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REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITIES by Louis Beam
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ON REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITIES
by Ku Klux Klan Chieftain Louis Beam.
Historical Ku Klux Klan document written by
Louis Beam in 1983.
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[NOTE: the article below by Ku Klux Klan
Chieftain Louis Beam
is of course posted ONLY for informational
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INTER-KLAN NEWSLETTER & SURVIVAL ALERT
Issue # 4 - 1983
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ON REVOLUTIONARY MAJORITIES
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by Louis Beam
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If citizens of this country ever again enjoy
the blessing of liberty and true freedom, it
will not be the result of a majority of its
citizens having risen up in righteous
indignation at governmental abuse of
themselves and their culture. If a
restoration of the Constitution of our
forebearers occurs - with all that this
implies - it will probably not be because a
plurality of citizens fought for it,
supported it, or cared one way or another.
If lawful government is reestablished, it
will come about because a Revolutionary
Majority makes it happen.
Within the American historical experience a
Revolutionary Majority may be defined as any
number of citizens sufficient to initiate
general hostilities against a destructive
government.
The American Revolution of 1776 defines the
term, sets the precedent, and provides the
example for patriots of today.
Throughout most of the Revolutionary War,
those patriots who were seeking to overthrow
the government lacked support of over two
thirds of their fellow citizens. (1) John
Adams, one of the "radicals" in favor of the
revolution and who was later to become the
second President of the United States,
stated that, depending on how the war was
going, those fighting for freedom had
opposition from a third to two thirds of the
people. Others, like Pennsylvania delegate
to the Continental Congress Joseph Galloway,
were sure that four fifths of the people
"were, or wanted to be, loyal to the
king."(2) (Galloway eventually sided with
Loyalists, as those who supported the king's
government were called.) Colonel London
Carter, a member of the Virginia aristocracy
and a strong patriot, stated in his diary in
March of 1776 (but a bare three months
before the signing of the Declaration of
Independence) that an observer of events in
the Northern Colonies was sure "nine tenths
of the people are violently against it
(independence)."(3)
"Friends of Government"
The exact number of "the friends of
government," as the patriots disparagingly
referred to those who opposed the
revolution, cannot be stated with accuracy.
As John Adams indicated, the number was in a
constant state of flux, depending on
political events and who was winning in the
armed conflict. One thing is certain,
however, the American Revolution was
anything but a broad-based, popular uprising
of a disaffected people. Rather, it was a
very unpopular rebellion of a politically
radical minority who, because they possessed
a clear understanding of the rights of man
coupled with a deep concern for the state of
relative personal freedom, were able to
perceive the shackles of tyranny prior to
their being presented for fastening. This
discernment of tyranny at a distance not
only set them apart from their fellow man
but constrained them to rebel.
Liars, Murderers, And Dregs
The radical, political leaders of the
revolution, such as John Adams, Samuel
Adams, Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin,
Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Richard
Henry Lee, John Hancock, and Joseph Warren,
to name but a few of the more well known,
had to conduct their struggle for freedom in
the face of disapprobation and rejection by
their peers prior to the time of actual
armed conflict and, after its commencement,
to charges and cries of "incendiaries and
traitors."(4) Indeed, "the friends of
government" knew little restraint when it
came to condemning the Republic's founders.
The loyalist called Washington, among other
things, a liar, perjurer, murderer,
blasphemer, criminal, traitor, patron of
villainy, and a villain's chief.(5) The
other founders fared little better and were
variously referred to as being dregs,
illiberal (sic!) and violent men, despicable
wretches, bandits, rude, and depraved.(6)
While thus labeled by "respectable
citizens," these men led the country toward
rebellion.
One Man's Terrorist Is Another's Freedom
Fighter
Correspondingly, the founders had an
analogous movement among the people which,
although the objective of overthrowing the
government was the same, the methods were
those resorted to by people in every age
when faced with overpowering force of
all-powerful government, namely, mob action,
riots, uprisings, midnight forays, and
harassment, intimidation or terroristic acts
directed against governmental supporters -
all of these and other acts came under the
single heading of patriotism so far as their
perpetrators were concerned.
After a review of non-battlefield
hostilities, it becomes apparent that the
American Revolution was won more by mob
action than by armed conflict!
