In 2021 we viewed televised school board meetings with parents demanding their boards allow students to take off the masks. One eight-year-old girl in particular, Fiona Lashells, having been expelled 36 times for not wearing the mask, told school board members, “In closing, I hope everyone doing this to me goes to jail, thank you” (“Fiona Lashells missed two months of school for refusing to wear a mask,” Palm Beach Post, Andrew Marra, Nov. 15, 2021).
She was far closer to the solution than anyone could imagine as we will show. Amazingly, her school board changed the mask policy. But most don’t, and it has nothing to do with health or safety—try “free” COVID money.
When confronted most board members appeared trance-like in their response as though they knew more than the parents—a secret even. They did!! Their districts were receiving millions from the Biden Administration to hold firm on all Democrat COVID mandates (decrees).
There is not a single peer reviewed study that shows masking stops viruses. The COVID virus is one micron, a cloth mask is 80 microns between threads. None of the “diapers” (face coverings), —including N95, stop viruses. Most who wear masks today are not well informed.
Only a hazmat suit has any hope of stopping a virus and that is what caused AJ Depriest, a healthcare policy analyst expert to offer a compelling unanswered question. “Why, if COVID is so deadly and masks are so necessary, why aren’t there any OSHA regulated hazmat bins in schools? Something’s up with this. It can’t be about health and safety like they’re telling us” (“AJ Depriest Uncovers the Enormous COVID Bribes to all Education and Hospitals from the US Government,” Bit Chute, Interview with Del Bigtree, the Highwire.com, January 8, 2022).
She and 25 others, on June 9, 2021, formed The Tennessee Liberty Network, to study the Cares Act (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act), a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill signed into law March 27, 2020, primarily the $13.2 billion earmarked under (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) money and how it was distributed and managed. They did the same respecting the ARP (American Rescue Plan Act), another COVID spending bill of $1.9 trillion signed by Joe Biden, March 11, 2021.
To date says AJ Depriest, “Schools have been given almost $200 billion of relief money.” What are the Democrats buying with all this money? Mostly the compliance of our defenseless children to their unconstitutional and unlawful COVID decrees. The federal government is waving billions of dollars in front of these boards as obedience bribes.
To get this money schools must implement the following Democrat agenda: “universal and correct wearing of masks, physical distancing, hand washing, cleaning, ventilation, contact tracing, quarantine isolation, and, the second to last on the list, is vaccinations. This is why they’re getting the money. It has nothing to do with health and safety.” And, “every state is doing it.”
None of these functions are listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution as federal powers thus they belong to the states as per Amendment 10. Congress has no authority to fund what it has no power to legislate. Because they can’t make these laws they instead give bribe money to accomplish the same thing and unscrupulous school boards lineup with alms bowls in hand.
Del Bigtree, monitor of the interview, summed it well. “So when we’re standing there as parents at the school board meetings and say ‘Get the mask off my kid, they’re getting rashes on their face, my kids depressed. They haven’t seen their teachers smile. they’re not interacting socially, I see them failing.’ We just see those blank stares because that school board knows—I’m not going to turn down—What is it, $10 or $15 million to listen to you?”
AJ. Depress broke in, “Much more than that.” In Tennessee “Shelby County gets almost three quarters of a billion dollars in COVID relief funds for education to the schools …. Nashville Public Schools is half a billion dollars in COVID relief funds.”
Apparently to get the handout (bribe) school districts must apply and thereafter, every six months, file documents proving their compliance through September 2023. They must prove how they are fulfilling these requirements “for all students, staff and teachers.” Can we comprehend the stress these mandates lay on children? How do you force them, or even staff and teachers, to do contact tracing and vaccinations without serious breaches of the Constitution? Mandates are not laws therefore are unenforcible and totally unconstitutional.
Del Bigtree added, “Billions literally billions of dollars are being funded to imprison your child, to socially distance them, to shut down the school, or make them wear masks. All of that is being funded against you by your President, by our administration.”
So what does AJ. Depress, and her Network, suggest parents do to resist this medical tyranny? First find out how much money they are receiving “to commit this, this egregious tyrannical behavior on our kids, and if they don’t know tell them how much it is and tell them to give that money back.” The Network, she offers, will “point you in the direction to find this information.”
