The Trial

Chapter 28 - Edited

Weeks have passed, or is it months, and still I remain trapped in this prison of my past. There's been no sign of my captors, but they're here. I can feel them watching me from their cowardly distance, and can almost hear them laughing at my ravings towards them.

Thanks to Rabbi Solomon's suggestion, I've thrown what little free time I have into studying the American Revolution. They seem to be the one exception to continued misery, but I've no idea what made them different. All the other revolutions resulted in the people being worse off than before the revolutions, but the American one became quite the opposite.

You're getting closer. Keep at it and you'll find the key. When you do, you'll want to kick yourself for missing it. If I could, I'd whisper something into your ear, but my captors continue to keep me bound in silence. You'll discover it soon enough regardless of my inability to reach you in some slight way.

Not once have they told me what they want from me, but it can only be the breaking of my mind, and that will never happen. So continue on this course, for the end must come and you must face me. How dreadful this must be for you, my hidden captors, forced to watch your failed conquest at every turn. I bow to no one, not the state and not you.

The more I learn about those who brought about the United States, the more I'm left scratching my head as to how they held it together. There was no common thread, other than liberty, not even of a religious nature. How did they ever come together to successfully fight off the most powerful empire of their day?

They didn't even have a common birthplace to come together as a singular cause. A Scottish merchant Captain, John Paul Jones, became the Father of the American Navy. Alexander Hamilton originated in the British West Indies and wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers. Thomas Paine was from England and Common Sense was one of the most influential revolutionary pamphlets throughout the colonies.

Each colony, from what I've been able to determine, was so different from one another that they might as well have been separate countries. How did they ever come together? That's not the right question, is it? I should be asking myself what held them together through those early losses.

I know I'm asking the wrong questions and I'm missing something. This isn't about another successful revolution of many, but about what happened following the defeat of the British. There were no mass killings for those who had been on the wrong side of history, which is unique unto itself, but neither were they forced to leave.

That's it, keep thinking along those lines. The path you're headed down right now is where all will be made clear. The pieces are starting to fall into place and you just need to keep following it a little further. Now think about who they were.

George Washington was given absolute power over the military and willingly gave it up power after the British were defeated. He could've marched on Congress any time he chose to do so. His military would've followed him anywhere. He could've declared himself anything he wished, but he gave it all up to return home.