What is Common Sense?

Common sense is what is known without needing to explain why or how you know something to be true or good.

Common sense is known by all people without needing words for their own minds.

When people who are lawless abuse written definitions of law and information to manipulate the meaning for something that they think cannot be explained because it is only known by common sense, they are wrong. Common sense can be explained. It is simply so basic, so universal, so well understood by all people, that none have taken the time to explain something everyone already knows and understoods. They have not wasted their time.

Then when common sense is made into clear language and proves the lawless criminals evil and wrong, everyone knows that those criminals should have known better than to do what they did, and have legal justification to put them to death for such a betrayal of common trust regardless of whatever crime they did.

The act of betraying common sense is a more serious crime than whatever evil they wanted to get away with.

That is common sense, and it is the knowledge of good and evil.

Surprising how poor the USA actually is

Considering how high and mighty the rich people and USA politicians in the government act, it’s surprising how poor the USA actually is as a nation.

There is tons of shit available, but not enough money to buy any of it. How could this economy possibly be productive with such a hostile and idiotic approach to managing national moneys? Inflation most likely is out of control because of the way rich people horde their money and attempt to make products the most possibly expensive they can be while paying workers the least they possibly can, the result being obvious if they had any common sense or higher education.

The workers cannot afford to buy the products and the imports are not being sold, meaning the business investors who buy products to sell in the USA are unable to sell them and cannot operate for a profit. They take losses when doing business in the USA because the citizens for the most part are so poor they cannot afford most of the products that could be sold here. The result: businesses lose interest in doing business in the USA because it is such a hostile and unproductive economy of tyranny, injustice, and greed by imbeciles who think money has more value than what money can buy.

For example: I am a poor man in the USA. I cannot afford to buy anything right now. All my credit cards are maxed out so that I cannot make even the smallest purchases of $1.50 to use the laundromat at my apartment building. I suppose I will wash my clothes in the bathtub and scrub them with a loofah or something…

However, I do get some foodstamps every month to buy stuff to eat, but they only afford the more bare minimum of items. Only a poor nation of poverty and a failed economy would be so stingy with things like food, which spoils.

I was thinking… damn, I’m out of coffee creamer. I think I have 40 bucks or so left on that food stamp card, so maybe I ought to walk down there and buy a bottle or two while I can. And some soy sauce for the rice I have. Maybe some butter. Bread? Nah. Too expensive. I can’t afford to buy bread right now because of how expensive it is compared to rice, which will last far longer and provide much more meals.

What has the USA come to when the Bread Basket cannot produce enough bread for people to afford it? What the hell are you going to do with all those loaves of bread that spoil because people can’t afford them, Biden? Fill the landfills with them? Does anyone else realize what kind of irresponsible waste that is? A waste caused by the purposefully evil interests of a greedy government that does not appreciate the value of bread as more important than the value of a dollar. Imbeciles. They supposedly go to some of the best schools for higher education in the USA but they do not understand the simplest things about economy, society, human decency, basic survival, and cause and effect.

It’s embarassing to all those “Ivy League” colleges that their graduates are so incompetent and unreliable in the government. I think we should shut them down or impose some sort of heavy penalty on them for allowing such uneducated students to graduate. That kind of irresponsible schooling is dangerous because they send people out into the world claiming to have taught them what they need to know, but did not do so and have lied about their success.

In a world that moves as fast as the modern one compared to the Machiaveliian one the current leaders are attempting to mimic pathetically since they do not have any strength of will or ability to command the obedience of their subjects— how long do you think it will be until the USA totally collapses? That is sure to happen when all the numbers they have been manipulating to tell a false narrative about our economy which they want to believe prove to be insubstantial, unreliable, and totally meaningless because they are devoid of the truth they ignored to try and tell a fiction that supports their evil. You idiots do not understand the first thing about powerful storytelling, which requires Truth. You will not be able to change anything with a story if you ignore truth, manipulate truth, betray truth, or are in any way contrary to the Truth.

“Our economy is not failing, Mr. President, look at this graph I created on my computer by changing the paramaters around so it looks like a profitable display.”

