Category: Jesus

The Turn of We the People: Think of (All) the Children

9/22/2026

700,000

9/13

Never seen a light like this Reb.
Special.
It has a tube attached.
Charlie said it was a gas.
Davis smoked.
Children running around too Yank.
Kind of a small Knights of the Round Table.
Jeff was a late nighter.
Quiet time.
Plan your destruction time Gus.
And yours Johnny.
War touches all.
How many of us died?
Something like 700,000.
In 48 months Johnny.
Nearly 15,000 a month.
All those sons.
Fathers.
Brothers.
Someone's child Gus.
Everyone had a momma.

Equal in light

Jeff sits here by the fire.
Varina asleep next door.
Their children sleeping in the other room.
Jeff sits here by the light.
While holding the keys of war Gus.
Hard to understand Jeff ignoring the Constitution.
Jeff was against the self-made man.
Lincoln.
Against the idea that a child is its own light.
Couldn't see Betsey and James as equal in light.
Thought Betsey and James inferior Yank.
Damn it Reb.
Jeff?
The whole damn slavery thing.
Slavery economics Gus.
Are economics of oppression.
Usurpers don't think of all the children.
This room tires.
Next.

Absence presence

The 700,000 are missing.
Absence has a presence.
Remember Kenny Reb?
Kennedy Grogan.
Buried in Berryville.
Killed on his 20th birthday.
Assaulting a house of Jesus.
Turned into a fort.
Amen Johnny.
What chance did Kenny have Gus?
Caught up in a world.
Set on fire by Jeff and his ilk.
A treasonous ilk.
One is to think of the children.
When one thinks of the thirty Thousand.
We the People includes all American children.
We can't leave them this anti-American usurpation.
We the People need to be adults about representation.
Think of the American legacy Reb.
And what we are leaving the children.

*Next Up: 29 September part 10/13 The Turn of We the People: Women.

Posted by Bryan W Brickner / Support the US Constitution

The Turn of We the People: Wake Up (Jesus Was Woke)

9/17/2026

Constitution Day 2026

8/13

Den of traitors.
Treason happened here Gus.
It's a small room compared to the others.
Secrets don't like a crowd.
Too many eyes.
And ears.
Indeed.
Which is why anti-republic forces always want We the People asleep.
Eyes closed.
Can't see a thing that way Yank.
Sleep right through the usurpation.
It's Constitution Day.
Smudge Day.
The day We the People need to remember.
A republic for which we stand.
And we stand wide-awake Yank.
Not asleep like before.
Correct.

Asleep to the rule of law

Johnny, does that door lead to the upstairs landing?
Does.
So all the prominent traitors walked through that door.
To meet with Jeff, the chief contemner.
Lee.
Beauregard.
Bragg.
Hood.
All asleep to the rule of law Reb.
Jeff Davis was anti-woke to America’s founding.
Just like the 435 are today.
Jeff would be impressed by today's anti-wokeness.
Admire it even I imagine.
Keep ‘em asleep Jeff would argue.
Don't wake up and read the US Constitution Johnny.
Just be like before.
Trust the liars.
And be the greatest generation to never read the founders.
Asleep at the wheel We the People are.
Asleep.

Jesus was woke

Reb, is that all America has today?
Can't read?
Can't wake up?
Maybe likes being asleep?
Seems so Johnny.
Maybe being anti-woke is a new virtue?
Shame on the anti-woke.
Honor to the woke.
Jesus was woke.
Maybe We the People need to look at our reflection.
Look at ourselves, see ourselves.
Eyes open Gus.
Wake up from the usurpation.
Wake up from the thievery of our rights.
And see again.
Ever higher.

*Next Up: 22 September part 9/13 The Turn of We the People: Think of the Children.

Posted by Bryan W Brickner / Support the US Constitution

The Turn of We the People: Dionysus

7/31/2026

Happened

1/13

Didn't see that happening Johnny.
Me either.
They can move.
Yes they can.
And communicate.
With and without words.
No masks either.
They did admit to singing.
We spent America’s 250th 4th of July in Richmond Virginia.
In the Confederate Executive Mansion.
And not just you and me Johnny.
With two goddesses.
Comedy and Tragedy.
Happened.
Probably forgot all about your stomach flipping, eh Reb?
Mostly.
Lingering?
In a good way.

Chestnuts

They remembered you.
Seems so.
They said so Johnny.
Yeah.
Nice of them.
Didn't feel bad.
Comedy and Tragedy named Mary Chestnut and her diary.
Part of those days.
They also mentioned 12th and Clay.
The Chestnuts had a place on the corner Gus.
Neighbors of the Davises?
Friends too.
Like hang out in these rooms?
Countless times, happy and sad.
The goddesses cleared up why the blood red walls.
And the vine carpeting Yank.
Said it was for a Greek god of wine.
Dionysus.
Fancy name.

