THE ANATOMY OF ENTROPY
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THE ANATOMY OF ENTROPY
SHORT HISTORY OF THE DETERIORATION OF THE USA
By: Al Cronkrite
Each one of the state governments of the original 13 colonies in
Colonial America made the Christian religion a prominent part of their
constitutions. Some states made Christianity a requirement for
elected office. At the time the Constitution was crafted the
fledgling nation was almost entirely Christian.
That label, however, did not properly describe the makeup of the
citizenry. There were several Protestant denominations and in the
late Eighteenth Century most were Arminian, antinomian, and nominal.
When God’s Law and God’s sovereignty are ignored, Christianity is
hollowed out and fractured Christianity leads to individual Biblical
interpretation, disagreement, and the proliferation of denominations.
The First Amendment to the Constitution forbade congress from
establishing a religion as the states had already done; freedom of
religion opens the door for national disobedience to God’s First
Commandment.
There was great excitement, great opportunity and vast lands to be
occupied but it was a troubled nation that ventured into the
Nineteenth Century. Indian wars marked large portions of the
continent as white settlers with aid from the government advanced
their settlements westward. America was victorious in the
Revolutionary War but the English were still at war with France and
since France supported the colonies and continued as a major trading
partner, England continued to be a thorn in the side. In 1812 the
United States again declared war on England.
The genocidal march to the Pacific involved the extermination of
hundreds of thousands of indigenous Indians and the annexation of
large sections of land. For two years in the mid-1840s the United
States and Mexico fought a war along the Texas border. When U. S.
forces advanced into Mexico City, Mexico capitulated. The War ended
with the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which was imposed by the United
States and ceded California, New Mexico and much of Texas for the sum
of $15 million. Nearly 14,000 U. S. soldiers died and 25,000
Mexicans. In 1853 the Gasden purchase added parts of New Mexico and
Arizona not included in the GH Treaty.
During the Nineteenth Century imperialistic war and killing were
constant companions. In 1861 President Lincoln started a civil war
in order to impose Northern will on the South and to keep the Southern
States from seceding from the Union. The war created a slow-growing
governmental cancer in the new republic.
The Lincoln Administration ignored the Constitution, trampled states
rights, and was guilty of grievous atrocities. His armies ruthlessly
raped the South, cities were burned, and women were violated. Six
hundred thousand young men were killed, 470 thousand were wounded and
at least 50,000 civilians died in a needless internecine conflict.
Families were disrupted, taxes were increased, civility was
threatened, government was empowered, and the checks and balances
built into the nation were seriously eroded.
Leaders of the more rural South were openly Christian men who fought
gallantly against a larger, better equipped army. In the end the
brute force of the industrial north overcame the sacrificial
resistance of the pastoral south crowning an imperialistic spirit.
President Lincoln cemented an enduring federalism and tyrannical
disobedience into United States history.
Barbaric actions birthed in the Civil War carried over into the Indian
Wars during the later half of the Nineteenth Century and into the rape
of the Philippines which began in 1899. Water boarding was first used
by United States forces during the Philippine conflict. It was said
to have originated with the Spanish and was called the “water cure”.
Of this procedure Mark Twain wrote, “…the torturing of Filipinos by
the awful "water-cure," for instance, to make them confess -- what?
Truth? Or lies? How can one know which it is they are telling? For
under unendurable pain a man confesses anything that is required of
him, true or false, and his evidence is worthless.” United States
casualties were 4234 with 2818 wounded. Philippine military
casualties were put at 12 to 20,000 with civilian dead between 200
thousand and 1.5 million. The war in the Philippines lasted until 1914
and was almost immediately succeeded by the First World War.
It was President Woodrow Wilson who campaigned against becoming
involved in the European war who led us into it. His regime was
pivotal in shaping the politics of the United States during the
Twentieth Century. The Federal Reserve System successfully coiled
itself around the government in 1913 and the tentacles of powerful
foreign forces began to pull the strings on what became a puppet
government. United States joined WW I in 1917. Two years later the
war ended with 40 million wounded and 20 million dead. Wilson
followed Lincoln’s totalitarian policies by arresting some 170
thousand citizens for opposing the war (some for utterances inside
their own homes) and depriving about 60 newspapers of second-class
mailing rights. He sanctioned warrantless searches and interrogations
by the quasi-public American Protective League which was empowered by
the Justice Department to spy on Americans who failed to buy Liberty
Bonds or spoke out against the government. He supported Women’s
Suffrage, Zionism, and the League of Nations. After several years of
being incapacitated by a stroke in 1924 he died “feeling that he had
lied to the American people and that his motives for joining the war
had been in vain” because the League of Nations had failed.
