Pour illustrer le 4 juillet 2017 aux USA et le texte de PhG \u00e0 ce propos du 5 juillet 2017<\/a>, nous reprenons les deux textes cit\u00e9s, « Is America Still a Nation ?<\/a><\/em> » de Patrick Buchanan et « We Must Declare Independence<\/a><\/em> » de Ron Paul. Comme on l’imagine ais\u00e9ment, ces deux textes explorent et d\u00e9plorent, sous des formes diff\u00e9rentes, la dissolution catastrophique des États-Unis en revenant aux origines pour mieux faire appr\u00e9cier la chute vertigineuse dont nous connaissons aujourd’hui les ultimes al\u00e9as. Ces deux textes sont \u00e0 lire et \u00e0 m\u00e9diter tant ils illustrent parfaitement l’effondrement d’une puissance sans \u00e9gale dans l’Histoire, auquel nous assistons directement, comme l’on observe une \u00e9ruption volcanique ou un tsunami<\/em> historiques, propre \u00e0 bouleverser effectivement l’Histoire.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ainsi continuons-nous \u00e0 insister de mani\u00e8re constante sur la crise de l’am\u00e9ricanisme, sur la dissolution des États-Unis d’Am\u00e9rique que tant d’esprit ignorent par incomp\u00e9tence ou veulent ignorer par incons\u00e9quence. Nous le r\u00e9p\u00e9tons comme nous cessons de le faire : il n’y a rien de plus important comme \u00e9v\u00e9nement dans le monde, aujourd’hui, que l’effondrement am\u00e9ricaniste et la dissolution des États-Unis d’Am\u00e9rique. Le texte de Patrick Buchanan est du 3 juillet 2017 sur son site Buchanan.org<\/em> et celui de Ron Paul du m\u00eame 3 juillet 2017 sur son site RonPaulInstitute.org<\/em> du m\u00eame 3 juillet 2017.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n _________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In the first line of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson speaks of \u00ab\u00a0one people.\u00a0\u00bb The Constitution, agreed upon by the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia in 1789, begins, \u00ab\u00a0We the people…\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n And who were these \u00ab\u00a0people\u00a0\u00bb?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In Federalist No. 2, John Jay writes of them as \u00ab\u00a0one united people … descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs…\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If such are the elements of nationhood and peoplehood, can we still speak of Americans as one nation and one people?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n We no longer have the same ancestors. They are of every color and from every country. We do not speak one language, but rather English, Spanish and a host of others. We long ago ceased to profess the same religion. We are Evangelical Christians, mainstream Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Mormons, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists, agnostics and atheists.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Federalist No. 2 celebrated our unity. Today’s elites proclaim that our diversity is our strength. But is this true or a tenet of trendy ideology?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n After the attempted massacre of Republican Congressmen at that ball field in Alexandria, Fareed Zakaria wrote: \u00ab\u00a0The political polarization that is ripping this country apart\u00a0\u00bb is about \u00ab\u00a0identity … gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation (and) social class.\u00a0\u00bb He might have added — religion, morality, culture and history.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Zakaria seems to be tracing the disintegration of our society to that very diversity that its elites proclaim to be its greatest attribute: \u00ab\u00a0If the core issues are about identity, culture and religion … then compromise seems immoral. American politics is becoming more like Middle Eastern politics, where there is no middle ground between being Sunni or Shiite.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Among the issues on which we Americans are at war with one another — abortion, homosexuality, same-sex marriage, white cops, black crime, Confederate monuments, LGBT rights, affirmative action.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Was the discovery of America and conquest of this continent from 1492 to the 20th century among the most glorious chapters in the history of man? Or was it a half-millennium marked by mankind’s most scarlet of sins: the genocide of native peoples, the enslavement of Africans, the annihilation of indigenous cultures, the spoliation of a virgin land?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Is America really \u00ab\u00a0God’s Country\u00a0\u00bb? Or was Barack Obama’s pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, justified when, after 9\/11, he denounced calls of \u00ab\u00a0God Bless America!\u00a0\u00bb with the curse \u00ab\u00a0God Damn America!\u00a0\u00bb?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n With its silence, the congregation seemed to assent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In 1954, the Pledge of Allegiance many of us recited daily at the end of noon recess in the schoolyard was amended to read, \u00ab\u00a0one nation, under God, indivisible.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Are we still one nation under God? At the Democratic Convention in Charlotte to renominate Barack Obama, a motion to put \u00ab\u00a0God\u00a0\u00bb back into the platform was hooted and booed by half the assembly.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n With this July 4 long weekend, many writers have bewailed the animus Americans exhibit toward one another and urged new efforts to reunite us. Yet, recall again those first words of Jefferson in 1776:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them…\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Are we approaching such a point? Could the Constitution, as currently interpreted, win the approval of two-thirds of our citizens and three-fourth of our states, if it were not already the supreme law of the land? How would a national referendum on the Constitution turn out, when many Americans are already seeking a new constitutional convention?