We have Kokesh, We have Alex Jones. We have Rand Paul. Ad nauseum. Adam Kokesh has written a declaration of revolt that appears to be a morphing of the Declaration of Independence and V’s TV rant (V FOR VENDETTA.) A revolt true patriots need to avoid! It’s up to us to take the moral high ground. Like Lexington and Concord, let the enemy bring the fight.
What we really have is a group of WANNABES! Here on FTTWR we know these “men” to be agent provocateurs. We know that this revolution is leaderless and the “American Revolutionary Army” in fact does not exist except in Kokesh’s head. That is not to say there is NO army. There is a bigger army of armed patriots than all the mercenaries this imposter government can possibly muster. But for sake of argument let’s say that they are real and not Agent provocateurs. So who do these wannabe’s want to be?
The answer is found in history. These fools suffer from delusions of grandeur. They envision themselves as the “Founding Fathers” of the Renewed Republic. They dream of the love and veneration to come in the future. Think about it. The founding fathers of the 18th century revolution were the aristocrats of their day. The “little guys” like us are virtually unknown. It was the common man that won the War for Independence! These Wannabes want nothing more than to be remembered.
It is as if the Gentry, who could afford to pay the King’s taxes without duress, fought and won the war without the help of the common man. Yet the fact of the matter is that had the grumbling been solely the complaints of the gentry the revolution would never have gotten beyond what I’ll call the Great American Debate.
History books extol the virtues of the founding fathers lavishing praise on them with such reverent fervor they are worshiped like saints. These patriots who are generally credited with mounting the Revolution were in fact the beneficiaries of rebellious common man patriots who initially sparked resistance. The Gentry were not especially pleased with King George’s policies and taxes, yet they had the privilege of status and were not really interested in biting the hand that stroked their vanity. It was the common man like you and I that voiced our grievances in the taverns and meeting houses. It was the leaderless minions that grumbled the loudest.
The fact of the matter is that the Founding Fathers of the history books were in fact usurpers themselves! Usurpers? Yes. How did they do it? They did it the way all usurpers rise to the top like scum in the pond, MONEY.
Look at the example of Mel Gibson’s character in the PATRIOT. When recruiting men for his militia He says something along the line of, “No scalp bounties this time, but you may keep or sell to me the guns and supplies you scavenge from the field of battle.” The diaries and historical records of men such as Gibson’s fictional character prove this is not Hollywood but fact.
Some of the colonial militias generally dated back to the earliest skirmishes of the French & Indian wars. Each colony raised its militia with the consent and assistance of the crown. Militiamen were expected to clothe and arm themselves with a weapon. The colony provided the powder and lead. In time some of the colonies acquired their own artillery pieces. Until 1774 this sufficed. Then the colonists began to take a proactive role in stockpiling military supplies independent from the Kings supplies. Much was purchased by the colonies through benefactor’s like Gibson’s portrayal, some were stolen from the crowns own stock.
In a Crown armory on Boston Common were two brass field cannons (light and mobile cannons used by armies in the field) belonging to the Boston Artillery Company. These cannons were purchased by the Massachusetts General Court for the company in 1766. They were recast from two older brass cannons sent over to England from Boston. Completed and returned to Boston in 1768, these recast cannons were of three-pound bore (meaning that they fired a ball weighing three pounds). They were two of four cannons in use by the company and were a source of great pride.
In September 1774, however, to the company’s horror, their commanding officer, Major Adino Paddock, a known Loyalist, was making arrangements to turn their cannons over to the British! On Sept. 16, 1774, while the armory in which the two three-pound cannons were stored was under guard by British soldiers, members of the Boston Artillery Company waited for the appropriate moment to break in and take back their cannons. The moment came at the changing of the guard.
Acting quickly, they slipped inside, dismounted the cannons and ran off with them. Shortly after, a British sergeant checking on the cannons noticed they were missing. Shocked at the audacious day-time theft he cried, “I’ll be damned if these people won’t steal the teeth out of your head while you’re on guard!” The two other cannons belonging to the company were spirited off two days earlier much to the embarrassment of the British authorities.
