The Anatomy of Entropy Short History of The Deterioration of The USA
By Al Cronkrite The Covenant News ~ May 06, 2008
Each one of the state governments of the original 13 colonies in Colonial America made the Christian religion a prominent part of their constitutions. Some states made Christianity a requirement for elected office. At the time the Constitution was crafted the fledgling nation was almost entirely Christian.
That label, however, did not properly describe the makeup of the citizenry. There were several Protestant denominations and in the late Eighteenth Century most were Arminian, antinomian, and nominal. When God’s Law and God’s sovereignty are ignored, Christianity is hollowed out and fractured Christianity leads to individual Biblical interpretation, disagreement, and the proliferation of denominations. The First Amendment to the Constitution forbade congress from establishing a religion as the states had already done; freedom of religion opens the door for national disobedience to God’s First Commandment.
There was great excitement, great opportunity and vast lands to be occupied but it was a troubled nation that ventured into the Nineteenth Century. Indian wars marked large portions of the continent as white settlers with aid from the government advanced their settlements westward. America was victorious in the Revolutionary War but the English were still at war with France and since France supported the colonies and continued as a major trading partner, England continued to be a thorn in the side. In 1812 the United States again declared war on England.
The genocidal march to the Pacific involved the extermination of hundreds of thousands of indigenous Indians and the annexation of large sections of land. For two years in the mid-1840s the United States and Mexico fought a war along the Texas border. When U. S. forces advanced into Mexico City, Mexico capitulated. The War ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which was imposed by the United States and ceded California, New Mexico and much of Texas for the sum of $15 million. Nearly 14,000 U. S. soldiers died and 25,000 Mexicans. In 1853 the Gasden purchase added parts of New Mexico and Arizona not included in the GH Treaty.
During the Nineteenth Century imperialistic war and killing were constant companions. In 1861 President Lincoln started a civil war in order to impose Northern will on the South and to keep the Southern States from seceding from the Union. The war created a slow-growing governmental cancer in the new republic.
The Lincoln Administration ignored the Constitution, trampled states rights, and was guilty of grievous atrocities. His armies ruthlessly raped the South, cities were burned, and women were violated. Six hundred thousand young men were killed, 470 thousand were wounded and at least 50,000 civilians died in a needless internecine conflict. Families were disrupted, taxes were increased, civility was threatened, government was empowered, and the checks and balances built into the nation were seriously eroded.
Leaders of the more rural South were openly Christian men who fought gallantly against a larger, better equipped army. In the end the brute force of the industrial north overcame the sacrificial resistance of the pastoral south crowning an imperialistic spirit.
President Lincoln cemented an enduring federalism and tyrannical disobedience into United States history.
Barbaric actions birthed in the Civil War carried over into the Indian Wars during the later half of the Nineteenth Century and into the rape of the Philippines which began in 1899. Water boarding was first used by United States forces during the Philippine conflict. It was said to have originated with the Spanish and was called the “water cure”. Of this procedure Mark Twain wrote, “…the torturing of Filipinos by the awful "water-cure," for instance, to make them confess -- what? Truth? Or lies? How can one know which it is they are telling? For under unendurable pain a man confesses anything that is required of him, true or false, and his evidence is worthless.” United States casualties were 4234 with 2818 wounded. Philippine military casualties were put at 12 to 20,000 with civilian dead between 200 thousand and 1.5 million. The war in the Philippines lasted until 1914 and was almost immediately succeeded by the First World War.
It was President Woodrow Wilson who campaigned against becoming involved in the European war who led us into it. His regime was pivotal in shaping the politics of the United States during the Twentieth Century. The Federal Reserve System successfully coiled itself around the government in 1913 and the tentacles of powerful foreign forces began to pull the strings on what became a puppet government. United States joined WW I in 1917. Two years later the war ended with 40 million wounded and 20 million dead. Wilson followed Lincoln’s totalitarian policies by arresting some 170 thousand citizens for opposing the war (some for utterances inside their own homes) and depriving about 60 newspapers of second-class mailing rights. He sanctioned warrantless searches and interrogations by the quasi-public American Protective League which was empowered by the Justice Department to spy on Americans who failed to buy Liberty Bonds or spoke out against the government. He supported Women’s Suffrage, Zionism, and the League of Nations. After several years of being incapacitated by a stroke in 1924 he died “feeling that he had lied to the American people and that his motives for joining the war had been in vain” because the League of Nations had failed.
