Somebody once said that evil is never original or creative. The State obligingly proves that truth over and over. It relies on the same tactics to control us now as it did centuries ago. One of its favorites is “divide and conquer.” The British Empire tried to literally divide and conquer its rebellious American colonies 237 years ago this month, when Lieutenant General John Burgoyne led an army south from Canada along the Lake Champlain-Hudson River waterway.  His was only one of several attempts to implement this strategy; His Majesty’s armies, both actual and bureaucratic, fondly supposed that if they … Continue reading From the British Empire to Stalin de Blasio