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" 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.
Let's break it down.
To paraphrase, "no one will be held without due process, EXCEPT in actual service in time of war OR if the public is in danger." In other words, anyone in the military or militia WILL be subject to being held without due process, anytime there is an assessment of "public danger". Public danger is the same as "National Security," which is whatever those in charge believe it is at the time. It is subject to the whims of those in charge. In addition, we have been at war all but 16 years of this country, so the "national security" excuse isn't even required, but it's there if they want it to be. This says explicitly that every single person in the military has NO RIGHTS, and is completely subject to the whims of those in charge of the government.
Now rectify that with the draft. Military service at the time was not optional. Technically, that is still true, though there have been changes to the constitution (14th amendment specifically) that made everyone a slave, so this part of the fifth amendment is really redundant. I am making the case for it being there from the beginning however, so I am focusing on this.
Women didn't really have any rights under Constitutional law at the time (though they had some under common law). Men in the military had no rights, and military service for all men was not optional anytime the PTB willed it. That doesn't mean there weren't plenty of people believing they had rights that the government couldn't take away, but this provides a legal path to take them away on the whims of those in charge. That they only chose to exercise those rights sometimes* doesn't mean the legal path wasn't in there from the beginning.
*For example, George Washington forced (they had no choice) all of his men to be inoculated with small pox, and 3% of them died
To continue:
This says that a person WILL be deprived of life, liberty, or property if "due process of law" deems it necessary. OK, but who determines those laws? Who determines what "due process" is? Who determines what you can or can't do? Is it We The People? No, it is the people who run the Government.
"But "We The People" are the government!"
Are we?
In the beginning, the only people who could even vote for who would be America's King and court (we call them "President" and "Congress," but from a legal perspective, they are identical to King and Court), were wealthy land owners, AKA the Aristocracy. The Government was created and run by the Aristocrats from the beginning. The vast majority of people had no say at all. People who didn't own land (the majority of the populace), women, and slaves had no say whatsoever in who ran the country. And then everyone was subject to the whims of whichever elected Aristocrat got the most campaign money, and support from the media, both of which were controlled by the Cabal, then as now.
Importantly, the rest of We The People had no choice but to follow this system. You can't "opt out" of the Government if you think it's Tyrannical. There is no exit clause. It was designed that way on purpose. The people who signed the Treaty we call the Constitution signed for everyone. What about those who didn't want that? They had no say. They had no Rights. They were forced to be subjects to the Government, and their "due process." These things were, from the beginning, subject to the whims of the people in charge.
Whether you think people should be (whether they want to be or not) subjects to the Government (really, they are, legally speaking, subjects (vassals) to the people who run the government) is not the point. My point is the LEGAL STRUCTURE of the system, and the systems that enforce it through coercion (police, DOJ, etc.), gives people no choice.
This states explicitly that you do not own your property. The Government, or rather the people in charge of the government, can take your property any time they want. Your "ownership" of property is subject to the whims of those in charge. Who really owns your property if someone can take it away whenever they want, and there is nothing you can do about it?
I was talking about you taking it personally and tying it to your family. As if the fact that you have family ties to these people automatically means they couldn't have possibly done anything untoward. No, your family relationship has nothing to do with whether or not someone 250 years ago did something bad. I'm sorry, but that is not evidence for your argument. THAT is what I was saying.
If you are going to respond, please do so with specific reference to my arguments. You have taken me out of context several times in your response. You have to really try to understand what I am saying. These concepts are not trivial, and we have been trained to ignore the arguments I am presenting. That doesn't mean I want you to agree with me. I just want you to actually address what I am saying, and not follow your training and ignore the key points.
This suggests you have no idea what the word "anarchy" means. That false understanding is training that everyone receives. The last thing the PTB want people to really understand is "anarchy" because then they lose power. The assumptions in your sentence are completely incorrect. That is a larger discussion however.