NATION OF AMERICA

The Traditional Nation

The modern nation is called the "nation-state," but most people really don't understand what that means. Especially in the United States, where racism played a role in the evolution of American culture because of the economic dependence of the early republic on slavery, contemporary Americans are never given an in-depth overview of American ethnicity, because at this time there is no ethnic group that could properly be called "American." Ethnicity has very little to do with geography, and everything to do with the internal identity of a people as a nation. In this context the idea of a nation is not institutional, but rather historic and tribal, and organic.

The republic of the Founding Fathers was an institutional infrastructure based on the fundamental function of a police force, that was designed to protect the plantations of the Founders from the poor unwashed masses. It assumed the pretense of the customary nation, which derived from thousands of years of traditions, without the constitutional form of government that was native to the customary nation. By supplanting the true constitutional system of government with one that answered to their control, the Founding Fathers were able to establish a dictatorship that was powerful enough to guarantee the integrity of their private ownership of property with more absolute power than had ever been endowed into individuals in the history of Europe. To shroud this privileged status, the police apparatus for protecting it was ordained with meaningless pledges to protect the commonwealth of the people (such as in the unenforceable clauses of the Declaration of Independence, or the Pre-amble to the Constitution of 1787), and a Bill of Rights that in effect converted the ancient, inherited birthrights of the people to freedom into a "privilege" now bestowed by the grace of Congress and the President.

The republic turned the law on its head. The President was not the real social leader of the whole nation, he was always limited in his leadership to be the leader of this own political party. The rest of the country would put on the pretense of respecting him, even while they work secretly to undermine him. Real social issues having to do with the real divisions between American ethnic communities are sidetracked, so that the majority of resources are expended in the constant infighting and rivalry that persists between the two major political parties, who are obsessed with the struggle for power. The drive for national unity that has marked every positive social movement of the last century, which have removed the ethnic barriers that divide the American people, has taken place largely on a cultural basis, despite the best efforts of the politicians and bureaucrats of the republic to manipulate the public by seeding its fears. The Cold War was ultimately the biggest spin job ever perpetrated upon a people, as the spin-doctors of the republic justified the erection of the national security state on the wreckage of the Prohibition State (the roots of both, the Prohibition State and its successor, the national security state, deriving from the old-fashioned slave state of the Founding Fathers).

The "state" is the institution of the government, and the idea underlying the nation-state is that the institution of the state should derive from the organic condition of nationhood. Republics, however, are not organic, or derived from nature, they are instead man-made. Republics are by definition contrived, their structure being based on the arbitrary choices of those individuals who design their rules, and impose their authority. Republics had their origin in reactionary resistance to the organic mode of government, which is universally known as chieftaincy, or the leadership of a senior parental figure, who is part of a collegial system of government that turns to the senior members of the community for leadership. In an organic, traditional society, these were not leaders who were selected by any formal election procedure, rather, they were the actual biological parents of the younger members of the community. A genuine community is not divided by artificial ranks and statuses, but only by the natural divisions of male and female, the youth and the elders.

The traditional nation is the social nation. It is the community outside of any commercial interests of its members. The commerce of the nation constitutes a bona fide part of the national interest, but the national interest of a people transcends mere issues of material wealth. The national interest includes issues of national honor and national integrity. Pride in nationhood signifies much more than rivalries of diplomats and corporations, because pride in ones nation is abused when that pride is unjustly used to harm another nation. The traditional nation has no natural enemies. All nations have a reason for being, and that is to assist the individual national in finding his or her own identity in the human race, and all nations stand united in their common participation within the greater human race of the whole planet.

The American people exist culturally, but they do not acknowledge their cultural unity because there is no social agency representing the totality of the American nation. The Federal republic not only does not embody the unity of the American people, it is a physical impediment to their ultimate unity. Only the dissolution of the republic, and the ascendancy of the American Nation will enable the true unity of the United States. The American Nation is the traditional nation, founded according to traditional law by a native-born traditional chief. The "founding" of this nation came about as a result of the evolution of an indigenous multi-ethnic culture, a society that only recently developed a true self-consciousness of its fundamental unity, a social unity that undermines the leadership of the Federal republic on a de facto basis.