“You’re right. Everyone has more than enough money and resources! Raise prices! Lower wages! Increase the cost of living since everyone is so rich right now.”

Meanwhile, the stores are filled with grain, produce, and food stuffs that spoil at a 90 percent loss of value because 90 percent of the people cannot afford to buy them after paying the rent and buying the bare essentials for survival, like a large bag of rice that can feed a family for a significant amount of time, unlike a loaf of bread.

As soon as the readers realize how dire of a state of catastrophe the USA is in by allowing traitors like Trump to steal as much money from the citizens as possible and entirely destroy the economy by turning it around to serve the government instead of the public, maybe they will act in concert with me. Maybe they will decide to cooperate with my efforts to expose their evil intentions by making them reveal what they have been planning and doing to the citizens without informing us. Maybe they will do whatever they can to fight back, since they will be righteously justified by my presence, my words, and my authority, even if they take up firearms and blast their way through the corruption, taking hundreds of lives in the process with a bloody and brutal massacre.

I am disabled because of the mental health damage I have suffered from the military and the government after the military which attempted to terrorize me to change my opinion about circumcision. Now I cannot work a normal job without being a danger to myself and everyone around me because of how hopeless, unsatisfying, and miserable that work is in addition to a social life devoid of human interaction for the same reasons my mental health was harmed so severely. Seriously… you do not want me working right now or the problems will get worse when the sight of me causes everyone to become depressed, lose interest in their jobs, and start having mental health problems because they have difficulty with life in such an evil and hostile nation.

I put in a disability claim, they approved me for half, listed the criteria for being approved of more if I appeal, all of which is applicable to me. The half they provide would be useful if it could afford basic needs, so I still am required to work a normal job, which is what a disability affects a person’s ability to do. I don’t even get responses back from employers when I find a job that is would work, and I find it further depressing how rude and indecent people in the USA are because of such a thing.

It’s not like I’m not looking, but because of what I struggle with, finding work is more difficult than it is for people who do not have the PTSD I do, which there is not enough science for medicine to diagnose yet. PTSD is currently understood as single events that cause severe trauma that are momentary, but the kind of PTSD I suffer is from a long exposure of high stress that I became abnormally accustumed to because of undiagnosed autism. Then, the problems I had reintegrating as a civilian caused an imbecilic and paranoid government to wrongly identify me as a terrorist, and then go about antagonizing me with a witch hunt trying to prove their identification true since they had condemned me with the very accusation. Of course I am not a terrorist, they were not lawful in doing that, I never even had a chance to defend myself, nor was I considered “innocent until proven guilty”. Now that stress which may have healed has become worse and is so bad I doubt it will ever fully heal.

So, I fully deserve the disability that I have in part contributed to be provided by my nation with the way I was able to do so: service in the military. I am not malingering, taking advantage of a system, or trying to scam the government. I fight them by not having faith in them, not supporting them with my interest, beliefs, or thoughts, and I do not want them to continue operating if they will continue being so hostile and lawless. That does not mean I find ways to scam the economy, cheat the government, or do anything dishonest that would make things more difficult, and I certainly do not do any of that!

They do not have my faith or support because they revealed themselves to be in favor of the circumciser interests, which are entirely hostile to my own and false in their claims of spiritual authority. That is fair and reasonable, and you should not expect me to help you hurt me, enslave me, abuse my rights, torment me, and otherwise be hostile to me, and you are a fool to think I would ever be friendly to you after you behaved that way. The government’s systems are in part my own, and I fully support the disability programs for both civilian and veterans, and those are not intended to be used for evil.

However… it takes years and years for a claim to be heard. I only had so much money to survive on after I got out of jail for being falsely accused of a crime by the president. After that… I was so fucked up in the head because of what this nation is like, especially to people they have incarcerated with or without proof of guilt or even charges filed. They arrest people with or without a good reason, and then the brutes who work in those places are monstrous creatures who abuse their roles to be torturers of a psychological variety who do some of the most evil, hateful, and inhumane things to prisoners without any consequences because they dispose of every complaint we file before they get anywhere.

