REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITIES
IS AN ESSAY BY L. R. BEAM
REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITIES
IF CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY EVER
AGAIN ENJOY THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY
AND TRUE FREEDOM, IT WILL NOT BE THE
RESULT OF A MAJORITY OF ITS CITIZENS
HAVING RISEN UP IN RIGHTEOUS INDIGNA-
TION AT GOVENMENTAL ABUSE OF THEMSELVES
AND THEIR CULTURE. IF A RESTORATION OF
THE CONSTITUTION OF OUR FOREBEARERS
OCCURS - WITH ALL THAT THIS IMPLIES IT
WILL PROBABLY NOT BE BECAUSE A PLURAL-
ITY OF CITIZENS FOUGHT FOR IT, SUPPOR-
TED IT, OR CARED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. IF
LAWFUL GOVERNMENT IS REESTABLISHED IT
WILL COME ABOUT BECAUSE A REVOLUTIONARY
MAJORITY MAKES IT HAPPEN.
WITHIN THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL
EXPERIENCE A REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITY
MAY BE DEFINED AS ANY NUMBER OF CITI-
ZENS SUFFICIENT TO INITIATE GENERAL
HOSTILITIES AGAINST A DESTRUCTIVE
GOVERNMENT.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION OF 1776
DEFINES THE TERM, SETS THE PRECEDENT
AND PROVIDES THE EXAMPLE FOR PATRIOTS
OF TODAY.
THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
WAR, THOSE PATRIOTS WHO WERE SEEKING TO
OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT LACKED SUPPORT
OF OVER TWO-THIRDS OF THEIR FELLOW CIT-
IZENS. JOHN ADAMS, ONE OF THE "RADI-
CALS" IN FAVOR OF THE REVOLUTION AND
WHO WAS LATER TO BECOME THE SECOND
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, STATED
THAT DEPENDING ON HOW THE WAR WAS
GOING, THOSE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM HAD
THE OPPOSITION OF FROM A THIRD TO TWO
THIRDS OF THE PEOPLE. OTHERS LIKE PENN.
DELEGATE TO THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
JOSEPH GALLOWAY WAS SURE THAT FOUR-
FIFTHS OF THE PEOPLE "WERE OR WANTED TO
BE, LOYAL TO THE KING." (GALLOWAY
EVENTUALLY SIDED WITH THE LOYALISTS, AS
THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THE KING'S GOVT
WERE CALLED.) COLONEL LONDON CARTER, A
MEMBER OF THE VIRGINIA ARISTOCRACY AND
A STRONG PATRIOT, STATED IN HIS DIARY
IN MARCH OF 1776 (BUT A BARE THREE
MONTHS BEFORE THE SIGNING OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE) THAT AN
OBSERVER OF EVENTS IN THE NORTHERN
COLONIES WAS SURE "NINE-TENTHS OF THE
PEOPLE ARE VIOLENTLY AGAINST IT" (INDE-
PENDENCE).
THE EXACT NUMBER OF "THE FRIENDS OF
GOVERNMENT", AS THE PATRIOTS DISPAR-
INGLY REFERED TO THOSE WHO OPPOSED THE
REVOLUTION, CANNOT BE STATED WITH
ACCURACY. AS JOHN ADAMS INDICATED, THE
NUMBER WAS IN A CONSTANT STATE OF FLUX,
DEPENDING ON POLITICAL EVENTS AND WHO
WAS WINNING IN THE ARMED CONFLICT. ONE
THING IS CERTAIN, HOWEVER; THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION WAS ANYTHING BUT A BROAD-
BASED POPULAR UPRISING OF A DISAFFECTED
PEOPLE. RATHER, IT WAS A VERY UNPOPULAR
REBELLION OF A POLITICALLY RADICAL
MINORITY WHO, BECAUSE THEY POSESSED A
CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE RIGHTS OF
MAN COUPLED WITH A DEEP CONCERN FOR THE
STATE OF RELATIVE PERSONAL FREEDOM,
WERE ABLE TO PERCEIVE THE SHACKLES OF
TYRANNY PRIOR TO THEIR BEING PRESENTED
FOR FASTENING. THIS DISCERNMENT OF
TYRANNY AT A DISTANCE NOT ONLY SET THEM
APART FROM THEIR FELLOW MAN BUT CON-
_STRAINED THEM TO REBEL.
THE RADICAL POLITICAL LEADERS OF THE
REVOLUTION SUCH AS JOHN ADAMS, SAMUEL
ADAMS, PATRICK HENRY, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN, THOMAS JEFFERSON, GEORGE
WASHINGTON, RICHARD HENRY LEE, JOHN
HANCOCK, AND JOSEPH WARREN, TO NAME BUT
A FEW OF THE MORE WELL KNOWN, HAD TO
CONDUCT THEIR STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN
THE FACE OF DISAPPROBATION AND REJEC-
TION BY THEIR PEERS BEFORE THE TIME OF
ACTUAL ARMED CONFLICT, AND AFTER ITS
COMMENCEMENT TO CHARGES AND CRIES OF
"INCENDIARIES AND TRAITORS." INDEED
"THE FRIENDS OF GOVERNMENT" KNEW LITTLE
RESTRAINT WHEN IT CAME TO CONDEMNING
THE REPUBLIC'S FOUNDERS.THE LOYALISTS
CALLED WASHINGTON, AMONG OTHER THINGS;
A LIAR, PERJURER, MURDERER, BLASPHEMER,
CRIMINAL, TRAITOR, PATRON OF VILLAINY,
AND A VILLAIN'S CHIEF. THE OTHER
FOUNDERS FAIRED LITTLE BETTER AND WERE
VARIOUSLY REFERED TO AS BEING DREGS,
ILLIBERAL (SIC!) AND VIOLENT MEN,
DISPICABLE WRETCHES, BANDITS, RUDE,
AND DEPRAVED. WHILE THUS LABELED BY
"RESPECTABLE CITIZENS," THESE MEN LED
THE COUNTRY TOWARD REBELLION.