The Federal Government of the republic always suffered from its origins in the white plantation-based slavemasters, which caste the slavemaster-mindset in stone, as the guidepost for future generations of republican politicians and bureaucrats. The regime of the slavemasters dreaded the unity of the masses, seeing in this a potential threat to their dominance. Thus the Federal Government was designed to influence the masses using terror and fear, and the power to prosecute, to accuse; this started during the Revolution itself, when Americans who were loyal to the legal Government of the King were "punished" for choosing to obey the law. (The model mass-state was the First French Republic, that was run by the dictatorship of the Committee of Safety and Robespierre. The French Reign of Terror was the ultimate expression of the rule of fear at its best, and became the epitome of the phenomena of Terror as a tool of state policy. Under the dynamics of this "Emergency Regime" the French assembled the largest armed force in the history of man, changing forever the role of the army in the state). What George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton invented, Hitler was to perfect, using tactics and justifications that were not unknown to the American revolutionaries.

Culture is the very substance of social unity, being comprised of usages and practices that make up a body of custom that leaves its fingerprint on the individuals who are raised under its influence. All people on the earth derive from a national culture, and here the word "national" has its origins in the Latin word natio, "race" or "breed," from nasci, past participle of natus, "to be born." This is the same root of the word nascent, an adjective that describes a process of "coming into existence." The cultural nation, however, is the opposite of the institutional state, especially the republican state of the Founding Fathers. The cultural nation is the only actual opposition the Federal Government must deal with, because the cultural nation is formed by the cultural values of the mass of people, as those values are enforced by the millions of families and their organic leadership, the parents of the nation. The institutional state is run by Executive Orders and Decrees, but the household authority of the patriarchs and matriarchs of the nation is exercised in stealthy silence, especially when the politicians running the state violate the values of the society. Once public respect turns against the politician, opposition to him takes on the force of a wall of water: it cannot be defended against, and it is overwhelming.

While the institutional Federal state lives and dies by its rules and regulations, as a corporate invention of businessmen, the traditional nation lives and breathes through its traditions. Traditions are the way a society remembers its great thinkers, they represent the innovations leaders discover that are "remembered" by the fact that they are embraced by the whole community as a practice. The word "practice" derives from the Late Latin word practicus, "practical." What the term practice came to define was actions that were generally accepted as customs because they best embodied the values of the society in which they were normal.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines traditional as a philosophical system that holds that all knowledge is derived from original divine revelation, the truth of which is transmitted by tradition. Of course, this leaves out the reality that this truth has to be transmitted by living agents, people, and that every generation "modernizes" the ancient truths, to keep them relevant generation after generation. The definition of the word "tradition" reads: 1) The passing down of elements of a culture from generation to generation; 2) A mode of thought or behavior followed by a people continuously from generation to generation. Especially, a set of customs and usages viewed as a coherent body of precedents influencing the present. 3) Any time-honored practice. The literal origins of the word tradition is "a handing down, a surrender, from the Latin traditio, from tradere, to hand over," literally, to give over. The underlying theme, of course, is the internal, domestic dialogue between the generations that keeps the values of the society alive. The way this is done is by the preservation of the traditions of the nation.

The national traditions are the embodiment of the memory of a people of their collective existence as a nation upon the earth. At their very core, these traditions are not directed against "foreigners" as much as they are directed inwards, to guide individuals towards their own identity through an understanding of the collective memory of the tribes that constitute the nation. The only national tradition that has proven effective in giving unity to diverse ethnic communities has been the institution of the chieftaincy, which in ancient Greek terminology is called monarchy. Monarchy in the modern world is now universally founded on a constitutional basis, and there is hard evidence that fascism has better soil to take root in republics, because monarchies have the fundamental social integrity that is required to meet the challenge the fascist movement represents.

