Giday Gebrekidan
This little essay is not written
for the rank and file activist who is busy and happy in getting furious in the
hustle and bustle of his activities. It is purely personal reflection on the
‘spirit of history’ or more probably on man’s effort to establish a tolerable
order of things and make the world a fair place where all have equal chance of
fulfilling their personal pursuits or nourishing their
talents to their full potential.
Does man make history or does the
merciless march of history make man? For thousands of years starting from the
Greek philosophers, thinkers have hypothesized to come up with a social system
best suited for the respect of individual’s freedom and societal peace and
justice. A republic was the dream. It has always failed due to its own success.
As soon as a republic becomes prosperous and powerful the masses exhibit moral
decay and the ruling elite that sprang conspires to gain political control.
Republics have turned to empires and empires have crumbled. After centuries of
learning and experience, it was given another chance in a newly discovered
continent. America.
America is a great example to
study this issue. A country whose birth, rise, and the current absurd state of
affairs are well recorded from the start to this point. At least for this kind
of general observation. The United States of America is a land that gave its
own birth by violently breaking from the yoke of colonization. From the start the international order of things
were stuck against it. Former colonizers were the least happy. For centuries
the ruling elites of Europe, monarchies and their partners, or more
appropriately their puppet masters, the international money powers have done
their best to ruin that land. The American monetary and international policies
were a great threat to the established orders of Europe, especially United
Kingdom and her allies. In terms of money the Americans were free to use any
European coins and print their own paper money. In terms of International
policy, they have declared the Monroe Doctrine that prevented America from any
entanglement in the affairs of the imperialist interests. This set the stage
for a huge backfire from the imperialists and their puppet masters.
The climax of this tension was
reached when with the help of UK and France the southern confederate states
decided to declare their cessation and go to war with the federal government.
After the start of this crisis it was Abraham Lincoln who won the office of presidency
and had to put an end to it. No need to go in to the details here. The central
issue of the civil war wasn’t slavery as is generally assumed. Lincoln has
admitted in his letter to Horace Greeley that saving or destroying slavery
wasn’t his priority, his main goal was saving the Union. This is not to say
Lincoln did not want or did not believe all men should be free, he did confirm
his believe in the same letter but in his official position his main cause was
saving the Union first. He did this first by getting the Russian emperor’s
guarantee that moved his war ship to America by telling UK and France he
will declare war if they intervene directly. Second Lincoln printed his own
bond to finance the war.
By saving the Union Abraham
Lincoln made sure the continuation of independence and prosperity of America to
the great annoyance of the imperialists. Lincoln did pay his life for saving
the life of a nation.
At the turn of twentieth century
the money power became successful in controlling American monetary and
international policy. America was a
great hope for humanity; a land of freedom and equal opportunity; a land far
away from the monarchies and their bankers.
The founding fathers of America
wrote a constitution that limited the power of the central government. It
worked for a time in spite of the interventions. Today American politics and
economy is controlled by those same European banking houses and their partners
that sprang up in America itself. American money is printed by a private central
bank named Federal Reserve to confuse the public; it’s neither federal nor does
it have any reserve. Private individuals create the national currency out of
thin air. In terms of international relations, American military is a strong
arm of imperialism. Their secret services overthrow governments or assassinate
individuals anywhere that are not to the liking of the few that control
America. False flag terrorist attacks, creating them and working with
terrorists hand and glove is the order of the day.
In terms of economy there is
anarchy of cartels. The bankers literally have the life of the country in their
hands and they have done a good job of chocking the middle class to death and
sowing moral discord. People’s representatives are bought with money printed
out of thin air by bankers. Nothing is working.
America was the best chance the
masses had at a republic for all. The failure of the American experiment begs
the reconsideration of man’s endeavor to create a reasonable place where
lawlessness is no more.
This is not an issue of ‘evil
capitalism.’ It’s an issue of the hijacking of capitalism by cartels of
well-established, inter-married families that go back centuries. Capitalism and
limited government is the best system man can come up with; its failure is a
disaster. It’s opposite, socialism and big government crumbled by itself, so
it’s not a system worth discussing. The same cartel that hijacked capitalism
funds socialist radicals.
The problem is with the evil
forces successfully controlling the wheels of history. Why has a good system
failed to keep them at bay? What is the individual good man to do at this point
in history?
March 14, 2016.
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