CORRESPONDINGLY, THE FOUNDERS HAD AN
ANALOGOUS MOVEMENT AMOUNG THE COMMON
PEOPLE WHICH, ALTHOUGH THE OBJECTIVE OF
OVERTHROWING THE GOVT WAS THE SAME, THE
METHODS WERE THOSE RESORTED TO BY
PEOPLE IN EVERY AGE WHEN FACED WITH
OVERPOWERING FORCE OF ALL-POWERFUL
GOVT, NAMELY, MOB ACTION, RIOTS, UP-
RISINGS, MIDNIGHT FORAYS, AND HARASS-
MENT, INTIMIDATION, OR TERRORISTIC ACTS
DIRECTED AGAINST GOVERNMENTAL SUPPOR-
TERS. ALL OF THESE AND OTHER ACTS CAME
UNDER THE SINGLE HEADING OF PATRIOTISM
SO FAR AS THEIR PERPETRATORS WERE
CONCERNED.
AFTER A REVIEW OF NON-BATTLEFIELD
HOSTILITIES, IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION WAS WON MORE BY
MOB ACTION THAN BY ARMED CONFLICT!
THUS, ANY IDEA THAT THE REVOLUTION WAS
WON IN AN ORDEAL OF BATTLE IS OUT OF
PLACE IN VIEW OF THE FACTS.
DURING THE ENTIRE LENGTH OF THE
ARMED CONFLICT FROM 1775 TO 1781, THE
KING'S ARMIES LOST ONLY 1,512 MEN
KILLED IN BATTLE; THIS SEVEN-YEAR,
BATTLE-DEATH CASUALITY RATE WAS
EXCEEDED BY UNION FORCES AT COLD HARBOR
IN 1864 DURING THE FIRST EIGHT MINUTES
OF A SINGLE ENGAGEMENT. THE KING'S
ARMIES HAD PREVIOUSLY LOST FAR LARGER
NUMBERS OF MEN IN THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
(FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS) YET PRESSED ON
TO VICTORY. AN ADEQUATE EXPLANATION
THEN OF THE PATRIOTS' FINAL TRIUMPH
OVER THE GOVT MUST BE PROVIDED BY OTHER
THAN A MILITARY VICTORY.
AN ANSWER, IN GREAT PART, LIES IN
THE VIOLENCE AND VIGILANTE ACTION
CARRIED ON BY THE PATRIOTS AGAINST THE
GOVT AND ITS SUPPORTERS! THOUGH MOST
AMERICANS TODAY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE
BOSTON TEA PARTY, FEW KNOW MUCH ABOUT
THE SECRET ORGANIZATION THAT CONDUCTED
IT, THE SONS OF LIBERTY. LED BY SAMUEL
ADAMS, JOHN HANCOCK, DR. WARREN ("THE
GREATEST INCENDIARY OF THEM ALL"), AND
PAUL REVERE. THEY MET IN SECRET,
DRESSED IN DISGUISES, AND CARRIED OUT
VIGILANTE ACTIONS UNDER THE COVER OF
DARKNESS. THIS REVOLUTIONARY KU KLUX
KLAN WAS AS MUCH DREADED BY "THE
FRIENDS OF GOVT" AS ITS IDEOLOGICAL
OFFSPRING, THE KLAN, EVER WAS BY UNRULY
BLACKS. THE SONS OF LIBERTY AND OTHER
SIMILAR GROUPS WERE RESPONSIBLE, DURING
THE COURSE OF THE CONFLICT FOR INDEPEN-
DENCE, FOR CAUSING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
LOYALIST TO FLEE THE COUNTRY (THE KLAN
WAS USUALLY SATISFIED WITH MERELY RUN-
NING UNDESIRABLES OUT OF THE COUNTY).
THE MEANS WERE SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE.
TERROR AND INTIMIDATION WERE DIRECTED
AGAINST THE LOYALISTS. METHODS USED TO
CREATE THESE TWIN SCOURGES OF "THE
FRIENDS OF GOVT" INCLUDED, BUT WERE NOT
LIMITED TO, WHIPPINGS, COATS OF TAR AND
FEATHERS, BANISHMENT, CHURCH BURNINGS
(IF RUN BY A LOYALIST PREACHER OR USED
FOR A LOYALIST MEETING PLACE), CONFIS-
CATION OF PROPERTY, AND WHERE EVER
DEEMED NECESSARY - DEATH OF ANY ONE OF
SEVERAL RELIABLE METHODS.
OTHER PATRIOTIC GROUPS OF A SY FORMED
THROUGHOUT THE THIRTEEN COLONIES TO
CARRY ON A RELENTLESS PERSECUTION OF
"THE FRIENDS OF GOVT." EACH ORGANIZA-
_TION OPERATED INDEPENDENTLY OF THE
OTHER THOUGH OFTEN EXCHANGED INFORMA-
TION ON LOYALISTS.