Thus, any idea that the Revolution was won
in an ordeal of battle is out of place in
view of the facts.
During the entire length of the armed
conflict from 1775 to 1781, the king's
armies lost only 1,512 men killed in battle.
This seven-year, battle-death casualty rate
was exceeded by Union Forces at Cold Harbor
in 1864, during the first eight minutes of a
single engagement. The king's armies had
previously lost far larger numbers of men in
the Seven Years War (French and Indian wars)
yet pressed on to victory. An adequate
explanation, then, of the patriots' final
triumph over the government must be provided
by other than a military victory.
Sons of Liberty
An answer in great part lies in the violence
and vigilante action carried on by the
patriots against the government and its
supporters!
Though most Americans today are familiar
with the story of the Boston Tea Party, few
know much about the secret organization that
conducted it, the Sons of Liberty. Led by
Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Dr. Warren ("the
greatest incendiary of them all"), and Paul
Revere, they met in secret, dressed in
disguises and carried out vigilante actions
under the cover of darkness. This
Revolutionary Ku Klux Klan was as much
dreaded by "the friends of government" as
its ideological offspring the Klan ever was
by unruly blacks. The Sons of Liberty and
other similar groups were responsible during
the course of the conflict for independence
for causing tens of thousands of loyalists
to flee the country (the Klan was usually
satisfied with merely running undesirables
out of the county).
A Whip, A Torch, and A Rope = Freedom
The means were simple and effective. Terror
and intimidation were directed against the
loyalists. Methods used to create these twin
scourges of "the friends of government"
included, but were not limited to,
whippings, coats of tar and feathers,
banishment, church burnings (if run by a
loyalist preacher or used for a loyalist
meeting place), confiscation of property,
and wherever deemed necessary, death by any
one of several reliable methods.(7)
Other patriotic groups of similar nature
were spontaneously formed throughout the
thirteen colonies to carry on a relentless
persecution of "the friends of government."
EACH ORGANIZATION OPERATED INDEPENDENTLY OF
THE OTHER, THOUGH OFTEN EXCHANGING
INFORMATION ON LOYALISTS.
Often these ad hoc associations went by the
name of "Committees of Public Safety,"
though the name, as well as the tactics
employed, varied from place to place. Thus,
in the colony of New York, the patriots
bluntly called themselves "The Oppressors of
the Friends of Government" and stated
proudly that they tarred and feathered
governmental supporters with the "decorum
that ought to be preserved in public
punishments."(8) Boston had it mysterious
"Joyce Junior" who led a group of night
riders and enforcers who saw to it that
those who did not display the necessary
revolutionary mentality were properly
punished. The rebel Continental Congress
established "associations" whose purpose was
to locate the loyalists and turn their names
over to the local vigilante group to be
dealt with in the manner they deemed proper
in each colony. If the accusation was one of
giving information to government agents, the
traitor to liberty was hanged by the neck or
dealt with in some other terminally
appropriate manner.
Pray the Redcoats Out?
Even religious leaders were not exempt from
the patriotic purges that cleansed away
supporters of the king. In the instance of
preachers who failed to support the cause of
liberty (or who had forgotten that David
slew Goliath rather than turning the other
cheek and praying for him) being run out of
town on a rail in the glowing light of
flames from their quickly disappearing
church was considered leniency. Others were
forced to flee to England or Canada in fear
of their lives.(9)
By the end of the conflict in 1781, for
every government redcoat killed on the
battlefield, seventy loyalists had been
driven from their homes and forced to settle
in England or Canada, totaling over one
hundred thousand people. There is no
estimate of the number of those who were
"just" driven from their homes.
The government and its "friends" accused the
revolutionary freedom fighters (whom they
often called "The Sons of Anarchy") of
"committing the most shocking outrages" and
of daily invasions upon private property"
while led by men who were "well-known
incendiaries and traitors," whose chief
purpose in life was to commit "crimes
against the constitutional authority of the
state"(10) (Historically, governments which
have oppressed and abused their citizens
justify their actions based on the "law" or
"constitutional authority").
No doubt had the effort to overthrow the
government been unsuccessful, the Founding
Fathers and their citizen supporters would
have been hanged by "the friends of
government," as the very worst sort of
traitors and terrorists.