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n All of which invites the question: Are we still a nation? And what is a nation? French writer Ernest Renan gave us the answer in the 19th century:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle. Two things … constitute this soul, this spiritual principle. One is the past, the other is the present. One is the possession in common of a rich legacy of memories; the other is present consent, the desire to live together, the desire to continue to invest in the heritage that we have jointly received.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0Of all cults, that of the ancestors is the most legitimate: our ancestors have made us what we are. A heroic past with great men and glory … is the social capital upon which the national idea rests. These are the essential conditions of being a people: having common glories in the past and a will to continue them in the present; having made great things together and wishing to make them again.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Does this sound at all like us today?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Watching our Lilliputians tearing down statues and monuments, renaming buildings and streets, rewriting history books to replace heroes and historical truths with the doings of ciphers, are we disassembling the nation we once were?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u00ab\u00a0One loves in proportion to the sacrifices that one has committed and the troubles that one has suffered,\u00a0\u00bb writes Renan, \u00ab\u00a0One loves the house that one has built and that one passes on.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Are we passing on the house we inherited — or observing its demolition?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Happy Fourth. And God bless the USA.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n ________________________<\/p>\n<\/p>\n As Independence Day comes around again we should spend a few moments between barbecue and fireworks to think about the meaning of independence. The colonists who rebelled against the British Crown were, among other things, unhappy about taxation. Yet, as economist Gary North points out, the total burden of British imperial taxation was about one-to-two percent of national income.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Some 241 years later, Washington claims more of our money as its own than King George could have ever imagined. What do we get in this bargain? We get a federal government larger and more oppressive than before 1776, a government that increasingly views us as the enemy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Think about NSA surveillance. As we have learned from brave whistleblowers like William Binney and Edward Snowden, the US intelligence community is not protecting us from foreigners who seek to destroy our way of life. The US intelligence community is itself destroying our way of life. Literally every one of our electronic communications is captured and stored in vast computer networks. Perhaps they will be used against \u00ab\u00a0dissidents\u00a0\u00bb in the future who question government tyranny.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n We have no privacy in our computers or our phones. If the government wants to see what we are doing at any time, it simply switches on our phone camera or computer camera – or our \u00ab\u00a0smart\u00a0\u00bb television. Yet today we continue to hear, \u00ab\u00a0I’ve got nothing to hide.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In a recent interview on our Liberty Report, Edward Snowden made the excellent point that, \u00ab\u00a0saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Think about the TSA. The freedom to travel is fundamental, and our Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures is the law of the land. But if you dare to exercise that right by purchasing an air ticket, you are treated like a Guantanamo Bay detainee. Don’t dare question as the TSA agents commit acts that would be crimes were they done by anyone else. Yet so many Americans still believe this is what it takes to be \u00ab\u00a0safe.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Think about the military industrial complex. The US government spends more on its military empire than much of the rest of the world combined. Our so-called mortal enemy Russia spends ten cents to every dollar we spend on weapons of war. Yet we are told we must spend more! Imagine the amazing peaceful scientific discoveries that might be made were so many researchers and scientists not on the government payroll designing new ways to end life on earth.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Think about the Fed. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 the US dollar has lost some 98 percent of its value. Is the destruction of our currency not a cruel form of tyranny, hitting hardest those who can least afford it?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I think it’s time for us to declare our independence from an oppressive government that seeks to control our money and our lives in ways unimaginable to those who rebelled against the British Crown in 1776. Our revolution is peaceful, and it concentrates on winning hearts and minds one at a time. But it marches on. We must reclaim the spirit of independence every day and every night and intensify the struggle against those who seek to impose tyranny upon us.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ode pour une nation d\u00e9funte Pour illustrer le 4 juillet 2017 aux USA et le texte de PhG \u00e0 ce propos du 5 juillet 2017, nous reprenons les deux textes cit\u00e9s, « Is America Still a Nation ? » de Patrick Buchanan et « We Must Declare Independence » de Ron Paul. 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Is America Still a Nation?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Patrick J. Buchanan<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
We Must Declare Independence<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Ron Paul<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"