent of the Founders — which is to ensure all American citizens had the choice of accepting governmental tyranny or not, and for those who choose to resist tyrannical rule they would be able to arm themselves with weapons that were a match for the would-be tyrants and so permit a chance of erasing the threat from the nation —  Spanberger and her demented and anti-constitutional lot seem to want to make sure that the Founders’ liberty-saving guarantee is erased from the lives of those Virginians who prefer their Constitution to legislation that sounds as it was authored by Spanberger’s murder-loving Attorney General, Bad Bunny, or any of the other depraved freaks who Democrats drool over and adore.

On 5 February 2026, Spanberger’s legislative machine passed a bill that ended the constitutional right of Virginians to own assault rifles, or to own magazines for any rifle that has a capacity of more than ten rounds. This bill is irrefutably unconstitutional – Spanberger was warned by Trump’s  DOJ on this score before the bill was passed –and you can bet your lunch that no Virginia law enforcement agency will give a good damn about trying to strip the guns from the Democratic Parties’ terrorist organizations – BLM, ANTIFA, etc. – thereby leaving normal Virginians at risk not only from those terrorists and their out-of-state allies, but from their state government’s armed wing, which includes a Virginia Police Union that supported her election, and any future federal government formed by the Democratic Party. This law simply cannot stand because of the whims of a carpetbagger like Spanberger and her cabinet, which includes as Attorney General a madman who writes of his eagerness to murder his political rivals and their children, and a Police Union that has set itself up to be used as the thug-troopers who disarm Virginians.

Then there is Spanberger’s regime obvious intention to keep the Democratic Party in the race to become the leading mass-murder organization of all time. Their agenda includes traditional baby-murdering – a process that the Democrats worship with glee – not only by the usual means, but also by denying parents their right to prevent their youngsters from deciding for themselves whether or have their genitals chopped off on the road to suicide-by transgenderism, an outcome of which they have not been appraised. It’s an oddity that these Democrats, who claim to be the champions of humanity and individual freedom today stand as an organization that has knowingly murdered c. 64 million un-or-just-born human beings, a total that exceeds Hitler’s supposed 6-million total kill by ten times. The Democrats are well along on a path toward passing Mao and Stalin for the honor of being the all-time-mass-murder. Odd for a party which has so many tens of thousands of Jews as members and/or funders. This suggests that the phrase “never again” is no longer in fashion and/or applies only to Jews.

Finally, and not surprisingly. Spanberger and her merry band of morons, ex-cons, and aspiring murderers also are planning to pass the “New Look Law” which is reported to give the worst of the worst criminals – drug-traffickers – one of Spanbergers’s cabinet members is a former dope dealer — rapists, murderers, and attackers of police officers, a chance to appeal for a reduced sentence or even a pardon. I suppose this makes sense in the minds of Democrats, as they are biggest single criminal organization in the United States and could always use a few more experienced hands at the wheels of corruption, sexual depravity, election rigging, financial fraud, bribe-taking, infanticide, and keeping new-borns comfortable until it is their time for execution. All of this of course, also would cement Spanberger’s new title as the “Crime Queen”, and with a such a grand and accurate title how could this clothed-like-Hillary Karen not be the Democrat president for president in 2028.

“Spanberger’s call for service to state and community mirror’s the Founder’s nation” Richmond Post Dispatch

In the history of post-1865 America there is at least one thing that all southerners can count on and that is the Democrats will always behave as if reconstruction and the federal occupation of the south must never end and that the latest application of such policies must be strengthened, expanded, and made more punishing. Just as we pass the day that honors Martin Luther King and one of the five greatest Americans, Robert Edward Lee, the new governor of Virginia – a carpetbagger from New Jersey, a flamboyant joke, and an anti-American employed by the CIA named Abigail Spanberger has been inaugurated as the governor of Virginia, the home of American independence and liberty. Strait out of the box, she and her party have published a list of her priorities as governor. That list reeks of the North’s effort to wreck the defeated South economically, to assure that Southerners would become ever poorer, and to continue to speed the death of the 1787 Constitution and replace it with a fully consolidated central government responsible only to their bigtime donners, foreign money-bags shopping for treason, and  what the Democrats pathetically describe as their values; and to make the south forever subordinate to northern business, industry, banking and viscous authoritarianism. This process is to be advanced by carpet-baggers like Spanberger and her mad-for-murder Attorney General Jay Jones in an attempt to finish transforming Virginians into forelock-pulling workers of all colors who specialize in always answering “yes massa”, and not for the benefit of working people, Virginia, or the republic, but for the fatal cancer known as the New World Order and/or the Deep State.