The monarch embodies the idea of the living tradition. The life of the monarch -- the life of the enthroned king -- is the living central institution of the constitution of the country. The constitution is not a paper in a building; it is the living father of the nation (pater patriae). This king, this American chief, does not represent the Republicans, and he does not represent the Democrats, he represents ALL Americans, living and dead, rich and poor, black, white, hispanic, native American, Hawaiian, Asian... In the embrace of this prince, all the diverse peoples of north America are united and made into one People, the American People, the single and undivided American Nation.

The overthrow of the legitimate government of the King of America, King George III, resulted in the imposition of the Federal republic, after the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Having its origins in acts of outlawry, the republic could never really affect the pretenses of a truly legitimate state, and it has been haunted by its origins in revolution and crime, and class war. George Washington was, in effect, the Lenin of the American Revolution. The legacy of this is felt every night, as police face an armed and enraged citizenry, who feel empowered to oppose the state because the "tradition" of armed and violent rebellion exemplified by the Founding Fathers, was the first example they learned as schoolchildren (the authorities never imagining that the example of the illustrious founders could be used to oppose them).

The slave state of the Founders could never truly serve as the basis of a national union between the various ethnic groups that came to co-exist in north America. The English were not the only Europeans to populate the Americas. The Portuguese were the first to travel any distance away from Europe; while the Portuguese settled what came to be called Brazil, they never settled in north America, and they were soon outpaced by Spain, which had the resources to finance ocean-going missions since the Christians had finally reconquored Spain, and the domestic crusades the Spanish invoked to win back the Spanish peninsula, now had to be exported to preserve Greater Spain from being split from within. The English did not have the resources to finance colonial ventures, so they hired "privateers," rather, they gave licenses to private commercial firms, who proceeded to set up private corporate governments that were essentially outside of the control of the British public authorities. The French, on the other hand, were busy for a generation, fighting to preserve the territorial integrity of France. Once these continental wars were settled in the favor of the French, and the House of Bourbon succeeded to the throne of Spain (in addition to the throne of France), France joined the colonial movement, founding the province of Quebec in Canada, which became a base of operations that enabled French immigration all along the waterways from the Great Lakes, down to the area that today is called Louisiana (the name deriving from Louis XIV). These French immigrants, by and large, were fur traders whose business involved buying furs from the trappers, and selling them at the various settlements and trading posts that were scattered about the American frontier.

At the time of the American Revolution the Thirteen Colonies were not struggling and impoverished, rather they were producing cash exports, which were making the leadership of the colonies rich. What many American historians conveniently overlook was the genuine patriotism of the American masses at the time of the Revolution, to the legal government of the King. In Georgia, prisoners had been brought in to populate the colony; and in Virginia, the tobacco plantations were manned by slaves. The average people had nothing in common with the slave-holding aristocrats who advocated and led the American Revolution. The way the gentry of the United States built its original economic engine was on the backs of slaves, who were busy producing all the drugs of the New World that were causing the European masses to become addicts: Tobacco, Chocolate, etc. (At one point the pope had to issue an edict forbidding the eating of chocolate, because when some nuns accidentally discovered that when you add sugar and milk to it, it became delicious, they also soon abandoned all their responsibilities, to do nothing other than make and consume chocolate).

In the latter half of the 1700s, there was an influx of "Germans" and Irish. There was no actual country called Germany until 1870, the term "Germany" having no significance outside of a geographical designation. At the time there was a multitude of feudal German states, and to be "German" was the equivalent to being caucasian; instead, Germans were known as Saxons, Bavarians, etc. German immigrants settled in the Pennsylvania area, and eventually came to populate most of the Great Lakes region. The Irish settled largely in the Boston area to escape the grinding poverty of Ireland, a land the Protestant British reduced because of the Catholic loyalty of the Irish masses, and the strategic location of Ireland. (The British Crown existed under the shadow of the Protestant Succession, while the Catholic Jacobite Pretenders were openly granted diplomatic recognition by Catholic powers, who used the Pretenders in their intrigues until it became diplomatically advantageous to abandon them to obscurity).

