{"id":548,"date":"2008-05-18T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=548"},"modified":"2008-05-18T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T18:35:00","slug":"the-begin-end-of-the-enlightenment-due-to-the-giant-protection-racket-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"The begin &#038; end of the enlightenment due to the giant protection racket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"black\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>The Begin and End of the Enlightenment?<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>We do know it took us out of the Dark Ages and Inquisitions&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;Aquinas,<br \/>\nMore? Introduced was logic and empirically proven facts in favor of mystical,<br \/>\nunexplainable fixations, and led to scientific research and discoveries which<br \/>\nenhanced and advanced humans standard of living&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;.mentally and physically.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>It led to the introduction and implementation of individual rights,<br \/>\nto property rights, to the rule of law over the &acirc;&#128;&#156;divine right of kings&acirc;&#128;&#157;, and<br \/>\nmore or less ended tyranny of the few over the masses, mostly in Europe and<br \/>\nspecifically the United States.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>It<br \/>\ninspired great art, music, scientific endeavors, and elevated the standard of<br \/>\nliving for most individuals.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>The Founders were the epitome and probably the last of the<br \/>\ngreat thinkers and activators of this period of time.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The Industrial Revolution was an offspring<br \/>\nwhich lessened the burden of back breaking work from the average person and<br \/>\nhelped create a middleclass which could afford the new products being invented.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>During this period there was more progress and less war than<br \/>\nin the past.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>But the everlasting<br \/>\npsychopathic controllers could not be eliminated and kept their various &acirc;&#128;&#156;movements<br \/>\n&acirc;&#128;&#156;going&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;whether Socialism, Fascism, divine right of kings, or any other form of collectivism&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;.the<br \/>\nattack on individual rights, the rule of law and limited government was always<br \/>\nthere lurking in the background, inserting itself wherever possible.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>One thing for sure, Abe Lincoln was the king of the destruction<br \/>\nof Constitutionalism in this country.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>It<br \/>\nwas downhill from then on. And with Bush&acirc;&#128;&#153;s Patriot Acts, Military Commissions<br \/>\nAct, phony wars on terrorism. Et al, the Enlightenment, reason, individual<br \/>\nrights and freedoms have been finally cremated without a proper final ceremony<br \/>\nof goodbye as though they never existed.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>This latest presidential farcical race is the final<br \/>\nstraw.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>A turf war in which the 3 stooges<br \/>\nfor One World Order dictatorship will prevail over the witless masses is too<br \/>\nclear.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The wimps, nitwits and crooks<br \/>\nprevail&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;they may or may not know what they do, but they do it anyway, whatever<br \/>\ntheir nefarious motives they are too greedy to understand they could be fodder too.<br \/>\nThey neither love, understand or protect individualism&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;the product of the<br \/>\nEnlightenment.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>So it is back to the Dark Ages and the Jungle.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The &acirc;&#128;&#156;March through the Institutions&acirc;&#128;&#157; as the<br \/>\nCultural Marxists called it has been successful beyond their wildest dreams and<br \/>\nmankind setback for who knows how many centuries.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>Viva La May Day. Viva La Human Misery and suffering. Viva<br \/>\nthe &acirc;&#128;&#156;Devine right of kings&acirc;&#128;&#157; and the return of the Witch Doctor, superstition,<br \/>\nfear, brute force and subjugation.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>We&acirc;&#128;&#153;re<br \/>\nalready tolerating torture and the murder of innocent peoples.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>From George Washington to Obama\/Clinton\/McCain says it all,<br \/>\nif your brains haven&acirc;&#128;&#153;t been washed &acirc;&#128;&#156;clean&acirc;&#128;&#157;.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>The comparison is gut wrenching.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\"><strong>~Barbara McCutchen<br \/><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Begin and End of the Enlightenment? We do know it took us out of the Dark Ages and Inquisitions&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;Aquinas, More? Introduced was logic and empirically proven facts in favor of mystical, unexplainable fixations, and led to scientific research and discoveries which enhanced and advanced humans standard of living&acirc;&#128;&brvbar;.mentally and physically.&nbsp; It led to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The begin &#038; end of the enlightenment due to the giant protection racket<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-marxism-destroying-united-states","category-false-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}