America Divided: the Civil War

2024-11-12 · Ho Chanh Nghia

Originally published on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/america-divided-civil-war-khanh-pham-te4jc/

America Divided: the Civil War

I have had 40 years to meditate on the how.

The first cause was many years ago when I was 6 years old working without pay for my aunt at her small restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. My father was prohibited from living in the major cities, so he left me with family members to attend the better school in the city. The better education here involves the daily beating from the tutor, from the uncle for failing to pronounce the “R” in the proper tone. God must have hated humanity because he created a human without the muscle to pronounce a proper R, so as to receive a daily beating, to incite an insatiable hatred for mankind.

The second cause was to receive a half day beating so that I could be admitted to stealing $1 dollar from the payment her customer left on the table. It turned out her own son had stolen it but I was the one that was accused. Another awesome fact is that I am the one working as the bus boy while her son never works. We are also talking about child labor without pay here, and I was only 6. When I was 26, and visited Vietnam for the first time, all I could think about is who can I hire to frame her for having cocaine or other illegal activities and give her a beating until she signs a confession for it.

Fast forward to 2013. There had been plenty of wrong in life and society, like having rocks thrown at me while I walked to school in 5th grade. I must say that being accused of treason 4 times in 11 years is a World Guinness record. After I told the United States Air Force to f off. My last message to my mentor was, “I need to create my own army”.

America is divided as Sparta was divided since inception. The slaves never wanted to be slaves. The owner never wanted to be equal to their slaves. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it does not change the fact that the pig is still a pig. For many decades, we could agree that it is now better than it was since Sparta was destroyed. But the race problem and inequality exists when it should not.

About Sparta:

In the second stage, Sparta came to terms with the loss of its overseas empire by exerting pressure upon the states of the mainland through a series of aggressive wars, aimed at preventing the formation of any coalition that might challenge its power. The dominant king Agesilaos (ruled c. 398-360 BC) was deeply concerned with maintaining the subjection of Thebes, his long-standing rival, and it appears that the Spartan elite had developed a strong inclination toward campaigning abroad as a means of social advancement. The result was a period of somewhat reckless foreign policy that increasingly brought the Greeks together against a common enemy. A final Spartan attempt to gain influence at sea was thwarted by a resurgent Athens in 375 BC, which followed its victory by forming an alliance of seventy-five states opposed to Sparta. However, the most significant blow was not delivered by this new confederation, but rather by the Boiotians alone. One of Sparta’s most widely criticized actions was the stationing of an occupation force in Thebes, intended to prevent that city from uniting the rest of Boiotia under its leadership back in 381 BC; when the Thebans expelled this garrison, the resulting conflict culminated in the decisive defeat of the Spartans at Leuktra in 371 BC.

The Thebans followed up their victory by advancing into the Peloponnese and ultimately dissolving the old alliance system that had long maintained Sparta’s supremacy in the region. They invaded and plundered the Lakonian countryside (though they repeatedly failed to capture the city itself). They also liberated Messenia and established it as a new state, reversing centuries of Spartan occupation and reducing Spartan territory by about half.

After this calamity, Sparta continued to engage in conflicts with its local neighbors and even achieved some notable victories, but they remained the sole power still hoping to reclaim their former hegemony. By this third stage, the mere presence of the newly formed Messenian and Arkadian confederations at the borders of Lakonia was sufficient to keep the second-rate power of Sparta in check.

With America divided internally, and trying to kill each other softly with the legal system, and even assassination. One should note that I personally received four assassination attempts on my character, person, or livelihood in eleven years. I matter not that I am not a fan of Donald Trump, I am pretty much 100% a believer in his right to defend himself. So if he goes after the entirety of the democratic party and removes them from existence, should I cry for them? I had warned against going after the other 50% of the country in 2020 after their close victory. Like Micah screaming about injustice in ancient time. He prophesied the future destruction of Jerusalem and Samaria, the destruction and then future restoration of the Judean state, and he rebuked the people of Judah for dishonesty and idolatry. My request for justice in the time of Obama, Trump, and Biden were largely ignored.

With the events like the Ukraine war, the situation in Gaza; there is an abundance of evidence that I am correct in saying that things will get worse unless there is justice.

So now America has decided that Donald Trump is the new president starting Jan 2025, the current president of the USA is absent, the Vice President is something of a special type. While opponents can call Trump a clown, I am not sure there is a word for a president or vice president that is Kamala Harris. She’s worse than Zelensky in acting. Worse than Obama in orating. Worse than Trump at entertaining. If anyone tries to describe this, they should be at a loss for words on what category this person should fit into.

Beyond the rhetoric, I can tell you from personal exchange with the real people that they are ready for war. The Red half does not care for the Blue half. The Blue half does not care for the Red half. One can also say that bullets have been fired.

Will the Blue half quietly surrender and submit to the Red half and go away? Will the Red half tolerate the existence of the Blue half or wipe it out by any means? Will there be a peaceful transition of power from Blue to Red? I do not know, do you?

Will the military step in? What threshold exists for US military intervention in domestic matters? Or does the US military just sit and watch as the country engage in civil war?

Will the rest of the world watch and do nothing? Or will the other part of the world add fuel and fire to the unrest, divisions, and civil war?

From my personal experience as the victim, and the party that seeks to retaliate against injustice, the party that must defend itself against a superior force: there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what may come to pass. One thing is certain, however, that something must occur. It cannot be nothing.

So what we know of one half is that they possess most of the guns. The other half were anti-gun. Ironically, those who opposed guns were the ones who fired the first bullets, and drew first blood. Confident in their propaganda machine, confident in their control of the apparatus of government, confident that they could remove the unwanted parties in society. Only to be shocked by the victory of the unwanted parties. How does one apologize for the failed assassination of the President of the USA or the Chief of the most powerful army in the world?

There is a great deal of parallel here to my own experiences fighting against the US military act of treason and mutiny. They sought to ostracize and dehumanize. They sought to assassinate, and they failed. They sought to use the system to destroy, and they failed. Then they continued to report that I am the dangerous human who could harm others—yet, they are the party killing more and more people each day. If one were to compare how many people I have harmed or killed versus how many the US Air Force have harmed or killed: who are more dangerous? Who are more likely to fabricate lies and commit treason? Yet, why is it they get to continue to label who is a Chinese spy and who is a patriot?

How does the US Air Force apologize to me for four failed assassinations against me, aimed at preventing me from carrying out my duty as an official of the US government?

1. They conspired with medical doctors to force a blood draw.
2. They conspired with medical doctors to label me a nutcase.
3. They conspired with the prosecuting attorney to pretend to be my defense attorney.
4. They forced me to sign a waiver for my civil rights, my human rights.

If we were to apply the eye for an eye system of justice, how should the punishment be for those who tried to kill me four times and failed?

Since the Americans are entirely responsible for the actions of the government, and the government is entirely responsible for their actions; such as the US Air Force committing treason and attempted assassinations—who will pay for which amount of injustice for these acts?

If Trump seeks to balance the accounting for the slight against him, where will he determine the line as to who is responsible? Where should I determine the line as to who is responsible for the failed assassination against me? When it comes to defending myself, who is to measure what is sufficient?

In a broader context, if there will be a war, how much punishment may be considered sufficient for the losing side?

While Americans have always been quick to cause civil war and revolution in another country, have they ever considered that the day may come when they will experience the very fruit of what they have sown?