[古事今看] George Washington的法眼可以一眼看透政治神棍Aaron Burr (6/22/2011發表)(下)
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Aaron Burr到底幹了什麼事?他陰謀要武裝佔領阿列堅尼山脈以西的美國領地，做為他的獨立王國(首都是New Orleans)，然後侵略與佔領西班牙統治的「新西班牙」(包括今天的Texas、美國西部、美國西南部、佛羅里達、墨西哥)，建立一個大帝國。
建州派今天要引述美國史家Henry Adams(John Adams的後人)的巨著"The Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson, Part I"的第10、11、12、13、14及19章("The First Administration of Thomas Jefferson"也提到Burr)。
Chapter 10: Burr's Schemes
When Burr ceased to be Vice-President of the United States, March 4, 1805, he had already made himself intimate with every element of conspiracy that could be drawn within his reach. The list of his connections might have startled Jefferson, if the President's easy optimism had not been proof to fears. In London, Burr's friend Colonel Williamson confided his plans to Pitt and Lord Melville. At Washington the British minister, Merry, wrote to Lord Mulgrave in support of Williamson's negotiation. The Creole deputies from New Orleans were Burr's friends, and Derbigny was acquainted with "certain projects" he entertained. General Wilkinson, governor of the Louisiana Territory, whose headquarters were at St. Louis, closely attached to Burr almost from childhood, stood ready for any scheme that promised to gratify inordinate ambition. James Brown, Secretary of the Territory, was Burr's creature. Judge Prevost, of the Superior Court at New Orleans, was Burr's stepson. Jonathan Dayton, whose term as senator ended the same day with Burr's vice-presidency, shared and perhaps suggested the "projects." John Smith, the senator from Ohio, was under the influence of Burr and Dayton. John Adair of Kentucky was in Wilkinson's confidence. The Swartwouts in New York, with the "little band" who made Burr their idol, stood ready to follow him wherever he might lead. In South Carolina Joseph Allston, the husband of Theodosia Burr, might be induced to aid his father-in-law; and Allston was supposed to be the richest planter in the South, worth a million of dollars in slaves and plantations. The task of uniting these influences and at a given moment raising the standard of a new empire in the Mississippi Valley seemed to an intriguer of Burr's metal not only feasible, but certain of success. (這裡提到一些人，這些人士是當年有頭有臉的美國菁英，雖是菁英，但Burr也都能欺騙他們，或者說，他們也不能免於被Burr欺騙。Dayton不久後發現Burr說謊，但還是與Burr狼狽為奸，一道欺騙其他同夥。)
Burr暗中與英國、西班牙的駐美使節聯繫，尋求該兩國的財政與軍事支持，在他的期待成為泡影之後，他為了讓他的政治生命能夠延續下去，他開始編織一連串的謊言，欺騙他的同夥。
"The conspiracy counted on the aid of Great Britain, which was to be the pivot of the scheme; but Burr's hopes were blasted by learning from Merry that no answer had been received from the British government in reply to the request for money and ships. ----- hope of aid from the British government had vanished." (註: Merry是英國派駐美國的使節Anthony Merry。)
"The death of Pitt destroyed all immediate possibility of drawing England into conspiracy with Burr, -- if indeed a possibility had ever existed. The attempt to obtain money from Spain was equally hopeless." (註: Pitt是英國首相William Pitt the Younger。)
在外援沒有來之後，"Burr was reduced to many devices in order to keep his conspiracy alive. ------Burr wrote to Wilkinson a letter evidently intended to conceal his diplomatic disaster and to deceive his friend."
