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No Wonder America’s Founders Distrusted Standing Armies
By Chuck Baldwin
December 1, 2011

It is well documented that many of America’s Founding Fathers had a
very real and deep-seated distrust of standing armies--and for good
reason. They had just fought a costly and bloody war for independence,
which had been largely predicated upon the propensities for the abuse
and misuse of individual liberties by a pervasive and powerful
standing army (belonging to Great Britain) amongst them. Listen to
Thomas Jefferson: “I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” Note that
Jefferson identified both banking institutions and standing armies as
being “dangerous to our liberties.” James Madison said, “A
standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly
happen.” Elbridge Gerry (Vice President under James Madison) called
standing armies “the bane of liberty.”

For the most part, the sentiments of our founders ring hollow to
modern Americans who, ever since World War II, have glorified,
idolized, and practically even worshipped the standing US military.
But of course, with only isolated instances (which were almost always
completely covered up by the mainstream news media) of the abuse of
military power being committed against US citizens, the American
people, as a whole, have no point of reference directing them to the
sagacity of America’s founders on the subject. Indeed, who could
even imagine that US military forces would ever be used against the US
citizenry? After all, the media did a masterful job of covering up the
most flagrant example of US military forces being used against US
citizens when US military forces assisted federal law enforcement
agencies in slaughtering the Branch Davidians outside Waco, Texas, on
April 19, 1993. So, most Americans simply shut their eyes against that
“painful truth” and chose to ignore the fact that it even
happened.

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