The stolen cannons were smuggled out of Boston and “transported safely within American lines.” It is believed they were taken to Concord, then being used as a colonial military supply depot. Once in Concord, the cannons were added to an impressive and growing colonial arsenal. They were deposited at the farm of Col. James Barrett of the Concord militia and according to local tradition, were buried in a field. All told, by the spring, the colonists had amassed enough arms and equipment between Concord and Worcester for an army of 15,000 men.
Two of the cannons were captured during the war and so lost. The remaining two, the three-pounders of this story, were, upon the order of Secretary Knox, newly christened the “Adams” and the “Hancock” and engraved with the arms of the Commonwealth and the following inscription
“Sacred to Liberty: This is one of four cannons, which constituted the whole train of Field Artillery possessed by the British Colonies of North America, at the commencement of the war, on the 19th of April, 1775. This cannon and its fellow belonging to a number of citizens of Boston, were used in many engagements during the war. The other two, the property of the Government of Massachusetts were taken by the enemy. By order of the United States in Congress assembled May 19th, 1788.
I believe we can agree Kokesh, Jones, etc. are not Benjamin Martins! Quite frankly, from what we know of them I do not see them stepping up to the plate. We don’t need or want them. Nor are they or will they ever be of the caliber of the Founding Fathers I obliquely trashed here. Somewhat sadly, I had to in order to demonstrate my point.
I am grateful that we have those patriots of old. Without them we would not have the records they left us. Without Washington, Adams, Franklin, etc we would be at the mercy of revisionist historians telling whatever lies the current regime decided fit it’s agenda. Revisionist would be able to claim (wait! They already do!) any old BS they want and We The People would be powerless. The great writing skills of our founding gentry provide us with the documented proof that the gun grabbers “interpretation” of the Constitution are full of bovine excrement.
To Hell with the WANNABES!
Henry, Laura,
Thanks for the great picture! I did a little looking around and couldn’t find any photo that I liked to go with this!
Ya smoked me on that one! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Thanks again!
Great article, Rhumstruck. I didn’t know about the story of the cannons. Glad to have learned it from your article here. If you of any other small stories from history like this, you should write and post more like this as I’d be interested in reading them.
Thanks NC!
Truth be told this started out yesterday morning as a comment to http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/provocateur-alert-adam-kokesh-calls-on-american-revolutionary-army-to-march-on-50-state-capitols/45216
but it got too large and I had to C&P to my word processor to finish. BTW, for me to write more like this would require voice recognition software and a mic! I have this awful condition in which the voices in my head are speaking at least two paragraphs ahead of my fingers! I started this yesterday morning and after several edits was done in record time! (7-8 hours)
The first draft looked like some dyslexic scribbles only I could have deciphered. As is most of my unedited writing. That’s why I keep my comments so short most of the time.So now you know the rest of the story!
Yea rhumstruck, I get brain race all the time too bro., I just wish my memory would catch up with that brain race, LOL. Anyway rhums. good article you wrote there.
Excellent article and very fitting points.
I couldn’t agree more re these “wannabes” and “agent provocateurs”. Good article.
What’s everyone’s opinion of Ted Cruz? I don’t know much about him, but the few soundbites and speeches of his I’ve seen so far seem good.
Then again, it could be just that – speeches and soundbites. Opinions?
Ad nauseum
Good job, rhumstruck. 🙂
I was about to get mad as hell on this article, then I realized, spending 18+ hours a day interacting with government has likely already added my name to some list. So indeed I am not that which the article speaks.
I shall just continue on doing my own thing, I guess it’s the best way, I don’t claim to be an expert on every bill, but I read each one for myself, and decide myself if it is good or another piece of fascist crap, or UN A21, Obamacare, DSM-5, etc . I hate this crap, most people have no idea how bad it really is.
