A “NATIONAL” GOVERNMENT CAN OBLITERATE STATES’ AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS by Michael Gaddy, ©2017 (Feb. 21, 2017) — When James Madison left New York for Philadelphia on May 2nd, 1787 he carried with him not the proposed amendments to the Articles of Confederation which was the mandate of the convention but an entirely new idea for […]
“HORRIBLE ACTS” by Michael Gaddy, ©2017, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jan. 7, 2017) — On April 28, 2004, decent Americans were shocked to see pictures of American soldiers torturing prisoners in a military prison in Iraq known as Abu Ghraib. While there were many who saw nothing wrong with such atrocities, many more were […]
“A MILITARY DESPOTISM” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Nov. 3, 2016) — Author’s Note* Somehow revisionist historians would have us believe Abraham Lincoln perpetrated an unconstitutional war on the people of the North and the South to free an oppressed people of color. Considering Lincoln’s open war on the American Indian […]
“REVOLUTIONARY IN ITS OBJECT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Nov. 1, 2016) — “In Northern Missouri the irregularities of the soldiers—such as taking poultry, pigs, milk, butter, preserves, potatoes, horses, and in fact everything they want; entering and searching houses, and stealing in many cases; committing rapes on the negroes and […]
“ANOTHER POLITICAL MANEUVER” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 31, 2016) — *Author’s note: There is a question which deserves much more attention than it receives: Considering Lincoln was willing to make slavery perpetual and to remove it from even congressional action with the Corwin Amendment in order to “preserve the […]
DOES A “NEW PRESIDENT” MEAN CHANGE, OR MORE OF THE SAME? by Michael Gaddy, ©2016. blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 21, 2016) — Well, it is almost over; presidential campaigns began well over one year ago. There were 17 candidates from the Republican side when it started and just three viable Democrats. But, sometime […]
“OPTING FOR TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Oct. 17, 2016) — “The evil that is in this world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” ~ Albert Camus For quite some time now I have referred to the majority of Americans, especially those who […]
EMBRACING OR LIMITING GOVERNMENT by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Oct. 13, 2016) — “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worse state, an intolerable one.” ~ Thomas Paine Down through the pages of time, governments have done that which they do best; they transform from necessary evil to intolerable evil. Our […]
“WHO IS OVERSEEING THE MILITARY?” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 6, 2016) — Reported strange, vulgar and harassing phone calls; stalking; telephone and computer hacking totaling thousands of dollars in damages, and at least one death threat against family and close friends have culminated in what is believed to be the forced hospitalization of a medically- […]
“FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Aug. 8, 2016) — Any semi-conscious individual with a modicum of intelligence would advise anyone caught up in an abusive relationship of any kind to sever all ties to the opprobrious partner. Yet, almost to a person, these same people would readily […]
“CLEAR BATTLE LINES HAVE BEEN DRAWN” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jul. 18, 2016) — By legal definition, the government of this country has been a criminal enterprise since April of 1865. When the Confederate States capitulated, “Just” government as defined in our Declaration of Independence ceased to exist in this […]
“IGNORANCE IS BLISS” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jun. 3, 2016) — Recently, completely ignoring the warning found in Proverbs 23:9, I attempted to engage a young white man (under 50) in the South who advocates for the removal of all things Southern from public display in a written conversation/exchange. As […]
IS “RACISM” A PRODUCT OF FACTIONALISM? by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret.), ©2016 (May 18, 2016) — This piece is not intended to be a dissertation on civil rights. However, this nation has had to deal with the problem of slavery since 1619. History records that on one day in late summer of […]
“AN EVERYDAY OCCURRENCE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (May 10, 2016) — About this time last year, there was much speculation on a projected military operation that would be carried out within the confines of the United States that was being called Jade Helm 15. Here is what the Washington Post had […]
“CLOSE TIES TO KARL MARX HIMSELF” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (May 6, 2016) — Recently, on a website that originates in Chicago, I asked one of the regular commenters who was blaming the “socialist liberals” for the crime, violence and corruption that is rampant in Chicago, who, in his opinion, […]
“THE RIGHT TO SECEDE…EXISTS” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Apr. 21, 2016) — One would be hard pressed to disagree with the fact the Declaration of Independence not only defines the beginnings of our country but could be called our founding charter. Thomas Jefferson most eloquently laid out the tenets of […]
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 6:00 MT/7:00 CT/8:00 P.M. ET by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Apr. 19, 2016) — On Saturday, April 23rd at 6pm (Mountain) 7pm (Central) I will be a guest on The Political Cesspool show out of Memphis, Tennessee (AM 1600 WMQM) with host James Edwards and Keith Alexander. The show can be heard by […]
“IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Mar. 30, 2016) — “Conspirators do not make minutes of their machinations, progress, and objectives. Seldom, therefore, can conspiracy be proved by other than circumstantial evidence. It is only by assembling the results, with such evidence as may be of the progress thereof […]
“‘MASTER’ OVER THE PEOPLE” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Mar. 25, 2016) — “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ~Soren Kierkegaard Written in the pages of our own sometimes inglorious history is the […]
“THE MEANING OF SUBJUGATION” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Mar. 23, 2016) — (Author’s note: About two years ago I wrote a series of articles under the title of this piece in order to bring the light of truth to the events in our history known incorrectly as the Civil War. […]