During the 1920s prohibition spawned speakeasies and Flappers became popular. The roaring twenties roared into a major moral decline.
In 1929 the roaring stopped and the succeeding three years saw a drop in the stock market similar to today’s real estate decline. Ostensibly to slow the boom the Fed began to raise interest rates and on October 24th investors began to realize that high values had created an over inflated bubble and they began to sell. By November the market had gone from 400 to 145 wiping our $5 billion in share value. By the end of the year $16 billion had been lost.
Since the banks had invested their customer’s deposits in the stock market, the steep decline wiped out depositor funds leaving the banks insolvent. Ten thousand banks failed and billions of dollars in deposits were lost.
The depression brought President Franklin D. Roosevelt, another pivotal leader. Wilson brought us the Federal Reserve, World War One and the income tax and FDR brought us the New Deal, World War II and big government socialism. He confiscated gold, closed the banks, brought in social security, deficit spending, the FDIC (taxpayer bailout for banks), Federal Emergency Relief, the National Youth Administration, Home owners loans, Farm Credit, Federal Housing Authority and several other enduring government programs. He packed the Supreme Court, recognized Communist Russia, sent troops to Europe, and supported the United Nations, unionism, and Zionism. He was loved by those who received government largess in a time of great need and hated by those whose wealth was confiscated to provide it. He created wide popular dependency on the federal government and was an enemy to freedom and free enterprise.
World War II followed the “war to end all wars” in a few scant years and the “city on a hill” leapt into another conflict that was even more lethal than the first. The war not only involved Europe but also Japan and China. The total figures on dead and wounded could never be accurately estimated. As is always the case in modern warfare, more civilians were killed than soldiers and the totals were in the millions.
An attempt to entangle United States in the League of Nations failed following WW I but was quickly resurrected following WWII in the form of the United Nations (UN). The UN was successful in gaining US support and, accompanied by a measure of mystery, it almost immediately got involved with the new nation of Israel and the division of Korea. North Korea invaded South Korea in the late 1940s and in 1950 President Truman sent US troops to enforce UN mandates (UN involvement was not publicized). During the next three years the “forgotten war” was responsible for the wounding of over 90 thousand and the killing of close to 40 thousand US soldiers. Casualties on both sides totaled up to a million an a half with even higher quantities of civilians. Read about it here.
The conspiracy to create world government promoted by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was the engine behind the United Nations. The vehicle was the United States and the methods were multifarious including wars and police actions. The Federal Reserve System provided needed financing and its shadowy controllers pulled the strings. The result was a continuing series of senseless conflicts that killed our youth and squandered our wealth.
In 1963 the U.S. violated all military wisdom and became involved in a ground war in Vietnam. It was a quagmire that killed and wounded 350 thousand U. S. soldiers and was responsible for the deaths of millions of civilians. Accomplishing nothing, U. S. forces suffered an ignominious defeat.
Most U.S. citizens are not and were not aware that their nation was being used as a lethal weapon to cow the world into accepting the yoke of a hidden financial cabal seeking to gain tighter control over the world. Since the Federal Reserve System was created United States has become the world’s policeman exerting power whenever and wherever they are directed. The goal seems to be two fold: One, to bring the entire world under the same control that now controls the United States, and Two, to create a chaos within the nation that will convince the citizens to give up sovereignty and allow the conspirators total sway.
Between the Vietnam War and the first President Bush’s announcement that his coalition invading Iraq involved a “New World Order”, our military was involved in Lebanon, the Dominican Republic, Libya, Grenada, Iran, and Panama.
On September 11, 2001 fuel laden aircraft crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and an interminable War on Terror was birthed. Between the Bush father’s first Iraq War and the son’s Second Iraq War our military was involved in Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan, and Serbia.
In spite of the spate of Biblical stories involving God’s military intervention on the side of His people, it is His intention that His people live in peace. King David was a man after God’s own Heart but he was a warrior and God would not allow His Temple to be built by a man whose hands were stained with blood. There is a time for war and a time for peace but peace is always God’s objective. Blessed are the peacemakers.