I made it out of that, but I if there was even a shred of faith or hope in the USA and its people it was murdered and snuffed out while in the suicide room of Grady Jail where they refused the three of us packed in there basic sanitary rights such as bathing, cleaning materials, or religious literature. Did I mention that there were numerous open cells in the area, but they crammed all of us into one? Also covid pandemic was going on. I wonder what they were thinking…

The stress, hate, and rage that we all were suffering in there for personal reasons almost turned into a violent bloodbath, and then the time finally came to move me after days in there sleeping on the concrete floor in the cold without clothes except the suicide smock and a blanket. That blanket certainly improved the experience of trying to sleep on the concrete, and when you have no other choice, that difference is substantial, but doesn’t change the inhumanity of the situation. Do you know what they did? They moved me into the room with the shower I had been asking for and told me to what there, saying nothing about it. It was a psychological assault against my sanity attempting to terrorize me because they were arrogantly revealing how they purposely were refusing me such a thing.

Only in there for a few minutes so I could recognize what that room was before they came in with the chains to shackle me with and take me back above ground to be bussed to the next “detention center” while I made my way back to Portland.

Maybe you people do not recognize evil as a threat, but I certainly do, and experiencing something like that first hand in a “first-world” nation like the USA showed me just how vile and evil this nation is. That people would behave like that in their jobs. That the job’s policies would not prevent that. That the government would not make an effort to improve the conditions of prisoners to encourage a healthy recovery and desire to participate in society, not the total opposite which radicalizes us in total opposition and hatred for the nation that has such monstrous people representing it in uniforms.

That situation still bothers me from time to time, but my mental health is so fragile right now that I work and social interaction has never been more difficult for me.

So what can I do until the disability board hears my claim and hopefully approves it? Ask for a loan? Denied. Ask for credit increase? Denied. Run out of money and then see what happens… I guess I have no other choice. Fortunately I found a service that said they would help me pay my rent when I get an eviction notice but… holy shit people! Can’t I get some help before the eviction notice happens if I know I can’t pay!? Why the fuck would you want to make my life worse with the kind of impact on my credit score an eviction notice has which will limit my access to every other function of the economy.

Credit scores… there is nothing good about that entire system. It helps nobody. Having a “good” credit score has no benefit at all but if you don’t have a “good” credit score, they will bludgeon you economically, financially, and socially with that “bad” credit score—preventing you from renting an apartment, getting financial assistance, and everything else. What the fuck is the purpose of such an ungodly system that is self-destructive to the economy by making economic prosperity more difficult!?

All those people responsible for stuff like that— find out what colleges they graduated from, and shut down those schools. No exceptions. Put every last one of them out of business with imminent domain seizing their assets as necessary for recovering our national security which is most threatened by mass ignorance. Fire all of their staff from the dean to the janitor, and give the buildings to a charitable, non-proft organization that specializes in international education. Pay them the fraction of the value that is necessary for imminent domain but do not even approach half of the market rate for such things. They are not to benefit economically from their failure. Do not argue, do not tolerate people who fight this from happening, even if you have to put a bullet in their head to shut them up, and get this done. Human beings cannot allow places claiming to be “schools” to produce such malignantly incompetent and evil adults.

I didn’t even apply for VA disability until I was out of that hell hole and getting my life back together and realized that I couldn’t do it anymore. I am disabled in a such a way that I cannot do what is expected of me because of how that terrorizes my mind, evokes the most horrible thoughts, and makes life unbearable. I cannot do it anymore. Whatever I was that you think you want me to go back to— that cannot happen anymore. That person no longer is alive, and who I am was maimed such that I cannot work like that anymore. I cannot do that kind of service for people anymore. I am in fact broken mentally and my willpower however strong it may be, can only help me now and not be helpful in a place like a submarine, factory, or general place of work.

