This country was founded by its elites for its elites and it has functioned that way ever since. The very first thing we need to understand is that to change that is theft; it needs to be a theft of America by Americans. As such there should be no overall ideology of justification. It must be a very American straight forward statement of stand and deliver your money or your life. It is not a humane action, it is a human action. If you need a classical reference of human justification, then use this one from St. Augustine’ “The City of God”, “Chapter 4.—How Like Kingdoms Without Justice are to Robberies. Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, “What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.”
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 08:54:49 +0000
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