 Jefferson Davis knew, so Lincoln knew. Since Lincoln knew, Grant knew. Since Grant knew, Wilson knew. Since Wilson knew, Roosevelt knew. Since Roosevelt knew, Kennedy knew. Since Kennedy knew, … So ask yourself: Since Jefferson Davis knew how to represent We the People like George Washington and the founders, why don’t you? *Next Up: 3 January 2020 and a 2020. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner
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 Strings 11 of 13 “… And let’s talk about Kyd.” “I hear music sometimes Reb.” “Happens.” “Normal?” “Fairly.” “Thanks for the Valkyrie explanation.” “Did you see her wings?” “Seeing her … you know …” “That was probably planned.” “… If the plan was to stun me, it worked.” “Up to that point, you had the drop on me and the other Johnny.” “Once you fired, she started from behind the bullet and overtook it.” “It hit.” “I just remember jawing with you about ‘Who got me killed?’” “Kyd time.” “Go J.” “I want to use you Yank to talk about him.” “Go for it.” “Lincoln asked for volunteers in 1862 after a string of Confederate victories in Virginia.” “Lee.” “Augustus Kotka, citizen from Valparaiso Indiana – “Valpo!” “- Volunteered.” “Did.” “While you were volunteering that September, Kyd was on Jackson’s staff.” “Stonewall.” “There’s more to the string of victories than I can say now.” “Okay.” “Kyd would have known what I know is my point.” “So Kyd had things on his mind, maybe knew things about Lee and Jackson and 1862, that others didn’t know.” “Yes.” “Being a young staff officer, that’s like being a private.” “Carry weight.” “Kyd? Did he carry weight?” “Yes.” “And?” “To the right of the sunrise, maybe ten miles, is South Mountain.” “Interesting name.” “Beyond that, less than 20 miles, is Frederick Maryland.” “What happened there?” “We rested there for three days after crossing the Potomac and leaving Virginia.” “Everyone heard of that crossing.” “Right.” “What’s the problem Reb?” “Orders were …” Next Up: Part 12 on 9 August of the summer series Gus Yank and Johnny Reb Somewhere On Our Way: Kyd. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner  Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Thereat Flags XII of XIII “Whoa Reb!” “What?” “Virginia’s down.” “I see that.” “We should put the flag up.” “Someone should.” “Us.” “No, not us.” “Why?” “Let’s give a human a chance.” “Let a human do it you mean?” “Right.” “Who are these two?” “Many things really.” “There’s no battle flag, like the others: was he a Johnny?” “He was a Johnny … and also a Confederate.” “Why no flags?” “Bit of a mystery.” “There’s another flag too.” “I see that Yank.” “One flag down, two missing and another backgrounding.” “Plays like a riddle.”  Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Thereat Characterize “They lived a long life: what did they do Reb?” “I’ll tell a quick version and then we’ll move on.” “Characterize Johnny.” “See when they were born?” “1815.” “So in 1855 and ’65 …” “… They were a pair of 40 and then 50 year olds.” “Alexander represented Virginia in the US House of Representatives.” “US Rep? – When?” “One term, 1859 to ‘61.” “John Brown happened around here and then.” “And Lincoln was elected in 1860.” “Alexander: what did he do next?” “Enlisted, was commissioned, and assigned to General Jackson’s staff.” “That was fast.” “Didn’t last long.” “Why?” “Alexander switched back to politics; he represented Virginia in the Confederate Provisional Congress and then again in the Confederate States House of Representatives.” “Wow.” “After the war, he came back too.” “How?” “US Pardon Clerk.” “Mysteries abounding Johnny.” “This way to the next one.” “With ya …”  Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Thereat Mysteries “… To another young Reb.” “Another member of Jackson’s staff too.” “Who’s the Kyd?” “Remember Ferry Hill Yank?” “Fairy Hill, of course.” “Kyd grew-up there, in Maryland.” “What did he do there?” “Road the ferries some I imagine.” “Road the Fairies?” “Back-and-forth, that and farming.” “Fairies worked the farm?” “Moved goods Gus – and you know about ferries.” “Why so sure Johnny?” “You were a Yank for three years.” “So?” “All Yanks know ferries.” “Then all Rebs know Fairies.” “Agreed.” “What was the point?” “Kyd grew-up across the Potomac, in Maryland –” “– And he’s buried in West Virginia.” “Yes.” “Why?” “Henry Kyd Douglas, as far as I know, is the most complicated Johnny Reb there is.” “Is not was?” “Kyd’s still a mystery.” “How so?” “It’s complicated.” “Try.” “Not here Gus.” “Where?” “Somewhere?” “Sure … ready when you are.” “Thanks … Ready.” “After you Reb.” “This way …” *Next Up: Sunday 24 December and the Thereat finale (part XIII), Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Somewhere. