Notes From Gordon: Ebenezer And The Bad Boys

Dear Friends,

I read recently where grocery costs in the U.S. ran 23% higher last year.

When I shared this with Freeman McEagle, roving correspondent for The DAILY SPAM, he pointed out that eagles don’t have this problem—that out in nature, eagles are free from inflation.

I have written for years that inflation is an engineered control mechanism to keep taxpayers struggling for cash flow so we don’t have time to think about how often (and deeply) we’re getting screwed.

Eagles, on the other hand, never have to worry about food since they can always dive bomb for an unwary trout or stray outdoor pet.

I remarked to Freeman that nature sure seems cruel. His retort was that we humans are far more cruel to each other.

We vote other humans into positions of power so they can elevate themselves above us, then punish us when we don’t do as they say. And all along we have the real power.

He’s got a point there.

Give public servants an inch and they’ll take away a mile of our freedoms.

I remember reading The Case For The Hanging of Errant Public Officials by James Farrell back in ‘95.

The author makes the point that “…our current system of government is simply not doing its job.”

If you’ve read Ebenezer Mudgett And The Pine Tree Riot: A True Story Of New Hampshire Colonists Who Defied British Rule In The Spring Of 1772, Foreshadowing The Boston Tea Party by Connie Evans, you’ll recall how Ebenezer and the boys knew how to take things into their own hands.

King George III had decreed that trees of a certain size could not be cut down by the colonists because he wanted them for British war ships.

When the Sheriff of Hillsborough County came to the town of Weare, New Hampshire to serve Mudgett an arrest warrant for cutting down large trees on his own property, here’s what Mudgett and the boys did…

“Their faces blackened with soot, the rioters gave the sheriff one lash with a tree switch for every tree being contested. They then cut off the ears and shaved the manes and tails of Whiting and Quigley’s horses, after which Whiting and Quigly were forced to ride out of town through a gauntlet of jeering townspeople.”

Where are the jeering townspeople today? For that matter, where are all the real men? Sigh.

Freeman suggested that I take decisive action and declare the launch of a new organization in honor of the Pine Tree Boys.

Remove All Tyrants, or T.A.R. for short.

Please forgive Freeman. He’s a little dyslexic. Of course that should be R.A.T.

Reminds me of a women’s march I saw years ago in Boston sponsored by Mothers Against Dyslexia.

D.A.M.