When the Revolution enabled the plantation aristocracy's coup de etat, by which they came into absolute control of the state, the masses of average people were resigned to accept it, largely due to the fear of reprisals that had been instilled in them during the War of Independence. It is largely overlooked today, but there were Tories everywhere (open supporters of the king), and loyalty to the law could become the basis of a kangaroo trial by a vigilante "court of justice" at midnight, followed by a lynching, and the "forfeiture" of the poor victim's possessions. The very term "lynch" was derived from a "revolutionary judge," whose favored method for murdering his victims was to hang them.

The mob violence of the Revolution set in motion the dynamics of a demagogic state, wherein power came to be vested in he who sounded best atop a soapbox. Truth, justice and custom were abandoned for the most expedient means to enrichment, as opportunists took advantage of the confusion of social upheaval to line their own pockets at their neighbor's expense. A form of parasitism took hold that legitimized a system of economic cannibalism, that became the fuel of the modern consumer economy. One cartel may win, but in the process millions of people must lose. First, there was the booty and loot of the Revolution, the ill-gotten wealth of the Revolution, as the supporters of the legal government were dispossessed. Then there was the bonds that financed the Revolution, that became the financial basis of the Federal republic. Soon after the bonds, there came the Bank of the United States, which was a boon above all to speculators. Following on the heels of the Bank, which was nothing more than an exclusive Boys Club that controlled the financial system of the country, there was the evolution of the railroads, which was the first form of big business in America; and like all big business, the railroad industry received in return for its largesse to politicians an unprecedented "give-away" of public lands. The first time the ethics of this kind of endowment of the politically connected is questioned, those who would dare question the motives of the corrupt politicos who cooked it up are accused of communist sympathies!

At the time of the Revolution, America was a kingdom under the ancient laws of Great Britain. It shared with Britain the unwritten Anglo-American constitution, which for want of a better name can only be called the Ancient American Constitution. Even though the Constitution of 1787 -- the constitution of the republic -- was imposed by the Founding Fathers upon Americans, the unwritten ancient constitution remains in effect because not being contained in a single enactment, it cannot be repealed. The ancient constitution is not only a summation of the rights of individuals, and the duties of the government, it is also a collection of customs and conventions that in effect define the very principles of law that are the language that the Constitution of 1787 was written in, and which must be appreciated in order for it to be understood.

The biggest shortcoming of the Constitution of 1787 is its reliance on formal procedures, which effectively cut off the rights of individuals under custom. Under the traditional principles of law customs become law when a magistrate says they are; under the complicated "rules" laid out in the Constitution of 1787, only the "Congress" makes laws, which is a body of politicians elected by property-owners. Ironically, one of the forms of property a man could own that would make him eligible to vote was a slave, and of equal irony, slaves had no vote, so it is easy to see that it was the intention of the Founders that the state would support the slave-owners at the expense of the slaves. (It was perceived, at the time, as important to deny the slaves a voice in the state, because it didn't take a genius to realize that the slaves, if given freedom of choice, would choose liberation, and they might attempt to use the state to liberate themselves. None of the "indentured classes" were, in fact, liberated until their liberation could be effected with the least amount of change in the status quo).

The obverse of the republic is the Constitution of 1787 and its written, positive law; and the reverse of the republic is the ancient unwritten Constitution, which is the constitution of the ancient kingdom. The rights of the American people to freedom have existence only in the ancient constitution of the kingdom; under the scheme of the republic, the people only have those rights they are allowed to have by the leave of the Congress, which is only superficially restricted by the Bill of Rights. Through the functioning of the Supremacy Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause, the Federal Government has virtual absolute power. (As a test, the IRS openly refuses to obey court orders, instead insisting that the courts are wrong, and that there is no authority superior to the IRS, which it is bound to obey. The IRS is only humble before the Congress, and even then it is only because of the Supremacy Clause).