For example do you know that there are hundreds of bills going through for things like renaming post offices, and simply talking to other countries? The resources and time wasted on this right now is insane, no wonder the reps never have time for listening to the people. Then there’s the National Parks bills, over and over and over making our wilderness into no-go human zones via United Nations Agenda 21, though a plethora of local government or private proxies. This crap literally ought to be Treason. Mixed in all this NOISE are only a hand full of real bills regarding the transfer of land, usually weasel worded crap that needs to be fixed, to build things like a hydro plant.
On top of that, these things truly need to belong to the people, but what is going on is the people PAY for the building of the plant, then the people pay again for the plant’s electricity. All I am saying is it ought belong to those who paid for it, and that it really needs to be consented to by the local people in the location who want it.
However when it comes to fixing dams and levies, I don’t trust anyone but USACE at this point in time. Maybe that crosses your path, it’s tough, it’s my belief, because of what I know, and I can’t expect you to hold my hand.
The people truly are being run by psychopathic children armed to the teeth, since they are already putting us on one list or another, might as well speak up to get rid of the list in the first place.
TFD, I have no idea where you are headed with this. What the hell did I say that pissed you off? Are you one of the wealthy gentry I spoke of? You sure act like I just pissed in your Cheerios. Of course from your comment I gleaned that you are rich, privileged and most probably a capitol hill poseur. Maybe a TROLL offered a bonus to misdirect this conversation. Go kiss your masters d#@%$
WAKE UP DUDE, TRUTH HURTS
they initially rolled me back to 2009 (on archive.org), I’m surprised it’s back to 2011 again (can you see the source of the BS here yet?!) , but some ****er tried to charge $1800 for each domain. That’s why I don’t come back, I already said I made a mistake going 100% black.
If I had money, I’d BE back
I’m liking the direction FTTWR is taking as of late. Great work and informative stuff!
I agree, but sometimes when you been up too long, it’s confusing.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I think the enemy has already begun the fight.
I pray that you don’t mean me.
Great article, but if these guys want to be heroes of New Amerika, what about Ryan Dawson or Les Visible.
Some of the best reading on the internet is on this sight. Props!
Les Visible is the real deal. No agenda but the truth. He embodies the individual, critically thinking solitary mind, the very antithesis of the Matrix. Zero interest in the collective. Talks the talk, walks the walk.
Dawson? I thought so for a while, and he is featured on Boiling Frog’s and WRH, also did a nice doc on 9/11. But then he berates others for thinking critically as well. To this day, he still insists that a plane DID hit the Pentagon and anyone who thinks it was anything else is insane.
Ok, sure, not one piece of wreckage, bodies, luggage, small hole in the building and 85 videos of the “plane” hitting the Pentagon are confiscated. Ryan, am I missing something?
as an aircraft electrician on F-4G’s I don’t think a plane hit the pentagon personally, I think it was a white streak. And they ain’t show Jack yet.
Only thing you missed was that no (real) planes hit the Twin Towers either.
Of that I’m thoroughly convinced.
Great post, rhumstruck!
Ryan Dawson is a d#@k. He posts commentary and videos which evade logic and go against the conclusive investigations of the greatest Doctorates in Physics, Medicine, and Architecture.
Ryan Dawson also makes me question Mike Rivero, and why Mike would want to support a person like Ryan who continually makes such ignorant claims. I am a supporter of free speech, but there needs to be credibility in what you say, and it needs to be backed-up with supporting evidence and facts. Dawson’s pictorial evidence on the Pentagon is laughable because you don’t even need to complete a College Physics 101 course to know that the hollow-point nose of a Boeing 757 cannot fit through a small hole punched through three sections of concrete, steel reinforced walls without sheering-off the wings. Furthermore, kerosene cannot burn hot enough to melt the huge titanium engine hulls of a Boeing 757, or the building steel of the Twin Towers.