It is not likely that little Fiona will get her wish that “everyone doing this to me goes to jail,” but boards are elected to reflect the will of their constituents—not their own—and not the agenda of the Democratic Party through bribe money. Some school boards have put money in front of honor and their responsibility; all on the backs of the children they abuse.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
We live in a day unlike any other hostile to truth, outside the book burning of the Middle Ages, where truth is determined by who is the loudest and who is censored the least. Where everyone carries in a pocket a device loaded with the history, truth and wisdom of the ages, but instead, most prefer the shallow depth of social media to determine opinion. Where science may have been captured by the “dark side” for profit and control of the masses. Where children with a 99.99X percent of surviving COVID, should they even get it which is rare, are the new target for inoculation and the Great Reset.
A day where the inventor of the Messenger RNA technology, used in the Covid injections, feels compelled “to issue a dire video, warning parents still considering getting their children injected, to instead protect them from what he calls “the most radical medical experiment in human history.” But in that warning even he is largely censored.
Libertyunderfire.org considers censorship a threat to learning and liberty and thus has elected to share his warning. Dr. Robert Malone is the world’s leading authority on the subject. His warning entitled, ”URGENT ALERT TO ALL PARENTS,” follows in full — without comment:
“My name is Robert Malone, and I am speaking to you as a parent, grandparent, physician and scientist. I don’t usually read from a prepared speech, but this is so important that I wanted to make sure that I get every single word and scientific fact correct.
I stand by this statement with a career dedicated to vaccine research and development. I’m vaccinated for COVID and I’m generally pro-vaccination. I have devoted my entire career to developing safe and effective ways to prevent and treat infectious diseases.
After this, I will be posting the text of this statement so you can share it with your friends and family.
Before you inject your child – a decision that is irreversible – I wanted to let you know the scientific facts about this genetic vaccine, which is based on the mRNA vaccine technology I created.
There are three issues parents need to understand before they take this irrevocable decision:
The first is that a viral gene will be injected into your children’s cells. This gene forces your child’s body to make toxic spike proteins.” These proteins often cause permanent damage in children’s critical organs, including:
– Their brain and nervous system, – Their heart and blood vessels, including blood clots, – Their reproductive system, – And, most important, this vaccine can trigger fundamental changes to their immune system.
The most alarming point about this is that once these damages have occurred, they are irreparable. They cannot be reversed.
– You can’t fix the lesions within their brain, – You can’t repair heart tissue scarring, – You can’t repair a genetically reset immune system, and – This vaccine can cause reproductive damage that could affect future generations of your family.
The second thing you need to know about is the fact that this novel technology has not been adequately tested.
– We need at least 5 years of testing/research before we can really understand the risks associated with this new technology. – The harms and risks from new medicines often become revealed many years later.
Ask yourself if you want your own child to be part of the most radical medical experiment in human history.
One final point: the reason they’re giving you to vaccinate your child is a lie.
– Your children represent no danger to their parents or grandparents.
– It’s actually the opposite. Their immunity, after getting COVID, is critical to save your family if not the world from this disease.
Finally and in summary: there is no benefit for your children or your family to be vaccinating your children against the small risks of the virus, given the known health risks of the vaccine that as a parent, you and your children may have to live with for the rest of your lives.
The risk/benefit analysis isn’t even close with this vaccine for children. As a parent and grandparent, my strong recommendation to you is to resist and fight to protect your children.”
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Never interfere with a party in the process of destroying itself. In 2021 the Democrats, even with favorable press, did not need an opposition party to accomplice this. We note some examples.
Abandoning Americans in Afghanistan to the Taliban destroyed the world’s confidence in America’s historic promise that they could count on America to help shield them from tyrannical governments. Moreover, Americans who travel broadly knew that it could have been them caught and abandoned behind enemy lines by their own government. Leaving behind, so callously, Afghans who had shed blood with and for us for twenty years, did not set well with most Americans. Getting out of Afghanistan and the war had support but not the cowardly way we did, leaving $90 billion of weaponry in enemy hands. The military know that they may have to face the weapons this administration so incompetently left behind.
