Were they? Or have they been infiltrated since day one. I certainly don't know about Ben Franklin. He had a little too much involvement with the Hellfire Club and those Jesuit/Illuminati Revolutionary Secret Societies outta France, for my tastes. And they have recently found too many skeletons of dead people under the home he lived in in London for my tastes, as well. I don't know about Alexander Hamilton, either. Of course, the reports are, which I cannot say I know to be true, that the Fellas got all dressed up in, and walked straight outta, the Lodge to the Boston Harbor.
Who knows what the Grand Union Flag is? Here, I'll put it next to the flag of the British corporation, the East India Corporation:
The "Grand Union Flag" (also known as the "Continental Colours," the "Congress Flag," the "Cambridge Flag," and the "First Navy Ensign") is considered to be the first national flag of the United States of America – and previously, that of the United Colonies of North America – until 1777.
The American colonists' "Continental Colours" was first hoisted on the colonial warship USS Alfred, in the harbor on the western shore of the Delaware River at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 3, 1775, by newly-appointed Lieutenant John Paul Jones of the formative Continental Navy. The event had been documented in letters to Congress and eyewitness accounts. The flag was used by the American Continental Army forces as both a naval ensign and garrison flag throughout 1776 and early 1777.
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Wait ... did I post those in the right order? Is the Grand Union Flag on the left or the right? Hard to tell, eh?
Not only was Washington NOT crossing the Delaware to fight Red Coats (they were German Hessian Mercenaries), but he wasn't totin' a piece of cloth sewn up by Betsy Ross, either. He was fighting under the flag of a Corporation owned by European Families - the East India Company. Who were they fighting for?
An oligarchical collection of European Banking/Merchant Families ?...?
Or, fighting to continue the work of Sir Francis Bacon and Secret Societies with that New Atlantis stuff ?...?
Or fighting to continue the work of the Jesuits/Illuminati and Revolutionary Lodges outta Gay Paris?
I haven't verified it and don't claim it as fact, but I have heard that Washington, with maybe some rare exceptions, pretty much stayed out of the Lodges for about the last 30 years of his life. And, of course, he has been allegorically venerated as Cincinatus.
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519–430 BC) was a Roman aristocrat and statesman whose service as consul in 460 BC and dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC made him a model of civic virtue.
Cincinnatus was regarded by the Romans, especially the aristocratic patrician class, as one of the heroes of early Rome and as a model of Roman virtue and simplicity. He was a persistent opponent of the plebeians. When his son, Caeso Quinctius, was convicted and condemned to death, Cincinnatus was forced to live in humble circumstances, working on his own small farm, until an invasion caused him to be called to serve Rome as dictator, an office which he resigned two weeks later, after completing his task of defeating the rival tribes of the Aequians, Sabines, and Volscians.
His immediate resignation of his near-absolute authority with the end of the crisis has often been cited as an example of outstanding leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, lack of personal ambition and modesty. As a result, he has inspired a number of organizations and other entities, many of which are named in his honor.
While some of that sounds good in a governmental 'leader' (I'm not much of a follower, so I cringe applying that word to another human- though most people like to defer to leaders on certain things), that part I bolded is a bunch of crap, and NOT copacetic with the name Lucius. At all, for his enemy was the Middle Class - the free Roman citizens not of the Patrician class. His enemy was YOU, Buddy/Buddyette reading this.
Well, that is what we are led to believe the plebeians were, but they also included some of the wealthiest people from the non-ruling Class. Maybe some of those Merchant/Banker types folks ...
Is the enemy of your enemy always your friend? To liberate oneself, must they join forces, subserviently, to the Ruling Class or the Other Couple Classes? That is what is called a Pawn and/or Cannon Fodder, for which I suggest people not volunteer for.
And the Hero of this Country, has been idolized as a Roman Dictator who wanted only the small, Elite Upper Class, and the Slaves, perhaps? Only 'his Class' could enjoy wealth? Or was it to counter Conspiratorial Attempts from some of those PLebian Merchant/Bankers? And what was it that Cinncinatus actually did? He REINFORCED with military might, the authority of the Hapsburg/Byzantine Empire. He kept Pike's dbl headed eagle on his book in one piece.
Of course, Cincinnatus did NOT exist when and where we are told, anyway, so who knows, eh?
Rebel, you said that Christopher Columbus Hat means 'Captain of the Ship", or something close. However, I think it means FAR more to ya Fellas than that, and were I to ask you some poignant and direct question regarding all of that, sumpin' tells me I would get the standard Masonic response when one is starting tho hit the nail on the head with their questions of, "That's a good question. Here let me compliment you on that fact, not answer it, and change the subject ...", lol.
And sumpin' tells me that maybe All Ya'll might look at 'Ol George as a Christopher Columbus type Fellla, too. Rebel, you and every other Mason take that damn Hat off and give it here, lol. It's mine, by right of the ∞°. And if anyone calls me Worshipful Master, I'll tell 'em to knock it the hell off, for that ain't my sorta thang.
I dunno, L.C. At this point, I just don't know what the Revolution was all about. Start tracing George across the pond and through his Helardry, and you start seeing those Red/White Stripes of the Vikings/Tribe of Dan. Even the D.C. Heraldry reflects this. Maybe 'Ol George was Lucius-Like, but the Revolution did NOT occur in a vacuum, and I highly doubt the Hessians and Red Coats were the only ones who waged war on American Soil at that time ...
And time to close the TNet KGC tab, too ...