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner  "No Taxation Without Representation" Someone who disrespects is showing respect for another value. For instance, the phrase “No Taxation Without Representation” animated the American Revolution. Taxation without representation is what monarchs and other toughies do and value; representation with taxation is a republican value. So when We the People are disrespected, that is taxed without constitutional representation according to numbers, a usurper is actually showing respect to a monarchic mentality that we can call anti-republican and anti-USA.  President Abraham Lincoln February 1865 The same dis is observable in having Tax Day and the day Abraham Lincoln died coincide: usurpers did that, not republicans. One can say Lincoln saved our Republic from killing itself; having Tax Day on his death day shows a lack of humility on the part of the usurpers. Simply put, it is arrogance. April 15th is a double Republic dis: taxation without representation and it mocks the accomplishments and sacrifice of Abraham Lincoln. We are, by the logic of this day, the Usurped States of America and not the united ones. *Next Up: This Wednesday April 19th and some serotonin receptor science. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner  Usurpation Day 2017: Arendt Footnotes #8 Two hundred and twenty-five years ago, on 9 April 1792, Congress initiated the representation usurpation we still live under, the one against We the People and our birthright, constitutional representation according to numbers. Usurpation of representation is illegal, immoderate and unconstitutional. Usurpation of representation is a stolen American birthright. Usurpation of representation is an act of war against We the People. Speak your birthright America: for those who believe in the US Constitution, let 2020 begin today. Hannah Arendt The Human Condition Section 24: The Disclosure Of The Agent In Speech And Action (177, bold added) To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin (as the Greek word archein, “to begin,” “to lead,” and eventually “to rule,” indicates), to set something into motion (which is the original meaning of the Latin agere). Because they are initium, newcomers and beginners by virtue of birth, men take initiative, are prompted into action. [Initium] ergo ut esset, creatus est homo, ante quem nullus fuit (“that there be a beginning, man was created before whom there was nobody”), said Augustine in his political philosophy. (footnote 2) This beginning is not the same as the beginning of the world; (footnote 3) it is not the beginning of something but of somebody, who is a beginner himself. With the creation of man, the principle of beginning came into the world itself, which, of course, is only another way of saying the principle of freedom was created when man was created but not before. 2. De civitate Dei xii. 20. 3. According to Augustine, the two were so different that he used a different word to indicate the beginning which is man (initium), designating the beginning of the world by principium, which is the standard translation for the first Bible verse. As can be seen from De civitate Dei xi. 32, the word principium carried for Augustine a much less radical meaning; the beginning of the world “does not mean that nothing was made before (for the angels were),” whereas he adds explicitly in the phrase quoted above with reference to man that nobody was before him. Next Up: Saturday April 15th and a 2020: Tax Day Disses Our Revolution and Abraham Lincoln. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner  Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW Divided Part 11 of 13 “We was born into usurpation, weren’t we Johnny?” “We were.” “That’s like being born into slavery.” “Same power.” “How’s that?” “Same power that Plato was up against.” “Might makes right.” “Yes Yank.” “So it’s always been something about the people.” “Divide and conquer usually.” “Ouch.” “The people was sort of a derogatory phrase Gus.” “Bad.” “Slaveholders would even refer to their slaves as ‘the people.’” “Like who?” “Lee.” “Robert E.?” “It was common Gus.” “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” “Correct.”  Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW House “Lincoln.” “1858.” “Fifty-eight Reb?” “When Lincoln was running for the Senate.” “He lost.” “And then won the presidency in 1860.” “Did Lincoln coin the Divided House phrase?” “No, Sam Houston used it.” “Heard of him.” “Texas Governor who wouldn’t rebel in 1860.” “Who else?” “Thomas Paine.” “Common Sense.” “Thomas Hobbes.” “Never heard of him.” “Saint Augustine.” “Sounds vaguely familiar.” “The Gospels.” “Heard of them.” “Mathew and Mark.” “Oh my.” “Lincoln was quoting Jesus Gus.” “Smart man Johnny.”  Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb OOW United “It mostly worked.” “’Cept for the war.” “Blame the usurpation.” “Usurpation divides We the People.” “That is its purpose Gus.” “And today in 2017?” “Worse.” “Worse?” “Worse as measured by the constitutional definition of We the People.” “So our Republic prefers usurpation to constitutional representation?” “Our Republic is stuck in usurpation.” “Sounds like Tory Crown.” “Correct Gus.” “So to get America unstuck?” “Use our exceptionalism.” “Our exceptionalism?” *Next Up: 12 March and part 12 of Republican Values: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Census. