http://globalconscious.com/board/ Global Conscious Forum: Politics - General Discussion en Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:44:27 +0000 http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/rabbi-rabinovichs-speech-of-january-12th-1952#post-317 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:03:46 +0000 Gnarly 317@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>RABBI RABINOVICH'S SPEECH OF JANUARY 12TH, 1952</p> <p>A report from Europe carried the following speech of Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich before a special meeting of the Emergency<br /> Council of European Rabbis in Budapest, Hungary, January 12, 1952: </p> <p>"Greetings, my children; You have been called her to recapitulate the principal steps of our new program. As you know, we had hoped to have twenty years between wars to consolidate the great gains which we made from World War II, but our increasing numbers in certain vital areas is arousing opposition to us, and we must now work with every means at our disposal to precipitate World War III within five years [They did not precipitate World War III but they did instigate the Korean War when on June 25, 1950 they ordered the North Korean army to launch a surprise attack on South Korea. On June 26, the U.N. Security Council condemned the invasion as aggression and ordered withdrawal of the invading forces. Then on June 27, 1950, our Jewish American President Truman ordered air and naval units into action to enforce the U.N. order. Not achieving their full goals, they then instigated the overthrow of South Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem, Premier under Bao Dai, who deposed the monarch in 1955 and established a republic with himself as President. Diem used strong U.S. backing to create an authoritarian regime, which soon grew into a fullscale war, with Jewish pressure escalating U.S. involvement].<br /> The goal for which we have striven so concertedly FOR THREE THOUSAND YEARS is at last within our reach, and because its fulfillment is so apparent, it behooves us to increase our efforts and our caution tenfold. I can safely promise you that before ten years have passed, our race will take its rightful place in the world, with every Jew a king and every Gentile a slave (Applause from the gathering). You remember the success of our propaganda campaign during the 1930's, which aroused anti-American passions in Germany at the same time we were arousing antiGerman passions in America, a campaign which culminated in the Second World War. A similar propaganda campaign is now being waged intensively throughout the world. A war fever is being worked up in Russia by an incessant anti-American barrage while a nation wide antiCommunist scare is sweeping America. This campaign is forcing all the smaller nations to choose between the partnership of Russia or an alliance with the United States. Our most pressing problem at the moment is to inflame the lagging militaristic spirit of the Americans. The failure of the Universal Military Training Act was a great setback to our plans, but we are assured that a suitable measure will be rushed through Congress immediately after the 1952 elections. The Russians, as well as the Asiatic peoples, are well under control and offer no objections to war, but we must wait to secure the Americans. This we hope to do with the issue of ANTISEMITISM, which worked so well in uniting the Americans against Germany. We are counting heavily on reports of antiSemitic outrages in Russia to whip up indignation in the United States and produce a front of solidarity against the Soviet power. Simultaneously, to demonstrate to Americans the reality of antiSemitism, we will advance through new sources large sums of money to outspokenly anti-Semitic elements in America to increase their effectiveness, and WE SHALL STAGE ANTISEMITIC OUTBREAKS IN SEVERAL OF THEIR LARGEST CITIES. This will serve the double purpose of exposing reactionary sectors in America, which then can be silenced, and of welding the United States into a devoted antiRussian unit. (Note: Protocol of Zion No. 9, para. 2, states that anti-Semitism is controlled by them. At the time of this speech they had already commenced their campaign ofantiSemitism in Czechoslovakia). Within five years, this program will achieve its objective, the Third World War, which will surpass in destruction all previous contests.<br /> Israeli, of course, will remain neutral, and when both sides are devastated and exhausted, we will arbitrate, sending our Control Commissions into all wrecked countries. This war will end for all time our struggle against the Gentiles. WE WILL OPENLY REVEAL OUR IDENTITY WITH THE RACES OF ASIA AND AFRICA. I can state with assurance that the last generation of white children is now being born. Our Control Commissions will, in the interests of peace and wiping out interracial tensions. FORBID THE WHITES TO MATE WITH WHITES. The White Women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the White Men with dark women. THUS THE WHITE RACE WILL DISAPPEAR, FOR THE MIXING OF THE DARK WITH THE WHITE MEANS THE END OF THE WHITE MAN, AND<br /> OUR MOST DANGEROUS ENEMY WILL BECOME ONLY A MEMORY. We shall embark upon an era of ten thousand years of peace and plenty, the Pax Judaica, and our race will rule undisputed over the world. Our superior intelligence will easily enable us to retain mastery over a world of dark peoples.<br /> Question from the gathering: Rabbi Rabinovich, what about the various religions after the Third World War?<br /> Rabinovich: There will be no more religions. Not only would the existence of a priest class remain a constant danger to our<br /> rule, but belief in an afterlife would give spiritual strength to irreconcilable elements in many countries, and enable them to resist us. We will, however, retain the rituals and customs of Judaism as the mark of our hereditary ruling caste, strengthening our racial laws so that no Jew will be allowed to marry outside our race, nor will any stranger be accepted by us. (Note: Protocol of Zion No. 17 para. 2, states: 'Now that freedom of conscience has been declared everywhere (as a result of their efforts they have previously stated) only years divide us from the moment of THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT [Hated] CHRISTIAN RELIGION. As to other religions, we shall have still less difficulty with them.')<br /> We may have to repeat the grim days of World War II, when we were forced to let the Hitlerite bandits sacrifice some of our people, in order that we may have adequate documentation and witnesses to legally justify our trial and execution of the leaders of America and Russia as war criminals, after we have dictated the peace. I am sure you will need little preparation for such a duty, for sacrifice has always been the watchword of our people, and the DEATH OF A FEW THOUSAND JEWS in exchange<br /> for world leadership is indeed a SMALL PRICE TO PAY. To convince you of the certainty of that leadership, let me point out to you how we have turned all of the inventions of the White Man into weapons against him. HIS PRINTING PRESSES AND RADIOS are the MOUTHPIECES OF OUR DESIRES, and his heavy industry manufactures the instruments which he sends out to arm Asia and Africa against him.<br /> Our interests in Washington are greatly extending the POINT FOUR PROGRAM (viz. COLOMBO PLAN) for developing industry in<br /> backward areas of the world, so that after the industrial plants and cities of Europe and America are destroyed by atomic warfare, the Whites can offer no resistance against the large masses of the dark races, who will maintain an unchallenged technological superiority. And so, with the vision of world victory before you, go back to your countries and intensify your good work, until that approaching day when Israeli will reveal herself in all her glorious destiny as the Light of the World." (Note: Every statement made by Rabinovich is based on agenda contained in the "Protocols of Zion.") </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/get-a-grip#post-316 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:52:28 +0000 Gnarly 316@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>... on reality</p> <p> "Dear Sirs: A. Mr. John Sherman has written us from a town in Ohio, U.S.A., as to the profits that may be made in the National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress (National Bank Act of 1863), a copy of which act accompanied his letter. Apparently this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law, would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout the world. Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity for capitalists to accumulate money, as that presented by this act and that the old plan, of State Banks is so unpopular, that the new scheme will, by contrast, be most favorably regarded, notwithstanding the fact that it gives the national Banks an almost absolute control of the National finance. 'The few who can understand the system,' he says 'will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives from the system, will bear its burdens without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests.' Please advise us fully as to this matter and also state whether or not you will be of assistance to us, if we conclude to establish a National Bank in the City of New York...Awaiting your reply, we are." (Rothschild Brothers. London, June 25, 1863.)</p> <p>------------------------------------</p> <p> "The division of the United States into two federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the High [Jewish] Financial Powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid of the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economical and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds predominated. They foresaw tremendous booty if they could substitute two feeble democracies, indebted to the Jewish financiers, to the vigorous Republic, confident and self-providing. Therefore, they started their emissaries to work in order to exploit the question of slavery and thus to dig an abyss between the two parts of the Republic. Lincoln never suspected these underground machinations. He was antiSlaverist, and he was elected as such. But his character prevented him from being the man of one party. When he had affairs in his hands, he perceived that these sinister financiers of Europe, the Rothschilds, wished to make him the executor of their designs. They made the rupture between the North and the South imminent! The master of finance in Europe made this rupture definitive in order to exploit it to the utmost. Lincoln's personality surprised them. His candidature did not trouble them; they though to easily dupe the candidate woodcutter. But Lincoln read their plots and soon understood, that the South was not the worst foe, but the Jew financiers. He did not confide his apprehensions, he watched the gestures of the Hidden Hand; he did not wish to expose publicly the questions which would disconcert the ignorant masses.<br /> Lincoln decided to eliminate the international banker by establishing a system of loans, allowing the States to borrow<br /> directly from the people without intermediary. He did not study financial questions, but his robust good sense revealed to him,<br /> that the source of any wealth resides in the work and economy of the nation. He opposed emissions through the international<br /> financiers. He obtained from Congress the right to borrow from the people by selling to it the 'bonds' of the States. The<br /> local banks were only too glad to help such a system. And the Government and the nation escaped the plots of the foreign<br /> financiers. They understood at once, that the United States would escape their grip. The death of Lincoln was resolved upon.<br /> Nothing is easier than to find a fanatic to strike. The death of Lincoln was the disaster for Christendom, continues Bismarck. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots. And Israel went anew to grab the riches of the world. I fear that Jewish banks with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America, and use it to systematically corrupt modern civilization. The Jews will not hesitate to plunge the whole of Christendom into wars and chaos, in order that 'the earth should become the inheritance of Israel.'" (La Vieille France, No. 216, March, 1921)</p> <p>----------------------------</p> <p> In his novel Coningsby (London, 1844), Disraeli drew a picture form the life of the Jews ruling the world from behind the thrones as graphic as anything in the Protocols of Nilus. Many believe, and it has been proved to most, Coningsby was a plagiarism of a Byzantine novel of the XVIIth century. The passage in which Rothschild (Sidonia) describes this is as follows:</p> <p> "If I followed my own impulse, I would remain here," said Sidonia. "Can anything be more absurd than that a nation should apply to an individual to maintain its credit, and with its credit, its existence as an empire and its comfort as a people; and that individual one to whom its laws deny the proudest rights of citizenship, the privilege of sitting in its senate and of holding land; for though I have been rash enough to buy several estates, my own opinion is that by the existing law of England, an Englishman of Jewish faith cannot possess the soil.' 