"Conspiracy was easier than poverty; but conspiracy without foreign aid was too wild a scheme for other men to join. ----- In order to retain any friends or followers he was obliged to deceive them all, and entangle himself and them in an elaborate of falsehood. Dayton alone knew the truth, and helped him to deceive." (Burr的陰謀與計劃因為缺乏外援，所以對同夥與其他人而言，都只是瘋狂的冒險，為了讓那些同夥與追隨者不要跑掉，Burr必須欺騙他們，他開始編織一 套精心設計的謊言，來自欺欺人，只有Dayton知道真相，他幫助Burr來欺騙其他人。)
"---- impudence had become their (註: 指Burr與Dayton兩人) only resource. Every step taken thenceforward by the conspirators (註: 指Burr與Dayton兩人) was taken by means of a new imposture; until at last they became petty swindlers who lived from day to day by cheating each other. How flagrant their imposture was, has been partly shown in their attempt to deceive Yrujo; but their treatment of Wilkinson was far more dishonest." (註: 因為英國、西班牙的外援不來，Burr與Dayton只好不斷欺騙他們的同夥與他人，他們每天忙著編織謊言，互相欺騙，他們的騙術翻陳出新，欲罷不能，令 人目不暇給，他們吃了熊心豹子膽，連Wilkinson及西班牙的使節Marques de Casa Yrujo都敢騙。)
(Burr在5/13/1806發給Wilkinson、Wilkinson於7/29/1806收到的一封密碼信函中，謊話連篇，宣稱形勢大好，但做為美國領地軍區司令的Wilkinson豈是沒有資訊可做判斷依據的等閒之輩?)
"He (註: 指律師Harman Blennerhasset) confided in his gardener, ----- Peter Taylor, that Colonel Burr would be king of Mexico, ---- He added that Burr had a great many friends in the Spanish territory; two thousand Roman Catholic priests were enlisted in his corps; ----- that the Spaniards, like the French, had got tired of their government and wanted to swap it; that the British were also friends to this expedition ----" (註: 在Burr的騙局中，受害最大的可能是出錢出力不少、期待在Burr的陰謀成功後可以被國王Burr封為公爵、並將有豐厚收入的受騙者 Blennerhasset，Burr因為外援沒來，所以設計很多騙錢與搞錢的點子，讓Blennerhasset這些缺乏判斷力的人提供政治獻金，從 Blennerhasset的園丁這些證人在法庭的供詞中，我們可以知道Burr這種政治神棍的厲害與受害者的無知與貪婪，也可以知道Burr編織了許多 外援及革命形勢大好的謊言。)
"Burr was engaged in deceiving every one; but his attempt to deceive Yrujo, if seriously meant, was the least comprehensible of all his manoeuvres."
五
當台灣與台美鄉親們讀了以上這些精彩的片段，大家就會恍然大悟，原來歷史會重演，也正在重演，包括在台灣重演。
政治神棍與薩哈夫層出不窮，但「喬治華盛頓」卻是「稀有動物」，只有「喬治華盛頓」才能一眼洞悉政治神棍與薩哈夫的陰謀與拆穿政治神棍與薩哈夫的騙局與把戲。
「台灣建州運動」發起人周威霖
David C. Chou
Founder, Formosa Statehood Movement
(an organization devoted to making Taiwan a state of the United States)
再談美國立國早期的政治神棍Aaron Burr (7/25/2011補述與發表)
「台灣建州運動」於6/22/2011發表「George Washington的法眼可以一眼看透政治神棍Aaron Burr」一文(我們把它重貼在下面)，我們今天順著那篇文章，接著做一點補充。
我們今天的補充資料來自美國史家Henry Adams的名著 "The Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson"第二冊的第十九章，標題是 "Burr's Trial"。
Chapter 19: Burr's Trial(審判Aaron Burr)
這一章第一段的部分內容是:
