New Web Site Coming

Posted on March 30, 2010
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I have not been posting to this blog lately because I am preparing a new website: www.failedrepublics.com. As most of my friends and relatives know, I read an exceptional amount of news. I study history, economics, warfare and politics having always suffered an overwhelming interest in understanding the human condition. I have now become convinced that what we are seeing here in America is the start of the death throes of the American Republic. Because of this, I am developing a website to look at what has happened to Republics throughout history and how these lessons apply to the American Republic today.

Ben Franklin, one the greatest American thinkers in our history had an opinion on this issue. “In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, — if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered; and I believe, farther, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.“ Speech to the Constitutional Convention (June 28, 1787)

Since my non-compete contract has now expired with the company that purchased my Internet business, I can now develop websites for profit. While I will continue to run this site as a free blog site for family and friends, I will be putting considerable effort into this second new site. I will be using advertising on the site to help offset the costs of maintaining the servers and Internet feed so anyone visiting this site should be prepared to see such ads. The new website is not fully functional yet so clicking on the above link right now will not likely do much for you. I hope to have this new site up and running in the next few weeks.

I will continue to post to this blog about things in general that interest me. The new website will concentrate on only those developments both political and economic that I think are moving us farther down the path of despotism. Unfortunately, the death of our republic has been a slow and torturous process. If these same loss of freedoms ever occurred in a quick fashion, it would lead to mass revolt and civil war. In order to avoid this consequence, those who have the most to gain by taking away our constitutional rights, must do so slowly, step-by-step so that we become accustomed to the last change before experiencing the next.

Clayton

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