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##The Barbary War
  
  
May 13th 1805 Derna, Libya
  
  
After gaining her independence in 1783, the United States of America began trading by sea with European nations. In 1800, many American merchant ships were being raided and plundered by North African nations known as the Barbary States. Initially the United States tried diplomacy to get the Barbary Pirates to stop attacking their ships, but when the US ambassador met with a Moorish prince in London, England, his response to the Americans was "because Allah commands us to attack the infidels". Realizing that diplomacy was out of the question US President Thomas Jefferson had congress declare war on the Barbary States in 1801, which became known as the Barbary War.
  
  
In 1804 the US government came up with a plan to end the Barbary War by deposing the ruler of Tripolitania Yusuf Karamanli and replacing him with his brother Hamet Karamanli. In 1805 a group of 10 US Marines led by Lieutenants Presley O'Bannon and William Eaton arrived in Alexandria, Egypt where they met Hamet Karamanli. From there they recruited a group of 200 Greek and 300 Arab-Turkish mercenaries. On March 8th Eaton's group(Eaton placed himself in charge) left Alexandria for Derna. At around halfway through the journey the Arabs revolted over believing they were not receiving enough food, but was quelled by the Greeks and Marines.
  
  
On April 27th the expedition arrived at Derna, at the same time 3 American ships arrived off the coast of the city. At 2:45pm on the next day the American ships began bombarding the city and Lt. Eaton lead his forces to attack the city. The men captured the gun batteries of the city and turned them on the city as the defenders had left them functioning in their hasty retreat. Lt Eaton then raised the American flag above the battery. By 4pm the battle was over. Yusuf had received word that Derna had been captured, and sent an army to recapture it on May 13th, but was driven back by the expedition still occupying the city.
  
  
On June 10th a treaty was signed between America and Tripolitania and the US Marines and Greeks left Derna. Hamet became governor of Derna. The Battle of Derna ended the Barbary War. The attack on Derna had shocked many of the other Barbary states into leaving American merchant ships alone and European ships took advantage of this by carrying American flags on board to convince the pirates to leave them alone. The Battle of Derna was Americas first battle on foreign soil and was latter immortalized in The Battle Hymn of the Marine Corps, with the part "to the shores of Tripoli".
 
 
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Additionally, Christ needs to be King

###THE AMERICAN FUTURIST:
 
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"The first shall be last" ?

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Reading and Studying the Bible, and coming away with the impression that God does not care about Race, and Bloodline.
  
Either blind, stupid, or dishonest.

If Communism is rule by a centralized authority that determines all social policy, then Capitalism is a gateway to Communism.
 
In any Capitalistic economy, the largest corporations will continue to expand, and take over smaller corporations.. In time the corporations will have more power than the Government, and they will make policy behind the scenes.
 
Once the large corporations have all of the Power, they use the State as a proxy, and after a time Capitalism makes the entrance of Communism much more feasible.
 
Agorism is Superior to Capitalism. Keep the Free market, but reject central currency, and economic controls.

> Perfection is founded entirely on the love of God: “Charity is the bond of perfection[2];” and perfect love of God means the complete union of our will with God’s: “The principal effect of love is so to unite the wills of those who love each other as to make them will the same things[3].” It follows then, that the more one unites his will with the divine will, the greater will be his love of God. Mortification, meditation, receiving Holy Communion, acts of fraternal charity are all certainly pleasing to God -- but only when they are in accordance with his will. When they do not accord with God’s will, he not only finds no pleasure in them, but he even rejects them utterly and punishes them.
  
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> Finally we should consider the events which are happening to us now and which will happen to us in the future, as coming from the hands of God. Everything we do should be directed to this one end: to do the will of God and to do it solely for the reason that God wills it.
  
> To this end let us familiarize ourselves with certain texts of sacred scripture that invite us to unite ourselves constantly with the divine will: “Lord, what wilt thou have me do[80]?” Tell me, my God, what thou wilt have me do, that I may will it also, with all my heart.
 
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> Conformity signifies that we join our wills to the will of God. Uniformity means more -- it means that we make one will of God’s will and ours, so that we will only what God wills; that God’s will alone, is our will. This is the summit of perfection and to it we should always aspire; this should be the goal of all our works, desires, meditations and prayers.