THE SPIRIT OF "76
In summary, while Washington's determined
and skillful leadership of the army no doubt
made victory possible, it did not assure it.
The Spirit of '76 -- a massive campaign of
terror directed by patriotic citizens
against all those who supported the
government -- was the deciding factor that
brought freedom to America.
American constitutional liberty was born in
mob pressure, fostered by secret societies,
nurtured during seven years of intimidating
violence and institutionalized at the
expense of well over a hundred thousand
people.
With this American history in mind, one who
is faithful to the ideas of the Founding
Fathers of this nation can have nothing but
contempt and suspicion of the motives (or
ignorance) of those people both within and
without the government who would condemn
citizens of today "for taking the law into
their own hands" in defense of their rights.
Had those who desired liberty in 1776 waited
until a numerical majority of their fellow
citizens were ready to "wake-up" (as the
saying is today) to fight for the overthrow
of the government, had they hesitated in the
use of "illegal" force and violence (force
and violence are never legal except by those
in power) against their governmental
enemies, they would have all died in their
old age as law-abiding subjects of the king
- minus their freedom.
Patriots of 1775 considered the sympathies
of less than a third of the people
sufficient to begin general hostilities
against their oppressors. Herein lies the
historical context of the American
Revolutionary Majority. It has been wisely
said that those who do not know history are
condemned by their ignorance to repeat its
mistakes; it is likewise equally true that
those who know and understand history can
repeat its successes.
YESTERDAY AND TODAY
In America today the manacles of slavery and
destruction once forged in London by the
king are now forged in Washington. Acts of
tyranny are carried out in the name of the
federal government rather than in the name
of the throne. The vicious enforcers of
dictatorial policies often call themselves
F.B.I. or I.R.S. agents instead of His Royal
Majesty's Troops or tax collectors of the
realm. Substituting for the redcoats of the
British are the "bluecoats" of the
bureaucrats and in far greater numbers.
Though babblings for "the divine rights" of
kings to rule have ceased, modern fools
prattle of "democratic majorities" composed
of illiterate electorate enfranchised for
the purpose of dispossessing the descendants
of the founders. While different in
nomenclature, the end results are exactly
the same - the dark, cold, tight chains of
slavery.
A numerical majority of today's citizens
cannot read these footprints of tyranny nor
understand where they lead. In this, they
are no different than their counterparts of
200 years ago. Additionally, modern
governments have mass communications to
subtly guide the thinking of their subjects;
thus is seen the phenomenon of today's
citizen, rushing forth to place the cuffs of
bondage upon his own wrists by irrationally
clamoring (as he has Benn indoctrinated) for
more laws and government to solve problems
created by an excess of both. This mental
inversion, whereby the citizen willfully
aids in efforts to subjugate himself, is of
no small import for those who treasure their
liberty. The implications are many, but the
consequences could be singular: a
governmentally programmed, democratic
majority may, as they dance along to mental
tunes played by the electronic band of
orchestrated communication, gleefully drag
down (with their self-fastened chains)
everyone else into the back hole of
oblivion.
THE PIT - OR REVOLUTION
Only one thing seems capable of closing the
yawning mouth of the pit, and that is the
formation of a new Revolutionary Majority
coupled with resurrection of The Spirit of
'76. Anything short of this seems certain to
pass on to today's children an increasingly
difficult task of freeing themselves from
transistorized chains of governmental
control. Such a legacy is the bequeathal of
cowards, not free men.
The first American revolutionists accused
those who ruled them of excessive taxation,
interference with property rights, illegal
search and seizure, not protecting the
citizens from incursions by several thousand
Indians, policies destructive of the general
welfare, and "altering fundamentally the
form of our government," among other things.
Today, the federal government taxes its
subjects for forty percent of their income
instead of the three percent (less than
$1.20 a year) tax of the king;(12)
interferes with the ownership and use of
virtually every description of property;
authorizes everything from game wardens to
I.R.S. agents to search, arrest, or seize
property without warrant. Allows fifteen
million aliens to illegally cross its
borders in less than a ten-year period,
conducts a policy of systematic
extermination of its young men through
no-win wars, and subjects the founder's
children to enforced equality. Each of these
acts individually amounts to altering
fundamentally the form and purpose for which
the federal government was created. Taken as
a whole, they are a cry - nay - a demand for
a new campaign of terror conducted against
the government and its friends in the great
American tradition of 1776.