The ancient unwritten constitution was invoked by the Nation of America, which was instituted as the social union of the American people 11 April, 1993, by the Cry of Stillwater Bay (traditional name of Capistrano Bay, California). The Nation does not exist by virtue of a legal document, it exists because there are American people in America, who desire nationality. The chief of Americans is not an elected figurehead, he is the traditional symbol of leadership because he prepared himself for his role of leader, and did the actual risking of himself that leadership involves. Leadership involves the risk of responsibility, and the risk of being wrong; it also involves the risk of the safety of the human community, if the chief of the Americans FAILS to lead. The dynamics of traditional leadership are directed more towards the needs of the human community, than the conventional politics most Americans are resigned to. When the political system is a system for allocating spoils, it is important to fight hard, and to have an equal opportunity to fight; but when the system of government is founded on the basic legal principles of creating a level playing field for the whole nation, it is more important that the government be based on sound principles that have withstood the tests of time.

The chief of Americans, now called the Regent of the United States, is an important living symbol of the American people as a single united nation, because the Regent possesses Majesty. The President of the republic assumes the airs of majesty, but he can only put on the air of majesty, for no president is invested with majesty. Majesty means authority, but authority is not something that is taken; true authority is given. The authority a son gives to his father cannot be taken by the father, it must be given by the son. In this way love is the underlying dynamic of traditional society. In contrast, the power of the President is not only taken, it is seized under criminal statutes that protect the rich at the expense of the poor. The main institutions of the republic are the prisons and the police, generating an anguish in the American soul that was given expression in the Cry of Stillwater Bay, which embodied the resolve of the Chief of Ely, the chief of an American family, to restore the legitimate government of America by founding the Nation of America as a traditional nation.

A traditional nation is defined by the fact that it is formed and operated according to the principles enunciated by tradition, the practices and customs that have been known since "time immemorial." The central institution of the ancient constitution is the monarchy itself, and in order for the Interregnum to be ended, and authority restored to government, the ancient, traditional monarchy must be restored. Reasonable men understand that this form of monarchy is constitutional in nature, and thus the act of restoration is not to be construed as the endowment of a single man with the power to run the government; rather, it is the first step in re-constituting a legitimate government, that can actually conduct an honest, free election to seat a genuinely representative government that can adequately address the needs of a modern pluralistic society. It is generally understood by political insiders that the electoral system of the republic is "rigged," and that the stranglehold of the two major political parties over the system guarantees that whatever measure is put to a vote, the true sentiments of the American people would remain unknown.

The traditional nation has its existence not by virtue of any individual taking a legal action, rather it is the product of the evolution of a new breed of American, who understand that their national unity is properly expressed through a Crown instead of a republican Flag. The Crown, however, does not reject the American flag, instead it adopts it, and repatriates it, so that the Stars and Bars now symbolize the American Crown. The American Colors now belong to Americans, and they do not belong to the bureaucrats of the republic. The restoration of the Crown endows the king with Majesty, which becomes the Majesty of the Law of the Land. The Royal Government of the King derives of the royalty of the person of the king, the king being royal by blood; it is the government of a royal personage. It is therefore above the petty disputes and controversies of the squabbling politicians, and it enables the Majesty of the Law to function as a universal standard of justice.

Through the family of the king, the Royal Family of the nation, the whole nation is united as an extended family, the National Family. Through the existence of this National Family, the nation undergoes a genuine fusion of its various ethnic components, until they merge and become undistinguishable. When an American can look upon the landscape of his native land, and see nothing but Americans, then that land is truly a nation, and not merely the human and social wreckage of a slave state.

Tradition is passed from generation to generation by communication. The founding of the Nation of America was not made effective because a law was passed by Congress, it was made effective because a chief of royal blood invoked the ancient laws of America. The chief of the Americans appealed to a higher law than the secular laws of the republic, for his action was moved by the aspirations of all Americans, whose values as Americans he gave voice to. Therefore, we know that the American Nation was not founded because of the chief of Americans, it was founded because Americans desired it; and it is by tradition that it was done at Dana Point, by the Cry of Stillwater Bay on the 11th of April, 1900 and 93.