Dishonoring the ill-earned honor of former statesmen isn’t the point. In fact, there are myriad others, even now living, who relish in their titles of “honorable so-and-so,” when in fact they deserve nothing but dishonor for how they’ve broken their oaths and betrayed the American people. And this article won’t be a treatise on how Thomas Jefferson, though a slave owner, may have seen the error of his ways and penned legislation to abolish slavery, which had become so popular with countless “owners” that it became one of the several issues over which a civil war was fought. In fact, many of the ancestors of the “white” population were killed in that war fighting to abolish slavery and were never slave owners.
But this article is not about all that. What it is about: we must remember our history from a sober and truthful reflection, so as to know what is wrong, what doesn’t work, and what is good and beneficial to all. In other words, as soon as you erase history, you’ve done a great disservice to yourself, for how would you be able to learn from prior mistakes? What I mean by “sober” is that we need to look without extreme emotion; some emotion is good and right, but too much may cloud our judgment and cause us to fall into even deeper error.
So how is knowledge of history linked to keeping your freedom? Because, for some reason, the people who are in power always want more power, more control, over the masses. They orchestrate and hatch oppression after oppression to reduce the freedom of the individual one freedom at a time, chipping away at what makes the American experiment exceptional throughout the history of the world. And if you don’t give a flying f*@! about how they’ve attempted/accomplished this in the past, they’re going to be able to do it to you again.
So, throw a statue of Jefferson off its high, “honorable” pedastal? Sure. But don’t forget the lessons his life teaches us, whether good or evil.
And now, how are we losing our freedoms due to lack of knowledge of history? Does anyone still remember Adolf Hitler? Do you know he bragged about being the first nation in history to register every owner of a firearm? Now look what we have in America: registered firearms and we must beg the government for permission to carry them, a clear violation of the Second Amendment.
“This year will go down in history! For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!” (attributed to Adolf Hitler in 1935). Yeah, there are many sources out there that seek to erase any credibility that Hitler even said this, but Hitler did go on to pass laws later that prohibited all Jews (and any other group he didn’t like) from owning guns, and did he know where to go get the guns? Yes, because they were all registered.
The whole internet is also trying to discredit this: “To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens,” as being said by Hitler. But you know, no matter who may have said it, it stands reasonably true. What they are trying to do is separate what is obviously their agenda in America from the historical evil that was Hitler.
But it is incontrovertible that Hitler wrote,
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let’s not have any native militia or native police.”
—Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941-1944: Secret Conversations, Part 3: 6 February – 7 September 1942
And that’s exactly what he did to the Jews. But the people who want to take away your Second Amendment rights don’t want you to know that history. And it’s not just about guns.
Freedom of Speech, the First Amendment, is also under attack. Myriad other issues that are by the 10th Amendment reserved to the States and are not under the purview of the Federal Government’s powers have also been usurped by the Federal Government unconstitutionally.
Mask mandates, vaccine mandates, abortion laws, homosexual marriage laws, marijuana and other drug prohibitions or permissions, even the speed limit laws — these are all questions for the States, not the Federal Government to answer. Don’t even get me started on the “Ministry of Truth” which was recently attempted by the latest administration to control who says what and how. I mean, how much freedom of speech do you think that Hitler, or Mussolini, or Pol Pot, or Stalin, or Kim Jong-un, or Xi Jinping (and the list of tyrants goes on and on and on) allow/allowed? History will reveal it to you.
And what does history teach us about a central government that gets too strong and starts dictating edicts over the people?
Well, you should really look into that yourself. After all, your continued freedom certainly depends to a great extent on history, and you shouldn’t let history die. If you do, your freedom will be next, because those who want to take away your freedoms are using history as their study manual.
“To conquer a nation, one must first disarm its citizens by re-inventing their collective memory of the past,” said someone with insight (Goebbels — Reich Minister of Propaganda, Nazi Party). This is undoubtedly their aim. Protect yourself, and keep a healthy knowledge of history!
