Friendship and Conflict: The Relationship of the U.S. "Founding Fathers"

By Jeffrey M. Estano 2009, Vol. 1 No. 10 | pg. 1/1

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/24/friendship-and-conflict-the-relationship-of-the-us-founding-fathers

It is common for Americans to imagine the early leaders of the American Revolution as a group of agreeable, flawless men.

However, this sentimental portrait fails to recognize the vast differences that existed between the founders, and the

effect that these differences had on the early United States. The conflicts between the founders gave rise to a fundamentally

different American nation than that which they originally intended to establish.

'''Personal and political differences eroded the unity of the founding fathers, and undermined their attempt to form a classical

republic. These conflicts emerged in the face of both domestic and foreign policy issues, and irreparably divided the founders

along partisan lines. The founders’ original vision of a republican government, formed in the Greco-Roman manner, ended up a

casualty of political struggle. The structure that emerged as a result embodied compromise and debate between factions, not

the realization of shared vision.'''

As the American Revolution broke out, the colonists’ repertoire of antiquity permeated their conversation and writing.

“Knowledge of classical authors was universal among colonists with any degree of education, and references to their works

abound in the (colonial) literature.”1 In particular, the early pamphleteers and spokesmen of rebellious sentiment emphasized

this classical repertoire.

“Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Euripedes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon…among the Greeks; and Cicero, Horace, Vergil, Tacitus…among

the Romans-are all cited in the Revolutionary literature; many are directly quoted. It was an obscure pamphleteer indeed who

could not muster at least one classical analogy or one ancient precept.”2

The colonists’ understanding of classical writing was superficial.3 Nonetheless, their admiration and evocation of classical

virtue and republican ideals proved to be more than mere window dressing for incendiary pamphlets. The colonists aspired to

put the principles of ancient times into practice.

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Long slow invasion

>>8216774

>Philip Haney

DHS Whistleblower Philip Haney: Islamist ‘Self-Radicalization’ Is a ‘Surreal’ Myth

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/06/15/philip-haney-surreal-myth-sudden-self-radicalization/

Former Department of Homeland Security official Philip Haney wishes he was more surprised by the Orlando terrorist attack, but as he pointed out on Breitbart News Daily this week, the attack came from exactly the sort of Islamic radical network he got in trouble for studying too carefully.

Indeed, one of the major points he stressed during a follow-up interview is that many of the purported barriers between these networks are bureaucratic illusions — they are larger, better-funded, and more interconnected than the Obama administration wants to admit.

I asked Haney about the false, but very loudly repeated, administration narrative that Orlando jihadi Omar Mateen was “self-radicalized” — an assertion that grows more ridiculous with each new revelation about his background.

Haney described the self-radicalization narrative as “surreal.”

“Imagine what it must have been like to be an active-duty subject matter expert in counter-terrorism,” he said:

I had my own superiors making these kind of statements incessantly. When I was sitting there with evidence, for example, about the Ft. Pierce mosque – not only was there another person that blew himself up in Syria, but there’s an individual who is teaching a radicalization course who is on early release for weapons charges and tax fraud. And then his own father is vice-president of the mosque.

“As though nobody knew anything – that’s completely preposterous,” he said. “If you know anything about the Islamic worldview, family and community is ultimately central to everything they do. The concept of operating alone is anathema to the Islamic worldview. They just don’t do it.”

“So, self-radicalization – what does that even mean any more?” he asked. “Nobody is self-anything in this world we live in.”

I suggested that one of the driving forces behind the self-radicalization narrative is that it protects the Obama administration from charges that it dropped the ball on counterterrorism, portraying terrorists like Mateen as thunderbolts nobody could have seen coming.

Haney laughed derisively at the idea of pushing that excuse when we know Mateen was interviewed on multiple occasions by the FBI. He compared it to the way President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the Benghazi terror attack on a “spontaneous video protest,” a false narrative meant to get them off the hook for being so completely unprepared to deal with the crisis. In both Benghazi and Orlando, red flags were ignored, and now they are retroactively denied.

“They say radicalization is ‘sudden.’ Well, a rocket launch looks very sudden, if you don’t know about all the months of hard work it took to get that rocket onto the launch pad,” Haney observed.

He denounced these political games as dangerously cynical….cont. at url…

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Careful the sheeple have fangs now any opposing voice is automatically a shill

Funny your posts didn't seem shilly