A Sad (Founding) Father's Day
As Founder of the Tactical Civics™ mission, the following is my own position, not the official position of the members or co-founders. I hold it deeply, properly, and righteously, nonetheless.
Do not mistake this message; I stand in total opposition to the Marxist and sexual pervert rioters who hate Trump and normalcy. Despite the timing, this has nothing to do with those barbarian hordes. But since Trump conflated his birthday with the supposed ‘anniversary’ of precisely what the Founding Father abhorred, I must stand on this spot today.
It is often the case that truth hurts. This is one of those cases but let no man claim it is false.
Trump’s DC celebration of 250 years of the standing U.S. Army stands in ignorant defiance of our Founding Fathers’ profound abhorrence of such a force, now having stood for 236 years in proud, clear, open violation of Article I, Section 8, Clause 12 of our highest Law. But Trump celebrated the longer (250-year) tradition of arrogant defiance of the Founding Fathers cited below.
No, you are not insane. The massive war industry, like the DC organized crime machine itself, is openly violating the Constitution and while we spit in the faces of the Founding Fathers for 250 years by celebrating this act of defiance, will I feel like a traitor to his country for standing against it?
No! Because I'm not insane, either. Our sovereign States have not yet become China, Russia, or North Korea, where the official government story must be believed because the central government spends tens of millions celebrating the “fact” they trumpet from a military parade!
When I was eight, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote,
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
The lie shall not triumph; it shall not! Not here; not with me at least, however unpopular my stand for the most basic truth of American history. No war machine can erase the ten great men whose clear assertions ring through 249 years...STILL TRUE.
I say these ten honorable Fathers are true, and Trump is a lie in this respect, even if only in ignorance. Even if caught up like my brother Pete Hegseth, in well-meaning 'patriotism'.
Yes, criminogenic DC’s gaslighting is ancient, profound, and has deeply shaped generations of families whose highest allegiance is not to the Constitution (that’s just an oath; easily broken) but to the war industry branch that makes careers for generations of their family. I am sorry for all that, but now you must read what the Founding Fathers say of this atrocity. Surely they are rolling in their graves at such lawless bravado and misplaced pride: a world military force that they uniformly despised and warned against!
But here; read their own words...
Samuel Adams, January 20, 1776 (Letter to James Warren) “A Standing Army, however necessary it may be at some times, is always dangerous to the Liberties of the People. Soldiers are apt to consider themselves as a Body distinct from the rest of the Citizens… Such a Power should be watched with a jealous Eye.” (The Writings of Samuel Adams, Volume III, 1907, p. 247.)
John Adams, March 12, 1776 (Letter to William Tudor) “I am clearly of opinion that a well-regulated militia, composed of the yeomanry of the country, is the natural strength and security of a free government; and a standing army in time of peace is not only unnecessary but dangerous.” (Papers of John Adams, Volume 4, Massachusetts Historical Society, 1979, p. 94.)
George Washington, May 2, 1777 (Letter to the Continental Congress) “…a well-regulated Militia, properly trained and disciplined, is of infinite service in a Republic, and far preferable to a standing Army, which is ever dangerous to liberty.” (The Writings of George Washington, Vol. 8, 1933, p. 15.)
James Madison, August 29, 1787 (Debates in the Constitutional Convention) “As the greatest danger to liberty is from large standing armies, it is best to prevent them by an effectual provision for a good Militia.” (Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787, James Madison, 1966, p. 478.)
Alexander Hamilton, January 9, 1788 (Federalist No. 29) “If circumstances should at any time oblige the government to form an army of any magnitude, that army can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens [who are] little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms, who stand ready to defend their own rights… A well-regulated Militia is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free state.”
Thomas Jefferson, June 5, 1788 (Letter to James Madison) “I am persuaded that a Militia, duly organized and armed, is the only safe defense of a free people; and that standing armies, in time of peace, are not only expensive but dangerous to the public liberty.” (The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 13, 1956, p. 124.)
Patrick Henry, June 5, 1788 (Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention) “The Militia, sir, is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it… A standing army we shall have, also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you to punish them? Will your Militia be sufficient to oppose them?” (The Debates in the Several State Conventions, ed. Jonathan Elliot, Volume 3, 1836, p. 51.)
Richard Henry Lee, June 7, 1788 (Letters from the Federal Farmer, No. 18) “A Militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves… Standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be kept up in times of peace, except in small numbers and under strict regulation.” (Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer, 1788, ed. Herbert J. Storing, 1981, p. 169.)
George Mason, June 16, 1788 (Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention) “Who are the Militia? They consist now of the whole People… But when a standing army is established, the Militia becomes useless, and the People are left defenseless against tyranny.” (The Debates in the Several State Conventions, Volume 3, 1836, p. 425.)
Elbridge Gerry, August 17, 1789 (Speech in the House of Representatives) “What, sir, is the use of a Militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of Liberty… Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the Militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.” (Annals of Congress, House of Representatives, 1st Congress, 1st Session, August 17, 1789, p. 778.)