During the 1920s prohibition spawned speakeasies and Flappers became
popular. The roaring twenties roared into a major moral decline.
In 1929 the roaring stopped and the succeeding three years saw a drop
in the stock market similar to today’s real estate decline.
Ostensibly to slow the boom the Fed began to raise interest rates and
on October 24th investors began to realize that high values had
created an over inflated bubble and they began to sell. By November
the market had gone from 400 to 145 wiping our $5 billion in share
value. By the end of the year $16 billion had been lost.
Since the banks had invested their customer’s deposits in the stock
market, the steep decline wiped out depositor funds leaving the banks
insolvent. Ten thousand banks failed and billions of dollars in
deposits were lost.
The depression brought President Franklin D. Roosevelt, another
pivotal leader. Wilson brought us the Federal Reserve, World War One
and the income tax and FDR brought us the New Deal, World War II and
big government socialism. He confiscated gold, closed the banks,
brought in social security, deficit spending, the FDIC (taxpayer
bailout for banks), Federal Emergency Relief, the National Youth
Administration, Home owners loans, Farm Credit, Federal Housing
Authority and several other enduring government programs. He packed
the Supreme Court, recognized Communist Russia, sent troops to Europe,
and supported the United Nations, unionism, and Zionism. He was loved
by those who received government largess in a time of great need and
hated by those whose wealth was confiscated to provide it. He created
wide popular dependency on the federal government and was an enemy to
freedom and free enterprise.
World War II followed the “war to end all wars” in a few scant years
and the “city on a hill” leapt into another conflict that was even
more lethal than the first. The war not only involved Europe but
also Japan and China. The total figures on dead and wounded could
never be accurately estimated. As is always the case in modern
warfare, more civilians were killed than soldiers and the totals were
in the millions.
An attempt to entangle United States in the League of Nations failed
following WW I but was quickly resurrected following WWII in the form
of the United Nations (UN). The UN was successful in gaining US
support and, accompanied by a measure of mystery, it almost
immediately got involved with the new nation of Israel and the
division of Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea in the late 1940s
and in 1950 President Truman sent US troops to enforce UN mandates (UN
involvement was not publicized). During the next three years the
“forgotten war” was responsible for the wounding of over 90 thousand
and the killing of close to 40 thousand US soldiers. Casualties on
both sides totaled up to a million an a half with even higher
quantities of civilians. Read about it here.
The conspiracy to create world government promoted by the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) was the engine behind the United Nations. The
vehicle was the United States and the methods were multifarious
including wars and police actions. The Federal Reserve System
provided needed financing and its shadowy controllers pulled the
strings. The result was a continuing series of senseless conflicts
that killed our youth and squandered our wealth.
In 1963 the U.S. violated all military wisdom and became involved in a
ground war in Vietnam. It was a quagmire that killed and wounded 350
thousand U. S. soldiers and was responsible for the deaths of millions
of civilians. Accomplishing nothing, U. S. forces suffered an
ignominious defeat.
Most U.S. citizens are not and were not aware that their nation was
being used as a lethal weapon to cow the world into accepting the yoke
of a hidden financial cabal seeking to gain tighter control over the
world. Since the Federal Reserve System was created United States has
become the world’s policeman exerting power whenever and wherever they
are directed. The goal seems to be two fold: One, to bring the
entire world under the same control that now controls the United
States, and Two, to create a chaos within the nation that will
convince the citizens to give up sovereignty and allow the
conspirators total sway.
Between the Vietnam War and the first President Bush’s announcement
that his coalition invading Iraq involved a “New World Order”, our
military was involved in Lebanon, the Dominican Republic, Libya,
Grenada, Iran, and Panama.
On September 11, 2001 fuel laden aircraft crashed into the twin towers
of the World Trade Center in New York City and an interminable War on
Terror was birthed. Between the Bush father’s first Iraq War and the
son’s Second Iraq War our military was involved in Somalia, Bosnia,
Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Serbia.
In spite of the spate of Biblical stories involving God’s military
intervention on the side of His people, it is His intention that His
people live in peace. King David was a man after God’s own Heart but
he was a warrior and God would not allow His Temple to be built by a
man whose hands were stained with blood. There is a time for war and
a time for peace but peace is always God’s objective. Blessed are the
peacemakers.
The family is the basic unit of government in God’s order with all
other units being responsible for ensuring the family can enjoy peace
and safety. Fathers are the source of home government. Wars disrupt
this order. When fathers go off to war families are left without
headship leaving them less able to groom future fathers and mothers.