http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=29965
Dawson also made other controversial claims: that Sandy Hook was real,
http://www.naturalindependent.com/archives/10482/ryan-dawson-sandy-hook-was-real-morons/
and, that hemp oil cannot cure cancer.
http://www.rys2sense.com/anti-neocons/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=29964
Ryan claims to have read the evidence, which does not support his uneducated, myopic vision. He conveniently avoids the innumerable, evident facts which prove that it COULD NOT HAVE BEEN a Boeing 757 that hit the Pentagon, and that Sandy Hook WAS a false flag with actors, and that hemp oil CAN arrest/cure cancer. We have read many of these articles on this website and others which support these proven facts—there’s no need for me to post them. I hate to even give Ryan Dawson the recognition of being an intentional moron.
I suspect that Dawson is pandering to the establishment in hopes of a political career in Washington D.C. I suppose that Dawson thinks if it worked for Rand Paul, then it will work for him.
BTW: I have also read Les Visible’s articles, and corresponded with him on a few occasions. With no doubt, Les IS the real deal–his writings, music, poems, and videos speak the truth in a most eloquent way.
Les Visible is also known as the Dog Poet correct? If so, I really have no issue with him. I have actually enjoyed stuff from Dog Poet.
May your nose be wet and cold and your bowl full. 🙂
Dawson: Ad naseum per my opening comments in the article.. He is one person whose stuff I refuse to look at for the very reasons you have stated.
Kokesh is an unusual name. While googling to see what Adam’s history might be, where he went to school, where he grew up kind of thing, I came across “kokeshi.” This is a kind of Japanese doll with “ko” meaning child and “keshi” meaning erased. The idea being that historically these dolls were fetishes for infants that were infanticided. It would be a very interesting choice of pseudonyms if Adam Kokesh is not his given name.
My intuition says if you want to get me to join you to march into DC armed, we seriously need to plan better.
I more of the opinion, let DC come out to play off their 10 * 10.
As usual a damn good piece rummy. I follow one man and one man only, Henry Shively and crew. Never deviates from his narrative and can recite our countrys’ history and laws better than 99 percent of any history/political professor. Never once doing the Barny Fife, wanna be, info whores watusi.
Once you meet him, you’ll understand……. Pure american ideals while understanding the importance of the correctly executed drop kick. LOL
And of course I would spell Henrys’ last name wrong. “Shivley”. Hate it when I do that………
Thanks Mark (and everyone else I missed),
Considering the way you and I have butt heads your comment means a lot! 🙂
In another life we must have been a couple of old range bulls fighting for dominance.
(OK I’ll make it easy for those that don’t understand that analogy:
We both want the same thing and neither one of us truly wins or looses. Yet neither one wants to give an inch!)
Henry Shively, thats one man I haven’t truly communicated personally with yet. I do love this website, He’s 100% spot on so far.
not sure how to communicate this yet. Other than in the open. which can be spied on. I have a lot of encryption stuff I collected over the years, and IDEAS as well as coding crap up from scratch as the NEED to solve a problem ARISES.
I don’t like WP, I am / was drupal (before whitehouse.gov)
Over the years, I hear/see about nothing but attacks/exploits on both.
Drupal suffers from custom themes denial, WP suffers from over popularity.
My opinion.
Outstanding Rhum. Well written and researched. Don’t think you’re alone with chicken scratched first drafts. I’m there with you. Heck, I’m using the ‘ol two finger hunt and peck method to type this. My wife assures me I could type faster if I’d set my Guinness down…but I don’t believe her.
LOL. That’s my writing and typing technique, as well.
“type faster if I’d set my Guinness down.”
Hey, don’t blaspheme here!
Nobody and nothing should ever get between a man and his pint!
(Well there are extenuating circumstances, such as being in a fire fight!)
LOL
…or a summons from the IBBC (Itty Bitty Bladder Committee).
At least Kokesh and Jones are doing something rather than being keyboard commandos who will continue to remain not even footnotes in history.
