The horrible
treatment of some of those arrested by the federal government for their
participation (however remote) in the January 6th protests has
caused not a few to see in that injustice a turning point in the history of the
United States; now, it is said, we are in a post-republic era in which the Deep
State will throw aside the rule of law and openly persecute its political
opponents for the non-crime of having different views on various policies and
ideas.
There is
some truth in that, but looking back through U. S. history reveals something a
bit more disturbing: The treatment of J6
protestors didn’t usher in a new era; it simply revived what had lain dormant
for a time. A quick comparison will
verify this. Here is part
of a description from one of the protestors, Joe Biggs, of the conditions
he experienced in federal prison:
Today is my 3 month
anniversary being locked up. Not allowed to work out. My body feels as if it’s
aged so much. Can hardly move. Walking has become very difficult. I sleep on a
piece of steel welded to a wall with a thin mattress. I now have major lower
back issues and shoulder pain from the “bed”. I’ve gotten maybe 10hrs outside
all together since being here. I get to go outside maybe 3 times a month. The
food here is all soy based. So its weakening our bodies. Hardly any protein.
Mostly processed foods and some kind of gelatin dog food looking stuff. No
privacy allowed when sh*tting allowed. You have to be in view of everyone. Each
cell has a shelf. You are not allowed to use it. Nothing can be placed on it.
Lights go out at 11:45 pm and back on @ 4am for “breakfast”. Luckily the
showers are only one person allowed at a time. Every cell has a Small window
that has been sand blasted so you can never see outside. Breaking any rules can
result In losing ability to talk to family or a trip the hole for a few weeks
where you are stripped naked a left in a bright freezing room. I have anxiety
bad now. Panic attacks so bad I black out.
. . .
And here is
a description of how Jefferson Davis was treated after his arrest by Union
forces during his imprisonment at Fortress Monroe after hostilities
between the North and the South had ceased:
‘Jefferson Davis was held incommunicado;
his guards could not speak to him; and no on would tell him the fate or
destination of his family. The second
afternoon of his imprisonment, on Miles’s order, a captain with two blacksmiths
entered his cell bearing an anvil and chained leg irons. Four guards held the outraged prisoner down
while heavy iron bands were riveted on his thin ankles.
‘ . . .
‘Davis was not allowed to write to his wife
or to hear from her. He was denied
access to Northern attorneys eager to defend him at a trial. The good doctor did all within his power to
alleviate the prisoner’s discomfort and humiliations, where hostile eyes were
constantly upon him, even when he washed or when a portable commode was rolled
into the room.
‘ . . .
‘However, the dank, moldy cell, the
tormenting sleeplessness caused by the lamp and the tormenting boots, kept the
prisoner in a state of prostration and brought on a near-fatal attack of erysipelas’
(Jefferson Davis: Private Letters 1823-1889, H. Strode, edr., Da Capo
Press, New York, 1995, pgs. 167, 168).
It is a hard
saying for some, but the sad truth is that the patrimony of ordered liberty,
limited government, etc., did not die in 2021 with the Biden regime but in 1861
when President Lincoln launched a savage war against the Southern States for
their non-crime of following the example of their forefathers in 1776: for peacefully leaving a union which they
felt had become a threat to them in many serious ways. The treatment rendered to the J6 protestors
is simply a stark reminder of the new dispensation under which we have all been
living for more than 160 years now, not the beginning of a new one.
And one
could go further. One of the
Anti-Federalists (Tench Coxe?) wrote
an eerily prophetic letter in response to James Wilson’s pro-ratification
rhetoric in 1787:
. . .
The rest is
at https://thehayride.com/2022/06/garlington-when-the-constitution-died/.
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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