I cannot look at people and know what they are ignorantly contributing to and still cooperate with them. I cannot look people in the eyes and not feel immense hate for what they do not want to know their apathy is causing. So I try to ignore them and just work alone and quietly, since I know they know what the problem is and won’t acknowledge it, and that makes communication horribly awkward, uncomfortable, and unpleasant. They then become hostile and aggressive because of how that self-imposed ignorance degenerates them into beasts, and the situation gets worse because I refuse to stoop to their inhumanity and they get even angrier thinking I am arrogant for being a humble human while they want to be acknowledged with some divine nature they are rejecting by acting like beasts!

I cannot do a job working with people like that because of how that creates conflict. I cannot work knowing that the taxes that are contributed with the labor goes to support monstrous places of government like Grady Jail. Every time I do a task it is like I feel the suffering all over again while it happens to other people in this nation who are being ignored by businesses, citizens, neighbors, and everyone who lives here and does nothing about the root problem of social injustice. The root problem everybody knows because that is the very thing they want to ignore the most! That conflict, both internal and external happens because I want to like people, see the good in them, and be helpful to the community, causes actual pain in my personal experience that prevents me from being able to work.

That pain is so intolerable because of the depths that it reaches after experiences like what happened after I was arrested on false charges that were known to be false by everyone who enforced them and did so with the sole purpose of attempting to “punish me” and cause me pain by using an inefficient and corrupt justice system to do so like it is the very purpose they created it for, and they did in fact cause me pain on purpose for no reason at all. I don’t know why I hurt so much like that, maybe it is autism, but I do, and I cannot work through something so debilitating as that is for me.

What the fuck do you want me to do? Go out to the street? And then there, what do you want me to do? Lay on the sidewalk and wait until I die? I’m 34 years old! That is going to take a long time, so I’d rather just speed things up and since that is what you want too, I would much rather you be straightforward by offering me a humane suicide than waste all of our time and resources being unproductive and inefficient while we all wait for me to die of natural causes or I snap and commit suicide, which is also not so easy. Not only do I need to find a way to do so reliably and not end up in a worse situation if I survive, but I need to overcome my biological will to survive that fights tirelessly against my mind’s desire to kill myself.

What the fuck is your people’s problem!? Why are you so eager to reject humanity? Why have you no compassion for other people?

I don’t care what your answer is because you have already shown me with your actions, but you need to answer that to yourself, since you seem entirely unaware of what your actions are saying.

“Lucky!?” That is not the right word! This is not good fortune, you simple minded fool! Do you not realize that I would be much happier, much more productive, much more capable of being of service to others, and much more friendly if none of that evil, pain, and intentional suffering aka torture, had happened to me!? Do you not realize how horrible it is to be wounded in such a way? Is a veteran who loses a limb or otherwise horribly hurt during the “War on Terror” happier because they triggered an IED, instead of being able to retire without suffering such a casualty? What about a veteran who is hurt by one, but not totally disabled, and then they return home to the USA where the government creates another IED that accomplishes what they intended the first IED to do when they caused them to be used overseas against us as their very intention! How “lucky” is such a veteran!?

Of course I didn’t know they were so evil! I never would have gone into service of a military that is so vile, wretched, and malignant as an abuse of American power. I know that is what they are now, and I will not tolerate it as a citizen, but am I the only one who feels that way!? If so, then you need to kill me as the odd man out, because neither of us want me to live in your vile civilization, and we will both be annoyed if I do while you suffer the consequences of my defiance.

What the fuck is wrong with the people governing this nation!? In no way would any of that be acceptable, appropriate, or tolerable, and they will do themselves no favors by allowing their evil to continue by hiding it.

“Suck it up” they say, meaning endure the suffering and stop being weak. Go to hell, you small minded slaver! Maybe read a pamphlet or poster about mental health the next time you are in a doctor’s office. You cannot make me work. You could whip me like a slave to try and make me stack boxes, fix machines, and do whatever, but I would suffer like Kunta Kinte while you did and you still would not make me do anything that you wanted, not only because I don’t want to, but because the suffering I experience while I do is worse than anything you could cause me!

