Dear Friends,
It seems to me, George Washington’s quote, “Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession…” is topical. Our enemy (the progressive faction) has posted himself in positions of power, the courts, education, bureaucracy, media, corporations, etc… while we did too little to prevent them, and now we are faced with the arduous task of dislodging them. The administrative state has become an enemy that has posted itself on the higher ground of state authority, usurping that power from us and the Constitutional government. We face an uphill battle into an improved position because we didn’t listen to that sage man’s advice, and allowed our mortal enemies, masquerading as friends, to post themselves above us.
Which brings us to another Washington quote, “Be courteous to all but intimate with few, and let those few be tried before you give them your confidence.” Another way to put this idea is to say, treat others as you would like to be treated in their circumstance, but don’t trust just anyone, be “wise as a serpent and gentle as a dove…” to insure your good works are not returned with evil. The only way to secure that others don’t return evil for your good, is to watch them, try them and be aware of their actions. In this we have also fallen short of the ideal. We have trusted scoundrels and treated our fellows with contempt. The opposite of what Washington urged of us. As a result, we are told lies, made sick by their experiments and are experiencing an historic breakdown… of everything.
Another topical quote by George Washington, “As mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government.” What a libertarian thing to say. It used to be liberal but that term has been usurped by the progressive faction. Now liberal means to believe in whatever absurdity is politically fashionable. That is why we ignore the caveat, “who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community…” and give the protections of civil law to those who do not comport themselves as worthy, and withhold those same protections from those who do. George Floyd versus Ashley Babbitt for example. Then there is the curious case of MS13 versus Oath Keepers.
With the pending demise of the US dollar, the Washington quote, “Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.” The only issue I would take with this quote, is that the terms, “fraud and injustice,” are too weak… but since they are the terms that fit the definition, they will have to do. Today the elite have leveraged the fiat US dollar into a magical treasure chest they can tap anytime they want. Printing trillions out of thin air and giving it to their cronies, using it to buy influence and pay off rent seekers. The elite have even changed the way they count inflation to hide their criminality. Washington had first hand experience with paper money (fiat) in the Continental.
One last Washington quote, “No punishment, in my opinion, is too great, for the man who can build his greatness on his country’s ruin.” We would have been well served to have heeded all the advice of George Washington, the United States first President, the man who could have been king, but turned down the position… so we could live in peace and prosperity while preserving our liberty. When a nation’s leaders openly avow they are engaged in demographic change, forcing suffering on the people to promote a pie in the sky idea, or shutting down arbitrary parts of an economy to stop a virus they cooked up in a lab, (and getting rich in the process) those men are building their greatness on our nation’s ruin. Let’s at least follow Washington’s advice in this case.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
