Peaceful Night

Dawn’s concert is done and she seems to be taking it rather well. Gentle withdrawals.

It was titled “Silent Night, Holy Night”. Saturday’s snow was moved out of the way for the Sunday concert but it was cold. Traditional music events like this are not usually attended by young whippersnappers. Refined tastes bring fragile folks and stupid shoes so I had to offer an arm to Franklin County’s songbird over the ice patches.

Some folks in history would envy the inconvenience of an ice patch in a parking lot. In 1914 Germans were fighting the rest of Europe (over-simplification). All year long I think of a movie, Joyeux Noel (2005). It’s a French movie about the Christmas truce. Maybe it’s a hint as to why we fight countries with different cultures and religions nowadays. The Germans and the British had their religion in common.

The sickos in DC probably fear a scenario like the Christmas truces of World War I. They do a good job of prepping gullible people to see themselves and others as simple parts of a whole rather than sovereign individual people.

On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day of 1914 British and German soldiers could hear each other singing carols in their muddy trenches. They sounded human. Gradually they emerged, trudged through the devastated landscape, and shook hands. They exchanged gifts of cigarettes, candy, and booze. They found something fairly round and played soccer.

Records of diaries and personal accounts verify some 100,000 soldiers disobeyed their superior officers up and down a nearly 500 mile front to spontaneously be a fellow human. However, officers and politicians won out and the war raged on. The technology improved to include chlorine gas and other more sophisticated weapons.

I’ve found over the years that rules rule. When we all know agreed-upon limits, it is much easier to avoid conflict. Imagine a baseball game where being close to the bag is good enough.

U.S. servicemen take an oath to support and obey the Constitution. The case of the Venezuelan speed boats pits the Constitution against politicians’ and officers’ opinions in the heat of the moment. Could there be a self-regulating system that reins in the spending of cash and lives?

Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold in order to manipulate currency to pay for the Vietnam War. When taxes fail to finance the killing machine, the war industry demands a solution. Without a connection to a commodity like gold, the printing press is a way to spend like crazy. However, more money means each dollar is worth less. It’s called inflation. But it’s pronounced higher prices and it’s a tax, like tariffs.

Following the rules has benefits way beyond making us proud to have done the right thing. The military would be thrown into chaos if each soldier analyzed his orders before obeying them. That is why they are hounding Senator Mark Kelly. He is encouraging soldiers to choose which orders to obey.

This should feed back to the so-called leaders of our country and teach them to choose their spending with more care. Income tax and the Federal Reserve both began in 1913, giving these fiends a blank check.

In business if demand is slack, they cut production. If servicemen recite an oath to support and obey the Constitution and it reads that only Congress may declare war, what should they do? Should they pull the trigger anyway? In the Nuremberg Trials, the “following orders” excuse didn’t fly. Wouldn’t we all be grateful if the NAZI soldiers had seen through the propaganda?

This lawlessness puts our country in a dangerous position where an actual threat cannot be met by a military full of amateur lawyers. It doesn’t take a genius to see our foreign policy as illegal and immoral.

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