The family is the basic unit of government in God’s order with all other units being responsible for ensuring the family can enjoy peace and safety. Fathers are the source of home government. Wars disrupt this order. When fathers go off to war families are left without headship leaving them less able to groom future fathers and mothers.
Absence of fathers is not the only problem. The barbarities of war tarnish the sensibilities of Christian men making them like King David, less peaceable and less able to instill the precepts of peace in their families.
Wars are also inimical to God’s social order. Without men, women are thrust into leadership roles and left vulnerable to exploitation. Once the roles of the genders are reversed they are difficult to restore.
Children who grow up without fathers never witness the proper role of men and are handicapped in understanding their responsibilities. Discipline is a problem for women and rebellion becomes more common when men are absent.
Deterioration in the basic culture is not the only malignant result of war. Imperialism and bankruptcy are close friends. Wars are costly and foreign wars are an ultimate extravagance.
The powerful, invisible hand that urged our mothers to enter the work force, put our children in government schools, fomented and financed wars, opened our borders to illegal immigrants, supported debauchery, censored our news, subverted our government, championed multi-culturalism, killed our culture, imprisoned our churches, and controlled our elections may now be poised to create a world financial emergency that will pound a nail in the coffin of our freedom.
Money has always been an essential ingredient in the conduct of warfare but in our time it has a new and more powerful role. In urban societies money sustains life. Without money families starve to death. With millions living in cities, central bankers have power to sustain life or cause death. Money still finances wars but money is now a lethal weapon.
For older Americans who remember the United States during the 1950s it is difficult to correlate what we have become with what we were during those few years of peace and stability.
In a few short years the nation our European ancestors built with sweat, tears, and sacrifice will be controlled by people whose ancestors came from lands that speak other languages and have other cultures. This polyglot knows nothing of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. They know nothing of the individual freedom Christianity brought to the world. Many are products of cultures that do not have a word for altruism. Some have never known an honest government employee. The only interest they have in the United States is in siphoning off as much wealth as their industrious labor can earn. Their presence destroys our culture and weakens our nation.
Congressman Cliff Stearns, our representative in Washington, DC, recently sent out an email lamenting the high cost of gasoline. This is his explanation “The high price of gasoline results from the cost of crude oil, the world demand and supply for oil, our limited refining capacity, and taxes.” Stearns supports the War in Iraq and has a vested interest in keeping the truth from his constituents. Nations that engage in frequent warfare regularly debase their currencies. United States is no exception. Inflation (increasing the number of monetary units in circulation) is the biggest contributor to the high cost of gasoline. Inflation is a hidden form of taxation which amounts to burglary by the Federal Government. Prices are going up because the value of our money is going down.
The foregoing is a condensed history of the incremental deterioration of the United States of America, a nation that, in spite of its many flaws, in its formative years, managed to honor and to a great extent obey the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
A huge majority of the citizens of the United States always claimed to be followers of King Jesus and God’s Word, the Bible, could be found in almost every home. When the Puritans and Pilgrims were overrun by the lawless humanism of heretical religions the Book that contained the formula for halting the slide into darkness was partitioned into a comfortable doctrine that appealed to itching ears. Real Christianity was mortally ill before the Constitution was written and has never recovered.
Yes, gentle reader, it is the Church of Jesus Christ that is vested with the responsibility of confronting evil in God’s creation and its sins of omission are responsible for our present plight. Partitioning the Bible is blasphemous. The Bible is God’s Word – all of it. Christians whose sins are forgiven and who know God’s ineffable Grace are to obey God’s Laws and seek to bring His entire creation into accord with His Will (His Law is His Will). God’s Word teaches us that confrontation and rebuke are necessary in maintaining obedience. Confrontation and rebuke are a bit like legitimate warfare. The object is to create peace and order through righteousness. It is the duty of the Church of Jesus Christ to confront despotism with strong and consistent rebuke and clear alternatives. Both the rebuke and the clearly annunciated alternatives are and have been sinfully missing.
Hard times are coming. The wealth of the middle class is being quickly drained away and laws are set in place to enslave the people of the United States in a police state. Concentration camps have been built, Habeas Corpus has been rescinded, and torture has been authorized. Unlike the unconstitutional actions of Presidents Wilson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt, the presidents of our era can now commit the same atrocities without breaking the law.
Sinful omissions of the past are coming home to roost and the consequences will not be pretty!