'But surely it would be easy to repeal a law so illiberal.' 'Oh! as for illiberality, I have no objection to it if it be an element of power. Eschew political sentimentality. What I contend is that IF YOU PERMIT MEN TO ACCUMULATE PROPERTY, AND THEY USE THAT PERMISSION TO A GREAT EXTENT, POWER IS INSEPARABLE FROM THAT PROPERTY, and it is in the last degree impolitic to make it in the interest of any powerful class to oppose the institutions under which they live. The Jews, for example, independent of the capital qualities for citizenship which they possess in their industry, temperance, and energy and vivacity of mind, are a race essentially monarchical, deeply religious and shrinking themselves from converts as from a calamity, are ever anxious to see the religious systems of the countries in which they live, flourish; yet since your society<br /> has become agitated in England and powerful combinations menace your institutions, you find the once loyal Jew invariably<br /> arrayed in the same ranks as the leveller and the latitudinarian, and prepared to support rather than tamely continue under a system which seeks to degrade him.<br /> The Tories lose an important election at a critical moment; 'Its the Jews who come forward to vote against them. The Church is alarmed at the scheme of a latitudinarian university, and learns with relief that funds are not forthcoming for its establishment; a Jew immediately advances and endows it. Yet the Jews, Coningsby, are essentially Tories. Toryism indeed is but copied from the mighty prototype which has fashioned Europe. And every generation they must become more powerful and more dangerous to the society which is hostile to them. Do you think that the quiet humdrum persecution of a decorous representative of an English university can crush those who have successively baffled the Pharaos, Nebuchadnezzar, Rome, and the feudal ages?<br /> The fact is YOU CANNOT DESTROY A PURE RACE OF WHITE ORGANIZATION. It is a physiological fact; a simple law of nature, which has baffled Egyptian and Assyrian kings, Roman emperors, and Christian inquisitors. No penal laws, no physical tortures, can effect that a superior race should be absorbed in an inferior, or be destroyed by it. The mixed persecuting races disappear, the pure persecuted race remains. And at this moment in spite of centuries, or tens of centuries, of degradation, the Jewish mind exercises a vast influence on the affairs of Europe. I speak of theirlaws, which you still obey; of their literature, with which your minds are saturated; but of the living Jewish intellect.<br /> You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do not greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews; that mysterious Russian diplomacy which so alarms Western Europe is organized and principally carried on by Jews; that mighty revolution (of 1848) which will be in fact [followed] by a second an greater Reformation, and of which so little is as yet known in England, is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews, who almost monopolize the professorial chairs of Germany. Neander the founder of Spiritual Christianity, and who is Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Berlin, is a Jew. Benary, equally famous and in the same university, is a Jew. Wehl, the Arabic Professor of Heidelberg, is a Jew. Years ago, when I was in Palestine, I met a German student who was accumulating materials for the history of Christianity and studying the genius of the place; a modest and learned man. It was Wehl; then unknown, since become the first Arabic scholar of the day, and the author of the life of Mohamet. But for the German professors of this race, their name is legion. I think there are more than ten at Berlin alone.<br /> I told you just now that I was going up to town tomorrow, because I always made it a rule to interpose when affairs of state were on the carpet. Otherwise, I never interfere. I hear of peace and war in the newspapers, but I am never alarmed, except when I am informed that the sovereigns want treasure; then I know that monarchs are serious. A few years back we were applied to by Russia. Now there has been no friendship between the Court of St. Petersburg and my family. It has Dutch connections which have generally supplied it; and our representations in favor of the Polish Jews, a numerous race, but the most suffering and degraded of all the tribes, have not been very agreeable to the Czar. However circumstances drew to an approximation between the Romanoffs and the Sidonias. I resolved to go myself to St. Petersburg. I had on my arrival an interview with the Russian<br /> Minister of Finance, Count Cancrin; I beheld the son of a Lithuanian Jew. The loan was connected with the affairs of Spain; I resolved on repairing to Spain from Russia. I travelled without intermission. I had an audience immediately on my arrival with the Spanish minister Senior Mendizabel; I behold one like myself, the some of Nuevo Christiano, a Jew of Aragon. In consequence of what transpired at Madrid, I went straight to Paris to consult the President of the French Council; I beheld the son of a French Jew, a hero, an imperial marshal and very properly so, for who should be military heroes if not those of the Jewish faith.'<br /> 'And is Soult a Jew?' 'Yes, and others of the French marshals, and the most famous Massna, for example; his real name was Mannasheh: but to my anecdote. The consequence of our consultations was that some northern power should be applied to<br /> in a friendly and mediative capacity. We fixed on Prussia, and the President of the Council made an application to the Prussian minister, who attended a few days after our conference.<br /> Count Arnim entered the cabinet, and I beheld a Prussian Jew. So you see, my dear Coningsby, that THE WORLD IS GOVERNED BY<br /> VERY DIFFERENT PERSONAGES FROM WHAT IS IMAGINED BY THOSE WHO ARE NOT BEHIND THE SCENES.' (pp. 249252)<br /> Rollin, Pierred Leroux, and a group of socialists, among whom was Maurice Joly [His father was Philippe Lambert Joly,<br /> born at Dieppe, AttorneyGeneral of the Jura under LouisPhilippe for ten years. His mother Florentine Corbara Courtois, was the<br /> daughter of Laurent Courtois, paymastergeneral of Corsica, who had an inveterate hatred of Napoleon I. Maurice Joly was born in<br /> 1831 at LonsleSaulnier and educated at Dijon: there he had begun his law studies, but left for Paris in 1849 to secure a post in<br /> the Ministry of the Interior under M. Chevreau and just before the coup d'etat. He did not finish his law studies till 1860.<br /> Joly, some thirty years younger than Cremieux, with an inherited hatred of the Bonapartes, seems to have fallen very largely under his influence. Through Cremieux, Joly became acquainted with communists and their writings. Though, until 1871 when his ambition for a government post turned him into a violent communist, he had not in 1864 gone beyond socialism, he was so impressed with the way they presented their arguments that he could not, if the chance were offered, refrain from imitating it.<br /> And this chance came in 18641865, when his hatred of Napoleon, whetted by Cremieux, led him to publish anonymously<br /> in Brussels the Dialogues aux Enfers entre Machiavelli et Montesquieu. In this work he tells us, 'Machiavelli represents the policy of Might, while Montesquieu stands for that of Right: Machiavelli will be Napoleon, who will himself describe his abominable policy.' It was natural that he should choose the Italian Machiavelli to stand for Bonaparte, and the Frenchman Montesquieu, for the ideal statesman: it was equally natural that he should put in the mouth of Machiavelli some of the same expressions which Venedey had put in it, and which Joly had admired. His own view was: 'Socialism seems to me one of the forms of a new life for the people emancipated from the traditions of the old world. I accept a great many of the solutions offered by socialism; but I reject communism, either as a social factor, or as a political institution. Communism is but a school of socialism. In politics, I understand extreme means to gain one's ends, in that at least, I am a Jacobin." </p> <p>----------------------------------------------------</p> <p> "Freemasonry was a good and sound institution in principle, but revolutionary agitators, principally Jews, taking advantage of its organization as a secret society, penetrated it little by little. They have corrupted it and turned it from its moral and philanthropic aim in order to employ it for revolutionary purposes. This would explain why certain parts of freemasonry have remained intact such as English masonry.<br /> In support of this theory we may quote what a Jew, Bernard Lazare has said in his book: l'antisemitiseme: 'What were the<br /> relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did not dominate in these associations, as the writers, whom I have just mentioned, pretended; they were not necessarily the soul, the head, the grand master of masonry as Gougenot des Mousseaux affirms. It is certain however that there were Jews in the very cradle of masonry, kabbalist Jews, as some of the rites which have been preserved prove. It is most probable that, in the years which preceded the French Revolution, they entered the councils of this sect in increasing numbers and founded secret societies themselves. There were Jews with Weishaupt, and Martinez de Pasqualis. A Jew of Portuguese origin, organized numerous groups of illuminati in France and recruited many adepts whom he initiated into the dogma of reinstatement. The Martinezist lodges were mystic, while the other Masonic orders were rather rationalist; a fact which permits us to say that the secret societies represented the two sides of Jewish mentality: practical rationalism and pantheism, that pantheism which although it is a metaphysical reflection of belief in only one god, yet sometimes leads to kabbalistic tehurgy. One could easily show the agreements of these two tendencies, the alliance of Cazotte, of Cagliostro, of Martinez, of Saint Martin, of the comte de St. Bermain, of Eckartshausen, with the Encyclopedists and the Jacobins, and the manner in which in spite of their opposition, they arrived at the same result, the weakening of Christianity. That will once again serve to prove that the Jews could be good agents of the secret societies, because the doctrines of these societies were in agreement with their own doctrines, but not that they were the originators of them." (Bernard Lazare, l'Antisemitisme. Paris, Chailley, 1894, p. 342; The Secret Powers Behind<br /> Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins, pp. 101-102). </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/gc-is-broken-talk-here#post-307 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:38:18 +0000 Halibut 307@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>HEY what happened to GC?? </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/gc-is-broken-talk-here#post-306 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:41:17 +0000 JimmyEast2 306@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>HEY.... </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/the-end-2010-october-8th#post-305 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:36:52 +0000 JimmyEast2 305@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>Barack Obama got on the head set, and soon his ears were filled with the reality of the situation. Nukes were coming in. He had to act. He didn't falter. Intercept missles were launched. The launch was from Saudi Arabia.<br /> Shock and awe.<br /> How awesome was it that a Saudi nuke erupted on Los Angeles? Where did it come from who cares.<br /> Barack Obama against the world. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/the-end-2010-october-8th#post-302 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:19:42 +0000 JimmyEast2 302@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>6:30 AM ... I am going to WAKE UP. I'll go to the kitchen to make eggs. I will see out the kitchen window people have gathered. They are making signs that they are at peace with me. I usher them to leave. If only they have enough time. I don't have enough time. I have to get out of here. They are all coming. Meanwhile at Missle Control there is a blinking light and an alarm. But the Seargeant walks in like something is wrong. Then the Captain comes in, straightening out his uniform and then his headgear. Barack Obama is woken up. "Sir it's about global nuclear destruction"... Off his bed he leaps into his pants. "No time at all?", "NO SIR" </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/complete-text-of-the-secret-doctrine#post-286 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:15:51 +0000 Gnarly 286@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, by: Helena P. Blavatsky</p> <p>The first volume is named Cosmogenesis, the second Anthropogenesis. The entirety of the text is beautifully laid out for all:</p> <p>Volume One: <a href="http://www.theosophy.org/Blavatsky/Secret%20Doctrine/SD-I/SDVolume_I.