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.”
What kind of men were the signers of the DoI? They were the 1%. Every single one of them. They were all educated land owners, descended from educated land owners, descended from the European Aristocracy.
We think of things like education or land ownership in terms of today, but back then, less than 1% of the population had the education they did. We think of people back then as "farmers," and compare that to farmers today. At the time "farmer" meant land owner. The TENENT farmers were the people who worked for the wealthy farmer that owned the land, who ran that "food corporation." It is the tenent farmer that is more akin to what we think of as a "farmer" today. It was those wealthy food corp. owners that were the "not super rich" members of the Founding Fathers, but they were still plenty wealthy (1%). They were also all Freemasons.
They signed the DoI because the Freemasons (the Illuminati) decided it was time to overthrow the system of Monarchs. Read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It lays out everything perfectly clearly. it is no coincidence that all the Monarchies of Europe were all overthrown at around the same time (over the next few decades), with all of the stragglers finally succumbing about a hundred and thirty years later in WWI.
The system that these One Percenters built out of the ashes of the DoI was not designed to be "free," on the contrary, it was designed specifically to create an overt slavery. If we weren't taught in school a selective history of the Constitution, if we weren't so brainwashed to believe that a Government has the Right to claim Sovereignty over it's citizenry on a whim, we would understand our slavery.
We believe that a Government is a real thing. It's not, rather, it is the people who have control of the Government that claim Sovereignty over our Jurisdiction. These people, our "government" are a Monarchy, or at least an Oligarchy, in all but name. Who had control of the Government at that time? Who were the Oligarchs? The same signers of the DoI that are suggested as "great sacrificers."
But we don't understand how our Government was really designed. We don't understand the Corporate nature (legal shield) of that system. We don't think that way. The reason we don't think that way is because the same Government that makes such false claims on our Jurisdiction is the same Government that runs our compulsory education system, which is specifically designed to indoctrinate the plebeians to "Trust the Present Government" if you live in a liberal town and "Trust the Past Government" if you live in a conservative one.
Was the design that we got the original intent of all of the signers of the DoI? I don't know, but the DoI didn't actually do anything except start a war. The Constitution is the actual (legal) foundation of the society we got. The DoI serves as a carrot that can be presented in place of the stick that is our Government. That is all that it does from an effective perspective.
While only a few of the DoI signers were also Constitution signers (this source says six), lauding these One Percenters who started the ball rolling with the intent to create a more hidden form of Rule from the previous Monarchical Rule, is exactly the type of brainwashing bullshit that got us here.
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
If you want to be pedantic about wording, sure.