False flags, past and present

Are you remembering the Collapse Report site? WHAT -- you're not? It's one of the best-kept secrets in fatalism!

http://collapsereport.com/2014/06/11/remembering-shays-rebellion/
Remembering Shay’s Rebellion

This fine article appears to be borrowed from the Mises realm.

http://mises.org/daily/1296
Rethinking the Articles of Confederation

In my book, farmers deserve every reasonable advantage under the sun considering they grow our food and have an arduous, unpredictable occupation. Bureaucrats grow different crops than they, notably greed and trouble. It sounds like the farmers had the moral ground in the Shays crisis, and some agitators moved in and do what they do best -- cause chaos, misunderstanding and needless strife. Except for them, perhaps, the Rebellion (and much else) might not have gone down in history at all. Gee, how much history would even exist if not for professional saboteurs?

Complicating the picture is Mr. Trask's use of the word "nationalists". This is one of the slipperiest buzzterms of all. In truth, people who want normalcy for their country are nationalists -- they believe in nations, especially their own, of course. In the mind of liberals and anti-racists, this gets jumbled together with National Socialists and the many "National" movements paralleling it -- Dr. Pierce's late 20th-century National Alliance et al.

From here troublemakers get people confusing love country with berserk supremacism and fascism. Internationalists are those who think all countries, races, religions and economies should be jumbled together. I think what Trask really means is "statists"?

Most pundits today want us to hate nationalism in any form, except Zionism of course (a positively evil mode of nationalism). Most gliberals are statists; times have changed from when the hippies professed to abhor everything established. The nineteenth century brought an endless, glorious panoply of  musical nationalism -- everything from Smetana's The Moldau to the operas of Verdi, which actually helped make Italy a nation for the first time.

I fear that if Verdi were alive today, he'd be joining other top musicians in believing that Italy and America need more tidal waves of aliens from the far south. I would like to point out to such folks that if a country loses its borders, it's not a country (or nation) anymore.

It's not the anniversary of Shays' Rebellion, but it's a chapter in history worth keeping track of. Was America going to have a healthy national life in the decades following the First Secession, or statism?

What will it be for ameriKa today?

Or should we call it titaniKa.

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