Then there is the vile whore who is “ashamed” that I was hurt. This damage is the least of what I suffered because of what women like you who call themselves “pop stars”, “idols”, “beloved celebrities”, have done to me individually at the same time to make it worse. Women who betrayed the most sacred nature of true love by turning it into a weapon to not only enable the tyranical government to torture me, but to enable them to do so in a way far more severe than their worldly means were capable of. That… is something infinitely worse, and I will address that crime when the time comes, but first things first.

The government has the murder weapon, then the media will be identified as providing the opportunity for it to be most dangerous, and lastly, my family for the motive of why any of it happened. One step at a time. As long as I am the only one fighting for my human rights, my innocence, and my vindication from injustice— this may take a while, but I will not stop, nor will I be stopped. Before this is done, women will remember their weakness as they fear for their lives from the men who will rape and murder them without difficulty. Beat them into submission. Leave them bruised, battered, and broken until they finally return to their place and stop abusing their nature for evil out of some misplaced spite against men for something they did to themselves by inviting circumcision into their homes when they shit out the vile children those mutilators pump into them and then circumcise.

Did you already forget what you vile whores did to me? Well I have not forgotten, and I will make you answer for it.

Why do Jews make themselves into a problem for everyone else?

The most annoying nuisance imaginable! So annoying and bothersome, that the solution will ultimately result in killing them in a bloody and brutal massacre if they do not stop.

Seriously… why the fuck do they not have any common sense?

They know they are a problem, they know why they are a problem, but they are so arrogant, so selfish, so ignorant, that they will not let go of their primitive evil ways to enjoy an advanced technology that will vastly improve their lives. We are going to connect divine phonelines through your “holy land” whether you like it or not to make it easier for your good people to have their prayers answered. Do not make it happen the hard way because we are doing everything possible to work with you.

First of all, the solution is simple: Judaism is a religion— so change your damn religion! Convert to something else! If you know that your own beliefs are horribly wrong, problematic, you don’t even want them or believe in them yourselves, why is that an issue? Arrogance.

However— if you cannot get past your own arrogance, convert to Christianity! That is the same damn thing you stupid fools! Quite literally, it is the exact same thing! All that you believe, the Christians also include in Christianity but with a infinitely greater improvement. Jews do not have to stop being “Jewish” if they become Christian! Holy fucking hell you damn twats! People are going to die if you continue to be so stupidly stubborn, arrogant, and egotistical about this issue! If you make one side bend totally to be flexible, it will break and there will be war. You need to bend too. You need to have some flexibility. You need to try to work with others!

Why is it that you are so adament about why you killed Jesus?

Is that not the very same reason why you should become Christian?

God damn morons.

Stop making yourselves a problem for everyone else, you damn Jews. Have a little humility, a little respect, and a little faith or there will be cataclysmic devastation all over the world, and it will be the worst wherever you people hide. That is not a threat, that is reading the signs. The quite obvious signs that are all around us. I am not causing that to happen and it is not happening because I write it! It is happening, and I am reading the numerous signs that are being displayed prominently as warning from the divine to prevent it from happening!

HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE AND DECENCY, YOU DAMNED, DIRTY JEWS!!!

“for God’s sake, let us come to a final separation”

Thomas Paine

COMMON SENSE

January 1776

PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason

The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath and will arise which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating [destroying] the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling, of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the A U T H O R .

SOME writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages [social] intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest;

Correction to the unabridged lines with all due respect to Thomas Paine—this surrender of property for the establishment of government is not a lesser of two evils, it is the charity and mercy of those who are good and a goodness of selflessness. That is not evil in any way because when functioning properly, the government is of no hindrance to the righteous men and women of humanity. It is no obstacle, no burden, no problem whatsoever. Only when corrupt does it become inefficient and dysfunctional, and that should never be tolerated, because government is in no way a mystery. It is a device of men, like a toy bauble or trinket that the craftsmen (authors of the written doctrine) know the design of entirely. The only applicable doctrine is that which is formally recognized by the entire public body cognizant. (The idiotic documents that the government writes in secret that say things like “the president is now the king of the world and god of the universe”, and then the president has his cronies all sign and then hide in a locked file, are of no significance whatsoever and in fact will be used against them in a court of law.)

