Jack of Harts

The Southern Border of the United States of America was formed by war and rebellion. The Spanish first colonized Central and North America long before the United States moved westward. They moved up to the Rio Grande River area, to Santa Fe, and up the California coast. There they met the Russian Empire going south through Alaska and didn’t go much further. They claimed regions further north but couldn’t control them. The Indians did not agree that the Spanish owned the territory and made war on the settlers that tried to go north of the Rio Grande. The Spanish needed heavily armed settlers willing to fight to defend their land and a group of Americans who wanted to build a new life outside the United States of America swore loyalty to the Spanish Crown in exchange for being allowed to settle there. They became what history calls the Texians, and they and the Indians had a great many disagreements over who owned the land in the decades that followed. And then the Spanish colony rebelled from Spain to form the precursor of modern day Mexico. That changed everything.

A nation that wishes to remain strong must have a common language. The people must be able to speak to each other and understand each other. To know what they are saying. This is why something as simple as an accent can divide people. Separate a people into the haves and have nots. On the Island of Great Britain, French-speaking nobility ruled over Germanic peasants for generations, until they spent 100 years fighting the French and learned to speak one language. What we now call English. They became a nation when they did that. A nation that would spread out and conquer the world in time. A strong nation must have a common language. Sometimes it is born with it. Sometimes it creates a new one. But without one, a nation is divided, and a nation divided against itself will never stand in the long run.

Five years ago, I had finally reached the end of my long legal journey to getting my house back. I owned a vacation house up north and sold it. The people buying it stopped paying for it so I went through the process. I paid their back taxes to bring things up to date, I paid lawyers, and on the 10th of March 2020, I stepped before a judge who looked at the evidence and ordered them evicted, scheduling it for the 20th of March 2020. The long legal journey was over.

Then the government lockdowns began and the State of Minnesota decided that evicting people for not paying their bills was not allowed. Many months went by before the State decided they would lot SOME evictions go through. Mine was one, so I finally got them evicted in reality towards the end of the year. After they generated thousands more in utility bills and thousands more in damage to the house. The losses they caused me on that house, aided and abetted by the State of Minnesota, added up to five digits of damage, aimed directly at my pocket book.

This is but ONE of the ways in which the various governments in America have chosen to pursue policies that damaged me personally financially up to five digits in the two decades. I’m in the lower middle class. My income is in the five digits, and not the upper range of that. So when the government pursues policies that specifically damage me that much, it is a very real amount of money. An individual robber taking that amount of money from me would be charged with a felony. But since it was done with the support of the government, or by the government directly, I have no recourse.

That is one reason why I want government officials who have abused the people fired. Investigated. Put on trial. Sent to prison if convicted of the crime. Government officials who use their position to abuse the people and steal from us should go to prison for it. As a lesson to others if nothing else. So they stop doing this. If we don’t demand this, they will continue to do it.