OFTEN THESE AD HOC ASSOCIATIONS WENT
BY THE NAME OF "COMMITTEES OF PUBLIC
SAFETY," THOUGH THE NAME AS WELL AS THE
TACTICS EMPLOYED VARIED FROM PLACE TO
PLACE. THUS IN THE COLONY OF NEW YORK,
THE PATRIOTS BLUNTLY CALLED THEMSELVES
"THE OPPRESSORS OF THE FRIENDS OF GOVT"
AND STATED PROUDLY THAT THEY TARRED AND
FEATHERED GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORTERS WITH
THE "DECORUM THAT OUGHT TO BE PRESERVED
IN PUBLIC PUNISHMENTS." BOSTON HAD ITS
MYSTERIOUS "JOYCE JUNIOR" WHO LED A
GROUP OF KNIGHT RIDERS AND ENFORCERS
WHO SAW TO IT THAT THOSE WHO DID NOT
DISPLAY THE NECESSARY REVOLUTIONARY
MENTALITY WERE PROPERLY PUNISHED. THE
REBEL CONTINENTAL CONGRESS ESTABLISHED
"ASSOCIATIONS," WHOSE PURPOSE WAS TO
LOCATE THE LOYALISTS AND TURN THEIR
NAMES OVER TO THE LOCAL VIGILANTE TO BE
DEALT WITH IN THE MANNER THEY DEEMED
PROPER. IN EVERY COLONY, IF THE ACCUSA-
TION WAS ONE OF GIVING INFORMATION TO
GOVERNMENT AGENTS, THE TRAITOR TO
LIBERTY WAS HANGED BY THE NECK OR DEALT
WITH IN SOME OTHER TERMINALLY APPROPRI-
ATE MANNER.
EVEN RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE NOT
EXEMPT FROM THE PATRIOTIC PURGES THAT
CLEANSED AWAY SUPPORTERS OF THE KING.
PREACHERS WHO FAILED TO SUPPORT THE
CAUSE OF LIBERTY (OR WHO HAD FORGOTTEN
THAT DAVID SLEW GOLIATH RATHER THAN
TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK) WERE RUN OUT
OF TOWN ON A RAIL IN THE GLOWING LIGHT
OF THE FLAMES FROM THEIR QUICKLY DIS-
APPEARING CHURCH. THIS WAS CONSIDERED
LENIENCY, OTHERS WERE FORCED TO FLEE TO
ENGLAND OR CANADA IN FEAR OF THEIR
LIVES.
BY THE END OF THE CONFLICT IN 1781,
FOR EVERY GOVT RED-COAT KILLED ON THE
BATTLEFIELD, SEVENTY LOYALISTS HAD BEEN
DRIVEN FROM THEIR HOMES AND FORCED TO
SETTLE IN ENGLAND OR CANADA, TOTALING
OVER ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE.
THE GOVT AND ITS "FRIENDS" ACCUSED
THE REVOLUTIONARY FREEDOM FIGHTERS
(WHOM THEY OFTEN CALLED "THE SONS OF
ANARCHY") OF "COMMITTING THE MOST
SHOCKING OUTRAGES" AND OF "DAILY INVA-
SIONS UPON PRIVATE PROPERTY" WHILE LED
_BY MEN WHO WERE "WELL KNOWN INCENDI-
ARIES AND TRAITORS," WHOSE CHIEF PUR-
POSE IN LIFE WAS TO COMMIT "CRIMES
AGAINST THE CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY OF
THE STATE" (HISTORICALLY, GOVT'S WHICH
HAVE OPPRESSED AND ABUSED THEIR CITI-
ZENS JUSTIFY THEIR ACTIONS BASED ON THE
"LAW" OR "CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY").
NO DOUBT, HAD THE EFFORT TO OVER-
THROW THE GOVT BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL, THE
FOUNDING FATHERS AND THEIR CITIZEN
SUPPORTERS WOULD HAVE BEEN HANGED BY
"THE FRIENDS OF GOVT," AS THE VERY
WORST SORT OF TRAITORS AND TERRORISTS.
IN SUMMARY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU-
TION, WHILE WASHINGTON'S DETERMINED AND
SKILLFUL LEADERSHIP OF THE ARMY, NO
DOUBT MADE VICTORY POSSIBLE, IT DID NOT
ASSURE IT. THE SPIRIT OF '76 - A
MASSIVE CAMPAIGN OF TERROR DIRECTED BY
PATRIOTIC CITIZENS AGAINST ALL THOSE
WHO SUPPORTED THE GOVT WAS THE DECIDING
FACTOR THAT BROUGHT FREEDOM TO AMERICA.
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY WAS
BORN IN MOB PRESSURE, FOSTERED BY
SECRET SOCIETIES, NURTURED DURING SEVEN
YEARS OF INTIMIDATING VIOLENCE, AND
INSTITUTIONALIZED AT THE EXPENSE OF
WELL OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE.
WITH THIS AMERICAN HISTORY IN MIND, ONE
WHO IS FAITHFUL TO THE IDEAS OF THE
FOUNDING FATHERS OF THIS NATION CAN
HAVE NOTHING BUT CONTEMPT AND SUSPICION
OF THE MOTIVES (OR IGNORANCE) OF THOSE
PEOPLE BOTH WITHIN AND WITHOUT THE
GOVERNMENT WHO WOULD CONDEMN CITIZENS
OF TODAY "FOR TAKING THE LAW INTO THEIR
OWN HANDS" IN DEFENSE OF THEIR RIGHTS.