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world. Here too is the design and end of government, viz. [namely/that is] freedom and security. And however our eyes may be dazzled with show, or our ears deceived by sound, however prejudice may warp our wills or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and reason will say, it is right.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature which no art [spit as a curse and insult to the word ‘art’: “propaganda”] can overturn, viz. that the more simple anything is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered; and with this maxim in view, I offer a few remarks on the so much boasted constitution of England. That it was noble for the dark and slavish times in which it was erected, is granted. When the world was overrun with tyranny, the least remove therefrom was a glorious rescue. But that it is imperfect, subject to convulsions, and incapable of producing what it seems to promise, is easily demonstrated.

There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy. It first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to act in cases where the highest judgment is required. The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly; wherefore the different parts, by unnaturally opposing and destroying each other, prove the whole character to be absurd and useless.

MANKIND being originally equal in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance. The distinctions of rich and poor may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice. Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honors to their deceased kings, and the Christian world hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust!

As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of the Almighty as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel expressly disapproves of government by kings. All anti-monarchical parts of scripture have been very smoothly glossed over in monarchical governments, but they undoubtedly merit the attention of countries which have their governments yet to form. “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s” is the scripture doctrine of courts, yet it is no support of monarchical government, for the Jews at that time were without a king, and in a state of vassalage to the Romans.

Monarchy is ranked in scripture as one of the sins of the Jews, for which a curse in reserve is denounced against them. The history of that transaction is worth attending to.

The children of Israel being oppressed by the Midianites, Gideon marched against them with a small army, and victory thro’ the divine interposition decided in his favor. The Jews, elate with success, and attributing it to the generalship of Gideon, proposed making him a king, saying, Rule thou over us, thou and thy son and thy son’s son. Here was temptation in its fullest extent; not a kingdom only, but a hereditary one, but Gideon in the piety of his soul replied, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you. THE LORD SHALL RULE OVER YOU. Words need not be more explicit; Gideon doth not decline the honor but denieth their right to give it; neither doth he compliment them with invented declarations of his thanks, but in the positive style of a prophet charges them with disaffection to their proper Sovereign, the King of heaven.

To the evil of monarchy we have added that of hereditary succession; and as the first is a degradation and lessening of ourselves, so the second, claimed as a matter of right, is an insult and imposition on posterity [future generations/our children]. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have a right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and though himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them. One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is that nature disapproves it, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

In absolute monarchies the whole weight of business, civil and military, lies on the king; the children of Israel in their request for a king urged this plea, “that he may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” But in countries where he is neither a judge nor a general, as in England, a man would be puzzled to know what is his business. (What is the business of the president, if he does not participate in war and thus be subject the code of military justice, nor does he have the power to express a moral judgment on a matter to the public as it concerns individuals?)

No country on the globe is so happily situated, or so internally capable of raising a fleet as America. Tar, timber, iron, and cordage are her natural produce. We need go abroad for nothing. Whereas the Dutch, who make large profits by hiring out their ships of war to the Spaniards and Portuguese, are obliged to import most of the materials they use. We ought to view the building a fleet as an article of commerce, it being the natural manufactory of this country. It is the best money we can lay out. A navy when finished is worth more than it cost, and is that nice point in national policy in which commerce and protection are united. Let us build. If we want them not, we can sell, and by that means replace our paper currency with ready gold and silver.

Commerce diminishes the spirit both of patriotism and military defense. And history sufficiently informs us that the bravest achievements were always accomplished in the non-age [youth/immaturity] of a nation. With the increase of commerce England hath lost its spirit. The city of London, notwithstanding its numbers, submits to continued insults with the patience of a coward. The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel.

When William the Conqueror subdued England, he gave them law at the point of the sword; and until we consent that the seat of government in America be legally and authoritatively occupied, we shall be in danger of having it filled by some fortunate ruffian [the traitorous filth by the name ‘Trump’], who may treat us in the same manner, and then where will be our freedom? where our property?