Communion

Partier.
So just make the carpets and walls red for the spilling of wine.
Of course.
One thinks of Jesus.
The wine?
Communion.
Others have said so too.
Dionysus like theater Johnny?
The Greeks held theatrical festivals in his honor.
How old is the dude?
Putting me on the spot Yank.
Estimate.
At least 3300 years.
Geepers!
Once upon a time Yank.
Our American spirit is just beginning.
In relation to Dionysus, we would be seven years old.
That explains things.
We ready Yank?
Ready to be ready Reb.

*Next Up: 7 August part 2/13 The Turn of We the People: Keep Moving.

Posted by Bryan W Brickner / Support the US Constitution

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’: Greenland Gap

7/21/2021

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Kennedy Grogan

Part VIII of XIII

“… Here’s a part of me: Kennedy Grogan, C.S.A.”
“In memory of.”
“Killed at Greenland Gap, West Virginia.”
“Where’s that Johnny?”
“About a hundred miles west.”
“Grogan was killed April 25th, 1863.”
“Aged 20 years.”
“There’s no date of birth.”
“Might have been his birthday.”
“The day a Yank …”
“Right.”
“How’d we get here Johnny?”
“What do you mean?”
“Where ‘Mericans like me are killing ‘Mericans like Grogan.”
“Calhoun.”
“Where’d Calhoun learn usurpin’?”
“Yale.”
“A Northern connection.”
“Still.”

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Greenland Gap

“What do you know about Greenland Gap?”
“Yanks heard us Rebs were on the move, so they guarded the mountain gaps.”
“Grogan?”
“Why you being so formal?”
“Kenny then.”
“Kenny was riding with about fifteen hundred Confederate cavalry.”
“How many Yanks held the gap?”
“Around ninety.”
“Ninety?”
“Yank infantry fortified a few houses and a two-story, made of oak timbers, German church.”
“Turned it into a fort.”
“We assaulted the church after nightfall.”
“Kenny?”
“His unit, the 35th, was part of the assault.”
“Kenny was killed assaulting a fortified church?”
“Looks like.”
“Hear them crows?”

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Grumble

“Do.”
“The assault?”
“With the church aflame, and out of ammunition, the Yanks surrendered.”
“Who were the Yanks?”
“Illinois Irish and Virginians who supported the Union.”
“Grogan is Irish.”
“Yes.”
“Irish killing Irish and Virginians killing Virginians.”
“Correct.”
“Got to keep my sense of humor Johnny.”
“We were mad at the surrendered Yanks.”
“What happened?”
“It was becoming a scene until Grumble Jones showed up and put a stop to it.”
“Grumble?”
“The general in charge, a nickname.”
“Grumble said?”
“They fought like brave men and did their duty. They shall have honorable treatment.”
“Let’s step Johnny.”
“Sure …”

Next Up: 21 August and part IX of the series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’: Obelisks and Things.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’: Memorials

5/31/2021

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Jesus Art

Part VI of XIII

“… Whoa.”
“It’s art.”
“Pretty sure it’s Jesus Reb.”
“A representation.”
“So Art looks like Jesus?”
“Sometimes.”
“Wears flowing robes?”
“On occasion.”
“Did Jesus really look like that?”
“All Jewish carpenters dress that way.”
“Reb.”
“Their robes have pockets in the folds for tools.”
“Sacrilege.”
“Hammer at will.”
“You just sinning now Johnny.”
“Jesus has a sense of humor.”
“He’d have to.”
“Flag.”
“Tree …”

Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin': Lastingness

“… Reb, this ain’t skirmishing.”
“You don’t want the point?”
“This is homer time for you.”
“Right Gus.”
“I sense there are Johnny Rebs here.”
“Yes.”
“What’s that feel like?”
“I don’t feel much.”
“Think then Johnny.”
“As a composite spirit, there are too many particulars; it’s not that I don’t feel, it’s just that there’s too much to feel.”
“All the campfires roll into one.”
“Lastingness.”
“In changing something-ness.”
“Let’s visit a Johnny, one of me, and move on.”
“Got one in mind?”
“Do.”
“How about the thirty Thousand?”
“An update, yes …”

Next Up: 21 June and part VII of the series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’: A Coalition of the Constitutionally Willing.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

Usurpation Day 2020: Jesus, George and Tyranny

4/9/2020

Grace is an attribute of Jesus.

The I Ching describes grace as: inside, the strength of simplicity and self-knowledge, outside, the beauty of acceptance and gentleness.

On 9 April 1792, the US House of Representatives couldn’t override President Washington’s veto, so they usurped a right of We the People.

On 9 April 2020, the usurped right to representation according to numbers effects all We the People.

If one uses sex, females are the most underrepresented in the House, composing 51 percent of We the People and only 23 percent representation.