HAD THOSE WHO DESIRED LIBERTY IN
1776 WAITED UNTIL A NUMERICAL MAJORITY
OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS WERE READY TO
"WAKE-UP" (AS THE SAYING IS TODAY) TO
FIGHT FOR THE OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERN-
MENT, OR HAD THEY HESITATED IN THE USE
OF "ILLEGAL" FORCE AND VIOLENCE (FORCE
AND VIOLENCE ARE NEVER LEGAL EXCEPT
WHEN USED BY THOSE IN POWER) AGAINST
THEIR GOVERNMINTAL ENEMIES, THEY WOULD
HAVE ALL DIED IN THEIR OLD AGE AS LAW-
ABIDING SUBJECTS OF THE KING - MINUS
THEIR FREEDOM.
PATRIOTS OF 1775 CONSIDERED THE SYM-
PATHIES OF LESS THAN A THIRD OF THE
PEOPLE SUFFICIENT TO BEGIN GENERAL
HOSTILITIES AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS.
_HEREIN LIES THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITY. IT
HAS BEEN WISELY SAID THAT THOSE WHO DO
NOT KNOW AND UNDERSTAND HISTORY CAN
REPEAT ITS SUCCESSES.
IN AMERICA TODAY, THE MANACLES OF
SLAVERY AND DESTRUCTION ONCE FORGED IN
LONDON BY THE KING ARE NOW FORGED IN
WASHINGTON. ACTS OF TYRANNY ARE CARRIED
OUT IN THE NAME OF THE FEDERAL GOVERN-
MENT RATHER THAN IN THE NAME OF THE
THRONE. THE VICIOUS ENFORCERS OF DICTA-
TORIAL POLICIES OFTEN CALL THEMSELVES
F.B.I. OR I.R.S. AGENTS INSTEAD OF HIS
ROYAL MAJESTY'S TROOPS OR TAX COLLEC-
TORS OF THE REALM. SUBSTITUTING FOR THE
REDCOATS OF THE BRITISH ARE THE "BLUE-
COATS" OF THE BUREAUCRATS AND IN FAR
GREATER NUMBERS. THOUGH BABBLINGS FOR
"THE DIVINE RIGHTS" OF KINGS TO RULE
HAVE CEASED, MODERN FOOLS PRATTLE OF
"DEMOCRATIC MAJORITIES" COMPOSED OF AN
ILLITERATE ELECTORATE ENFRANCHISED FOR
THE PURPOSE OF DISPOSSESSING THE DES-
CENDENTS OF THE FOUNDERS. WHILE DIFFER-
ENT IN NOMENCLATURE THE END RESULTS ARE
EXACTLY THE SAME - THE DARK, COLD,
TIGHT CHAINS OF SLAVERY.
A NUMERICAL MAJORITY OF TODAY'S
CITIZENS CANNOT READ THESE FOOTPRINTS
OF TYRANNY NOR UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY
LEAD. IN THIS THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT
THAN THEIR COUNTERPARTS OF 200 YEARS
AGO. MODERN GOVERNMENTS HAVE MASS COMMU
NICATIONS TO SUBTLY GUIDE THE THINKING
OF THEIR SUBJECTS; THUS IS SEEN THE
PHENOMENON OF TODAY'S CITIZEN RUSHING
FORTH TO PLACE THE CUFFS OF BONDAGE
UPON HIS OWN WRIST BY IRRATIONALLY
CLAMORING (AS HE HAS BEEN INDOCTRI-
NATED) FOR MORE LAWS AND GOVERNMENT TO
SOLVE PROBLEMS CREATED BY AN EXCESS OF
BOTH. THIS MENTAL INVERSION, WHEREBY
THE CITIZEN WILLFULLY AIDS IN EFFORTS
TO SUBJUGATE HIMSELF, IS OF NO SMALL
IMPORT FOR THOSE WHO TREASURE THEIR
LIBERTY. THE IMPLICATIONS ARE MANY, BUT
THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE SINGULAR: A
GOVERNMENTALLY PROGRAMED DEMOCRATIC
MAJORITY MAY, AS THEY DANCE ALONG TO
MENTAL TUNES PLAYED BY AN ELECTRONIC
BAND OF ORCHESTRATED COMMUNICATION,
GLEEFULLY DRAG DOWN (WITH THEIR SELF-
FASTENED CHAINS) EVERYONE ELSE IN THE
BLACK HOLE OF OBLIVION.
ONLY ONE THING SEEMS CAPABLE OF
CLOSING THE YAWNING MOUTH OF THE PIT
AND THAT IS THE FORMATION OF A NEW
REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITY COUPLED WITH
RESURRECTION OF THE SPIRIT OF '76. ANY-
THING SHORT OF THIS SEEMS CERTAIN TO
PASS ON TO TODAY'S CHILDREN AN INCREAS-
INGLY DIFFICULT TASK OF FREEING THEM-
SELVES FROM TRANSISTORIZED CHAINS OF
GOVERNMENTAL CONTROL. SUCH A LEGACY IS
THE BEQUEATHAL OF COWARDS, NOT FREE
MEN.
THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTIONISTS
ACCUSED THOSE WHO RULED THEM OF EXCES-
SIVE TAXATION, INTERFERENCE WITH
PROPERTY RIGHTS, ILLEGAL SEARCH AND
SEIZURE, NOT PROTECTING THE CITIZENS
FROM INCURSIONS BY SEVERAL THOUSAND
INDIANS, POLICIES DESTRUCTIVE OF THE
GENERAL WELFARE, AND "ALTERING FUNDA-
MENTALLY THE FORM OF OUR GOVT," AMONG
OTHER THINGS.
TODAY THE FEDERAL GOVT TAXES ITS
SUBJECTS FOR FORTY PERCENT OF THEIR
INCOME, INSTEAD OF THE THREE PERCENT
(LESS THAN A DOLLAR TWENTY A YEAR)
TAX OF THE KING; INTERFERES WITH THE
OWNERSHIP AND USE OF VIRTUALLY EVERY
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY; AUTHORIZES
EVERYTHING FROM GAME WARDENS TO I.R.S.
AGENTS TO SEARCH, ARREST, OR SEIZE
PROPERTY WITHOUT A WARRANT. IT ALLOWS
FIFTEEN MILLION ALIENS TO ILLEGALLY
CROSS ITS BORDERS IN LESS THAN A TEN-
YEAR PERIOD; AND CONDUCTS A POLICY OF
SYSTEMATIC EXTERMINATION OF ITS YOUNG
MEN THROUGH NO-WIN WARS, AND SUBJECTS
THE FOUNDERS' CHILDREN TO ENFORCED
EQUALITY. EACH OF THE ACTS, INDIVIDU-
ALLY AMOUNTS TO ALTERING FUNDAMENTALLY
THE FORM AND PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE
FEDERAL GOVT WAS CREATED. TAKEN AS A
WHOLE, THEY ARE A CRY FOR - NAY - A
DEMAND FOR, A NEW CAMPAIGN OF TERROR
CONDUCTED AGAINST THE GOVT AND ITS
FRIENDS IN THE GREAT AMERICAN TRADITION
OF 1776.
AN EXAMINATION OF THE DEPTH AND
MAGNITUDE OF POLICIES FOSTERED BY
FEDERAL RULERS DETRIMENTAL TO THE
PEOPLE OF PRESENT DAY AMERICA MAKE THE
ABUSES OF THE ENGLISH KING'S GOVT PALE
INTO INSIGNIFICANCE. ONE THING IS
CLEAR; COMPARISON OF THE CRIMINAL ACTS
OF THE TWO GOVTS MAKES THOSE WHO VALUE
_THEIR LIBERTY AND FREEDOM LONG FOR THE
BITTER DAYS OF ENGLISH DESPOTISM.
WHILE THERE ARE MANY SIMILARITIES
BETWEEN THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AND THE SECOND (COMING SOON AT A PLACE
NEAR YOU), THERE ARE ALSO SIGNIFICANT
DIFFERENCES.
THE FIRST AND PARAMOUNT DISSIMILAR-
ITY IS THAT WHILE OUR HEROIC FORE-
FATHERS FOUGHT TO OVERTHROW THEIR
LEGALLY CONSTITUTED GOVT AND WERE THUS
REVOLUTIONARIES IN THE TRUEST SENSE OF
THE WORD, THOSE WHO SEEK TO BREAK THE
QUICKLY TIGHTENING BANDS OF SERVITUDE
TODAY WAR AGAINST AN ILLEGAL GOVT THAT
IMPOSES ITSELF UPON THE PEOPLE UNDER
THE COLOR OF THE LAW. BY THE WASHINGTON
REGIME'S DISOBEDIENCE TO AND VIOLATION
OF THE BONDS OF THE CONSTITUTION,
ESTABLISHED BY THE FOUNDERS OF THIS
COUNTRY, IT HAS MADE OF ITSELF AN
UNLAWFUL BODY WITH NO MORE RIGHT TO
GOVERN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAN HAS THE
PRESENT QUEEN OF ENGLAND. THAT THE GOVT
SURVIVES DESPITE THE CRIMES IT HAS
COMMITTED IS EXPLAINABLE ONLY BECAUSE
THE ATROCITIES IT SYSTEMATICALLY
IMPOSES ARE PAPERED OVER WITH A VENEER
OF LEGALITY. PROPAGANDA THAT NUMBS THE
MIND KEEPS PEOPLE FROM RISING AGAINST
THOSE WHO ABUSE THEM.
THERE IS NO LAW IN THIS COUNTRY -
OTHER THAN POWER, WHICH CURRENTLY RESTS
WITH THE PIRATES OF THE POTOMAC, WHO
POSE AS OUR LAWFUL GOVT WHILE USING
OVER POWERING FORCE TO QUELL THOSE WHO
RESIST THEIR DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES. THE
CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTIONIST OF TODAY
IS ACTUALLY FIGHTING FOR A TRANSFER OF
POWER FROM THOSE WHO CAN MAKE NO
LEGITIMATE CLAIM TO POWER, TO THOSE WHO
INHERENTLY HOLD IT AS A NATURAL RIGHT -
THE LAWFUL CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.
ANOTHER SALIENT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THE FIRST AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND THE
SECOND IS THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE
QUALITY OF THE PEOPLE OF THEN AND NOW.
OUR ANCESTORS WERE STRONG MEN, WHO
STATED OFTEN THAT THEY WERE RESOLVED
"TO DIE AS FREE MEN RATHER THAN LIVE AS
SLAVES." THEY WERE CONDITIONED TO DOING
THEIR OWN THINKING WHILE AT THE SAME
TIME EVER HOLDING BEFORE THEMSELVES THE
GUIDING LIGHTS OF HONOR AND DUTY.