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of government to protect all conscientious professors thereof,34 and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith. Let a man throw aside that narrowness of soul, that selfishness of principle, which the niggards35 of all professions are so unwilling to part with, and he will be at once delivered of his fears on that head. Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. For myself, I fully and conscientiously believe that it is the will of the Almighty that there should be a diversity of religious opinions among us. It affords a larger field for our Christian kindness. Were we all of one way of thinking, our religious dispositions would want matter for probation; and on this liberal principle I look on the various denominations among us to be like children of the same family, differing only in what is called their Christian names.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. When the calamities of America required a consultation, there was no method so ready, or at that time so proper, as to appoint persons from the several Houses of Assembly for that purpose; and the wisdom with which they have proceeded hath preserved this continent from ruin. But as it is more than probable that we shall never be without a CONGRESS, every wellwisher to good order must own [admit] that the mode for choosing members of that body, deserves consideration. And I put it as a question to those who make a study of mankind whether representation and election is not too great a power for one and the same body of men to possess. When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. Mr. Cornwall (one of the Lords of the Treasury) treated the petition of the New York Assembly with contempt because that House, he said, consisted but of twenty-six members, which trifling number, he argued, could not with decency be put for the whole. We thank him for his involuntary honesty.*

In regard to the vile abomination of false security that evil government secrecy has begotten with creatures that have never been more repulsive to the sight of men and God alike—monstrous things like the C.I.A. more properly known as “the Central Imbecile Agency”.

Ceremony, and even silence, from whatever motive they may arise, have a hurtful tendency when they give the least degree of countenance [support] to base and wicked performances; wherefore, if this maxim be admitted, it naturally follows that the King’s Speech, as being a piece of finished villainy, deserved and still deserves a general execration [condemnation] both by the Congress and the people. Yet, as the domestic tranquility of a nation depends greatly on the chastity of what may properly be called NATIONAL MANNERS, it is often better to pass some things over in silent disdain than to make use of such new methods of dislike as might introduce the least innovation on that guardian of our peace and safety [admitting new evils that are so great they demand the least creative ability of the righteous to invent a solution for].

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I could, if I judged it proper, produce the opinion of some of the ablest and most experienced men [and women] on this continent; and whose sentiments on that head are not yet publicly known. It is in reality a self-evident position: For no nation in a state of foreign dependence, limited in its commerce and cramped and fettered in its legislative powers, can ever arrive at any material eminence. America doth not yet know what opulence is [not even now!!! The most rich are the most destitute in this corrupt nation we are left with.]; and although the progress which she hath made stands unparalleled in the history of other nations, it is but childhood compared with what she would be capable of arriving at, had she, as she ought to have, the legislative powers in her own hands. [And now you fettered the USA to the Jews!? Even the monarchs of Paine’s time would have known better, mired in ignorance as they were having only passed on greater stupidity to each subsequent generation of their ill-begotten heretical spawn!].

The present state of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflection. Without law, without government, without any other mode of power than what is founded on, and granted by, courtesy. Held together by an unexampled occurrence of sentiment which is nevertheless subject to change, and which every secret enemy is endeavoring to dissolve. Our present condition is Legislation without law, wisdom without a plan, a constitution without a name, and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect Independence contending for dependence.

In short, Independence is the only bond that can tie and keep us together. We shall then see our object, and our ears will be legally shut against the schemes of an intriguing as well as a cruel enemy.

On these grounds I rest the matter. And as no offer hath yet been made to refute the doctrine contained in the former editions of this pamphlet, it is a negative proof that either the doctrine cannot be refuted or that the party in favor of it are too numerous to be opposed. WHEREFORE, instead of gazing at each other with suspicious or doubtful curiosity, let each of us hold out to his neighbor the hearty hand of friendship and unite in drawing a line which, like an act of oblivion, shall bury in forgetfulness every former dissension. Let the names of Whig and Tory [Democrat and Republican] be extinct; and let none other be heard among us than those of a good citizen, an open and resolute friend, and a virtuous supporter of the RIGHTS of MANKIND and of the FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA.

Fin.

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