Most Americans do not approve of Biden’s handling of the Southern border crisis either. Kamala Harris, whom Biden called on to bale out his unpopular opening of the United States to the world and every criminal in it, only amplified the image that Democrats did not care about Americans living here. By Oct. 25, 2021 the administrations’ approval rating had fallen to 36%.
The Democrats answer to the COVID “Pandemic” was always medical tyranny. You may have your freedom: when: everyone is locked down for months, when everyone is forced to wear a mask, then two masks, when all distance six feet from others, when all get a mandated (forced) experimental “vaccine,” and when vaccines don’t work, then mandated boosters every four months. Even now California and Washington D.C. have returned to mandatory masking. This when they could not document that ANY OF THESE MEASURES SAVED A SINGLE LIFE but were instead destroying businesses, the economy, education, the Constitution and freedom.
Too few Democrats recognized the threat to freedom so they accelerated its loss. Their news still censors the fact that more people died with COVID during 2021 under Biden leadership, than 2020 under Trump. And, Free states had less COVID infection and death than non-free states. Even now, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is condemning Florida for not locking down its people while she is filmed enjoying its beaches and freedom without a mask.
With censorship protecting tyranny, fans at sporting events began spontaneously erupting into chants, “F Joe Bidden, F Joe Biden,” demonstrating their utter contempt for the man and his party. Such a chant had never been used by crowds in American history. By this time 61% of Americans believed that the country had seriously gotten off on the wrong track. Asked if the above expletive chant was appropriate 59% said that it was (X22 Reports, Ep. 2112B, Oct. 27, 2021). This, while the Democrat news outlets and Big Tech praised Biden and censored opposing information of him and their party.
The expletive chant was soon changed by the unappreciating controlling press to “Lets Go Brandon,” weakening the power of the original vile meaning, although still derogatory. President Trump said he liked the original one better; likely those first uttering it do as well.
Meanwhile a “We Love Trump” chant spontaneously erupted in the Virginal governor’s race between former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Yongkin (X22 Reports, Ep. 2612B—October 27, 2021). The same chant had erupted at least three times while Trump was on the campaign trail in 2020 (“‘We Love You,’ Chant Breaks Out at Trump Rallies,” LibertyUnderFire, September 25, 2020). Obviously such extreme polar opposite chants “F Joe Biden” or “We love you” were unlikely ever previously used by large crowds in U.S. history.
Under Biden every American, rich or poor, lost nearly 10% of his money.
A November Rasmunson Report, published by USA Today, asked poll takers, “What is the one thing you want Biden to do this year? The popular answer, “Resign.”(X22 Reports, Ep. 2623B, Nov. 9, 2021). A month later a national poll reported that only 22% of Americans wanted Biden to run again (X22 Reports, Ep. 26455, Dec 6, 2021).
By this time U.S. productivity declined by 5.2% in the 3d Quarter—the largest quarterly drop in 61 years” (X22 Reports, Ep. 2649A, Dec. 10. 2021). This while the US. Consumer price inflation jumped to 9.6% over the previous November—the largest one year increase ever. Consequently consumer prices soured: gasoline 58%, Rental cars 37%, used cars 31%, hotels 26%, steak 25%, utilities 25%, bacon 21%, pork 17%, furniture 12%, fish 11%, new cars 11%, chicken 9%, bikes 9%, eggs 8%, coffee 7.5%, apples 7%, milk 7%, flour 6%, rent 3.5%. Under Trump 2018 inflation was 2.2% and 2019 was 2.5% ((X22 Reports, Ep. 2652A, Dec 14, 2021).
Under Biden every American, rich or poor, lost almost 10% of the value of all his money the last eleven months. If Trump had done this to the American people there would be 24/7 coverage of it. Because there isn’t you know the media is complacent in it,
Paper currency is losing value before we can spend it. Since 1913 the value of the dollar has declined 96% (X22 Reports, Ep.2649A, Dec. 10, 2021). In fairness this is due to both political parties, neither able to say no to debt ceilings and selling their votes. “Seventy seven percent say inflation is America’s biggest problem, a bigger problem than COVID; of these 57% blame Biden” (X22 Reports, Ep.2650A, Dec. 12, 2021). This after but one year in office.