TODAY, RAISED IN THE LAP OF LUXURY,
MANY PEOPLE GLADLY EXCHANGE THEIR FREE-
DOM FOR THE RIGHT TO ACCUMULATE MATER-
IAL POSSESSIONS. NOT ONE PERSON IN
FIFTY CAN TRUTHFULLY STATE THAT HIS
OPINIONS ARE THE RESULT OF INDEPENDENT
RESEARCH RATHER THAN THE MINDLESS
ACQUISITION OF PRE-PROGRAMMED "OPIN-
IONS" OBTAINED BY INDULGING IN ENDLESS
HOURS OF OBEISANT T.V. WATCHING (THAT
MODERN DAY GOLDEN CALF OF THOSE LOST IN
THE MENTAL WILDERNESS). FURTHER, MOST
AMERICANS DO NOT KNOW THE MEANINGS NOR
VALUES OF HONOR AND DUTY, THE TWO GREAT
CONCEPTS OF HIGHER MAN.
IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT THE VIRTUE OF
THE PRESENT GENERATION HAS DECLINED TO
SUCH A MISERABLE DEGREE THAT MOST PEO-
PLE WILL NEVER VOLUNTARILY HELP TO MAKE
THENSELVES FREE. CONSEQUENTLY THEY WILL
HAVE TO BE MADE TO MAKE THEMSELVES
FREE.
A GREAT OBJECTIVE OF REVOLUTIONARY
MAJORITIES IS THAT OF THRUSTING FREE-
DOM UPON THOSE WHO ARE TO WEAK TO MAKE
THEMSELVES FREE WHILE PROVIDING ITS
BLESSINGS FOR THE STRONGER, MORE NOBLE
ELEMENTS OF THE RACE. THIS IS DONE IN
THE FIRM BELIEF THAT UNDER SOUND
GOVERNMENT, FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BE
NATURALLY HEALTHY IN MIND AND SPIRIT.
THE REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT BENIGNANTLY
GRANTS FREEDON TO OTHERS WHILE ESTA-
BLISHING FRAMEWORK THAT WILL ALLOW POS-
TERITY TO BE BOTH FREE AND STRONG.
OTHER THAN THE "GREAT COMMISSION" OF
THE LORD, NO CALLING IS AS EXALTED OR
AS HONORABLE. THESE TWO SIGNIFICANT
DIFFERENCES - ONE OF LAW, ONE OF CHAR-
ACTER - BETWEEN THE FIRST STRUGGLE FOR
FREEDOM AND THE PRESENT ONE IS DESERV-
ING OF SUBSTANTIAL THOUGHT AND ANALYSIS
BY THOSE CAPABLE OF SO DOING. CONSIDER
WHAT TYPE OF SELF-PRESERVING BEHAVIOR
CAN BE EXPECTED FROM A GOVERNMENT THAT
ALREADY WADES TO ITS KNEES IN THE BLOOD
OF YOUNG MEN DELIBERATELY SACRIFICED TO
THE FALSE GOD OF INTERNATIONALISM. WERE
THE GOVERNMENT REALLY INTENT ON OPPOS-
ING COMMUNISM, IT WOULD START A WAR IN
WASHINGTON AND WORK ITS WAY TO VIETNAM.
WHAT BEHAVIOUR CAN BE EXPECTED FROM A
PEOPLE WHO WILLINGLY PASS THEIR SONS
THROUGH THE FIRE TO BE CONSUMED? EACH
OF THESE CONCEPTS DESERVE MOST CAREFUL
_EXAMINATION.
OPPOSING THE FEDERAL PURVEYORS OF MASS
MURDER AND THE "THE FRIENDS OF GOVERNMENT"
WHO MAKE SUCH PERFIDY POSSIBLE ARE MEN WHO
TRACE THEIR POLITICAL LINEAGE TO TIMES OF
MAGNA CARTA, AND WHO ARE MENTAL AS WELL AS
PHYSICAL DESCENDENTS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS.
THEY BELIEVE, AS DID THEIR FOREBEARERS, THAT
GOVERNMENT IS A SOCIAL CONTRACT ENTERED INTO
BY PEOPLE OF A SIMILAR MIND FOR THEIR MUTUAL
BENEFIT. THIS AGENCY CREATED BY THE PEOPLE
CAN ONLY, LEGITIMATELY, BE VTHEIR SERVANT -
FNEVER THEIR MASTER. FURTHER, IT CANNOT PO-
SSESS LAWFUL AUTHORITY TO DEPRIVE THOSE WHO
CREATE IT (OR THEIR HEIRS) OF NATURAL RIGHTS.
IN NORMAL TIMES MEN WHO ARRAYED THEMSELVES
AGAINST THE CRIMINAL ACTS OF GOVERNMENT WOULD
BE CALLED CONSTITUTIONALISTS, BUT "THESE ARE THE
TIMES THAT TRY MENS SOULS" AS WELL AS TEST THEIR
COURAGE. THUS CONTEMPORARY PATRIOTS BECOME KNOWN
AS CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTIONISTS DETERMINED TO
OVERTHROW EVERY VESTIGE OF UNLAWFUL GOVERNMENT
DOING SO WITH A FIRM BELIEF THAT HONOR DEMANDS
AND DUTY REAQUIRES THE REESTABLISHMENT OF THE
LAW OF THEIR FATHERS.