Only a day after her inauguration, Spanberger – who always appears to be dressed in Hillary Clinton’s hand-me-downs — has published a list of her priorities that are aimed at making the poor of Virginia poorer, to ignore the 2^nd Amendment and disarm Virginians via such taxation, as a $5OO sales tax on firearm suppressors, a ban on falsely called assault weapons and large capacity magazines – “large capacity” is defined as ten rounds — and an 11-percent tax on firearms and ammunition. In addition, she also wants to prohibit the outdoor shooting of a firearm on land of less than 5 acres, this presumably to make sure her party’s beloved illegal maniacs, Muslim fanatics, and the Democrat Party’s very own terrorists, BLM and ANTIFA, can get to and then away safely from any residence or business they choose to burn to the ground with its inhabitants. Under Spanberger the Virginia government will also seek to strengthen the already in-place fix of Virginia’s elections by making it illegal to hand-count ballots, extending the deadline for ballot curing to one week after the election, expanding ranked-choice voting, and to allow people to cast votes electronically through the internet, all of which constitutes a studied effort to subvert elections in favor of Democrats, their horde of crazed white Karens, and the other criminals with which both are allied..

Then comes Spanberger’s measures, ones that only could be hatched by a power-hungry, dyed-in-the-wool, white Democratic woman, one who is full to the brim with hate and anger, and is clearly crazed, just like the tens-of thousands of other crazy Karens who are serial liars and are now screaming and running down ICE officers against across the republic. The new Governor – or Governette? – also wants to remove mandatory minimum sentences for criminals; replace Columbus Day with “Indigenous Peoples Day”, probably complete with real scalping demonstrations, featuring white men picked by crazed Karens; guaranteed free education for illegal aliens; and a ban on the arresting illegal aliens in courthouses. Spanberger and her fellow Democratic also want to continue driving workaday Virginians into dire poverty. She intends to pass a 4.3-percent sales on Uber Eats, Amazon, and other delivery services., a 3.8-percent investment tax on top of state income tax; higher hotel taxes; new personal property taxes on landscaping equipment; and orders for localities to install speed cameras.

Because all democrats are blood-thirsty wretches, Frau-Butcher Spanberger wants new laws to make it illegal to approach somebody at an abortion clinic. This, of course, is the cause that Democrats and its Karen Corps love above all others. And it must be admitted, that since an addled Supreme Court Justice wrote the opinion in which he found killing infants legal, the Democrats haven’t missed a beat, or is it a death knell.  Spanberger and her caring party have racked up the murder of a about 63 million infants, humans murdered in both the womb and just after birth. I guess the latter means some Democrats are brave enough to kill new borns face-to-face. Anyway, Spanberger and her party are now in the big leagues of the world’s mass murders. They – with the AMA — have murdered ten times more innocents than Hitler leaving him and other small-timers like Pol Pot in the dust. Indeed, the Democrats are more than half way to catching and passing the mass-murder records of Joe Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. To do her bit for infanticide, she’s intends to do more to speed up the chase after Joe and Mao. Spanberger intends to enshrine in the Virginia Constitution a law that permits killing a baby at any old time, in the name of freedom for all – except the infant human being.

There it is, so do not look for any evidence that Spanberger gives a good damn about reducing the cost of living of for any Virginians that’s not in her clique. During the campaign, she and her surrogate Karens wept crocodile tears about the lack of affordability for Virginians, and pledged they would fix that problem. There is not a word even vaguely related to that goal in the new governor’s list of fascist to-dos. Within six months, Governor Karen will make Virginians know what it was like for their ancestors to be ruled by abusive and power-and-money grabbing northern carpetbaggers.

The above quote form the Richmond Times Dispatch was right to mention the Founders, although they got the Founders reaction ass-backwards. Spanberger and her gang’s intent, rhetoric, and actions surely would have made the Founders repeat and act on the following words of Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson. Those men spoke against Britain’s tyrannical government – and, for us, Spanberger’s version thereof — for commonsense and liberty, for the other Founders, and for most Americans and, wrote the following in what perhaps is America’s most important state paper:

“We are reduced to the alternative of chusing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. -­‐-­‐ The latter is our choice. -­‐-­‐ We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. -­‐-­‐ Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.”

“We gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the Divine favour towards us, that his Providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves. With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.” (1)

–Sources

The author wishes to thank the authors of four internet pieces that allowed me to discover what Virginians had had in store for them from their new governor. One piece is at @gregprice 11, the second is at https://www.youtube.com/watch”v=g6pkzghllck , and the third is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGPKzghLLck&t=234s , and fourth is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYzm9bHz9mw

(1.) The words above were written by Jefferson and Dickinson and are taken from their paper written for the Continental Congress and called “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, 6 July 1775.” See, https://archive.csac.history.wisc.edu/9_Declaration_of_the_Causes_and_Necessity_of_Taking_up_Arms.pdf