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.theosophy.org/Blavatsky/Secret%20Doctrine/SD-I/SDVolume_I.htm</a><br /> Volume Two: <a href="http://www.theosophy.org/Blavatsky/Secret%20Doctrine/SD-II/SDVolume2.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.theosophy.org/Blavatsky/Secret%20Doctrine/SD-II/SDVolume2.htm</a></p> <p>A second source for the entirety of the text is available:</p> <p>First &#38; second volume: <a href="http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd-hp.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd-hp.htm</a></p> <p>The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.<br /> -H. P. Blavatsky </p> <p>The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.<br /> -H. P. Blavatsky </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/act-of-abjuration-or-plakkaat-van-verlatinghe-english-translation#post-279 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:18:26 +0000 Gnarly 279@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>The States General of the United Provinces of the Low Countries, to all whom it may concern, do by these Presents send greeting:</p> <p>As it is apparent to all that a prince is constituted by God to be ruler of a people, to defend them from oppression and violence as the shepherd his sheep; and whereas God did not create the people slaves to their prince, to obey his commands, whether right or wrong, but rather the prince for the sake of the subjects (without which he could be no prince), to govern them according to equity, to love and support them as a father his children or a shepherd his flock, and even at the hazard of life to defend and preserve them. And when he does not behave thus, but, on the contrary, oppresses them, seeking opportunities to infringe their ancient customs and privileges, exacting from them slavish compliance, then he is no longer a prince, but a tyrant, and the subjects are to consider him in no other view. And particularly when this is done deliberately, unauthorized by the states, they may not only disallow his authority, but legally proceed to the choice of another prince for their defense. This is the only method left for subjects whose humble petitions and remonstrances could never soften their prince or dissuade him from his tyrannical proceedings; and this is what the law of nature dictates for the defense of liberty, which we ought to transmit to posterity, even at the hazard of our lives. And this we have seen done frequently in several countries upon the like occasion, whereof there are notorious instances, and more justifiable in our land, which has been always governed according to their ancient privileges, which are expressed in the oath taken by the prince at his admission to the government; for most of the Provinces receive their prince upon certain conditions, which he swears to maintain, which, if the prince violates, he is no longer sovereign.</p> <p>Now thus it was that the king of Spain after the demise of the emperor, his father, Charles the Fifth, of the glorious memory (of whom he received all these provinces), forgetting the services done by the subjects of these countries, both to his father and himself, by whose valor he got so glorious and memorable victories over his enemies that his name and power became famous and dreaded over all the world, forgetting also the advice of his said imperial majesty, made to him before to the contrary, did rather hearken to the counsel of those Spaniards about him, who had conceived a secret hatred to this land and to its liberty, because they could not enjoy posts of honor and high employments here under the states as in Naples, Sicily, Milan and the Indies, and other countries under the king's dominion. Thus allured by the riches of the said provinces, wherewith many of them were well acquainted, the said counselors, we say, or the principal of them, frequently remonstrated to the king that it was more for his Majesty's reputation and grandeur to subdue the Low Countries a second time, and to make himself absolute (by which they mean to tyrannize at pleasure), than to govern according to the restrictions he had accepted, and at his admission sworn to observe. From that time forward the king of Spain, following these evil counselors, sought by all means possible to reduce this country (stripping them of their ancient privileges) to slavery, under the government of Spaniards having first, under the mask of religion, endeavored to settle new bishops in the largest and principal cities, endowing and incorporating them with the richest abbeys, assigning to each bishop nine canons to assist him as counselors, three whereof should superintend the inquisition.</p> <p>By this incorporation the said bishops (who might be strangers as well as natives) would have had the first place and vote in the assembly of the states, and always the prince's creatures at devotion; and by the addition of the said canons he would have introduced the Spanish inquisition, which has been always as dreadful and detested in these provinces as the worst of slavery, as is well known, in so much that his imperial majesty, having once before proposed it to these states, and upon whose remonstrances did desist, and entirely gave it up, hereby giving proof of the great affection he had for his subjects. But, notwithstanding the many remonstrances made to the king both by the provinces and particular towns, in writing as well as by some principal lords by word of mouth; and, namely, by the Baron of Montigny and Earl of Egmont, who with the approbation of the Duchess of Parma, then governess of the Low Countries, by the advice of the council of state were sent several times to Spain upon this affair. And, although the king had by fair words given them grounds to hope that their request should be complied with, yet by his letters he ordered the contrary, soon after expressly commanding, upon pain of his displeasure, to admit the new bishops immediately, and put them in possession of their bishoprics and incorporated abbeys, to hold the court of the inquisition in the places where it had been before, to obey and follow the decrees and ordinances of the Council of Trent, which in many articles are destructive of the privileges of the country.</p> <p>This being come to the knowledge of the people gave just occasion to great uneasiness and clamor among them, and lessened that good affection they had always borne toward the king and his predecessors. And, especially, seeing that he did not only seek to tyrannize over their persons and estates, but also over their consciences, for which they believed themselves accountable to God only. Upon this occasion the chief of the nobility in compassion to the poor people, in the year 1566, exhibited a certain remonstrance in form of a petition, humbly praying, in order to appease them and prevent public disturbances, that it would please his majesty (by showing that clemency due from a good prince to his people) to soften the said points, and especially with regard to the rigorous inquisition, and capital punishments for matters of religion. And to inform the king of this affair in a more solemn manner, and to represent to him how necessary it was for the peace and prosperity of the public to remove the aforesaid innovations, and moderate the severity of his declarations published concerning divine worship, the Marquis de Berghen, and the aforesaid Baron of Montigny had been sent, at the request of the said lady regent, council of state, and of the states-general as ambassadors to Spain, where the king, instead of giving them audience, and redress the grievances they had complained of (which for want of a timely remedy did always appear in their evil consequences among the common people), did, by the advice of Spanish council, declare all those who were concerned in preparing the said remonstrance to be rebels, and guilty of high treason, and to be punished with death, and confiscation of their estates; and, what is more (thinking himself well assured of reducing these countries under absolute tyranny by the army of the Duke of Alva), did soon after imprison and put to death the said lords the ambassadors, and confiscated their estates, contrary to the law of nations, which has been always religiously observed even among the most tyrannic and barbarous princes.</p> <p>And, although the said disturbances, which in the year 1566 happened on the aforementioned occasion, were now appeased by the governess and her ministers, and many friends to liberty were either banished or subdued, in so much that the king had not any show of reason to use arms and violence, and further oppress this country, yet for these causes and reasons, long time before sought by the council of Spain (as appears by intercepted letters from the Spanish ambassador, Alana, then in France, writ to the Duchess of Parma), to annul all the privileges of this country, and govern it tyrannically at pleasure as in the Indies; and in their new conquests he has, at the instigation of the council of Spain, showing the little regard he had for his people, so contrary to the duty which a good prince owes to his subjects), sent the Duke of Alva with a powerful army to oppress this land, who for his inhuman cruelties is looked upon as one of its greatest enemies, accompanied with counselors too like himself. And, although he came in without the least opposition, and was received by the poor subjects with all marks of honor and clemency, which the king had often hypocritically promised in his letters, and that himself intended to come in person to give orders to their general satisfaction, having since the departure of the Duke of Alva equipped a fleet to carry him from Spain, and another in Zealand to come to meet him at the great expense of the country, the better to deceive his subjects, and allure them into the toils, nevertheless the said duke, immediately after his arrival (though a stranger, and no way related to the royal family), declared that he had a captain-general's commission, and soon after that of governor of these provinces, contrary to all its ancient customs and privileges; and, the more to manifest his designs, he immediately garrisoned the principal towns and castles, and caused fortresses and citadels to be built in the great cities to awe them into subjection, and very courteously sent for the chief nobility in the king's name, under pretense of taking their advice, and to employ them in the service of their country. And those who believed his letters were seized and carried out of Brabant, contrary to law, where they were imprisoned and prosecuted as criminals before him who had no right, nor could be a competent judge; and at last he, without hearing their defense at large, sentenced them to death, which was publicly and ignominiously executed.</p> <p>The others, better acquainted with Spanish hypocrisy, residing in foreign countries, were declared outlawed, and had their estates confiscated, so that the poor subjects could make no use of their fortresses nor be assisted by their princes in defense of their liberty against the violence of the pope; besides a great number of other gentlemen and substantial citizens, some of whom were executed, and others banished that their estates might be confiscated, plaguing the other honest inhabitants, not only by the injuries done to their wives, children and estates by the Spanish soldiers lodged in their houses, as likewise by diverse contributions, which they were forced to pay toward building citadels and new fortifications of towns even to their own ruin, besides the taxes of the hundredth, twentieth, and tenth penny, to pay both the foreign and those raised in the country, to be employed against their fellow-citizens and against those who at the hazard of their lives defended their liberties. In order to impoverish the subjects, and to incapacitate them to hinder his design, and that he might with more ease execute the instructions received in Spain, to treat these countries as new conquests, he began to alter the course of justice after the Spanish mode, directly contrary to our privileges; and, imagining at last he had nothing more to fear, he endeavored by main force to settle a tax called the tenth penny on merchandise and manufacture, to the total ruin of these countries, the prosperity of which depends upon a flourishing trade, notwithstanding frequent remonstrances, not by a single province only, but by all of them united, which he had effected, had it not been for the Prince of Orange with diverse gentlemen and other inhabitants, who had followed this prince in his exile, most of whom were in his pay, and banished by the Duke of Alva with others who between him and the states of all the provinces, on the contrary sought, by all possible promises made to the colonels already at his devotion, to gain the German troops, who were then garrisoned in the principal fortresses and the cities, that by their assistance he might master them, as he had gained many of them already, and held them attached to his interest in order, by their assistance, to force those who would not join with him in making war against the Prince of Orange, and the provinces of Holland and Zealand, more cruel and bloody than any war before. But, as no disguises can long conceal our intentions, this project was discovered before it could be executed; and he, unable to perform his promises, and instead of that peace so much boasted of at his arrival a new war kindled, not yet extinguished.