IT CAN BE REALIZED THEN, THAT THOSE WHO REMAIN
GUILTY OF LOYALTY TO THE PRESENT ILLEGAL GOVERN-
MENT IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARE CHARGEABLE
WITH TREASON TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES AND DESERVING THE SAME FATE OF THEIR
HISTORICAL PREDECESSORS WHO, IN THE NAME OF THE
KING, TRAMPLED UPON SACRED RIGHTS OF ENGLISHMEN
IN 1776.
IT SHOULD BE STATED IN THEIR DEFENSE, HOWEVER,
THAT MOST OF THOSE WHO ARE PARTICIPANTS IN THIS
ODIOUS TRANSGRESSION AGAINST THE LOOD OF OUR NOBLE
FOREBEARERS DO SO IN COMPLETE IGNORANCE OF THE LAW.
HAVING OBTAINED NINETY - FIVE PERCENT OF THEIR
MISINFORMATION FROM GOVERNMENT LICENSED T.V. AND
THE REMAINING FIVE PERCENT FROM CONVERSATIONS WITH
OTHERS WHO ARE ALSO COMPLETELY MALADROIT AT OBTAIN-
ING FACTS ON THEIR OWN. THEY ARE VICTIMS OF METHODICAL
THOUGHT CONTROL WHICH BEGAN DURING THEIR CHILDHOOD AND
HAS BEEN CONTINUED AT A SUBLIMINAL LEVEL THROUTHOUT
THEIR LIVES.
THOUGH NO DOUBT THE MAXIM "IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS
NO EXCUSE FOR ITS VIOLATION" MAKES THESE PEOPLE CRIM-
INALS, THE MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES OF THEIR LAWLESS-
NESS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED BY THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING TO
REESTABLISH LAWFUL RULE IN THIS COUNTRY.
A PERIOD OF GRACE, COMMENSURABLE WITH WHAT THE
STRUGGLE WILL ALLOW, IS IN ORDER, THUS PROVIDING THE
PRESENT SUPPORTERS OF UNLAWFUL GOVERNMENT AN OPPORTU-
NITY TO DEFECT AS THEY BECAME COGNIZANT OF THE LAW.
BY THIS FRATERNAL ACT TO THE ERRING MEMBERS OF OUR
_RACE WE SERVE NOT ONLY THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE BUT,
AT WHAT - EVER POINT N TIME THE GRACE PERIOD IS OF
NECESSITY TERMINIATED, ALL EXCUSE FOR COLLABORATION
WITH THE ENEMY WILL HAVE BEEN REMOVED. HAVING HELD
LONG ALOFT THE OLIVE BRANCH OF PEACE AND FORGIVENESS,
NO JUST COMPLAINT CAN BE MADE BY THOSE WHO FAILED TO
AVAIL THEMSELVES OF IT, WHEN WITH THE OTHER HAND,
TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD OF VINDICATION FALLS UPON THEIR
NECKS.
EVEN AFTER THE PATRIOTS OF TODAY HAVE INVOKED "THE
SPRIT OF '76," AND HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DAMMED THE MISS-
ISSIPPI WITH ROTTING CORPSES OF THE LYING POLITICIANS,
CRIMINAL BUREAUCRATS, RACIAL TRATIORS, COMMUNISTS,
ASSORTED DEGENERATES, CULTURAL DISTORTERS, AND THOSE
WHO RESIST THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LAWFUL CONSTITUTIONAL
GOVERNMENT, THESE PATRIOTS WILL HAVE EXHIBITED FAR
MORE RESTRAINT AND BENEVOLENCE THAN THE PRESENT GOVERN-
MENT OF THE UNITED STATES. FOR WHILE CONSTITUTIONALISTS
OF TODAY WAR AGAINST THOSE GUILTY OF THE MOST HEINOUS
CRIMES UPON OUR PEOPLE, USURPERS IN WASHINGTON DESTROY
IN MIND AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE THE BODIES OF THOSE GUILTY
OF NOTHING MORE THAN HAVING WHITE SKIN.
COALESCING WITHIN AMERICA TODAY IS A SECOND REVOLUTIONARY
MAJORITY WHOSE MEMBERS IN THE SPIRIT OF THEIR FOREBEARERS
ARE RESOLVED TO DIE AS FREE MEN RATHER THAN TO LIVE AS
SLAVES. LIKE THEIR NOBLE ANCESTORS, TODAY'S REVOLUTIONARY
MAJORITY MUST FIGHT FOR THE CHILDREN OF CARPING CRITICS JUST
AS FIERCELY AS FOR THEIR WON FAMILIES. EMULATING ITS
PREDECESSOR, OBEDIENCE IS GIVEN ONLY TO THE DICTATES OF THE
CODE OF NATURAL LAW. FOR ONCE AGAIN THE ENEMIES OF LIBERTY
USE THE LAW OF THE NATION AS THEIR SHIELD - YEA - EVEN THEIR
JUSTIFICATION FOR DESTROYING FREEDOM OF THE PEOPLE. A
GOVERNMENT EXCEEDING THE POWER GRANTED BY THEIR FATHERS -
THEY ARE NOT BOUND TO OBEY BUT BOUND TO RESIST.