BRING BACK THE KING
An examination of the depth and magnitude of
policies fostered by federal rulers
detrimental to the people of present-day
America make the abuses of the English
king's government pale into insignificance.
One thing is clear: comparison of criminal
acts of the two governments makes those who
value their liberty and freedom long for the
bitter days of English despotism.
While there are many similarities between
the first American Revolution and the second
(coming soon at a place near you), there are
also significant differences.
The first and paramount dissimilarity is
that, while our heroic forefathers fought to
overthrow their legally constituted
government and were thus revolutionaries in
the truest sense of the word, those who seek
to break the quickly tightening bands of
servitude today war against an illegal
government that imposes itself upon the
people under the color of law. By the
Washington regime's disobedience to and
violation of the bounds of the Constitution,
established by the founders of this country,
it has made of itself an unlawful body with
no more right to govern the American people
than has the present Queen of England. That
the government survives despite the crimes
it has committed is explainable only because
the atrocities it systematically imposes are
papered over with a veneer of legality.
Propaganda that numbs the mind keeps people
from rising against those who abuse them.
NO LAW, ONLY POWER
There is no law in this country - only power
- the majority of which currently rests with
the pirates of the Potomac, who pose as our
lawful government while using overpowering
force to quell those who resist their
destructive policies. The Constitutional
Revolutionist of today is actually fighting
for a transfer of power from those who can
make no legitimate claim to it, to those who
inherently hold it as a natural right - the
lawful citizens of this country.
Another salient difference between the first
American Revolution and the second is the
contrast between the quality of the people
of then and now. Our ancestors were strong
men, who stated often that they were
"resolved to die as free men rather than
live as slaves." They were conditioned to
doing their own thinking while as the same
time ever holding before themselves the
guiding lights of honor and duty.
Today, raised in the lap of luxury, many
people gladly exchange their freedom for the
right to accumulate material possession. Not
one person in fifty can truthfully state
that his opinions are the result of
independent research rather than the
mindless acquisition of pre-programmed
"opinions," obtained by indulging in endless
hours of obeisant T>V> watching (that
modern-day golden calf of those lost in a
mental wilderness). Further, most American
do not know the meaning nor value of honor
and duty, the two great concepts of higher
man.
FREEDOM - LIKE IT OR NOT
It is quite clear that the virtue of the
present generation has declined to such a
miserable degree that most people will never
voluntarily help to make themselves free.
Consequently they will have to be forced to
make themselves free.
A great objective of Revolutionary
Majorities is that of thrusting freedom upon
those who are too weak to make themselves
free while providing its blessings for the
stronger, more noble elements of the race.
This is done in the firm belief that under
sound government future generations will be
naturally healthy in mind and spirit. The
revolutionary patriot benignantly grants
freedom to others while establishing
framework that will allow posterity to be
both free and strong. Other than the "great
commission" of the Lord, no calling is as
exalted or as honorable.
Two significant differences, then - one of
law, one of character - between the first
struggle for freedom and the present one are
deserving of substantial thought and
analysis by those capable of so doing.
Consider what type of self-preserving
behavior can be expected from a government
that already wades up to its knees in the
blood of young men deliberately sacrificed
to the false god of internationalism. Were
the government really intent on opposing
communism, it would start a war in
Washington and work its way to Vietnam. What
behaviour can be expected from a people who
willingly pass their sons through the fire
to be consumed? Each of these factors
deserve most careful examination.
CONSTITUTIONAL REVOLUTIONISTS
Opposing the federal purveyors of mass
murder and "the friends of government" who
make such perfidy possible are men who trace
their political lineage to the times of
Magna Carta and who are mental as well as
physical descendants of the Founding
Fathers. They believe, as did their
forebearers, that government is a social
contract entered into by people of a similar
mind for their mutual benefit. This agency
created by the people can only legitimately
be their servant - never their master.
Further, it cannot possess lawful authority
to deprive those who create it (or their
heirs) of natural rights. In normal times
men who arrayed themselves against the
criminal acts of government would be called
constitutionalists, but "these are the times
that try mens' souls" as well as test their
courage. Thus, contemporary patriots become
known as Constitutional Revolutionists
determined to overthrow every vestige of
unlawful government, doing so with a firm
belief that honor demands and duty requires
the reestablishment of the law of their
fathers.