</p> <p>All these considerations give us more than sufficient reason to renounce the King of Spain, and seek some other powerful and more gracious prince to take us under his protection; and, more especially, as these countries have been for these twenty years abandoned to disturbance and oppression by their king, during which time the inhabitants were not treated as subjects, but enemies, enslaved forcibly by their own governors.</p> <p>Having also, after the decease of Don Juan, sufficiently declared by the Baron de Selles that he would not allow the pacification of Ghent, the which Don Juan had in his majesty's name sworn to maintain, but daily proposing new terms of agreement less advantageous. Notwithstanding these discouragements we used all possible means, by petitions in writing, and the good offices of the greatest princes in Christendom, to be reconciled to our king, having lastly maintained for a long time our deputies at the Congress of Cologne, hoping that the intercession of his imperial majesty and of the electors would procure an honorable and lasting peace, and some degree of liberty, particularly relating to religion (which chiefly concerns God and our own consciences), at last we found by experience that nothing would be obtained of the king by prayers and treaties, which latter he made use of to divide and weaken the provinces, that he might the easier execute his plan rigorously, by subduing them one by one, which afterwards plainly appeared by certain proclamations and proscriptions published by the king's orders, by virtue of which we and all officers of the United Provinces with all our friends are declared rebels and as such to have forfeited our lives and estates. Thus, by rendering us odious to all, he might interrupt our commerce, likewise reducing us to despair, offering a great sum to any that would assassinate the Prince of Orange.</p> <p>So, having no hope of reconciliation, and finding no other remedy, we have, agreeable to the law of nature in our own defense, and for maintaining the rights, privileges, and liberties of our countrymen, wives, and children, and latest posterity from being enslaved by the Spaniards, been constrained to renounce allegiance to the King of Spain, and pursue such methods as appear to us most likely to secure our ancient liberties and privileges. Know all men by these presents that being reduced to the last extremity, as above mentioned, we have unanimously and deliberately declared, and do by these presents declare, that the King of Spain has forfeited, ipso jure, all hereditary right to the sovereignty of those countries, and are determined from henceforward not to acknowledge his sovereignty or jurisdiction, nor any act of his relating to the domains of the Low Countries, nor make use of his name as prince, nor suffer others to do it. In consequence whereof we also declare all officers, judges, lords, gentlemen, vassals, and all other the inhabitants of this country of what condition or quality soever, to be henceforth discharged from all oaths and obligations whatsoever made to the King of Spain as sovereign of those countries. And whereas, upon the motives already mentioned, the greater part of the United Provinces have, by common consent of their members, submitted to the government and sovereignty of the illustrious Prince and Duke of Anjou, upon certain conditions stipulated with his highness, and whereas the most serene Archduke Matthias has resigned the government of these countries with our approbation, we command and order all justiciaries, officers, and all whom it may concern, not to make use of the name, titles, great or privy seal of the King of Spain from henceforward; but in lieu of them, as long as his highness the Duke of Anjou is absent upon urgent affairs relating to the welfare of these countries, having so agreed with his highness or otherwise, they shall provisionally use the name and title of the President and Council of the Province.</p> <p>And, until such a president and counselors shall be nominated, assembled, and act in that capacity, they shall act in our name, except that in Holland and Zealand where they shall use the name of the Prince of Orange, and of the states of the said provinces until the aforesaid council shall legally sit, and then shall conform to the directions of that council agreeable to the contract made with his highness. And, instead of the king's seal aforesaid, they shall make use of our great seal, center-seal, and signet, in affairs relating to the public, according as the said council shall from time to time be authorized. And in affairs concerning the administration of justice, and transactions peculiar to each province, the provincial council and other councils of that country shall use respectively the name, title, and seal of the said province, where the case is to be tried, and no other, on pain of having all letters, documents, and despatches annulled. And, for the better and effectual performance hereof, we have ordered and commanded, and do hereby order and command, that all the seals of the King of Spain which are in these United Provinces shall immediately, upon the publication of these presents, be delivered to the estate of each province respectively, or to such persons as by the said estates shall be authorized and appointed, upon peril of discretionary punishment.</p> <p>Moreover, we order and command that from henceforth no money coined shall be stamped with the name, title, or arms of the King of Spain in any of these United Provinces, but that all new gold and silver pieces, with their halfs and quarters, shall only bear such impressions as the states shall direct. We order likewise and command the president and other lords of the privy council, and all other chancellors, presidents, accountants-general, and to others in all the chambers of accounts respectively in these said countries, and likewise to all other judges and officers, as we hold them discharged from henceforth of their oath made to the King of Spain, pursuant to the tenor of their commission, that they shall take a new oath to the states of that country on whose jurisdiction they depend, or to commissaries appointed by them, to be true to us against the King of Spain and all his adherents, according to the formula of words prepared by the states-general for that purpose. And we shall give to the said counselors, justiciaries, and officers employed in these provinces, who have contracted in our name with his highness the Duke of Anjou, an act to continue them in their respective offices, instead of new commissions, a clause annulling the former provisionally until the arrival of his highness. Moreover, to all such counselors, accomptants, justiciaries, and officers in these Provinces, who have not contracted with his highness, aforesaid, we shall grant new commissions under our hands and seals, unless any of the said officers are accused and convicted of having acted under their former commissions against the liberties and privileges of this country or of other the like maladministration.</p> <p>We farther command of the president and members of the privy council, chancellor of the Duchy of Brabant, also the chancellor of the Duchy of Guelders, and county of Zutphen, to the president and members of the council of Holland, to the receivers of great officers of Beoostersheldt and Bewestersheldt in Zealand, to the president and council of Friese, and to the Escoulet of Mechelen, to the president and members of the council of Utrecht, and to all other justiciaries and officers whom it may concern, to the lieutenants all and every of them, to cause this our ordinance to be published and proclaimed throughout their respective jurisdictions, in the usual places appointed for that purpose, that none may plead ignorance. And to cause our said ordinance to be observed inviolably, punishing the offenders impartially and without delay; for so it is found expedient for the public good. And, for better maintaining all and every article hereof, we give to all and every one of you, by express command, full power and authority.</p> <p>In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals,</p> <p>dated in our assembly at the Hague, the six and twentieth day of July, 1581, indorsed by the orders of the states-general,</p> <p>and signed J. De Asseliers.</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/plakkaat/plakkaaten.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/plakkaat/plakkaaten.htm</a> </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/act-of-abjuration-or-plakkaat-van-verlatinghe-dutch-text#post-278 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:14:49 +0000 Gnarly 278@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>PLAKKAAT VAN VERLATINGHE 26 JULI 1581</p> <p>AKTE VAN AFZWERING VAN FILIPS II</p> <p>die neerkwam op een Nederlandse onafhankelijkheidverklaring</p> <p>en volgde op de Unie van Utrecht 1579 (eerste confederale grondwet)</p> <p>De Staten Generael van de geunieerde Nederlanden.</p> <p>Allen dengenen die dese tegenwoordighe sullen sien ofte hooren lesen, saluyt.</p> <p>Alsoo een yegelick kennelick is, dat een Prince van den lande van Godt gestelt is hooft over zijne ondersaten, om deselve te bewaren ende beschermen van alle ongelijk, overlast ende ghewelt gelijck een herder tot bewaernisse van zijne schapen: En dat d'ondersaten niet en sijn van Godt geschapen tot behoef van den Prince om hem in alles wat hy beveelt, weder het goddelick of ongoddelick, recht of onrecht is, onderdanig te wesen en als slaven te dienen: maer den Prince om d'ondersaten wille, sonder dewelcke hy egeen Prince en is, om deselve met recht ende redene te regeeren ende voor te staen ende lief te hebben als een vader zijne kinderen ende een herder zijne schapen, die zijn lijf ende leven set om deslve te bewaren. En so wanneer hy sulx niet en doet, maer in stede van zijne ondersaten te beschermen, deselve soeckt te verdrucken, t'overlasten, heure oude vryheyt, privilegien ende oude herkomen te benemen, ende heur te gebieden ende gebruycken als slaven, moet ghehouden worden niet als Prince, maer als een tyran ende voor sulx nae recht ende redene magh ten minsten van zijne ondersaten, besondere by deliberatie van de Staten van den lande, voor egheen Prince meer bekent, maer verlaeten ende een ander in zijn stede tot beschermenisse van henlieden voor overhooft sonder misbruycken ghecosen werden:</p> <p>Te meer so wanneer d'ondersaten met ootmoedighe verthooninghe niet en hebben heuren voorsz. Prince konnen vermorwen, noch van zijn tirannich opset gekeeren ende also egeen ander middel en hebben om heure eighene, heure huysvrouwen, kinderen ende naecomelinghen aengeboren vryheyt (daer zy na de wet der natueren goet ende bloet schuldigh zijn voor op te setten), te bewaren ende beschermen, gelijck tot diversche reysen uut gelijcke oorsaecken in diversche landen, ende tot diversche tijden geschiet, en d'exempelen ghenoegh bekent zijn: twelck principalick in dese voorsz. landen behoort plaetse te hebben ende stadt te grijpen, die van allen tijden zijn gheregeert geweest ende hebben ook moeten geregeert worden navolgdende den eedt by heure Princen t'heuren aencome gedaen, na uutwijsen heurer privilegien, costumen ende ouden hercomen: hebbende oock meest alle de voorsz. landen haren Prince ontfangen op conditien, contrackten ende accoorden ende welcke brekende, oock nae recht den Prince van de heerschappye van den lande is vervallen.