The thugs throw blanket blame at black people and “Leftists” whatever in their racist and hatefully bigoted imagination these bugaboos are.
But the origins of revolt, violent revolt, against a oligarchic corruption of the courts of justice and civil laws against workers and laborers and even a nascent middle class… began with the very beginnings of European civil laws.
At the very end of the 15th century, in 1595, the German King Maximilian I established the first civil law system banning the the resolution of wrongs committed by revenge, or the “right to vendetta.” Called Ewiger Landfriede, Eternal Peace, disputes could only be resolved through a newly established system of courts and advocates. This paradigm shift in Western Civilization gave the monopoly of right to violence to none other than the State. And the “State” was assumed to be an objective protector of the people. Even Kings could not dictate.
But in practice, the wealthy and powerful now could manipulate judicial decisions which even Kings and Queens could not erase, only massage.
Needless to say, peasants, traders, artisanal craftsmen, mercantile businessmen often lost out to power. And in certain times, in certain places, under certain deplorable orange colored lords, the corruption was maddening and digging back was the only option when the courts were rigged.
In England, Germany, France and surrounding principalities throughout Europe the triggers were many:
Germany experienced more than 60 large scale uprisings. The German Peasant War, Europe's largest and most widespread popular uprising before the French Revolution of 1789, was a revolt that split German Protestantism and failed because of intense opposition from the aristocracy, who slaughtered up to 100,000 of the 300,000 poorly armed peasants and farmers. The rebellion was encouraged by radical Protestant clergy such as Tomas Müntzer but was the event where Martin Luther encourage princes to unleash hell on the peasants. The survivors were fined.
England had dozens of revolts, eventually climaxing in their Civil War, killing 130,000. A war between established Anglicanism and radical protestantism: the Haves and their supporters against the Have Nots.
And then there is the case of Hans Kohlhase made famous in Heinrich von Heist’s 1808 novella, Michael Koolhaus.
So, the common Protestant European, at the birth of Civil Law, spent more than two centuries in violent revolt because the system of justice was not fair to them. There was class bigotry embedded within the system.
And for the next three centuries there were the same periodic - violent - rebellions against the abuses of power. In this nation, too. Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, the Continental Army had not been paid. The Shays Rebellion, 1786, against Massachusetts’ government solving a debt crisis by raising taxes and cutting civil rights. The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 against the first federally imposed tax on one group only to pay for the war. Fries’s Rebellion, 1799.
These cheated, tortured, murdered, oppressed radical Protestants are the ancestors of our neighborhood “white” thugs who don’t know who they are, don’t know and don’t honor their ancestors, and masochistically kiss the ass of unconstitutional power in the land that was great because it established constitutional rights.
Betrayers all.
Black peoples, though, know who they are, whose they are, and from whom they descend. Black peoples are the most resilient, creative, and moral of any group in the United States. And they lead us all in the fight against injustice and tyranny.
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