You say we should wait for the battle to come to us. Have you been asleep for the past 20 years? Have you not seen the multitude of videos of police brutality? Are you unaware that BO is murdering Americans with impunity? Gov.org has already brought the battle to us and you, like the frog in the pot, are content in thinking that either the bankers will someday say: “Gee, we should stop being sociopathic money-grubbing, murderous liars.” or perhaps some superhero will fly to earth to save us. Neither scenario is likely. What is likely is that either folks like Koresh will become the catalyst for a revolution by forcing Washington DC to start the violence or, one-by-one various states (NY, CT, NJ….etc.) will be deprived of their 2nd amendment rights until there are no more armed folks left to resist.
What other alternatives do you see?
PS: You wrote: “It was the common man like you and I …” To be grammatically correct it should have read: “It was the common man like you and me…..” ;^)
“At least Kokesh and Jones are doing something rather than being keyboard commandos who will continue to remain not even footnotes in history.
WTF?
Kokesh and Jonesy are lining their pockets that’s what they are doing! This war began, like all wars, quite some time ago. Sheople don’t realize it because the shooting has not yet started. there are millions of americans sound asleep and they will not wake up until the shooting begins.
If we patriots shoot first we will loose the hearts and minds (yes that is oxymoronic) of the slumbering masses.
But if Sotero starts it many slumbering idiots will become our allies.
Use your head for something other than a hat rack. Tactics, logistics, etc will depend on the help of the sheople who if by no other means do nothing else beside keeping their mouths shut about our movements and hopefully informing us of the dictators movements.
I’m just a footnote.
http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://sacxtra.com/
I think Kokesh was sane and on the up and up for a while. Then something, I don’t what what, happened and he lost his sanity.
This is a video where he tears apart Chris Duane. You don’t have to know a thing about Chris Duane or Adam Kokesh, what they do, what they’re about or anything . . . just watch this video. See if this is someone, a “man” you want to aspire to be like. More sad, sad back-stabbing, childish reality TV for the masses.
Does this video embody the essence of a ‘leader’ to anyone? Gandhi, King, RFK were leaders who led by example, who when the spoke, would cause people to literally move into other worlds emotionally. Contrast the old films of them speaking with just this one with Kokesh speaking and gage the magnificent contrast between them. Let me get this straight – this is a “man” leading thousands on a march to DC? Sad, sad, sad, sad, sad. What happened to the real men of the world? These are our future leaders? There is not a day that goes by that I do not weep for the incalculable loss of our world, our planet, our men and our women – real men and real women.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fvE_g6pb9M
Now compare the video above of “the man, the leader” of the impending July 4th march to DC, Adam Kokesh, the one who will lead our entire nation of 330 million to the promised land with the one below of a true man, a true leader. Again, gage the feelings you have between the two, and then realize where we are headed.
some people go for popularity, I went for trying to hold the whole thing together for everyone, I tried to produce videos for bands that didn’t have anything at all, I tried to help people who had no websites, I tried to help people with no networking, no internet access, no webhosting, or even no clue how to protect themselves.
That’s part of what I did. Now I don’t know anymore, I am a drifting fool with no goals in life, bush scared me, then threatened my crap, obama outlawed what I do, that leads to a life of disaster if I don’t get it together soon.
I want to produce music videos for bands. I want to play my own songs in a band, my goals are shattered now.
I’m flinging through the air, woof woof woof woof woof woof woof woof sound (not a dog) twirling through the air.
God bless me or God KILL ME now.
You know what, I’m sorry.
ban me if you think I am the enemy.
I rarely use TOR anymore here. Direct. Look at the LOGS.
One man knows.
-=[ Gee UR right ~p welcome to FTT. ]=-
Or BAN and Condemn. Let me know so I can decide what to do.
What the Heck are you talking/ranting about?
What’s TOR?
Sorry. It was a mis understanding on my part with rhumstruck .
In answer to your question though.
Tor Project: Anonymity Online
https://www.torproject.org/
(I’m sorry Henry, I swear)