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21 February 2006, 15:17

Empires collapse on their own and always from within, as is happening now. That’s the good news. The bad news is that many will suffer in the process.

"this time will be differen’t, we can do it"....sure, that’s what Hitler said. 1,000 year reign...

These are the last desperate flailing attempts of an artificial aristocracy scrambling to hold onto what they destroyed.

"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents... There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class. The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And, indeed, it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government? The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency." —Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1813. ME 13:396

The founding fathers of America warned about this, since they actually fought a revolution, they knew something about empires.

"A single government... of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface... will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reformation and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable. Before the canker is become inveterate, before its venom has reached so much of the body politic as to get beyond control, remedy should be applied." —Thomas Jefferson to William T. Barry, 1822. ME 15:389

Modern day Americans don’t even know their own history, what a republic is, or care.

This is the cycle that all people go through. Bondage, liberation, prosperity, abundance, apathy, and back to bondage.

You may not agree with the Iraqi resistance, but like American revolutionaries, they don’t want to live under an empire’s thumb. The American military is over stretched and reaching further, the American empire consumes more then it produces, and the fiat currency that backs all this, is a bubble ready to pop.

The party loyalists may not be aware that they brought this on themselves...as George Washinton warned in his most famous address.

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."

"Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations.[..] In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another disposes each more readily to offer insult and injury, to lay hold of slight causes of umbrage, and to be haughty and intractable, when accidental or trifling occasions of dispute occur. Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The Nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the Government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The Government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts through passion what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often, sometimes perhaps the liberty, of Nations has been the victim." The Farewell Address of President George Washington Sept. 17, 1796

http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/washbye.html