IGNORANCE IS NO EXCUSE
It can be realized then that those who
remain guilty of loyalty to the present
illegal government in the District of
Columbia are chargeable with treason to the
Constitution of the United States and
deserving of the same fate as their
historical predecessors who, in the name of
the king, trampled upon the sacred rights of
Englishmen in 1776.
It should be stated in their defense,
however, that most of those who are
participants in this odious transgression
against the blood of our noble forebearers
do so in complete ignorance of the law,
having obtained ninety-five percent of their
misinformation from government-licensed T.V.
and the remaining five percent from
conversations with others who are also
completely maladroit at obtaining facts on
their own. They are victims of methodical
thought control which began during their
childhood and has been continued at a
subliminal level throughout their lives.
Though no doubt the maxim "ignorance of the
law is no excuse for its violation" makes
these people criminals, the mitigating
circumstances of their lawlessness should be
considered by those who are seeking to
reestablish lawful rule in this country.
FEDERAL DEFECTORS
A period of grace, commensurable with what
the struggle will allow, is in order, thus
providing the present supporters of unlawful
government an opportunity to defect as they
become cognizant of the law.
By this fraternal act to the erring members
of our Race we not only serve the interest
of justice but also, at whatever point in
time the grace period is of necessity
terminated, have removed all excuse for
collaboration with the enemy. Having held
long aloft the olive branch of peace and
forgiveness, no just complaint can be made
by those who failed to avail themselves of
it when with the other hand a terrible swift
sword of vindication falls upon their necks.
Even after the patriots of today have
invoked "the Spirit of '76" and have
successfully dammed the Mississippi with
rotting corpses of the lying politicians,
criminal bureaucrats, racial traitors,
communists, assorted degenerates, culture
distorters, and those who resist the
implementations of lawful constitutional
government, these patriots will have
exhibited far more restraint and benevolence
than the present government of the United
States. For, while constitutionalists of
today war against those guilty of the most
heinous crimes upon our people, culture and
law, usurpers in Washington destroy the mind
and, wherever possible, the bodies of those
guilty of nothing more than having white
skin.
REVOLUTION PART II.
Coalescing within America today is a second
Revolutionary Majority whose members in the
spirit of their forebearers are resolved to
die as free men rather than to live as
slaves. Like their noble ancestors, today's
Revolutionary Majority must fight for the
children of carping critics just as fiercely
as for their own families. Emulating its
predecessor, obedience is given only to the
dictates of the higher code of Natural Law.
For, once again the enemies of liberty use
the law of the nation as their shield - yea
- even their justification for destroying
freedom of the people. A government
exceeding the power granted by their Father
they are not bound to obey - but bound to
resist.
John Adams said, "Freedom is a
counterbalance for poverty , discord, and
war," and that if the revolutionary struggle
failed, it would be because moderates tried
to find a "middle way" and to conduct "half
a war." Likewise, today's tired voices are
heard calling for politics as usual -
moderation as always. Such thinking has
allowed generations to die in chains in
former times and will do so again if adhered
to. The age of the conservative, like that
of the dinosaur, has ended. Now begins a new
age - destiny calls for her great men who,
by their iron will, alter the pages of
history from that of a tale of shame,
cowardice, and decline to a saga of glory,
bravery, and rebirth. Soon, very soon, we
will have a Revolutionary Majority.......
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Adams, Charles Francis. The Works of John
Adams, Second President of the United
States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and
Illustrations. 10 Vols. Boston: Little,
Brown and Company, 1850-1856.
2. Commage, Henry Steel and Morris, Richard
B. The Spirit of Seventy-Six. Harper and
Row, New York, 1958.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Smith, Page. A New Age Now Begins. Volume
II, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York,
1976.
8. Ibid: The Spirit of Seventy-Six.
9. Fleming, Thomas. 1776 Years of Illusion.
W.W. Norton Co., New York. 1975.
10 Ibid: The Spirit of Seventy-Six.
11. Becker, Carl. The Declaration of
Independence. Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.
12. Ibid: 1776 Years of Illusion.
[NOTE: the article above by Ku Klux Klan
Chieftain Louis Beam is of course posted
ONLY for informational and historical
purposes.]
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