Absence of fathers is not the only problem. The barbarities of war
tarnish the sensibilities of Christian men making them like King
David, less peaceable and less able to instill the precepts of peace
in their families.
Wars are also inimical to God’s social order. Without men, women are
thrust into leadership roles and left vulnerable to exploitation.
Once the roles of the genders are reversed they are difficult to
restore.
Children who grow up without fathers never witness the proper role of
men and are handicapped in understanding their responsibilities.
Discipline is a problem for women and rebellion becomes more common
when men are absent.
Deterioration in the basic culture is not the only malignant result of
war. Imperialism and bankruptcy are close friends. Wars are costly
and foreign wars are an ultimate extravagance.
The powerful, invisible hand that urged our mothers to enter the work
force, put our children in government schools, fomented and financed
wars, opened our borders to illegal immigrants, supported debauchery,
censored our news, subverted our government, championed multi-
culturalism, killed our culture, imprisoned our churches, and
controlled our elections may now be poised to create a world financial
emergency that will pound a nail in the coffin of our freedom.
Money has always been an essential ingredient in the conduct of
warfare but in our time it has a new and more powerful role. In urban
societies money sustains life. Without money families starve to
death. With millions living in cities, central bankers have power to
sustain life or cause death. Money still finances wars but money is
now a lethal weapon.
For older Americans who remember the United States during the 1950s it
is difficult to correlate what we have become with what we were during
those few years of peace and stability.
In a few short years the nation our European ancestors built with
sweat, tears, and sacrifice will be controlled by people whose
ancestors came from lands that speak other languages and have other
cultures. This polyglot knows nothing of government of the people, by
the people, and for the people. They know nothing of the individual
freedom Christianity brought to the world. Many are products of
cultures that do not have a word for altruism. Some have never known
an honest government employee. The only interest they have in the
United States is in siphoning off as much wealth as their industrious
labor can earn. Their presence destroys our culture and weakens our
nation.
Congressman Cliff Stearns, our representative in Washington, DC,
recently sent out an email lamenting the high cost of gasoline. This
is his explanation “The high price of gasoline results from the cost
of crude oil, the world demand and supply for oil, our limited
refining capacity, and taxes.” Stearns supports the War in Iraq and
has a vested interest in keeping the truth from his constituents.
Nations that engage in frequent warfare regularly debase their
currencies. United States is no exception. Inflation (increasing the
number of monetary units in circulation) is the biggest contributor to
the high cost of gasoline. Inflation is a hidden form of taxation
which amounts to burglary by the Federal Government. Prices are going
up because the value of our money is going down.
The foregoing is a condensed history of the incremental deterioration
of the United States of America, a nation that, in spite of its many
flaws, in its formative years, managed to honor and to a great extent
obey the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
A huge majority of the citizens of the United States always claimed to
be followers of King Jesus and God’s Word, the Bible, could be found
in almost every home. When the Puritans and Pilgrims were overrun by
the lawless humanism of heretical religions the Book that contained
the formula for halting the slide into darkness was partitioned into a
comfortable doctrine that appealed to itching ears. Real Christianity
was mortally ill before the Constitution was written and has never
recovered.
Yes, gentle reader, it is the Church of Jesus Christ that is vested
with the responsibility of confronting evil in God’s creation and its
sins of omission are responsible for our present plight. Partitioning
the Bible is blasphemous. The Bible is God’s Word – all of it.
Christians whose sins are forgiven and who know God’s ineffable Grace
are to obey God’s Laws and seek to bring His entire creation into
accord with His Will (His Law is His Will). God’s Word teaches us
that confrontation and rebuke are necessary in maintaining
obedience. Confrontation and rebuke are a bit like legitimate
warfare. The object is to create peace and order through
righteousness. It is the duty of the Church of Jesus Christ to
confront despotism with strong and consistent rebuke and clear
alternatives. Both the rebuke and the clearly annunciated
alternatives are and have been sinfully missing.
Hard times are coming. The wealth of the middle class is being
quickly drained away and laws are set in place to enslave the people
of the United States in a police state. Concentration camps have been
built, Habeas Corpus has been rescinded, and torture has been
authorized. Unlike the unconstitutional actions of Presidents Wilson,
Lincoln, and Roosevelt, the presidents of our era can now commit the
same atrocities without breaking the law.
Sinful omissions of the past are coming home to roost and the
consequences will not be pretty!
"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with
this notice and hyperlink intact."
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