Blood of patriots and tyrants — a prescription for Enlightenment and Liberty in modern times?

22 July 2025

Some days ago, former ambassador and assistant US secretary of defense — Chas Freeman —observed that the United States is in a 'pre-revolutionary condition'.

See the 4:16 minute mark in:

Glenn Diesen, Chas Freeman: The Old World Is Dying, and the New World Struggles to Be Born, YouTube (11 July 2025) (with a brilliantly delivered overview of the abandonment of Enlightenment values by the West, beginning at 29:56 minutes into the video)

Hmm

One does not expect people of Freeman's experience, wisdom and societal stature to say what some among We the Rabble might be thinking.

Is 1787's Thomas Jefferson's 'blood of patriots and tyrants' back in the wind?

Consider the following.

Two essays surfaced shortly after Freeman's observation

In his characteristically courageous and astute fashion, Paul Craig Roberts pointed out what everyone sensible already knows, but generally keeps abbreviatedly quiet about — the collapse of the US constitution's prescribed societal structure:

Attorney General Bondi did not decide on her own that the Epstein file was empty.

The decision was imposed on the Trump administration by the American Establishment, the Ruling Elite, the Deep State, the Globalists–whatever you want to call those whose money and economic interests rule the governments in the Western World.

Robert Kennedy . . . . is powerless to stop the vaccination of the vast majority of the American population with a “vaccine” that kills and destroys the immune system. Big Pharma is more powerful than the US Secretary for Health.

Kennedy despite his promise was also unable to ban the deadly glyphosate weed killer that has poisoned food, soil, and water. . . . Agri-business is more powerful than Secretary Kennedy, and its profits are more important than Americans’ health.

It has only taken the Ruling Establishment six months to cancel the domestic agenda of the Trump administration.

Trump’s peace agenda has also gone by the wayside. . . . The military/security complex needs war or the threat of war for its profits and power. Peace does not serve their interests.

Americans have a false belief in the power of a president. As long as private money determines politics, money, not the people, rules.

Notably, a day earlier — the always morally clear Caitlin Johnstone advised us that:

Don’t take instruction on how to live your life from a stark raving mad society.

This civilization is sick. It is genocidal. It is ecocidal. It is omnicidal.

We are ruled by psychopaths, while the best among us are relegated to the fringes of the fringe.

We are hurtling into totalitarianism and armageddon at breakneck pace while our attention is aggressively pulled toward the vapid and the inane.

If you want to really live an awake and inspired life, you’ve got to blaze your own trail.

You’ve got to unlearn everything you’ve been told about what a life properly lived would look like, and write your own rules. Because the rules everyone else has been playing by were written by madmen.

Our survival as a species depends on diverging from our patterns.

Maybe we’ll succeed in surviving, and maybe we won’t. But at the very least we can rescue ourselves from spending one more day on this amazing blue world trying to live by the rules of lunatics.

Dragging back Thomas Jefferson's prescription

As presented below — bearing my minor corrections to his 'typos':

In a letter dated November 13, 1787, to William Stephens Smith, the son-in-law of John Adams... :

God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion.

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

We have had 13 states independent 11 years. There has been one rebellion.

That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion?

And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

This is (arguably) one implication of Ambassador Chas Freeman's veiled situational point.

My own (elderly person's) observation

We the People lose — or have lost — the liberty and moral decency that we have complacently abandoned to governance by the worst people among us.

In illustration — complacence regarding genocide's blatantly displayed face

Israel has been embracing all methods of furthering its genocide of Palestinians.

With one typifying connivance being the intentional starvation of the population. Followed by shooting significant numbers of people — including children — when they come to announced food distribution centers.

All this being so for close to two years, while the world stands passively by.

'Civilizational' states, we call ourselves?

One should be wondering why it is that the so-called 'civilizational states' of the planet have not been doing anything (at all) to stop Israel's literal simulation of Satan on Earth.

Effective resistance has been left to the non-governmental organizations Hamas and Yemen's Ansar Allah (the Houthis).

Everyone else has been cowardly quiescent.

Thereby demonstrating a planet-wide government acceptance of raw evil.

Caitlin Johnstone again

She poses obvious questions. And proposes a solution to governance's furtherance of the slaughter of Palestinians:

So what’s the plan here?

Do we just sit and watch Israel starve Gaza to death with the support of our own governments?

And then what? We just go along with our lives, knowing that that happened? That this is what we are as a society? That our civilization is comfortable allowing something like that to happen? And that our rulers could do the same thing to another inconvenient population at any time?

We’re just meant to be cool with that? And go on living like it’s normal?

I’m genuinely curious.

How exactly is everyone planning to go about living their lives after that point? How does that work, exactly?

Gaza isn’t starving, it is being starved.

And the people who are starving it have names and addresses.

The moral? — You deal with evil by stopping it

Under our current circumstances, 'stopping' is exactly equivalent to the exercise of potentially deadly force in personal self-defense under American law.

The world's so-called civilizational states miss this exceedingly obvious point.

And via their somnolent quietude, they demonstrate humanity's moral vacuity on a daily basis.

And so, Thomas Jefferson's formulation — blood of patriots and tyrants — continues to hang in the air.

We can deduce (from all this) that ours are, indeed, Ambassador Chas Freeman's 'prerevolutionary' times.

When will decent human beings have had enough of the slaughterers among us?

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Blood of patriots and tyrants — a prescription for Enlightenment and Liberty in modern times?