</p> <p>Nu ist also, dat den Coninck van Spaengien, nae het overlijden van hooger memorie Keyser Kaerle de vijfde, van wien hy alle dese Nederlanden ontfanghen hadde, vergetende de diensten die so sijn Heer vader, als hy, van dese landen ende ondersaten derselver hadden ontfanghen, deur dewelcke besondere de Coninck van Spaengien soo loffelicke victorien teghens zijne vyanden verkregen hadde, dat zijnen naem ende macht alle de wereldt deur vernaemt ende ontsien wert: vergetende oock de vermaninge die de voorsz. Keiserlicke Majesteydt hem t'anderen tijden ter contrarien hadde ghedaen, heeft dien van den Raede van Spaengien (neffens hen wesende) die deurdien zy in dese landen en vermochten egheen bevel te hebben te gouverneren oft de principale staten te bedienen, gelijck zy in de Coninckrijcken van Napels, Sicilien, tot Milanen, in Indien ende ander plaetsen, onder des Conincks geweldt wesende, deden, kennende den meestendeel van hen den rijckdom ende macht derselver, hadden eenen nijt teghens dese voorsz. landen ende de vryheyt derselver in hen herte genomen, ghehoor ende gheloof ghegheven, denwelcken Raedt van Spaengien, oft eenighe van de principale van dien, den voorsz. Coninck tot diversche reysen voor ooghen ghehouden hebben, dat voor zijn reputatie ende Majesteyt beter was, dese voorsz. landen van nieuws te conquesteren, om daerover vryelick ende absolutelick te moghen bevelen (t'welck is tyranniseren nae zijn beliefte) dan onder alsulcken conditien ende restrictien (als hy hadde in 't overnemen van de heerschappye van deselve landen moeten zweeren) die te regeren. Welcke volgende den Coninck zedert alle middelen ghesocht heeft dese voorsz. lande te brenghen uyt heure oude vryheydt in een slavernye onder 't gouvernement van de Spaegnaerden: hebbende eerst, onder 't decxsel van de religie, willen in de principaelste ende machtighste steden stellen nieuwe bisschoppen, deselve begiftende ende doterende met toevoeginghe ende incorporatie van de rijckste abdyen, ende hen bysettende negen canonicken, die souden wesen van zijnen Raedt, waeraf de drie souden besonderen last hebben over d'inquisitie, door dewelcke incorporatie deselve bisschoppen (die souden moghen geweest hebben sowel vreemdelingen als ingheborene) souden hebben ghehadt d'eerste plaetsen ende voysen in de vergaderinge van de Staten van de voorsz. landen ende geweest zijne creaturen, staende tot zijne bevele ende devotie: ende deur de voorsz. toegevoechde canonicken de Spaensche inquisitie ingebrocht, dewelcke in dese landen altijt so schrickelick ende odieus, als de uuterste slavernye selve, gheweest is, so een yegelijck is kennelick: sodat de voorsz. Keyserlicke Majesteyt deselve t'anderen tijden den landen voorgeslagen hebbende, deur die remonstrantie die men aen Zijne Majesteyt daerteghens gedaen heeft (thonende d'affectie die hy zijne ondersaten was toedraghende) die heeft laten varen: maer niettegenstaende diversche remonstrantien, so by perticulire steden ende provincien, alsoock van eenige principale heeren van den lande, namentlic den heere van Mongtiny ende den grave van Egmondt, tot dien eynde by consente van de hertoghinne van Parma, doen ter tijt regente over deselve landen, by advijse van den Rade van State ende Generaliteyt, na Spaengien tot distincte reysen gesonden, mondelinge gedaen: ende dat ook den voorsz. Coninck van Spaengien deselve mondelinghe goede hope hadde ghegheven van, naevolgende haer versoeck, daerinne te versien, heeft ter contrarien corts daernaer by brieven scherpelick bevolen de voorsz. bisschoppen, op zijn indignatie, terstont t'onfangen ende te stellen in de possessie van heure bisdommen ende geincorporeerde abdyen, de inquisitie te werck te stellen daer se te vooren was, ende d'ordonnantie van het concilie van Trenten (die in vele poincten contrarieerden de privilegien van de voorsz. landen) t'achtervolgen. Twelck gekomen zijnde ter ooren van de ghemeynte, heeft met redenen oorsake ghegheven van een groote beroerte onder haer ende eenen aftreck van de goede affectie, die zy als goede ondersaten den voorsz. Coninck van Spaengien ende zijne voorsaten altijdt toeghedragen hadden, besonder aenmerckende dat hy niet alleenlick en sochte te tyranniseren over hunne personen ende goet, maer ooc over heure conscientien, waervan zy verstonden niemant, dan aen Godt alleene, ghehouden te wesen rekeninge te gheven oft te verantwoorden: waerdeur ende uut medelijden van de voorsz. ghemeynte, de principaelste van den adel van den lande hebben in den jare 1566 seker remonstrantie overghegheven, versoeckende dat, om de ghemeynte te stillen ende alle oproer te verhoeden, Zijne Majesteydt soude de voorsz. poincten, ende besonder nopende de rigoureuse ondersoeckinge ende straffe over de religie willen versoeten, daerinne thoonende de liefde ende affectie die hy tot zijne ondersaten, als een goedertieren Prince was draghende.</p> <p>Ende om t'selfde al naerder ende met meerder authoriteyt den voorsz. Coninck van Spaegnien te kennen te gheven ende te verthoonen hoe nootelick het was voor het lants welvaren, ende om t'selfde te houden in ruste, sulcke nieuwicheden af te doen ende het rigeur van de contraventie van den placcate, op de saken van der religien gemaeckt, te versoeten, ter begeerte van de voorsz. Gouvernante, Rade van State ende van de Staten Generael van alle de landen, als ghesanten zijn nae Spaengnien gheschikt gheweest den Marckgrave van Berghen ende den voorsz. heere van Montigni in stede van dewelcke ghehoor te gheven ende te versiene op de inconvenienten die men voorghehouden hadde (die mits het uutstal van daerinne in tijts te remedieren so den noot uut heyschte, alreede onder de gemeynte meest in alle de landen begonst waren hen t'openbaren) heeft, door opruyen van den voorsz. Spaenschen Raedt, de persoonen, de voorsz. remonstrantie ghedaen hebbende, doen verclaren rebel ende schuldig van het crym van lesae Majestatis ende alsoo strafbaer in lijf ende goet: hebbende daerenboven de voorsz. heeren ghesanten namaels (meynende de voorsz. landen deur 't gheweldt van den Hertogh van Alve gheheelick gebrocht te hebben onder zijn subjectie ende tyrannye) tegens alle gemeyne rechten, oock onder de wreetste ende tyrannichste Princen altijt onverbrekelick onderhouden, doen vanghen, dooden ende heure goeden confisqueren.</p> <p>Ende al wast alsoo dat meest de beroerte in dese voorsz. landen deur toedoen van de voorsz. regente ende heure adherenten in 't voorsz. jaer 1566 opghestaen, was gheslist, ende veele die de vryheyt des lants voorstonden, verjaeght, ende d'andere verdruct ende t'onder ghebrocht, soodat den Coninck egheen oorsake ter werelt meer en hadde, om de voorsz. landen met gewelt ende wapenen t'overvallen: nochtans om sulcken oorsake die den voorseyden Spaenschen Raet langhen tijdt ghesocht ende verwacht hadde (so opentlick de opgehouden ende gheintercipieerde brieven van den ambassadeur van Spaengien, Alana, in Vrankrijck wesende, aen de Herthoginne van Parma, doen ter tijt geschreven, dat uutwijsden) om te niet te mogen doen alle des landts privilegien, dat nae heuren wille by Spaengnaerden tyrannichlick te mogen gouverneren, als de Indien ende nieuwe geconquesteerde landen, heeft deur ingeven ende raedt van deselve Spaengnaerden (thoonende de cleyne affecktie die hy zijnen goeden ondersaten was toedraghende, contrarie van 't gene hy heur, als heur Prince, beschermer ende goede herder schuldigh was te doen) nae dese landen, om deselve t'overvallen, gheschickt met groote heyrcracht den Hertogh van Alva, vermaert van strafheyt ende crudelitett, een van de principale vyanden van deselve landen, verselschapt, om als Raden neffens hem te wesen, met persoonen van gelijcke natuere ende humeuren.</p> <p>Ende al wast so dat hy hier in de landen sonder slach oft stoot is gecomen ende met alle reverentie ende eere is ontfanghen van de arme inghesetene, die niet en verwachten dan alle goedertierenheyt ende clementie, ghelijck den Coninck hen dickwils met zijne brieven gheveynsdelick hadde toegheseyt: jae dat hy selfs van meyninge was te comen in persoone, om in als tot ghenoeghe van eenen yeghelicken ordre te stellen: hebbende oock ten tijden van het vertreck van den Hertoghe van Alve nae dese landen een vlote van schepen in Spaegnien, om hem te voeren, ende een in Zeelant om hem tegens te comen, tot grooten excessiven coste van den lande doen toereeden, om zijne voorsz. ondersaten t'abuseren ende te beter in 't net te brengen: heeft niettemin den voorsz. Hertoghe van Alve terstont na zijn comste, wesende een vreemdelinck, ende niet van den bloede van den voorsz. Coninc, verclaert gehadt commissie van den Coninck te hebben van opperste Capiteyn, ende corts daernaer van Gouverneur Generael van den lande, teghens de privilegien ende oude hercomen desselfs. Ende openbarende ghenoegh zijn voornemen, heeft terstont de principale steden ende sloten met volcke beset, casteelen ende sterckten in de principaelste ende machtichste steden, om die te houden in subjectie, opgherecht, de principaelste heeren, onder 't decksel van heuren raet van doen te hebben ende te willen employeren in den dienst van den lande, uut last van den Coninck vriendelick ontboden: die hem gehoor ghegheven hebben, doen vanghen, tegens de previlegien uut Brabant, daer se ghevanghen waren, ghevoert, voor hem selven (niet wesende heuren competenten rechter) doen betichten, ten lesten, sonder hen volkomelick te horen, ter doot veroordeelt ende openbaerlick en schandelick doen dooden: d'andere, beter kennisse van de gheveynstheyt der Spaengaerden hebbende, hun uuten lande houdende, verclaert verbeurt te hebben lijf ende goet, voor sulcks hun goet aenveerdt ende gheconfisqueert, omdat de voorsz. arme inghesetene hun niet en souden, t'ware met hare stercten oft Princen die heure vryheyt souden moghen voorstaen, connen oft mogen teghens 't Paus geweld behelpen, behalvens noch ontallicke andere edelmans ende treffelicke borghers, die hy soo om den hals ghebrocht als verjaeght heeft, om hunne goeden te confisqueren. De reste van de goede inghesetene, boven den overlast die zy in heur wijfs, kinderen ende goeden leden, deur gemeyne Spaensche soldaten t'heuren huyse in gharnisoen ligghende, travaillerende met sovele diversche schattinghe, so mits heur bedwinghende tot gheldinghe tot de bouwinghe van de nieuwe casteelen ende forticicatie van de steden tot heure eyghen verdruckinghe, als met opbrenghen van honderste, twintighste ende thiende penninghen, tot betalinghe van den crijghslieden, so by hen medegebracht, als die hy hier te lande oplichte, om t'employeren tegens heur mede landtsaten en degene die het lants vryheyt met perijckel van heuren lijve aventuerden voor te staene, opdat, de voorsz. ondersaten verarmt wesende, egeen middel ter werelt en soude overblijven om zijn voornemen te beletten ende d'instrucktie, hem in Spaegnien gegeven, van het lant te trackteren als van nieuws geconquesteert, te beter te volbrenghen. Tot welcken eynde hy oock begonst heeft in de principale plaetsen d'ordre van justitie nae de maniere van Spaegnien (dierecktelick teghens de previlegien van den lande) te veranderen, nieuwe Raden te stellen ende ten lesten wesende buyten alle vreese, soo hem dochte, eenen thienden penninck fortselick willen oprechten op de coopmanschappen ende handtwercken, tot gantsche verderfenisse van den lande, gheheelick op de voorsz. coopmanschap ende handtwerck staende, nietthegenstaende menichvuldighe remonstrantien, by elck landt in 't particulier, ende oock by allegader in 't generael hem ter contrarien ghedaen: hetwelck hy oock met ghewelt soude volbracht hebben, ten ware gheweest dat deur toedoen van mijnen heere den Prince van Orangien ende diversche edelmans ende andere goede ingheborene, by den voorsz. Hertogh van Alve uuten lande gebannen, Zijne Vorst[elijke] G[enade] volgende ende meest in haren dienst wesende, ende andere inghesetene, wel gheaffectioneerde tot de vryheyt van het voorsz. vaderlant, Hollant ende Zeelandt corts daernaer niet meest en hadde hem afghevallen ende hun begeven onder de bescherminghe van den voorsz. heere Prince, tegens dewelcke twee landen den voorsz. Hertoge van Alve duerende zijn gouvernement, ende daernaer den groten Commandeur (die naer den voorsz. Hertogh van Alve, niet om te verbeteren, maer om denselven voet van tyrannie by bedeckter middelen te vervolghen, den voorsz. Coninck van Spaegnien hier te lande gheschickt hadde) hebben d'andere landen, die zy met heure garnisoenen ende opgerechte casteelen hielden in de Spaensche subjectie, bedwongen om heure persoonen ende alle heure macht te ghebruycken om die te helpen t'onderbrenghen, dies niet meer deselve landen, die zy tot heure assistentie als vooren emploeyeerde, verschoonende, dan oft se heur selfs vyanden waren gheweest: latende de Spaengnaerden, onder 't decksel van ghemutineert te zijne, ten aensien van den grooten Commandeur in de stadt van Antwerpen gheweldichlick comen, daer ses weken lanck, tot laste van de burgheren, nae hunne discretie teeren ende daerenboven tot betalinghe van heure gheheyschte soldije, dieselve borgheren bedwinghende binnen middelen tijden (omme van het gheweldt van deselve Spaegnaerden ontslaghen te wesen) vier hondert duysent guldenen op te brengen, hebbende daernaer de voorsz. Spaensche soldaten, meerder stouticheydt ghebruyckende, hen vervoordert de wapenen openbaerlick teghens het landt aen te nemen, meynende eerst de stadt van Bruessele inne te nemen ende in stede van d'ordinarise residentie van den Prince van den lande, daer wesende, aldaer haren roofnest te houden, t'welk haer niet gheluckende, hebben de stadt van Aelst overweldigtt, daernaer de stadt van Maestricht ende de voorsz. stadt van Antwerpen gheweldichlick overvallen, ghesaccageert, gepilleert, ghemoort, gebrant en soo getrackteert, dat de tyrannichste ende crueelste vyanden van den lande niet meer oft arger en souden connen doen, tot onuutsprekelicke schade niet alleenlick van de arme ingesetene, maer oock van meest allen de natien van der werelt, die aldaer hadden haer coopmanschap ende ghelt. Ende niettegenstaende dat de voorsz. Spaegnaerden by den Rade van State (by denwelcken doen ter tijt mits de doot van den voorsz. grooten Commandeur te voren geschiet, het gouvernement van den lande was uut laste ende commissie van den voorsz. Coninc van Spaegnien aenveert) ten byzijne van Hieronomo de Rhoda, om heur overlast, fortse ende gewelt, 'twelck zy deden, verclaert ende ghecondicht waren