The Thirty Tyrants...

[Lmo1131]

This is a 15+ minute read, comparing the political situation in Athens/Sparta c. 404 B.C., with what is happening here in the Untied States 2,425 years later.

The Thirty Tyrants

The deal that the American elite chose to make with China has a precedent in the history of Athens and Sparta

www.tabletmag.com

Briefly...

The Athenian government disloyal to Athens’ laws and contemptuous of its traditions was known as The Thirty Tyrants, and understanding its role and function helps explain what is happening in America today.

In the more than 10 years since Friedman’s column was published, the disenchanted elite that the Times columnist identified has further impoverished American workers while enriching themselves. The one-word motto they came to live by was globalism—that is, the freedom to structure commercial relationships and social enterprises without reference to the well-being of the particular society in which they happened to make their livings and raise their children.

The Central Intelligence Agency openly protected Chinese efforts to undermine American institutions. CIA management bullied intelligence analysts to alter their assessment of Chinese influence and interference in our political process so it wouldn’t be used to support policies they disagreed with—Trump’s policies. It’s no wonder that protecting America is not CIA management’s most urgent equity—the technology that stores the agency’s information is run by Amazon Web Services, owned by China’s No. 1 American distributor, Jeff Bezos.

In Afghanistan, the large copper, metal, and minerals mines whose security American troops still ostensibly ensure are owned by Chinese companies. And because Afghanistan borders Xinjiang, Xi Jinping is worried that “after the United States pulls troops out of Afghanistan, terrorist organizations positioned on the frontiers of Afghanistan and Pakistan may quickly infiltrate into Central Asia.” In other words, American troops are deployed abroad in places like Afghanistan less to protect American interests than to provide security for China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Yellen says that “China is clearly our most important strategic competitor.” But the pro-China oligarchy is not competing with the country from which it draws its wealth, power, and prestige. Chinese autocracy is their model. Consider the deployment of more than 20,000 U.S. armed forces members throughout Washington, D.C., to provide security for an inauguration of a president who is rarely seen in public in the wake of a sporadically violent protest march that was cast as an insurrection and a coup; the removal of opposition voices from social media, along with the removal of competing social media platforms themselves; the nascent effort to keep the Trump-supporting half of America from access to health care, credit, legal representation, education, and employment, with the ultimate goal of redefining protest against the policies of the current administration as “domestic terrorism.”

What seems clear is that Biden’s inauguration marks the hegemony of an American oligarchy that sees its relationship with China as a shield and sword against their own countrymen. Like Athens’ Thirty Tyrants, they are not simply contemptuous of a political system that recognizes the natural rights of all its citizens that are endowed by our creator; they despise in particular the notion that those they rule have the same rights they do.

What does history teach us about this moment? The bad news is that the Thirty Tyrants exiled notable Athenian democrats and confiscated their property while murdering an estimated 5% of the Athenian population. The good news is that their rule lasted less than a year.

You may need to read it twice, or more. I did.

 

[jwamplerusa]

Read that, and get a little shiver down your spine.

Are only hope is that a whole lot of our fellow citizens get a clue, start reading about the real history, and realize that they must fight back!

 

[BigRed]

I'm going to read this when I have more time.

How might one compare and contrast this with the war of northern aggression or the war for southern independence?

 

[Ingomike]

This was posted this months ago and it is well worth reposting for all to see the parallels...

 

[BigRed]

I posted this months ago and it is well worth reposting for all to see the parallels...

Link?

 

[Ingomike]

Link?

My mistake was I thought I posted it, but did not, I read it there.

The Thirty Tyrants

Long but very good article. Views our future in different context and raises new questions about our beliefs. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-thirty-tyrants "His important piece documents the exact moment when the American elite decided that democracy wasn’t working for...

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[jsx1043]

It’s been on my library list, but I am just too inundated with live information pouring in about the current collapse to be able to find time to read it LOL

 

[Ingomike]

It’s been on my library list, but I am just too inundated with live information pouring in about the current collapse to be able to find time to read it LOL

It is well worth the time to read it. Really puts understanding to the current situation...

 

[jwamplerusa]

This video is also eye opening, or utterly terrifying, depending on your age and beliefs on the Constitution.

KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)


Personally after watching this, my thoughts immediately went to wondering who the KGB sold themselves too after the USSR fell. I'm betting the Chicomms.

 

[Leo]

The title " Thirty Tyrants" really is reflective of our problems. If you take a look at the leftist power brokers, there are about 30 that have been screwing things up for years, back to Reagan.

Warren Wilhelm Jr., now called Bill De Blasio, actually went down to help the Sandinista socialists keep Nicaragua a screwed up mess while the US foreign policy under Reagan was trying to help the nation be a democracy. Nancy, Chuckles, Jerry, Diane, you can fill in the rest.

 

[Ingomike]

This video is also eye opening, or utterly terrifying, depending on your age and beliefs on the Constitution.

KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov's warning to America (1984)


Personally after watching this, my thoughts immediately went to wondering who the KGB sold themselves too after the USSR fell. I'm betting the Chicomms.

Wow! And just look where we are now...