WAS GEORGE WASHINGTON A DOMESTIC TERRORIST?

John Nantz 


“…the American revolution was violent and it
was illegal.” Bill Ayers, Co-Founder of Weather
Underground.
Radicals compare themselves to America’s
Founding Fathers. However, it’s hard to
envision George Washington cowering behind
a bush while pressing a detonator. In battle,
Washington rode on horseback, completely
exposed, leading his army of citizen soldiers
into leaden clouds of heavy musket balls fired
from sneering, massed English troops bent on
dealing death and mayhem. But, Washington
was no stranger to valor. Prior to the War for
Independence, Washington displayed the
heroism which was to become his hallmark
when, during the Battle of Monongahela , he
was so exposed to enemy fire that two horses
were shot from underneath him and his coat
was pierced by four musket balls. A petty
criminal like Bill Ayers is reduced to the
stature of a tapeworm in the shadow of
General Washington. It is breathtakingly ironic
that radicals compare themselves to the
founders of a society that they are desperate to
destroy.
Radicals like Ayers lurk in the shadows, hurl
bombs at innocents, and then flee the scene of
the crime. Conversely, America’s founders
stood before God and king and made their
cause known and their intended actions plain.
The American Revolution began with
America’s intellectual and social elite. It was
not a mob action, but an orderly defense of
human rights by men and women of dignity
and means. They were not a desperate mob of
lemmings but leaders in political theory,
thoughtful, temperate, highly educated, with
their lives and fortunes at risk. The American
Revolution was not a “bottom up” enterprise.
Though the continental army was composed of
citizen soldiers from every walk of life, the
founders were characterized by greatness and
produced the most noble and unique political
document in human history. In a world
characterized by violence and slavery, they
made the promise of equality before the law a
fait accompli.
Unlike our Founding Fathers, domestic
terrorists like Bill Ayers employ violence based
on illusory provocations and as a matter of
course. The Declaration of the Causes and
Necessity of Taking Up Arms states: "We, for
ten years, incessantly and ineffectually
besieged the Throne as supplicants; we
reasoned, we remonstrated with Parliament, in
the most mild and decent language."
Additionally, the violence perpetrated by the
Weather Underground was indiscriminate in
its application and, therefore; engineered to
impel political change through fear and
intimidation. Criminals like Ayers employ the
use of propaganda to lend a veneer of
legitimacy to their cause such as claims of
atrocities in Vietnam or American imperialist
intentions in that region. Any criminal
behavior by military personnel in Vietnam
were prosecuted by Military Court Martial.
What justice did Ayer's brand of indiscriminate
violence bring to anyone allegedly victimized
in Vietnam? Furthermore, the charge of
imperialism is absurd on its face, since
American forces were demonstrably in South
Vietnam to secure the same natural rights for
the Vietnamese people that we in America
enjoy. What has been the result of our
withdrawal, the stated aim of terrorists like
Ayers? Slavery to a totalitarian state and
poverty.
But, the American Revolution was based on
claims well known to be true at the time and
set forth with reason and logic. The
Declaration of Independence details the
complaints against the Crown and the rights
infringed upon:
“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”
The founders made no spurious claims to
patently false claims. Men like General
Washington were impelled to force of arms by
the direct infringement of their own natural
right to life and liberty. The founders' appeal
was to the law of nature and to nature's God.
Resorting to arms was an act of personal and
national self-defense clearly based on natural
law principles elucidated by men like Samuel
Rutherford.
Rutherford and the Bible teach that the power
of government is devolved from God for a
specific purpose. Governments are legitimate
so long as they serve the Divine function of
rewarding the good and punishing evil. If a
government ceases to reward the moral good
as defined by Divine revelation then its grant
of power and authority ceases; it has perverted
its proper ministry and becomes itself evil. If a
government denies its people their natural
liberty they are morally obligated to avail
themselves of political means to alter that form
of government. If liberty is denied at the point
of the sword, then citizens become morally
obligated to take up arms in defense of their
inalienable rights.
Was George Washington a domestic terrorist?
The question should, at this point seem absurd.
Washington and the rest of the founders were
reacting to a threat to their liberty that was
immediate and deadly. They were
characterized by self-sacrifice and humility,
not the hubris of a creature like Bill Ayers who
agitated for and materially contributed to
bombings resulting in the deaths of innocents.
Radicals like Ayers are murderers whose
innocent victims are slain with malice-afore-
thought, with violence often an end in itself.
After all, Bernardine Dohrn , wife of Bill Ayers,
coldly commented about the Tate-LaBianca
murders,"First they killed those pigs, then
they ate dinner in the same room with them,
then they even shoved a fork into the pig
Tate's stomach! Wild! Dohrn, Ayers’ soul mate,
also stated, “The Weathermen dig Charlie
Manson.” The words of a patriot? Hardly. By
their fruits you shall know them. The radical
left has delivered murder, mayhem, poverty,
and human misery. Our founders created a
bastion of liberty and prosperity which is the
envy of the world.