By the end of 2021 The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll showed that only “40% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Biden’s job performance. Fifty-eight percent (58%) disapprove. The latest figures include 19% who Strongly Approve of the job Biden is doing and 48% who Strongly Disapprove.”
Again, “Never interfere with a party in the process of destroying itself.” Trump Republicans aren’t. The day will come when no Democrat will readily admit having once been one.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
When do we finally get back to normal? Recently we published half of an interview answering that question. “The Pandemic Will End When the Digital Monetary System is in Place,” an interview between independent financial investor, Melissa Cuimmel and host Sara Haboubi of Ryland Media, an Ireland media outlet. The answer, COVID is the main instrument for implementing the Great Reset—world government—but they must keep the threat alive until it, and you, are locked in (See “The Pandemic Ends When the Enslaving Reset is Locked In,” www.LibertyUnderFire.org).
We concluded that the globalists’ plans for world government have proceeded on schedule for decades. Now that probably most adults have been inoculated only two targets remain: small business must be destroyed, and the children have to be inoculated—thus brought into the system. We end this column with what Cuimmel concluded is the only way out of both the pandemic and world government.
Small business must be destroyed, Cuimmel says, because it is necessary “for the new system to come into place.” This “because they need you to be dependent on the state, the social credit card” and small businesses represent independence. To survive, small businesses traditionally have to think of new and better ways of doing things. Communism, which is the new system, cannot tolerate deviance or challenges to the way things are done.
The pandemic lockdowns already destroyed thousands of middle class businesses, and thousands more will follow with the government dictating the customer base by excluding the unvaccinated—a sizable reduction of potential customers. Government fines for non compliance to mask wearing, mandates and vaccinations also impacts negatively the profit margin. With the Biden Administration paying labor more than they could earn working, this also drives shortages of manpower to produce things resulting in product shortages and business closures. Knowing that they are targeted for extinction, Cuimmel recommends, small businesses increase the odds of their survivability by collective non-compliance now while they still can.
Meanwhile, Cuimmel says, “you have these billionaires trying to take over control of the people and all of the wealth. That’s what’s happening right now. Like, while we’re sitting at home there’s a wealth heist going on. Everything is being bought up around us. And meanwhile, what we [the people] have is being inflated away.” Simply put,“They’re interested in control, and wealth. That’s all they’re interested in. They don’t care about anybody else on the planet, they do not care about the planet. They care about wealth and control.”
“This is coming for everybody,”she adds. Right now you can go to restaurants because your “participation” passport is green. It’s only “a matter of time before everybody’s passport turns from green to red for various different reasons,” —you did not get the latest booster, you spoke out against a mandate,— “anything, in order to participate in society. The new normal is a tangible changing of the goalposts so you will never be fully in. It is like the constant updates that you get in a computer—you’re never completely updated—same with your phone.”
“There is no going back to the old world. This is the new world that we’re going to be living in if they succeed.” The billionaire and technology companies are waging war against us. “Australia knows it. New Zealand knows it. Austria knows it. They’re all out on the streets. We absolutely are at war. In a war situation there is collateral damage. That’s where we are standing with these injuries and deaths from this clinical trial…. that information has been completely censored because it’s essential to get us all on board; as I say no exception.”
She spoke directly to parents, “They’re going for your children now. That’s the final demographic.” Children still need to be part of the financial system. They also need the data from the children. “I don’t know why anybody would let their child take part in this clinical trial. They have virtually no risk. There’s more risk of them drowning.” There is no peer reviewed research proving the vaccines are even safe. “They have to get them into the system so that your children can participate in society,” the same reason most adults were enticed. “They’re saying that if they want to go to teen discos,” participate in society, they must be vaccinated.
Cuimmel advised parents to look at their “children and think my job is to protect you.” She pleads, “Do not let your children participate in this passport system. Know that if you do for the sake of going to a restaurant that you are leading them into a social credit system and slavery.”
To all, vaccinated and unvaccinated, “These billionaires and technology companies are dictating the future of humanity.” We need to stand up, “All we have to do is say no. That’s all we have to do just mass non compliance.” But “we are running out of time.” The “solution to this is mass non compliance” on masks, lockdowns, untested vaccines (especially for children), mandates, participation passports, the Central Bank digital ID, and social and carbon credit systems.
