“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke, an Englishman of Irish birth, anarchist by inclination, is considered the father of Anglo-American conservatism (a defunct, nearly extinct sect) and also one of the earliest anarchist thinkers and supporter of the American revolution. Few such men exist today in Anglo-American government. 

Not many of these so-called good citizens would dare do as Henry Thoreau suggested: “If a thousand men were NOT to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.” 

To withhold war taxes is the equivalent of withholding fuses and blasting caps from the mad bombers busy planting explosives throughout this, our own World Trade Center called America. Ah, but to withhold that tribute, that imperial war tax, makes an enemy of all otherwise law-abiding citizens, in the eyes of a militarist state. 

The ongoing controlled demolition of the American republic did not begin with the New Pearl Harbor attack (9-11), nor with the Old Pearl Harbor attack, the so-called “day that shall live in infamy” of December 7, 1941. Indeed, the controlled demolition of America has been an ongoing process for more than a century. 

Actually, Henry David Thoreau suggested the controlled demolition began somewhere between the time Americans sanctioned slavery in the newborn republic--“the state which buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle at the door of its senate-house”--and the Mexican War of 1846. Thoreau agreed with Jefferson’s earlier remark: “Even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” 

The rather weak, Jeffersonian republic (with some lofty ideals) within decades conquered its way into a continental empire. After the Mexican War land grab, after the debacle of the Civil War and after the complete conquest of the native tribes west of the Mississippi, America no longer resembled the early republic. By then, the ideals remained only in school books. And for 50 odd years, from 1865 to 1915, America mostly minded her own business, licked her wounds and licked the native tribesmen while the monarchies of Europe plundered the world and preached a decadent form of corporate Christianity. 

You could see the cutting charges on the support beams clearly by 1913. A secretive group of bankers quietly swayed a complicit group in Congress to pass the The Federal Reserve Act. Of that act, a little known Minnesota Congressman named Lindbergh said: “This Act establishes the most gigantic trust on Earth. When the President signs this bill, the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be legalized, the people may not know it immediately, but the day of reckoning is only a few years removed . . . . The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill.” 

The day of reckoning . . . only a few years removed. 

That day came exactly as predicted when a compliant, former Ivy league dean named Woodrow Wilson beguiled the country into a world war that the country neither needed nor wanted. But the bankers who backed Wilson did. They wanted their money back--the money they had lent to those losing European monarchies.