voor vyanden van den lande, heeft denselven Rhoda uut zijne authoriteydt (oft, soo 't te presumeren is, uut krachte van seker secrete instrucktie die hy van Spaegnien hebben mochte) aenghenomen hooft te wesen van de voorsz. Spaegnaerden ende heure adherenten: ende (sonder aensien van den voorsz. Raet van Staten) te gebruycken den naem ende authoriteyt van den Coninck, te conterfeyten zijnen zegel, hem openbaerlick te dragen als gouverneur ende lieutenant van den Coninck, waerdeur de Staten zijn geoorsaeckt geweest ten selven tijde met mijnen voorsz. heere den Prince ende de Staten van Hollant ende Zeelant t'accorderen:<br /> welck accoort by den voorsz. Raede van State, als wettige gouverneurs van den lande, is gheapprobeert ende goetgevonden geweest, om gelijkerhant ende eendrachtelick de Spangnaerden, des ghemeynen landts vyanden, te moghen aenvechten ende uut den lande verdrijven, niet latende nochtans, als goede ondersaten, binnen middelen tijden by diversche ootmoedighe remonstrantien neffens den voorsz. Coninck van Spaegnien, met alder vlijt ende alle bequame middelen moghelick wesende, te vervolghen ende bidden, dat den Coninck ooge ende regardt nemende op de troublen ende inconvenienten, dier alrede in dese landen gheschiedt waren ende noch apparentelick stonden te gheschieden, soude willen de Spaegnaerden doen vertrecken uuten lande ende straffen degene die oorsake geweest hadden van het saccagheren ende bederven van zijne principale steden ende andere onuutsprekelicke overlasten die zijn arme ondersaten geleden hadden, tot een vertroostinge van degene dien t'overkomen was ende tot een exempel van andere:<br /> maer den Coninck, al was 't, dat hy met woorden hem gheliet of teghens zijnen danke en wille t'selfde gheschiet was ende dat hy van meyninghe was te straffen de hoofden daeraf ende voortane op de ruste van den lande met alle goedertierenheydt (als een Prince toebehoordt) te willen ordre stellen, heeft nochtans niet alleenlick egheen justitie oft straffe over deselve doen doen, maer ter contrarien ghenoegh met der daet blijckende, dat met zijnen consente ende voorgaenden Raede van Spaegnien al gheschiedt was, is by opghehouden brieven corts daernaer bevonden, dat aen Rhoda ende andre capiteynen (oorsake van 't voorsz. quaet) by den Coninck selve gheschreven wort, dat hy niet alleenlick heur feyt goet vont, maer heur daeraf prees ende beloefde te recompenseeren, besondere den voorsz. Rhoda, als hem gedaen hebbende eenen sonderlinghen dienst, ghelijck hy hem oock tot zijnder wedercoomste in Spagnien ende alle andere (zijne dienaers van de voorsz. tyrannie in des landen gheweest hebbende) metter daet heeft bewesen. Heeft oock ten selven tijde (meynende des te meer d'oogen van de ondersaten te verblinden) den Coninck in dese landen gesonden voor gouverneur zijnen bastaerdtbroeder Don Johan van Oistenrijck, als wesende van zijnen bloede, diewelcke onder 't decksel van goet te vinden ende t'approberen d'accord tot Gent gemackt, het toeseggen van de Staten voor te staene, de Spaengaerden te doen vertrecken ende d'auteurs van de ghewelden ende desordren in dese voorsz. landen gheschiedt te doen straffen ende ordre op de ghemeyne ruste van den lande ende heur oude vryheyd te stellen, sochte de voorsz. Staten te scheyden ende d'een landt voor, d'ander naer t'onder te brenghen, soo corts daernaer door de ghehenghenisse Gods (vyand van alle tyrannie) ondeckt is door opghehouden en gheintercipieerde brieven, daerby bleeck dat hy van den Coninck last hadde om hem te reguleren na de instructie ende het bescheet dat hem Roda soude gheven, tot meerder gheveynsthedt verbiedende, dat se malcanderen niet en souden sien oft spreken ende dat hy hem soude neffens de principaele heeren minlick draghen ende deselve winnen, totter tijt toe dat hy deur heure middel ende assistentie soude mogen Hollant ende Zeelandt in zijn gewelt crijgen, om dan voorts metten anderen te doen na zijnen wille. Gelijc oock Don Johan, niettegenstaende hy de pacificatie van Gent ende seker accoord, tussen hem ende de Staten van alle de landen doen gemaeckt, hadde solempnelick in presentie van alle de voorsz. Staten belooft ende gesworen t'onderhouden, contrarie van dien alle middelen sochte om de Duytsche soldaten, die doen ter tijdt alle de principaelste stercten ende steden hadden in bewaernissen, deur middel van hunne colonellen, die hy hadde tot zijnen wille ende devotie, met groote beloften te winnen ende so deselve stercten ende steden te krijghen in zijn gheweldt, ghelijck hy den meestendeel alreede ghewonnen hadde ende de plaetsen hiel voor hem toeghedaen, om deur dien middel deghene die hen t'soecken souden willen maken, om den voorsz. heer Prince ende die van Hollandt ende Zeelandt oorloge te helpen aendoen, feytelick daertoe te bedwinghen ende also een straffer ende crueelder inlandtsche oorloge te verwecken, dan oyt te vooren hadde geweest, twelk (gelijck 't ghene dat geveynsdelick ende teghens de meyninge uutwendichlick gehandelt wort, niet langhe en can bedeckt blijven) uutbrekende eer hy volcomelick zijne intentie geeffectueert hadde, heeft t'selve nae zijn voornemen niet connen volbrengen, maer nochtans een nieuwe oorloghe in stede van vrede (daer hy hem t'zijner koemste af vanteerde) verweckt, noch jeghenwoordelick duerende.</p> <p>Alle t'welck ons meer dan ghenoegh wettighe oorsake ghegeven heeft om den Coninck van Spaegnien te verlaten ende een ander machtigh ende goedertieren Prince, om de voorsz. landen te helpen beschermen en voor te staen, te versoecken, te meer dat in alsulcken desordre ende overlast de landen bat dan twintigh jaren van heuren Coning zijn verlaten geweest ende ghetrackteert niet als ondersaten, maer als vyanden, heur soeckende heur eyghen heer met cracht van wapenen t'onder te brengen, hebbende oock naer de aflijvicheydt van Don Johan deur den Baron van Selle, onder 't decksel van eenighe bequame middelen van accoorde voor te houdene, ghenoegh verclaert de Pacificatie van Gendt, die Don Johan uut zijnen naem besworen hadde, niet te willen advoyeren en alsoo daghelicks zwaerder conditien voorgheslaghen. Dien niettegenstaende hebben niet willen laten by schriftelijcke ende ootmoedighe remonstrantien, met intercessie van de principaelste Princen van Kerstenrijck sonder ophouden te versoecken met den voorsz. Coninck te reconcilieren ende accorderen, hebbende oock lestmael langhe tijdt onse Ghesanten ghehadt tot Colen, hopende aldaer, deur tusschenspreken van de Keyserlicke Majesteydt en de Keurvorsten die daer mede ghemoeyt waren, te verkrijghen eenen versekerden peys, met eenighe gracelicke vryheyt, besondere van der religie (de conscientie ende Godt principalic raeckende), maer hebben by experientie bevonden, dat wy met deselve remonstrantien ende handelinghen niet en consten yet van den Coninc verwerven, maer dat deselve handelingen ende communicatien alleenlick voorgheslaghen werden ende dienden om de landen onderlinghe twistich te maecken ende te doen scheyden d'een van den anderen, om des te gevoechelicker d'een voor ende d'ander naer t'onder brenghen ende heur eerste voornemen nu met alder rigeur teghens haer te werke te stellen: t'welck naederhant wel openbaerlick gebleken is by seker placcaet van proscriptien, by den Coninck laten uutgaen, by denwelcken wy ende alle de officiren ende ingesetene van de voorsz. geunieerde landen ende heure partye volgende (om ons tot meerder desperatie te brenghen, alomme odieus te makene, de trafficque ende handelinge te beletten) verclaert worden voor rebellen, en als sulcx verbeurt te hebben lijf ende goet, settende daerenboven op het lijf van den voorsz. heere Prince groote sommen van penninghen, soodat wy gantselick van alle middele van reconciliatie wanhopende ende oock van alle andere remedie ende secours verlaten wesende, hebben, volghende de wet der natueren, tot beschermenisse ende bewaernisse van onsen ende den andere landtsaten rechten, privilegien, oude hercomen ende vryheden van ons vaderlant, van het leven ende eere van onse huysvrouwen, kinderen ende nacomelingen, opdat se niet en souden vallen in de slavernye van de Spaegnaerden, verlatende met rechte den Coninc van Spaegnien, andere middelen bedwongen geweest voor te wenden, die wy tot onse meeste versekeringe ende bewaernisse van onse rechten, privilegien ende vryheden voorsz. hebben te rade gevonden.</p> <p>Doen te wetene, dat wy t'gene voorsz. overgemerckt ende door den uutersten noot, als voore gedrongen zijnde, by gemeynen accoorde, deliberatie ende overdrage, den Coninc van Spaegnien verclaert hebben ende verclaren mits desen, ipso jure, vervallen van zijne heerschapye, gerechticheyt ende erffenisse van de voorsz. landen ende voortaene van egeene meyninghe te zijne denselven te kennen in eenige saken, den Prince, zijne hoocheyt, jurisdictie ende domeynen van dese voorsz. landen raeckende, zijnen naem als overheer meer te gebruycken oft by yemanden toelaten gebruyckt te worden, verclarende oock dien volghende alle officiers, justiciers, smale heeren, vassalen ende alle andere ingesetene van den voorsz. lande, van wat conditie oft qualiteyt die zijn, voortane ontslagen van den eede die zy den Coninck van Spaegnien, als heere van dese voorsz. landen gheweest hebbende, moghen eenichsins ghedaen hebben oft in hem ghehouden wesen.</p> <p>Ende gemerckt uut oorsaken voorsz. den meestendeel van de geunieerde landen, by gemeynen accoorde ende consente van heure leden, hebben hun begheven ghehadt onder de heerschappye ende gouvernemente van den Doorluchtighen Prince den Hertogh van Anjou op seker conditien ende poincten, met Zijne Hoogheyt aenghegaen ende ghesloten, dat oock de Doorluchticheyt van den Eertzhertogh Matthias het gouvernement generael van den lande in onse handen heeft geresigneert ende by ons is geaccepteert gheweest, ordonneren ende bevelen allen justiciers, officiers ende andere die t'selfde eenichsins aengaen ende raken mag, dat zy voortaene den naem, titele, groote ende cleyne zeghelen, contre-zeghelen ende cachetten van den Coninck van Spaegnien verlaten ende niet meer en gebruycken en dat in plaetse van dien, soo langhe de Hoocheydt van den voorsz. Hertogh van Anjou, om noodelicke affairen, het welvaren van dese voorsz. landen rakende, noch van hier absent is (voor so vele den landen met de Hoogheyt van den voorsz. Hertogh van Anjou gecontrackteert hebbende aengaet) ende andersins d'andere by maniere van voorraet ende provisie sullen aennemen ende ghebruycken den tytele ende naem van 't hooft ende landtraet, en middelertijdt dat t'selve hooft ende Raeden volcomelik ende dadelick ghenoemt, beschreven ende in oeffeninghe van hennen staet ghetreden sullen zijn, onsen voorsz. name.</p> <p>Welverstaende dat men in Hollandt ende Zeelant sal ghebruycken den naem van hoogh geboren Vorst den Prince van Oraengien ende de Staeten van deselven landen, totter tijt toe den voorsz. landtraedt datelick sal inghestelt wesen, en sullen hun alsdan reguleren achtervolghende de consenten, by hun-lieden, op de instrucktie van den lantraet ende contrackt, met Zijne Hoogheyt aengegaen, ende in plaetse van des voorsz. Conincks zeghelen, men voortaene gebruycken sal onsen grooten zeghel, contre-zeghel ende cachetten in saecken, raeckende de ghemeyne regeringhe, daertoe den landtraedt volghende heure instructie sal gheauthoriseert wesen: maer in saecken, raeckende politie, administratie van juistitie ende andere particuliere, in elck lant besondere, sal gebruyckt worden by de Provinciale ende andere Raden den naem ende titele ende zeghel van den lande respectivelick, daer t'selfde valt te doene, sonder ander, al op de pene van nulliteyt van de brieven, bescheeden oft depeschen, die contrarie van t'gene voorsz. is, ghedaen oft gheseghelt zullen wesen. Ende tot beter ende sekerder volcominghe ende effectuatie van t'gene voorsz. is, hebben gheordonneert ende bevolen, ordonneren ende bevelen mits desen, dat alle des Conincks van Spaegnien zeghelen, in dese voorsz. geunieerde landen wesende, terstont nae de publicatie van desen, ghebrocht sullen moeten worden in handen van de Staten van elcke van de voorsz. landen respecktivelick oft denghenen, die daertoe by deselve Staten specialick sullen wesen ghecommitteert ende geauthoriseert, op pene van arbitrale correcktie. Ordoneren ende bevelen daerenboven, dat voortaene in egeenderhande munte van de voorsz. gheunieerde landen sal gheslaghen worden den naem, titele ofte wapenen van den voorsz. Coninck van Spaegnien, maer alsulcken slagh ende forme als gheordonneert sal worden tot eenen nieuwen gouden ende silveren penninck met zijne ghedeelten. Ordoneren ende bevelen insghelijcks den president ende andere heeren van den Secreeten Raede, mitsgaders alle andere cantselers, presidenten ende heeren van den Raeden provinciael ende alle die presidenten oft eerste rekenmeesters ende andere van allen de rekenkameren, in de voorsz. landen respecktive wesende, ende alle andere officiers ende justiciers, dat zy (als heur voortaene ontslagen houdende van den eedt, die zy den Coninc van Spaegnien hebben respectivelic naer luyt heurer commissien gedaen) schuldich ende gehouden sullen wesen in handen van den Staten 's lants, daeronder zy respective resorteren, oft heur speciale gecommitteerde te doen eenen nieuwen eedt, daermede zy ons sweeren ghetrouwicheydt teghens den Coninck van Spaegnien ende allen zijne aenhanghers, al naervolghende het formulair, daerop by de Generale Staten gheraempt.