“This is going to be won by communities. So find people that are like minded, that’s going to keep your confidence up. Do not give in and do not give up…. If we don’t fight this now, we are giving our children twice the battle. It has to be fought now. The quicker that we do this, the easier it is to get out.” So find your communities, and support network.
Remember, God will help because we are his children. Cuimmel reminds us, “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Many wonder when the pandemic of COVID will end and the old normal returns. When logic replaces crazy, or insanity? When news is not censored or fake? When the federal government ceases paying labor to not work? When our country has again a southern border? When vaccines for children, who have a greater chance of drowning than COVID, are not mandated? When the sixth booster actually prevents transmission? When science replaces opinion respecting health and etc? When freedom returns?
The answer, “The Pandemic Will End When the Digital Monetary System is in Place.” An independent financial investor, Melissa Cuimmel, laid it out perfectly in an interview of the same above name, with Sara Haboubi of Ryland Media, an Ireland media outlet. Sometimes we have to go outside the country to get the truth. Simply, COVID is the main instrument for implementing the Great Reset—world government—but you must keep the COVID threat alive until it is locked in.
Cuimmel continues, “No matter what. There’s no going back. It’s gone. All that they’re trying to do right now is keep the system alive long enough, in order to bring in the new system. They’re not trying to fix anything. They’re not trying to bring anything back. They’re telling you they will build back better. What does that tell you? You have to destroy before, that’s why the economy has been systematically collapsed.”
I’ve lectured and written on the coming world government for over forty years and never put it together as succinctly as has Melissa Cuimmel.
She explains that when we left the gold based economy in 1971 we entered a debt based economy. Subsequently the value of the dollar has “already lost over 99% of its value” by the massive printing of paper money. The value of the old currency has evaporated. “The Central Bank digital currency is the end game” along with totalitarian control. “In order to bring in a Central Bank digital currency, you need a digital ID. In order to bring in a digital ID, you need these passports that will all be combined with a social credit system and a carbon credit system.”
So what does this have to do with COVID? You need to control the movement of the people. Fear from a pandemic, whether real or generated, makes that possible. Enter mandated vaccines then vaccine passports. The vaccines do not prevent transmission or we would not need boosters every four months which also do not prevent transmission even after several of them. There is no peer reviewed science defending this.
Clummel reminds us that actually, “They’re not vaccine passports. They are data passports, they are participation passports,…there’s no medical reason behind these.” Adding, “If I had come to you two years ago and said, here’s what the government wants to do. They want to give everybody a chip. They want to put all your medical data and all your financial data onto that chip. That will be your complete ID and they can control you or shut you out of society from that…. That’s the road that we are going down right now. This is a buy to a financial reset because the fiat currency has failed like every other one has before and in order to keep the game going, they need a new financial system. This is why everybody, no exceptions, has to get one of these passports…. It’s for the new system.”
The world must switch to the billionaires’ Central Bank digital currency system, backed by nothing. It’s a currency because the new globalist government says it is. It gives them “complete control over every aspect of our finances. They can dictate where in the economy that you can spend it. They can say that you can only spend it in essential goods, on rent. They can fine you…. when you link that into a social credits concept, they can sanction you or reward you.” Once in, you belong to them—like property.
The “participation” passports gives you preference for jobs, schools for your children and everything else. They can change your resume by removing “anything you’ve actually achieved in your life.”
Every compliance step moved us further along to total control and slavery. Mask wearing, lockdowns, vaccines and boosters—with no science proving anything actually mattered, gave you immunity, or was even safe. There were no short term studies on vaccines or booster before massive inoculations. Our government experimented on us. But you are not really covered until you get the next one, therefore not qualified for the privileges of society, that used to be common. Compliance means more control. “The next move is that we have to have a central bank digital currency wallet in order to participate in the financial society.”
Remember the lockdowns, “It started with nobody could participate in society. Then it was if you comply you can participate in society, then it’s going to be if you adopt Central Bank digital currency, you can participate in society. And then it’s going to be social and carbon credit.” Everything from here on is based upon total compliance. All humanity, excepting themselves and their friends, will soon be the slaves. Nothing is more Luciferic. Freedom dies.
