Jeffrey Alexander Martin

Many great men in history have told the truth and warned about government and war many times, yet people don't know history and whatever the current government war propaganda is always works. We're going to cover a lot quickly. Richard (Dick) Marcinko was a Navy SEAL who fought in the Vietnam War. He received one Silver Star, four Bronze Stars, a Legion of Merit, two Navy Commendation Medals, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and reached the rank of Commander. Then in 1980 he formed SEAL Team Six. After that he formed Red Cell to test the Navy's defenses against terrorism. There's a documentary on it. He was very successful at infiltrating the US military installations. He was able to place fake bombs on Air Force One and kidnap Naval officers. He was so good at it, or the Naval defenses are so weak and didn't like being exposed, that they placed him in prison for awhile. First lesson, the most powerful military force ever created in the history of humanity is vuln...

The French drop is a classic sleight of hand move by magicians. The basic technique is easy to learn. I learned it from a video by Penn and Teller so I could entertain my young niece and nephew. It worked great. I could make coins or small toys disappear, and then reappear somewhere else. Magic. I did it over and over and they laughed and applauded. It was fun. I only know the one trick, but it works over and over and over. Government propaganda for adults works the same way. Invading countries because of weapons of mass destruction that don't exist is going to work for the US government every time for the same reason that the French drop tricks kids every time, they don't know how it works. And, they can't know how it works. Young kids aren't developed enough to understand the French drop. They have to get older and be shown the trick to understand it. By definition the government isn't going to tell the public that it's lying to the public, so the trick can...

It's becoming more obvious to more people that the future of the United States doesn't look so bright. The US is making similar mistakes to ancient Rome that brought the downfall of ancient Rome. But, I think there is a possibility that even if the United States become less safe, free, and prosperous, it will still actually be the best. Europe is in a major struggle with itself. The European Union is trying to consolidate power so that the European countries are not their own countries, and instead are governments controlled by the higher government. There is a current war in Eastern Europe. The rest of Europe wants to have more war with itself. Many of the governments of Europe, and especially the European Union, want to eliminate the European race by importing massive amounts of Africans, Muslims, and Asians, which they are doing. Some places like Poland are resisting more than others, but right now the anti-European part of Europe is politically winning. Russia is an odd par...

It's fascinating to me that several Founding Fathers made predictions about how and why the United States would fall. I've written articles on George Washington's and James Madison's warnings, and here is another, Benjamin Rush. Interestingly, Washington, Madison, and Rush all basically ended up being correct, eventually. Benjamin Rush was a medical doctor that signed the American Declaration of Independence, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress for the state of Pennsylvania, a surgeon general in the Continental Army, treasurer of the United States Mint, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and founder of Dickinson College. He even assisted in founding the first black Christian church denomination in the US, and helped restore the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in their old age. (Rush's preventative medicine was good advice and his writing on the subject was used for a century afterward, his curative medicine wasn't very go...

James Madison was a brilliant political mind. After one session of congress some friends encouraged him to write an anonymous pamphlet about the things under consideration, which he did. It's amazing to watch him think through the complex issues of his day. And there's one key paragraph. This is from 'Political Observations' by James Madison 20 April 1795. "Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force, of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in th...

It would appear that large countries consume smaller countries, in the same way large fish consume smaller fish. However, many small countries continue to exist. Sometimes large countries break into smaller countries, conquered colonies and territories break away from empires, and sometimes a large country just can't conquer a smaller country. Not being able to be conquered largely comes down to two decisions. One, are the people patriotic and willing to fight the foreign power? Two, are the people armed? If the answer to both of these is yes, then it's extremely unlikely that even the strongest country can conquer the weakest country. Theoretically the stronger country could kill everyone in the smaller country, but it's difficult to garner the support of the people necessary to carry out a genocide like that. It's possible, just unlikely. The United States offers several examples. The US, the most powerful country in the world, one of two world super powers along with...

If you'll give me just a few minutes, I'll explain why all governments seem like a giant fraud. If you don't have a few minutes to spare, accept being confused and frustrated for the rest of your life. This frustration with theft through the government has been noted many times in history. In 1849 in his article 'The State' Frederic Bastiat said, "The state is the great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else." In the late 1700s in the 'Philosophical Dictionary' Voltaire said, "In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other." A little after 400 AD in his book 'The City of God' St. Augustine said, “Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?” A little after 100 AD in his book 'Annals' Tacitus said, “The more corrupt the state...

In 1776 Thomas Paine anonymously published 'Common Sense'. It helped support the cause for American independence. His eighth paragraph starts with this sentence: "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." It's a great sentence, and is a good start to how almost everyone gets government wrong. If we look at government as a necessary evil, then we have two parts, just two words. One group of people forget or ignore the word necessary, and another group of people forget or ignore the word evil. Both are wrong. Anarchists, libertarians, classical liberals, and individualists in general think that government is bad. They are correct. Logically they think, if th...

On October 28th, 1886, the Bartholdi statue of Liberty enlightening the world was unveiled in New York City, a gift from France to the United States. Chauncey M. Depew gave a speech generally called the 'Oration'. Two of his paragraphs help explain the rise and fall of the United States. "The marvelous development and progress of this republic is due to the fact that in rigidly adhering to the advice of Washington for absolute neutrality and non-interference in the politics and policies of other governments we have avoided the necessity of depleting our industries to feed our armies, of taxing and impovershing our resources to carry on war, and of limiting our liberties to concentrate power in our government." Over the centuries the United States has become more and more involved in politics in foreign nations, more and more involved in their wars, and therefore has concentrated domestic government power as well. This has many downsides, including what Depew noted abo...

It's pretty clear at this point that the US is in decline and losing. But who is the US losing to? It's the classic question of why empires fall. In the case of the US, I know quite a few of the reasons. The US is suffering from a death by 1,000 cuts, from enemies both foreign and domestic. Obviously Soviet infiltration during the Cold War was highly damaging to the US. The Cold War officially started in 1947 under Truman as President, but really it had been going on for awhile. Hollywood famously had the blacklist in the 1940s where Marxists and communists weren't supposed to be involved in films. Yet, even during that time some of the most successful films were written by communists. During WW2 US propaganda promoted the Soviet Union communists as good for fighting the fascist and socialist Germans, and even before that the Marxists were able to start getting a strong foothold in the US. Marxism, communism, and socialism are different terms for the same basic philosophy t...