If one uses economics, the middle and lower classes are the most underrepresented.

If one uses constitutionalism, representatives of We the People supporting President Washington and the thirty Thousand are the most underrepresented.

We are no longer a republic: this is tyranny.

End the representation usurpation to become a republic again.

*Next Up: Constitution Day 2020 with Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

2020: Jesus of Nazareth was a liberal, and so was George Washington

1/3/2020

Jesus of Nazareth, son of Marium, was a liberal.

Noah (Nuh) was a conservative, someone who said thou has strayed and chastisement will follow.

George Washington was a liberal.

So here We the People are: Jesus and George, our guiding liberal spirits for a blessed and constitutional 2020.

*Next Up: Usurpation Day.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

We the People and Others: What Would Jesus Do… Deport the Catholics?

3/1/2018

Romans 12:17-21, The Book of the Is (page 40)

Reductio ad absurdum

Sure, the Jesus reference in the title is absurd, but there are defining similarities between Jesus and the Dreamers: because of their parents, both were born somewhere and then live somewhere else.

A Roman Immigration Officer might have asked Jesus some interesting questions, like:
“Who is your father?”
“Immaculate conception?”
“Where is your papyrus showing a Bethlehem birth?"
“You say ‘Three Wise Men’ were witnesses?”
“And what kind of work are you doing in Nazareth these days?”

Or one could read Romans for a Jesus-inspired Christ-like teaching that a constitutional We the People might try to enact; others, Martin Luther for example, have found inspiration and reverence in Paul’s counsel.

There is also the parable Jesus told about The Good Samaritan: this parable supports The Great Commandment (how one should live).

So what would Jesus do?

The teachings of Jesus are a political goal not represented by usurpation. Something like “The Good ‘Merican,” given the Great Commandment, seems the logical goal of a Christian United States of America. By representing We the People in Congress according to numbers, that is, by the law, we would find out what Jesus-inspired ‘Mericans would do … good and/or otherwise.

*Next Up: 9 April and Usurpation Day 2018, Ex Falso Quodlibet / From a Falsehood, Anything (Follows).

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

2020 Update: Movement

2/1/2018

Movement 2020

Movement is a noun.

1. An act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed.

2. A group of people working together to advance their shared political, social and artistic values.

*Next Up: A commentary on 1 March, We the People and Others: What Would Jesus Do… Deport the Catholics?

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

Thereat: Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb, On Our Way Johnny Rebs

12/3/2017

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Thereat Camped

X of XIII

“Nice landing Gus.”
“Quite a trip.”
“Quite.”
“Was that Gettysburg we flew over?”
“Right.”
“You said something, but I couldn’t hear you over the noise.”
“Music.”
“If you say so.”
“You showed some footwork.”
“All that marching Reb.”
“The music varies Gus.”
“Well there’s something to look forward to.”
“I was pointing to the Gettysburg ‘fish hook.’”
“Saw that: formidable.”
“And then Washington DC.”
“Inspiring.”
“Up the Potomac …”
“We passed Harper’s Ferry.”
“… And to Shepherdstown.”
“The Johnnies? – Where are they Reb?”
“Camped a hundred yards over the tree-line.”
“Heard that before.”
“You ready Yank?”
“Sure … just jesting to calm down.”
“Say when.”
“When.”
“This way …”

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Thereat Unknowns

“… Here Gus.”
“Camped?”
“Permanently.”
“Reb?”
“Sorry.”
“An Unknown.”
“Many actually.”
“There are people over there.”
“This is a memorial service.”
“Can they see us?”
“They’re not looking.”
“What if they did?”
“If they look, it’s not likely they’ll see.”
“Some see?”
“Some.”
“Oh.”
“How about you: did you see spirits Gus?”
“What kind of question is that?”
“What kind of answer is that?”
“Not a very good one.”
“Sounds a little like maybe.”
“Maybe … Shepherdstown is near Sharpsburg.”
“Across the Potomac, about two miles.”
“Soldiers buried here from Antietam?”
“There are.”
“Lots of Rebs Reb.”
“Parts of us.”
“Us?”
“What’s a Reb without a Yank?”
“Alive.”
“Interesting.”

Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Thereat In-Formation

“You look to be in-formation.”
“Especially up left.”
“Men at parade rest.”
“Right.”
“Are these flags always up?”
“No, just for the memorial.”
“Feels nice, the remembrance.”
“Not everyone would agree.”
“Why?”
“Contentious.”
“Why?”
“You tell me.”
“I don’t know.”
“What do you see?”
“‘Mericans.”
“Most just see flags.”
“Christians.”
“What else?”
“Looks like an American and Confederate flag at the base of that monument.”
“I see them.”
“Let’s go there.”
“After you Yank.”

*Next Up: Sunday 10 December and Thereat part XI, Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Memories.

Posted by Bryan W. Brickner