The following was written by Michael W. Smith:
https://michaelwsmith.com/the-sacrifices-made-by-the-declaration-signers/
"What happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence?
This is the Price They Paid
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?
Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the revolutionary army, another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the revolutionary war.
They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.
Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.
Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.
Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.
At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.
Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.
John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.
Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”
We overthrew the British government.
The one monarchy still in place to this day.
Modern Freemasonry is a cesspool; that doesn’t mean the founding of America was just another power grab conspiracy.
Perhaps you should revisit the Declaration of Independence. Of the people, by the people, for the people.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
These are not things the enemy wants for us. They want us to eat the bugs and live in the pod and own nothing.
I don’t know what education you received, but I graduated high school not that long ago. My history classes required us to read The Federalist Papers and debate them in depth. Yes, most of compulsory education is a shit show. But the shit show classes don’t even let you read these historical documents.
To claim the founding of America was just a power play is as bad as the 1692 project or whatever the hell that “muh founding with slavery” movement is.
"We overthrew the British government."
No, we didn't. We overthrew British colonial control of America. The British government itself is sadly still there
And it infiltrated our politics probably very soon after that.
If you want to be pedantic about wording, sure.
"We" didn't do anything. "We" were guided by the bankers to establish an "anti-Monarchy" to aid in ushering the One World Government system they had planned a few hundred years ago.
Until you understand what Controlled Opposition is, you can't appreciate how insidious and ubiquitous it is, nor how much it has been used to manipulate the world to the exact point we are at today.
You are correct. It doesn't mean that. It is all the evidence you find when you start digging in that suggests that it was.
The DoI is a lie. Not only was it a lie, it was an intentional lie (fraud). It has nothing to do with the government we got at the time. It has nothing to do with the government we currently have. It has no input whatsoever (read that link). My position does not come from a lack of study, but from the opposite.
The Federalist papers were created by people who were themselves controlled opposition. The people that wrote them were Cabal. The "argument" was a controlled opposition operation, or at least overall controlled by it.
Your view of the real enemy is too small. It is not so clear cut. What they want is to bring us into their ideal Utopia. This means guiding us through a Hegelian Dialectic. But not just any Hegelian Dialectic, but one that is running in reverse. In other words, they have the end goal, and they designed the Controlled Oppositions required for each step to bring us to that end.
Here is a brief description, with a nice picture, that helps explain the Hegelian Dialectic. Here is a long description.
On the contrary, it is essential for everyone to understand it if We The People are to have any chance of escaping The Matrix. I don't make the claim on it's own however, on the contrary, I can and will bring evidence to support the claim for days. To begin, start with my report here. At this point it only shows the creation of the singular Corporation that rules the world, and the singular body that runs it. The next section (which I am working on finalizing now) will explain what school, medicine and science are, who created them and how, and how they are used to control the world through controlled opposition.
But you cannot make an argument that people need to wake up and create a government “for the people,” and then claim that creating a document to create a government “for the people” is simply a ruse.
That’s just chasing your own argumentative tail, so to speak. The Articles of Confederation made some sense in that they were a response to the abuse of absolute power. The world was monarchical in nature until the Founding Fathers decided to try to form a new nation.
I’m not saying that they couldn’t have had bad eggs in the group that signed the Declaration, or even in the Constitutional Convention. I’m of the opinion that Alexander Hamilton was Washington’s Judas after the Revolutionary War. I am, however, never going to believe the whole thing was a deception from the very beginning.
I am quite literally related to one of the DoI signers. My family has never strayed from duty, nor patriotism. We have not sold anyone out, nor tried to pull a fast one on society. Perhaps other members have that we don’t know of, but our connection to the founding of this country has always created a sense of duty.
But to claim the DoI was a falsehood is reaching. To claim that it was all a lie because the AOC didn’t work, and we had to revamp with the Constitution is reaching.
I don't understand what you are saying here.
I am making the argument that the specific document we got in the DoI was a ruse, designed to be the carrot, the illusion of a statement of "freedom for all," to the stick, the reality of slavery for all, that was the actual government we got. Anything else you may be adding to that argument is not a part of what I am saying.
FTFY.
I am saying that my research suggests that the revolutions that were occurring all over the world at the time, that were moving their respective countries away from the Monarchies into "Democracies" (which is an identical word to Socialism) were planned events by the Cabal. This plan goes back really far, and the government we got was a part of it.
I'm not suggesting you "believe" it. I haven't really shown you any evidence yet. It is easier to do with specific questions, or as comes up in debate. Laying it all out at once is quite difficult to do. I suggest you read my report to get started. Again, that doesn't touch on this yet, but I suggest what is there will be quite enlightening as to the scope of the situation.
I am descended from many of America's Elite families, including the Roosevelts, the Lee's (Robert E. Lee), several of the first Governors of New England, and indeed, several people who created the U.S. Government, though I am several generations removed. Most multigenerational American's have similar ancestry. My Grandfather had one of "the names" that would be recognized as "Elite," though while successful, he was never that successful.
But my ancestry is irrelevant. Your ancestry is irrelevant. I am not my family. You are not your family. I am me, and you are you. You never know who a person really is or what they have done, period. Attempting to turn this into a "personal attack" does nothing but attempt to shove aside the argument in favor of your feelings. That has nothing to do with any investigation into the truth, and is only an attempt to distract from that endeavor.
This is exactly one of the numerous ways in which the populace is controlled by the Cabal.
Actually, there is substantial evidence to support the claim, and you have yet to address any of the points I have made that support it. In truth I haven't said much, but you haven't addressed even what I have said.
I never said anything about the AOC, thus, connecting it to "why" the Constitution had fuckery contained within it has nothing to do with my argument. As to the "reason" the AOC didn't work, it didn't work because it didn't lead to slavery of the people. THAT was why it was changed.
Just read the fifth amendment. It makes explicit in several ways that the US Govt. has the Authority to claim the Life, Liberty and Property of every Individual in the nation at the whim of the people who control the Govt, which is NOT, nor has it ever been, We The People.
Again, that is only ONE EXAMPLE of the fuckery, there are several others, but they all are in direct opposition to the flowery words of the DoI.
I cannot follow the fact you think the 5th Amendment is a slavery clause. I’m pretty sure nothing I say is going to convince you a trial of your peers and a society run by law and order is a good thing, and that anarchy is a great way for people to get screwed over very quickly with no chance at justice.
Also, family ties absolutely matter. See: the Bible.