History is an silent condition unless read.
In the White House of 1908 for President Theodore Roosevelt, a condition was there of vermin, and the account of the President in handling it, in a family way, was sent to his daughter Ethel.
It is a simple quote, in one of the family's dogs, Scamp, was busy employed in having free run of the White House to kill the rats in it.
Scamp is really an extraordinary ratter, and kills a great many rats
in the White House, in the cellars and on the lower floor and among the
machinery. He is really a very nice little dog.
It reminds me of the John Wayne line in True Grit to Kim Darby, when he is in the Chinaman's kitchen and talking to a rat. Wayne pulls his gun and lectures at the rat to stop eating the Chinaman's grain, but the rat will not listen.
Wayne then fires on the rat and kills it with the line, "You can't talk to rats Baby Sister. You either got to kill them or leave them alone".
Darby picks up the rat and scolds Wayne's cat for being drunken and not doing it's job as a rat killer.
A government of the people, by the people and for the people, can not exist when it is infested with rats. The current remedy is the American people are following John Wayne's advice in "leaving the rats alone" as to kill the rats would bring about their being killed by those in the police state who are paid to protect the rats.
Rats will kill their own as Caligula and Stalin discovered, but only after a plague has infected the body of state, that the people are willing to accept murder as any remedy, beyond Animal Farm, as the rats eat their own in the maze.
"He is really a very nice little dog", not to rats, but to people.
Odd how even in an age of rat killers of 1908, that President Roosevelt felt the need to proclaim the dog's virtues for doing what it was bred to do, against those who cringed that there actually were necessary Citizens in fur to hunt down and kill invaders of that fruited plain.
nuff said
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