<br /> Ende sal men de voorsz. raeden, justiciers ende officiers, geseten onder de landen (met de Hoocheydt van den Hertogh van Anjou ghecontrackteerdt hebbende, van onsent wegen) gheven ackte van continuatie in hunne offitien, ende dat by maniere van provisie, totter aencompste toe van zijne voorsz. Hoogheyt, in plaetse van nieuwe commissien, inhoudende cassatie van heure voorgaende, ende voorsz. raeden, justiciers ende officiers, gheseten in den landen, met zijne voorseyde Hoogheyt niet ghecontrackteert hebbende, nieuwe commissien onder onsen naem ende zeghel, ten ware nochtans dat d'impetranten van heure voorsz. eerste commissien wedersproken ende achterhaelt werden van contraventie der previlegien des landts, onbehoorlickheyt oft ander diergelijcke saecken.</p> <p>Ontbieden voorts den president ende luyden van den Secreten Raede, cancelier van den Hertoghdomme van Brabandt, mitsgaders den cantseler van den Furstendomme Gelre ende Graeffschap Zutphen, (president ende luyden van den Raede in Vlaenderen), president ende luyden van den Raede in Hollant, rentmeesteren oft de hooghe officieren van Beoist- ende Bewesterschelt van Zeelant, president ende Raede in Vrieslant, den schoutet van Mechelen, president ende luyden van den Raede van Utrecht ende allen anderen iusticieren ende officieren wien dat aengaen mach, heuren stedehouderen ende eenen yeghelicken van henlieden besondere, soo hem toebehooren sal, dat zy dese onse ordonnantie condighen ende uutroepen over alle den bedrijve van heure jurisdictie ende daer men is gewoonlick publicatie ende uutroepinge te doene, sodat niemant des cause van ignorantie pretenderen en mach, ende deselve ordonnantie doen onderhouden ende achtervolghen onverbrekelick ende sonder infracktie, daertoe rigoreuselick bedwinghende die overtreders in der manieren voorsz. sonder verdrach oft dissimulatie: want wy tot welvaren van den lande also hebben bevonden te behooren. Ende van des te doene ende wes daeraen cleeft, gheven wy u ende elcken van u die 't aengaen mach, volcomen macht, authoriteydt ende sonderlingh bevel.</p> <p>Des t'oorconde hebben wy onsen zegel hieraen doen hanghen.</p> <p>Ghegheven in onse vergaderinghe in 's Gravenhaghe, den sessentwintichsten Julij MDLXXXI.</p> <p>Op de plijcke stont gheschreven: Ter ordonnantie van de voornoemde Staten.</p> <p>Ende ghetekent, J. van Asseliers.</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/plakkaat/plakkaat.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1501-1600/plakkaat/plakkaat.htm</a> </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/the-declaration-of-arbroath-1320-%e2%80%94-english-translation#post-277 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:11:30 +0000 Gnarly 277@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>The Declaration of Arbroath 1320</p> <p>by John Prebble</p> <p>The Declaration of Arbroath was and has been unequalled in its eloquent plea for the liberty of man. From the darkness of medieval minds it shone a torch upon future struggles which its signatories could not have foreseen or understood.</p> <p>The author of this noble Latin address is unknown, though it is assumed to have been composed by Bernard de Linton, Abbot of Arbroath and Chancellor of Scotland. Above the seals of eight earls and forty-five barons, it asked for the Pope's dispassionate intervention in the bloody quarrel between the Scots and the English, and so that he might understand the difference between the two its preamble gave him a brief history of the former. The laughable fiction of this is irrelevant. What is important is the passionate sincerity of the men who believed it, who were placing a new and heady nationalism above the feudal obligations that had divided their loyalties less than a quarter of a century before.</p> <p>In its mixture of defiance and supplication, nonsensical history and noble thought, two things make the Declaration of Arbroath the most important document in Scottish history.</p> <p>Firstly it set the will and the wishes of the people above the King. Though they were bound to him 'both by law and by his merits' it was so that their freedom might be maintained. If he betrayed them he would be removed and replaced. This remarkable obligation placed upon a feudal monarch by his feudal subjects may be explained in part by the fact that Bruce was still a heather king to many of them, still a wild claimant ruling upon sufferance and success. But the roots of his kingship were Celtic, and a Celtic tradition was here invoked, the memory of the Seven Earls, the Seven Sons of Cruithne the Pict in who, it was believed, had rested the ancient right of tanistry, the elevation of kings by selection. This unique relationship of king and people would influence their history henceforward, and would reach its climax in the Reformation and the century following, when a people's Church would declare and maintain its superiority over earthly crowns.</p> <p>Secondly, the manifesto affirmed the nation's independence in a way no battle could, and justified it with a truth that is beyond nation and race. Man has a right to freedom and a duty to defend it with his life. The natural qualifications put upon this by a medieval baron are irrelevant, as are the reservations which slave-owning Americans placed upon their declaration of independence. The truth once spoken cannot be checked, the seed once planted controls its own growth, and the liberty which men secure for themselves must be given by them to others, or it will be taken as they took it. Freedom is a hardy plant and must flower in equality and brotherhood.</p> <p>From The Lion in the North: One Thousand Years of Scotland's History Penguin Books.</p> <p>______________________________________________________________________________________________________</p> <p>The Declaration of Arbroath 1320 — English Translation</p> <p>To the most Holy Father and Lord in Christ, the Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Malcolm, Earl of Lennox, William, Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William, Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Steward of Scotland, William Soules, Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith, guardian of the earldom of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay, Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry St Clair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick Graham, John Fenton, William Abernethy, David Wemyss, William Mushet, Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton, Andrew Leslie, and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet.</p> <p>Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken a single foreigner. The high qualities and deserts of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, gain glory enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor would He have them confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles — by calling, though second or third in rank — the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter's brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron forever.</p> <p>The Most Holy Fathers your predecessors gave careful heed to these things and bestowed many favours and numerous privileges on this same kingdom and people, as being the special charge of the Blessed Peter's brother. Thus our nation under their protection did indeed live in freedom and peace up to the time when that mighty prince the King of the English, Edward, the father of the one who reigns today, when our kingdom had no head and our people harboured no malice or treachery and were then unused to wars or invasions, came in the guise of a friend and ally to harass them as an enemy. The deeds of cruelty, massacre, violence, pillage, arson, imprisoning prelates, burning down monasteries, robbing and killing monks and nuns, and yet other outrages without number which he committed against our people, sparing neither age nor sex, religion nor rank, no one could describe nor fully imagine unless he had seen them with his own eyes.</p> <p>But from these countless evils we have been set free, by the help of Him Who though He afflicts yet heals and restores, by our most tireless Prince, King and Lord, the Lord Robert. He, that his people and his heritage might be delivered out of the hands of our enemies, met toil and fatigue, hunger and peril, like another Macabaeus or Joshua and bore them cheerfully. Him, too, divine providence, his right of succession according to or laws and customs which we shall maintain to the death, and the due consent and assent of us all have made our Prince and King. To him, as to the man by whom salvation has been wrought unto our people, we are bound both by law and by his merits that our freedom may be still maintained, and by him, come what may, we mean to stand. Yet if he should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King; for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.</p> <p>Therefore it is, Reverend Father and Lord, that we beseech your Holiness with our most earnest prayers and suppliant hearts, inasmuch as you will in your sincerity and goodness consider all this, that, since with Him Whose vice-gerent on earth you are there is neither weighing nor distinction of Jew and Greek, Scotsman or Englishman, you will look with the eyes of a father on the troubles and privation brought by the English upon us and upon the Church of God. May it please you to admonish and exhort the King of the English, who ought to be satisfied with what belongs to him since England used once to be enough for seven kings or more, to leave us Scots in peace, who live in this poor little Scotland, beyond which there is no dwelling-place at all, and covet nothing but our own. We are sincerely willing to do anything for him, having regard to our condition, that we can, to win peace for ourselves. This truly concerns you, Holy Father, since you see the savagery of the heathen raging against the Christians, as the sins of Christians have indeed deserved, and the frontiers of Christendom being pressed inward every day; and how much it will tarnish your Holiness's memory if (which God forbid) the Church suffers eclipse or scandal in any branch of it during your time, you must perceive. Then rouse the Christian princes who for false reasons pretend that they cannot go to help of the Holy Land because of wars they have on hand with their neighbours. The real reason that prevents them is that in making war on their smaller neighbours they find quicker profit and weaker resistance. But how cheerfully our Lord the King and we too would go there if the King of the English would leave us in peace, He from Whom nothing is hidden well knows; and we profess and declare it to you as the Vicar of Christ and to all Christendom. But if your Holiness puts too much faith in the tales the English tell and will not give sincere belief to all this, nor refrain from favouring them to our prejudice, then the slaughter of bodies, the perdition of souls, and all the other misfortunes that will follow, inflicted by them on us and by us on them, will, we believe, be surely laid by the Most High to your charge.</p> <p>To conclude, we are and shall ever be, as far as duty calls us, ready to do your will in all things, as obedient sons to you as His Vicar; and to Him as the Supreme King and Judge we commit the maintenance of our cause, casting our cares upon Him and firmly trusting that He will inspire us with courage and bring our enemies to nought. May the Most High preserve you to his Holy Church in holiness and health and grant you length of days.</p> <p>Given at the monastery of Arbroath in Scotland on the sixth day of the month of April in the year of grace thirteen hundred and twenty and the fifteenth year of the reign of our King aforesaid.</p> <p>Endorsed: Letter directed to our Lord the Supreme Pontiff by the community of Scotland.</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.constitution.org/scot/arbroath.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.constitution.org/scot/arbroath.htm</a> </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/reminder#post-276 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:05:52 +0000 Gnarly 276@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776<br /> The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America</p> <p>When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</p> <p>We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.</p> <p>He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.</p> <p>He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.</p> <p>He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.</p> <p>He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.</p> <p>He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</p> <p>He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.</p> <p>He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.</p> <p>He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.