Thoughts? Questions? Complaints?

To anyone out there actually reading this:

Feel free to post queries into my opinions, I will be happy to oblidge. Pick a topic of your choice and I'll even debate you via your posted comments afterwards.

A Speech by President Andrew Jackson, Hero of the Republic, On the Removal of Indians

A selection from Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message to Congress
December 7, 1835 :

"The plan of removing the aboriginal people who yet remain within the settled portions of the United States to the country west of the Mississippi River approaches its consummation. It was adopted on the most mature consideration of the condition of this race, and ought to be persisted in till the object is accomplished, and prosecuted with as much vigor as a just regard to their circumstances will permit, and as fast as their consent can be obtained. All preceding experiments for the improvement of the Indians have failed. It seems now to be an established fact they they can not live in contact with a civilized community and prosper. Ages of fruitless endeavors have at length brought us to a knowledge of this principle of intercommunication with them. The past we can not recall, but the future we can provide for. Independently of the treaty stipulations into which we have entered with the various tribes for the usufructuary rights they have ceded to us, no one can doubt the moral duty of the Government of the United States to protect and if possible to preserve and perpetuate the scattered remnants of this race which are left within our borders. In the discharge of this duty an extensive region in the West has been assigned for their permanent residence. It has been divided into districts and allotted among them. Many have already removed and others are preparing to go, and with the exception of two small bands living in Ohio and Indiana, not exceeding 1,500 persons, and of the Cherokees, all the tribes on the east side of the Mississippi, and extending from Lake Michigan to Florida, have entered into engagements which will lead to their transplantation.
The plan for their removal and reestablishment is founded upon the knowledge we have gained of their character and habits, and has been dictated by a spirit of enlarged liberality. A territory exceeding in extent that relinquished has been granted to each tribe. Of its climate, fertility, and capacity to support an Indian population the representations are highly favorable. To these districts the Indians are removed at the expense of the United States, and with certain supplies of clothing, arms, ammunition, and other indispensable articles; they are also furnished gratuitously with provisions for the period of a year after their arrival at their new homes. In that time, from the nature of the country and of the products raised by them, they can subsist themselves by agricultural labor, if they choose to resort to that mode of life; if they do not they are upon the skirts of the great prairies, where countless herds of buffalo roam, and a short time suffices to adapt their own habits to the changes which a change of the animals destined for their food may require. Ample arrangements have also been made for the support of schools; in some instances council houses and churches are to be erected, dwellings constructed for the chiefs, and mills for common use. Funds have been set apart for the maintenance of the poor; the most necessary mechanical arts have been introduced, and blacksmiths, gunsmiths, wheelwrights, millwrights, etc., are supported among them. Steel and iron, and sometimes salt, are purchased for them, and plows and other farming utensils, domestic animals, looms, spinning wheels, cards, etc., are presented to them. And besides these beneficial arrangements, annuities are in all cases paid, amounting in some instances to more than $30 for each individual of the tribe, and in all cases sufficiently great, if justly divided and prudently expended, to enable them, in addition to their own exertions, to live comfortably. And as a stimulus for exertion, it is now provided by law that "in all cases of the appointment of interpreters or other persons employed for the benefit of the Indians a preference shall be given to persons of Indian descent, if such can be found who are properly qualified for the discharge of the duties." Such are the arrangements for the physical comfort and for the moral improvement of the Indians. The necessary measures for their political advancement and for their separation from our citizens have not been neglected. The pledge of the United States has been given by Congress that the country destined for the residence of this people shall be forever "secured and guaranteed to them.""

Some Alternatives in Iraq

That girlie-man General Petraeus couldn't win an engagement if he were fighting my grandmother's bridge club. Here are some real strategies:

1) Make hostile Iraqi neighborhoods dissapear, cracking down on any media coverage.

2) Give the Kurdish north to Turkey and proclaim the rest the new nation of Babylon (building a new capital on top of old Babylon, of course).

Either way, the territory must be handed over to a group of powerful individuals who can control the contry with an iron fist to ensure order and stability. Really, we should have just left Saddam in power. Threat to US national security my ass.

How True

A quote from Lord William Rees-Mogg in The [London] Times, September 17 2007:

"Some people, perhaps the English people in particular, are worried by English nationalism. I am not. I think that a healthy nationalism is the shield of liberty."

Quite so. In these dark days of globalization, the need for resurgent and healthy nationalism is greater than ever. Nationalism of one form or another has defended Western Civilization and its ideal of liberty for millenia, and with any hope will continue to do so. Those that are against nationalism seek the mutual enslavement of all nations and peoples under the watchful eye of the corporations. Nationalism preserves state soveriegnty and liberty, and the general well-being of the nation.

The Beginning is Half of Everything

So another blogger joins the maelstrom of chaotic voices that is the internet. Each will claim it is different, independent, unique...but few actually are. As the chosen title of my blog should illustrate, I will attempt to avoid this. I am an American, and though the United States bestows no titles of nobility I am a member of the ruling class (though admittedly on the low end) and have dealt with the series of debacles that is Washington DC since I was a child. Thus, I feel a legitimate part of the unspoken American aristocracy, though my true nobility is deeper than this. If you need to know more, I suggest you brush up on your Nietzsche and Machiavelli.