Political De Javu?

Here are some historical events you may not find in your history books, but are eerily similar to what seems to be playing out today.

Has all of this happened before?
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In New York, the celebration was practically confined to the Continental Army―mostly New Englanders―who pulled down the statue of King George on the Bowling Green, melted it up, and made it into bullets, while the citizens, horrified at such disloyalty, remained sullenly submissive as usual

Hmmm...Citizens remained ...submissive as usual...

As many of the merchants in the "Sons of Liberty" had lent money to start the factories in the days before the rebellion, it was easy for them to claim mortgages on the factories on these grounds, and one by one the factories were taken over by private individuals and their workers given the choice of getting out, or working at whatever terms the new owners dictated, thus imposing a new slavery on the workers

Hmmm...Lenders claiming mortgages and taking over factories

The same procedure took place with most of the other "hide-out" factories, though the Continental Congress managed to hold on to the munitions manufactories at Springfield and Watertown. The "Manufactory House" in Boston was simply confiscated and closed up by the new owners, to whom the printing of paper money appeared more attractive than the actual manufacture of goods; they obtained a charter for this purpose from the "Commonwealth" shortly after the end of the war, in 1784, as the Massachusetts Bank, one of the first banks in America.

Hmmm... simply confiscate and close up manufactories...printing paper money appeared more attractive than actual manufacture of goods...

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Although the Continental Congress, which was the leading authority of the First Republic, never actually coined money of its own, it issued notes, commonly known as Continentals, for payment to the army, and, due to the difficulty Congress had in financing itself (under the First Republic, it depended on contributions from the States), these "Continentals" became almost worthless, at one time dropping to a thousandth of their face value.

Hmmm..to pay for the war....issue "notes" that become worthless...

and it was this unit that Jefferson proposed to embody in his coinage system. The money standard was to be silver, with an auxiliary gold currency for large amounts...

Weems found some Protestant bishops still functioning in Denmark, and he underwent at their hands an ordination ceremony in Latin, with the result that he came back as the Episcopalian bishop of Virginia. It was this bishop who, shortly after the overthrow of the First Republic, wrote a highly flattering but mendacious biography of George Washington, which was responsible for many of the myths which now cluster about Washington’s name, particularly the famous tale of the hatchet and the cherry-tree―and the highly incredible story that Washington could never tell a lie.

when, in Massachusetts, the "Commonwealth," on attaining power, began to confiscate the workers’ factories that had been the backbone of the original revolution. The State, before the counter-revolutionary coup that ushered in the Commonwealth, had printed paper money, and considerable borrowing was done by farmers in paper money from the merchants who had been the pre-revolutionary smuggling ring; also the same merchants had lent most of the capital before the revolution to start the workers’ factories, and, after the revolution, with the depression conditions setting in, they claimed mortgages on both farms and factories. In the early years of the Commonwealth, payment of these debts was demanded in gold and silver, on loans which had mostly been originally made in paper money, and the paper money was withdrawn after the peace in favor of foreign money (the exchange being, of course, made at a discount), so that really the payments demanded were far in excess of the loans originally given. The workers’ factories were thus all confiscated, and either operated by private capitalists or closed up altogether. The capitalists of Massachusetts, as well as in other parts of the United States, felt the need of a bank to handle this confiscation.

Hmmm....loan paper, demand repayment in gold..

With these banks organized, the work of confiscation of farms and worker’ factories could proceed unchecked, especially in view of the fact that the state governments were beginning to become instruments of the capitalists.

hmm....confiscate farms and factories ...unchecked...state govt's become instruments of the capitalists.
Could this describe the capitalists using Congress as an instrument to legislate TARP to dispurse finds by a capitalist now in Treasury to those corrupt white collar theives?

What the capitalists particularly desired to do in order to get their own manufacturing system started, was to import some invention into the United States in which manufacture had already been organized on a definitively private-capital basis;

and then two rival spinning-jenny plants were being built, one by Tench Coxe and his "association," at Pawtucket in Rhode Island; and the other by the Massachusetts "association" at New Bedford in Massachusetts. The old-time hide-out workers’ factory which had been established before the revolution, manufacturing textile goods at the old tribal weir in the abandoned Okamakammesset town of Wamesset, was confiscated under the Commonwealth regime by the Lowell family, who proceeded to remodel the factory after the plan of the New Bedford mill, starting the textile factory settlement which grew into the city of Lowell.

In the country, confiscation of farmers’ land was going on with equal rapidity, so that much of the land that the farmers had acquired as a result of the revolution, especially in the Middlesex uprising in Massachusetts which began the revolution, was now rapidly coming into the hands of the large merchants who, as the pre-revolutionary smuggling ring, had financed the war and, on that heading, claimed mortgages on the land acquired by that means.

Hmmm....Large Merchants...smuggling ring...financed.. and claimed...land...by that means.

If today, farmers lack credit, they will lose land to Large AgriCorps.