</p> <p>He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.</p> <p>He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.</p> <p>He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.</p> <p>He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.</p> <p>He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:</p> <p>For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:</p> <p>For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:</p> <p>For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:</p> <p>For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:</p> <p>For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:</p> <p>For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:</p> <p>For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies</p> <p>For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:</p> <p>For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.</p> <p>He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.</p> <p>He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.</p> <p>He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty &#38; Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.</p> <p>He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.</p> <p>He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.</p> <p>In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.</p> <p>Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.</p> <p>We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.</p> <p>— John Hancock</p> <p>(The signers)</p> <p>New Hampshire:<br /> Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton</p> <p>Massachusetts:<br /> John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry</p> <p>Rhode Island:<br /> Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery</p> <p>Connecticut:<br /> Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott</p> <p>New York:<br /> William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris</p> <p>New Jersey:<br /> Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark</p> <p>Pennsylvania:<br /> Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross</p> <p>Delaware:<br /> Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean</p> <p>Maryland:<br /> Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton</p> <p>Virginia:<br /> George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton</p> <p>North Carolina:<br /> William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn</p> <p>South Carolina:<br /> Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton</p> <p>Georgia:<br /> Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton</p> <p>Source: <a href="http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm</a> </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-273 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:23:10 +0000 Gnarly 273@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>I am hanging around for all you fucks. Fuck you all, and eat shit too. You all deserve it, every last mother fuckin' one of you<br /> -JimmyEast</p> <p>What is there to get about this, darling? Seems to communicate who you are just fine. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-272 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:57:39 +0000 JimmyEast 272@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>You just don't get it Gnarly. You will </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-271 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:14:19 +0000 Gnarly 271@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>I am hanging around for all you fucks. Fuck you all, and eat shit too. You all deserve it, every last mother fuckin' one of you<br /> -JimmyEast</p> <p>Thanks for all the love you've left here, Jimmy. Thanks for bringing all of those people together on the Global Conscious. Thank you for caring above and beyond. You'll sure be missed. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-270 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:56:27 +0000 Gnarly 270@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>My ass has expelled 20492 shits... Can you prove me wrong?<br /> -JimmyEast</p> <p>Unbelievable. This one speaks for itself. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-269 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:21:36 +0000 Gnarly 269@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>Maybe this post is another reason that there are not, "hundreds of spectators and 30 people chatting", Jimmy. Ya think? Is this yet another example of your "Peace, Love and Light"? </p> <p>Theo you jackass... get out of here. Who the fuck do you think you are? The audacity to say life on the internet is just a collection of ideas... JUST... IF ONLY JUST... IF IT IS WHAT MAKES OR BREAKS US... IF only JUST that... If only... Get the fuck out of here. Go tell someone who cares. Good luck asshole<br /> -JimmyEast </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-268 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:05:40 +0000 Gnarly 268@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - Yoda </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-267 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:02:29 +0000 Gnarly 267@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>Tuesday 1/13/2009</p> <p>NON SUBMITTERS. STAND BYERS. LIARS. LYING WITH THEIR PRESENCE. FUCK YOU VERY MUCH YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS.<br /> -JimmyEast</p> <p>And this? Is this another example of "Peace, Love and Light"? </p> <p>And this? This little bit you typed here?</p> <p>"I feel like I've lost my place here. I miss the days when there were hundreds of spectators and 30 people chatting. Did that ever happen?"</p> <p>I would guess that if you shared your "Peace, Love and Light" with them, they likely stopped coming back. They might have hoped to find great discussion and thought provoking wisdom, and instead they found:</p> <p>NON SUBMITTERS. STAND BYERS. LIARS. LYING WITH THEIR PRESENCE. FUCK YOU VERY MUCH YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS.<br /> -JimmyEast</p> <p>You're not the sharpest tool in the shop are you. . . </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-266 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:49:44 +0000 Gnarly 266@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>Ye can eat sheit, and love it<br /> -JimmyEast</p> <p>Is this an example of what you were trying to do here? </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/am-i-so-hard-to-follow#post-265 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:40:28 +0000 JimmyEast 265@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>All I've ever really tried to do here, is get you to listen. I've been harsh and I've been friendly in kind. All I want you to do is wake up. That was my mission: the moment in my greatest insanity I screamed out to my neighbourhood to WAKE UP. Forgive me for my very real need to make people aware. I've been put in a hospital twice for my role in trying to wake you up, and I won't go through that again. I'll never forget Richard's screams at night, and the first time the night nurse gave me Ativan to quiet me so I could sleep. I'll never go back there. Not as long as I am sane.<br /> I've tried very hard by repeating the words "WAKE UP" for you all to get my meaning, but after a time, repeated, the words seem to mean nothing. The waking part is the recognition that all is not as it seems, and furthurmore realizing that there is a greater purpose, than cook, cleaner, assembly line worker, or mother, or so on and so forth. I knew long ago that things were going to change but little did I realize how much. My time with you has been a complete evolution. I've unloaded all kinds of stuff on you. Hoping in the least that you might get it somehow. I've named dates. October 8 2010 and of course December 21 2012... All in hopes that the time would come for people to wake up on a mass scale. All the time hoping that the people I spent time with would get me. That this Whole GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS thing would WAKE THE FUCK UP to a new day. That people would be aware and would care.<br /> I don't need to spell out the disasters that will happen AGAIN. I've laid myself out again and again, and over time, people become less and less concerned. If GC were the place to be to tell it all like it is, I DID. And I know a lot of other GCers did too. What left is there to say? Should I repeat myself so I can be discredited by someone who doesn't care like I do? Should I just stop? The problem really is that I've unloaded everything, and I have nothing new to say. I may not be as equipt to rattle on against protagonists. Why argue? The truth is there. I've said it. Other people say it. I feel like I've lost my place here. I miss the days when there were hundreds of spectators and 30 people chatting. Did that ever happen? I've had to back down and say I am sorry for my harsh criticisms, and beligerent tongue. I've been told that telling people to wake up incessantly is at least annoying and cause for people to leave. In spite of it all, I still feel in my heart the noble cause, but my time here is out.<br /> I've left before and I will again, and this time, I am leaving for good. "I'm leaving for good".... Never thought of it that way. Funny what life brings you. I am leaving for good but I will return to you, for there has never been a more exciting and fun time than sharing with you.</p> <p>God I love God<br /> Peace, Love and Light.<br /> May the Force be with you<br /> Wake your Spirit, and STAY AWAKE...<br /> Sincerely,<br /> James </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-264 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:34:18 +0000 JimmyEast 264@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>ANAL PROBE: GNARLY. EAT SHIT AND DIE. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-263 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:34:10 +0000 Gnarly 263@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>O.K., so we will be noting for the record, here tonight, 2008-12-23 06:22:05 UTC, that one, James Easton remained impotent on GC when provided with an opportunity to type his Truth and Wisdom, the presumed realization of one, said Awakening, sharing a causal relationship with abundant use of the command, "Wake up", and "Wake the fuck up". A non-response from Mister Easton is hereby recorded in the digital annals of the Global Conscious. Noted should also answer forum post, "Why won't anyone listen to me?"</p> <p>Jimmy: Why don't you just post The Great Truth right here in this forum. Take it in a new direction. Get it posted here in this forum and we can all read about it. Either something received from a teacher, or an insight or realization taken from your practice. Not propaganda nor song lyrics. Truth. </p> <p>Come now, Cap'n Crunch, don't let your fingers write checks your experience can't cash. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-261 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:12:48 +0000 JimmyEast 261@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>Gnarly why don't you express something intellectual instead of being an asshole? </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-258 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:27:39 +0000 Gnarly 258@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>And no, you're not right. You're wrong about most everything. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-257 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:04:24 +0000 Gnarly 257@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>No one listens to you because you are a drugged up moron that has a vocabulary of about twelve curse words. You couldn't find intellectual discussion if you had a treasure map from the back of the Cap'n Crunch cereal box. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/here-but-now-theyre-gone#post-254 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:17:41 +0000 JimmyEast 254@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>We can be like they are... don't feel the reaper... </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-251 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:42:28 +0000 Halibut 251@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>I listen to you jimmy. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/why-wont-anyone-listen-to-me#post-250 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:06:01 +0000 JimmyEast 250@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>Easily shunned as the crazy one. You are no better than every other fucker who shunned someone for being different, for being RIGHT. </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/html#post-118 Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:38:07 +0000 Halibut 118@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>OOOO thank you T!! :) </p> http://globalconscious.com/board/topic/are-you-patriotic#post-116 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:03:55 +0000 karen 116@http://globalconscious.com/board/ <p>Image didn't work... I'll try again later.... *rollseyes* :P </p>