Sipsey Street Irregulars: A Crisis of POLITICAL Economy

Thursday, February 5, 2009

A Crisis of POLITICAL Economy

This has got to be the most crystal clear analysis of the crisis we find ourselves in today that I have seen. Note that it was written back in October. It tracks with the book I am now reading on the Whiskey Rebellion.

Will someone remember this essay after the Restoration? And if another Alexander Hamilton raises his ugly head, and I'm not there to do it myself, shoot him in the balls for me.

H/T to Pete at WRSA for drawing my attention to it.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Ha! Yes, Aaron Burr really is an unsung hero - who knows how much additional grief he spared this nation by taking out that rascal.

And he was the SITTING VICE PRESIDENT in the Jefferson Administration at the time of their duel!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr-Hamilton_duel; February 5, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Respectabiggle said...: Even more pertinent to 3%ers: The Whole World is Rioting About the Economic Crisis--Why Aren't We? It explains a lot about why the prag mentality is so prevalent.

Excerpt:
Mark Ames, author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion -- From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond , argues that Americans have been beaten down to a degree that they're now a pacified population, largely willing to accept any economic outrage its elites impose on them.

I don't think that all of us are that beaten -down, but the argument is valuable.; February 5, 2009 at 11:24 AM
Cherokee said...: Undoubtedly the best I've ever read to explain and clarify exactly why we are in the economic mess we are nationally and internationally. It is an inherently corrupt system and the corrupt are going crazy with greed and avarice.
God help us get our country back!; February 5, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Anonymous said...: You're right, that is a crystal clear analysis of the crisis we find ourselves in today.

But since you understand that, why do you seek the "Restoration" of a previous flavor of government, when the analysis clearly shows there was never was anything worthwhile to restore? Why aren't you pursuing a "Liberation" instead?; February 5, 2009 at 9:57 PM
John Paulding said...: Anon- Hamilton IS that unsung hero you speak of. The disrespect for Hamilton among the III crowd is an outright embarassment for a group of people who claim to respect the Constitution and this nation's founders. The level of ignorance of what Hamilton did for this country is stagerring.

Had we lived under the naive Jeffersonian utopia without a Hamiltonian check, we'd be back under Europe's thumb.

Make no mistake about it; I'm more a Jefferson man than a Hamilton man but the Jeffersonian idolotry shows a lack of understanding the principles of a true republic.

I also recommend you look again at Burr before calling him a "hero". Burr was hated by Jefferson and ran "with" him simply because he was a campaigner at a time when campaigning was considered ungentlemanly. He also ran "with" him up until they tied during the election at which time his blind ambition and lack of loyalty showed their true colors.

Burr also spearheaded an effort to enrich himself by getting congress to sponsor a bank under the guise of it being a public works idea to help provide clean water.

Then let us not forget his adventures as a fugitive and plots to attack the country.

Burr was about on par with Nancy Pelosi. He was an ambitious power seeker with no loyalty to the republic.

I think we really need to hash this thing out as it has already gotten well out of hand.; February 5, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Anonymous said...: What might the title of the book about the Whisky Rebellion you're reading be?

Personally, I'm mostly through "The Battle Cry of Freedom", and the parallels I'm seeing between then and now are striking.; February 6, 2009 at 1:37 AM
Pat H. said...: John Paulding,

http://www.fff.org/classroom/YouTube/ELLSDiLorenzo2009.htm

or

http://mises.org:88/4_VMC_DiLorenzo

or

http://mises.org/search.aspx and type in "Hamilton"; February 6, 2009 at 1:16 PM
Vanderboegh said...: The Whisky Rebellion by William Hogeland, Scribner, 2006.; February 6, 2009 at 3:38 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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