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner  Stephen Young and Bryan Brickner are activists and have been talking and writing together about the US Republic for more than a decade; Bryan has a Halloween 2016 dream (for the third year) and again calls Steve for help … Bryan: Steve! Steve: What!? Bryan: I had that Halloween dream again. Steve: Calm down ~ recurring dreams can be useful: what happened this time? Bryan: Well, it was Halloween 2016 again – Steve: – Because you saw the stage and big banner Halloween 2016 Presidential Debate. Bryan: You remember. Steve: And it’s just prior to the November 2016 election. Bryan: Right again. Steve: What was different or new? Bryan: There was only one US flag and not two; no candidates or podiums either, just an empty stage with the flag centered. Steve: Was the citizenry there like the first year? Bryan: No. Steve: Was John Finley Pettigrew there, you know, like the last times? Bryan: Yeah, Pettigrew was, still young, dressed in revolutionary garb and unarmed. He was mostly motionless with his focus on the stage. Steve: Mostly motionless? Bryan: There’s this one moment when he … Steve: What? Bryan: … He stops General Washington. Steve: How does a Virginian like Pettigrew, who was 18 in 1776 when he joined the revolution, stop General Washington? Bryan: With his hand. Steve: Oh … how so? Bryan: Well, it’s Pettigrew, Washington and Morgan in the … Steve: General Morgan, Thunderbolt of the Revolution? Bryan: Right. Steve: Who’s all there? Bryan: There’s Pettigrew, Washington and Morgan in the front and Lee and Lincoln standing behind them. Steve: Okay … Bryan: So Pettigrew puts his hand out as Washington makes a move for the stage. Steve: Interesting: did the musical Ozzy then show up? Bryan: Music did but no Ozzy – a different mode this year. Steve: A Depeche Mode? Bryan: You guessed it ~ Freestate. Steve: Step out of your cage and onto the stage … Bryan: … It’s time to start playing your part.  John Finley Pettigrew Steve: Patient Pettigrew.
Bryan: A sign for We the People. Steve: What happened next? Bryan: It ended like the other times: the scene switches to Pettigrew’s headstone and then I awake. Steve: Hmmm … sounds okay to me, you know, with the playing your part bit. Bryan: Let your senses overflow ‘eh? Steve: Freedom’s a state. Bryan: I hear ya’ ~ just open your mind and let yourself go. Steve: Sounds good Bryan ~ Happy Halloween 2015! Bryan: Thanks and you too Steve! ~ Video: Depeche Mode's Freestate *Next Up: Saturday 31 October and The Story of George Hempington and the First Hempoween. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner The Heal Union spring series continues with CHARLIE.  Lincoln in 1858 You fell into our arms We tried but there was nothing we could do After the surrender on the 9th of April, Lee met with Grant on the 10th; they talked for half an hour about the other Confederate forces still in the field. On the 12th Lee broke camp at Appomattox and started for Richmond; he bivouacs with Longstreet (his “Old War Horse”) in the evening and it would be the last time they spend together. By the 14th Lee reaches his brother’s farm in Powhatan County; the house is full so Lee insists on sleeping in his tent. As Lee sleeps in his tent for the last time, Lincoln attends the theater and is shot. On the 15th Lee rides into a burned Richmond and witnesses the damage. He rode by Bell Isle prison camp, now deserted of federal prisoners, and through a city-mile leveled by fire. A crowd had gathered and followed him (with applause and appreciation) to a place to stay, 707 East Franklin Street. Lee turned his horse over to an aide, entered a gate, and climbed a few steps; there he paused, bowed politely, and entered the house. Lincoln died on the 15th at 7:22 a.m.  Lee and staff: 16 April 1865 Anti-Republic energy killed Lincoln; they tried to kill the Republic by dividing it: they failed. Like Lee, Lincoln appears to be someone you wanted on your side; in this case, unlike Lee, Lincoln lived his life for the Republic. Nothing we could do All evidence has been buried All tapes have been erased But your footsteps give you away *Next Heal Union on 18 April: 240th Revere, Dawes and the speech of His Majesty’s subjects. Posted by Bryan W. Brickner |
AuthorBrickner has a 1997 political science doctorate from Purdue University, cofounded Illinois NORML in 2001, and was a 2007 National NORML Cannabis Advocate Awardee. He is also publisher and coauthor of the 2011 book banned by the Illinois Department of Corrections – The Cannabis Papers: A Citizen’s Guide to Cannabinoids. Archives
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