The globalists plans’ for world government have proceeded on schedule for decades. Only two targets remain, the children have to be inoculated—thus brought into the system— and small business’ must be destroyed. There exists but one way of escape. Melissa Cuimmel identifies what that must be, and that will be shared in a coming column.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
Since 2008 half of America was lured into voting socialist despite the harsh lessons of our socialist beginnings. Plymouth and Jamestown rejected socialism and so MUST we to provide the level of universal prosperity America has provided its citizens for centuries.
This Thanksgiving Day we think of the Pilgrims enjoying abundant food, but this was not their real reality. To few note the starving times their first year in 1620 when half died of starvation. Harvests were not bountiful the first year nor the next. Plymouth was beset by laziness and thievery. William Bradford, the governor of the colony, in his History of Plymouth Plantation reported that “much was stolen both by night and day” to alleviate the prevailing condition of hunger. The somewhat mythical “feast” of the first Thanksgiving did fill their bellies, he reported, and they were grateful, but abundance had been anything but common. Why? Because they had fallen victim to the socialistic lure of “share the wealth.” This dis-incentivized the productive base of society.
Then suddenly, as though night changed to day, the crop of 1623 was bounteous, and those thereafter as well, and it had nothing to do with the weather. Bradford wrote, “Instead of famine now God gave them plenty and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God.” He concluded later, “any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.” They ended universal poverty.
One variable alone made the difference and ended the famine. They abandoned the notion of government (or corporation) owning the means of production and distribution in favor of the individual having property and being responsible to take care of himself. Every family was issued its own land. Before, no one benefited by working for the common store because he received the same compensation as those who did not. After the change everyone retained the benefits of his labor. Those who chose not to work basically chose also to be poor and the government (corporation) no longer confiscated from those who produced to give to those who did not. No government food stamps here.
Ironically all this could have been avoided had Plymouth consulted history and communicated with their neighboring colony, some distance south of it, who had previously been down the same trail. Jamestown too was first a socialist society where each produced according to his ability and received according to his need, which, of course, affected supply. One cannot divide what does not exist. Our textbooks tell us that only one of twelve survived the first two years for precisely the same reason, starvation. The problem, as noted by Tom Bethel in his work The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity through the Ages, was identified by an unnamed participant as “want of providence, industrie and government, and not the bareness and defect of the Countrie.”
Captain John Smith is credited with having saved the floundering colony by his “no workie, no eatie” government program (the Virginia Company was the government) and was hated for it. Addicted to the promise of getting something for nothing, even if it is always less than promised, the receiving part of the population will always oppose their not getting their “fair share.” Sound familiar? Captain Smith was eventually carted off to England in chains as fast as the parasitic population could do so. Once again, why? Philip A. Bruce in his Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century, p. 121 called it agricultural socialism. “The settlers did not have even a modified interest in the soil…. Everything produced by them went into the store, in which they had no proprietorship.” When settlers finally were allowed to own their own property, and keep what they produced, things changed overnight.
Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote of incoming prosperity, beginning in 1614, after ownership of land was allowed. “When our people were fed out of the common store, and labored jointly together, glad was he [who] could slip from his labor, or slumber over his tasks he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true pains in a week, as now for themselves they will do in a day, neither cared they for the increase, presuming that however the harvest prospered, the general store must maintain them, so that we reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty as now three or four do provide for themselves.”
This Thanksgiving let us be grateful for the prosperity that we have—even the poorest among us. Jamestown and Plymouth set us upon a course that recognized that prosperity requires incentive to flourish and that the profit motive stimulates industry. We are so grateful that, having recognized the poison of the “share the wealth” philosophy, they purged it from their midst and proceeded to make, what later became America, the most prosperous country on earth.
On January 20, 2021, Democratic Socialists took over the White House and both branches of Congress. In ten short months of socialist rule, food prices have skyrocketed and shelves are emptying. Once totally energy independent, we now see fuel prices soar and severe shortages are predicted this winter; some economist even see an economic collapse. Joe Biden’s prediction of a “dark winter” appears on the horizon under Biden—not Trump. Socialism kills incentive to produce— it always has and always will.
Plymouth and Jamestown rejected socialism and so MUST we. Will we be as smart as they? Let us share this message at the table as we feast upon turkey and pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving Day so that our children will know how prosperity is really produced.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.