JOHN ADAMS SAID, THAT "FREEDON IS A COUNTER BALANCE
FOR POVERTY, DISCORD, AND WAR," AND THAT IF THE
REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE FAILED, IT WOULD BE BECAUSE
MODERATES TRIED TO FIND A "MIDDLE GROUND" AND TO
CONDUCT "HALF A WAR," FOR FREEDOM. LIKEWISE, TODAY'S
TIRED VOICES ARE HEARD CALLING FOR POLITICS AS USUAL
- MODERATION AS ALWAYS. SUCH THINKING HAS ALLOWED
GENERATIONS TO DIE IN CHAINS IN FORMER TIMES AND
WILL SO AGAIN IF ADHERED TO.
THE AGE OF THE CONSERVATIVE LIKE THAT OF THE
DINOSAUR, HAS ENDED. NOW BEGINS A NEW AGE, DESTINY
CALLS FOR HER GREAT MEN WHO BY THEIR IRON WILL ALTER
THE PAGES OF HISTORY FROM THAT OF A TALE OF SHAME,
COWARDICE, AND DECLINE, TO A SAGA OF GLORY, BRAVERY,
AND REBIRTH. SOON, VERY SOON, WE WILL HAVE A
REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITY...
IN EXPATRIATION,
LOUIS R. BEAM JR.
The above is reproduced from the book
"ESSAYS OF A KLANSMAN" by
Louis Beam.
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KLAN HISTORY BOOK
MSG LEFT BY: NATHAN B. FORREST
THE NEWLY RELEASED BOOK "ESSAY OF A
KLANSMAN" BY LOUIS BEAM, WILL TELL
YOU EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT THE KU KLUX KLAN - BUT WAS AFRAID
TO ASK. THIS BOOK, LIKE IT'S PREDECE-
SSOR OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION "COMMON
SENSE," IS A CALL FOR THE FINAL SOLUT-
ION TO THE AMERICAN POLITICAL QUAGMIRE
OF 1984. CONTAINS A GRAPH WITH AN
OUTLINE OF WHO THE ENEMY IS, WITH A
PROPOSED POINT SYSTEM FOR THEIR EXEC-
UTION, BASED UPON THEIR TRUE VALUE TO
THE ANTI-CHRIST, PRO-COMMUNIST SYSTEM.
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NEW KLAN BOOK BY BEAM IN THE WORKS
LOUIS BEAM, AUTHOR OF "ESSAYS OF A
KLANSMAN" IS NOW QUIETLY WORKING ON HIS
SECOND BOOK. THIS NEW WORK SHOULD, BY
ITS CONTENT, HAVE AN EXPLOSIVE IMPACT
ON THE MOVEMENT TO SAVE AMERICA. THE
TITLE IS "REVOLUTIONARY IDEALOGY AND
THE KU KLUX KLAN." THE BOOK WILL BE A
COMPENDIUM OF REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT AND
IDEALOGY OF THE FIFTH ERA OF THE KU
KLUX KLAN.
IN A RECENT PRESS RELEASE DEALING
WITH THE CONTENT OF THE BOOK MR. BEAM
STATED THAT "THE IDEALOGY, CONCEPTS,
STRATEGY AND TACTICS PROPOSED IN THIS
BOOK, WHILE SPECIFICALLY DIRECTED TO
FIFTH ERA KLANSMEN, ARE APPLICABLE TO
ALL ENGAGED IN THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE
AMERICA FROM THE DESTROYERS."
MR. BEAM FURTHER STATED, "I SINCER-
ELY HOPE THAT THE PAGES OF THIS BOOK,
WHEN PUT TO USE BY COMMITTED PATRIOTS,
WILL PROVIDE THE FUEL THAT WILL PROPEL
THE KU KLUX KLAN INTO THE 21ST CENTURY.
LOVE OF ONES RACE, HERITAGE, CULTURE,
AND COUNTRY IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS
GOING TO DISAPPEAR AS THE SOCIALISTS,
COMMUNISTS, AND ONE WORLD HUMANISTS
HOPE FOR. INDEED IT IS GOING TO BECOME
STRONGER AND MORE AGGRESSIVE AS A FORCE
TO DEAL WITH ESPECIALLY AS THE INSTITU-
TIONS IT SEEKS TO DEFEND COME INCREAS-
INGLY UNDER ATTACK BY THE CULTURAL
DESTROYERS.
"THOSE OF US WHO TRULY LOVE THIS
COUNTRY AND THE GREAT CULTURE CREATED
BY OUR ANGLO-SAXON FOREFATHERS INTEND
TO PREVAIL IN THIS GREAT STRUGGLE FOR
THE DESTINY OF AMERICA, WHETHER IT IS
THIS YEAR OR THE FIRST YEAR OF THE 21ST
CENTURY."
THE BOOK BY BEAM IS TO BE PUBLISHED
IN THE SUMMER OF 1985. THERE HAVE BEEN
NUMEROUS REQUESTS BY THE VARIOUS
AFFILIATES OF THE NEWS MEDIA FOR INTER-
VIEWS OF MR. BEAM. THE PRESS RELEASE
STATED THAT UNTIL THE BOOK WAS COM-
PLETED AND IN THE HANDS OF THE PRINTER,
MR. BEAM WOULD BE UNAVAILABLE FOR
INTERVIEWS WITH THE PRESS. "PRIVACY
AND CONCENTRATION ARE THE ORDER OF THE
DAY. I INTEND TO REMAIN UNAVAILABLE
UNTIL THE BOOK IS FINISHED."
"REVOLUTIONARY IDEALOGY AND THE KU
KLUX KLAN" COMING SOON!