-------The Democrats (註: 在傑佛遜總統執政時期的美國的Democrats，分佈於當時美國東北部、東部及西部，與Jefferson-Madison結盟，他們與南方的 Republicans結盟，成為Jefferson-Madison執政團隊的主要支持基礎) had never been able to persuade themselves that the Union was really in danger, or that Burr's projects, whatever they were, had a chance of success; and in truth Burr's conspiracy, like that of Pickering and Griswold, had no deep roots in society, but was mostly confined to a circle of well-born, well-bred, and well-educated individuals, whose want of moral sense was one more proof that the moral instinct had little to do with social distinctions. (Aaron Burr圖謀分裂美國西部、建立一個帝國的計劃，在沒有得到英國與西班牙的支持之後，仍然以欺騙支持者及金主的方式繼續運作，他雖然隱瞞真相，繼續欺騙支 持者與金主，但Democrats並不認為他有成功的機會，因為他的圖謀並不具社會的基礎，他的支持者只限於一個很小的圈子中，那一小撮人出身好的家庭， 受到良好的教育(註: 被政治神棍欺騙的人並非只是一般民眾，連受過高等教育的人也會受騙，他們之所以會受騙，多半是由於他們在那個政治騙局中，有特殊或不可告人的考量，或者他們與政治神棍有平行的利益)。
These comments were sharp, yet the pages of Blennerhassett's diary were not so severe upon any of the witnesses for the government as they were upon Burr himself. Blennerhassett had wakened to the discovery that Burr was, after all, but a vulgar swindler. (在Aaron Burr的陰謀詐騙中受害極深、財產都因而失去的人是Blennerhassett，到頭來他發現Burr只是一個粗鄙的騙子。)--------the ruin which had fallen on Blennerhassett's property at the island,—taught the Irishman how thoroughly he had been duped:
"The present trial cannot fail to furnish ample testimony, if not to the guilt, at least to the defect of every talent under the assumption of which this giddy adventurer has seduced so many followers of riper experience and better judgment than myself." (Blennerhassett在Burr受審時發現，被Burr誘騙的人士中，有不少人比他具有較成熟的經驗及較好的判斷力。註: 政治神棍通常具有誘騙有豐富的社會經驗及良好判斷力的人士的邪惡天份，即便連總統或當過總統的人都可能會被他們蒙騙與誤導，更何況是一般民眾。)
在我們的補述發表了大約兩個月後，我們把文章寄給一些美國人參考，包括AIT與國務院的官員，讓他們更好地了解台灣這個利用美國詐騙、損壞美國形象、要把美國拖下水的政治金光黨。
我們在信函的開頭說: 這幾年來，台灣有一個林XX小黨派，自組一個所謂「台灣X政府」(Taiwan ...... Government)的荒唐組織，他們在自營的網站上及其他地方公開宣稱他們的「政府」與他們的「駐美辦事處」受到美國政府的「認可」，他們不斷編織謊言，並宣稱由於美國政府從來沒有出面否定他們的說法，那就表示他們的說法得到美國政府的「默許」或「贊同」，他們不斷編造謊言，許多台灣人與台美人都信以為真，這些被他們欺騙的台灣人與台美人包括受高等教育的菁英份子。
Aaron Burr到底幹了什麼事?他陰謀要武裝佔領阿列堅尼山脈以西的美國領地，做為他的獨立王國(首都是New Orleans)，然後侵略與佔領西班牙統治的「新西班牙」(包括今天的Texas、美國西部、美國西南部、佛羅里達、墨西哥)，建立一個大帝國。
建州派今天要引述美國史家Henry Adams(John Adams的後人)的巨著"The Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson, Part I"的第10、11、12、13、14及19章("The First Administration of Thomas Jefferson"也提到Burr)。
Chapter 10: Burr's Schemes
When Burr ceased to be Vice-President of the United States, March 4, 1805, he had already made himself intimate with every element of conspiracy that could be drawn within his reach. The list of his connections might have startled Jefferson, if the President's easy optimism had not been proof to fears. In London, Burr's friend Colonel Williamson confided his plans to Pitt and Lord Melville. At Washington the British minister, Merry, wrote to Lord Mulgrave in support of Williamson's negotiation. The Creole deputies from New Orleans were Burr's friends, and Derbigny was acquainted with "certain projects" he entertained. General Wilkinson, governor of the Louisiana Territory, whose headquarters were at St. Louis, closely attached to Burr almost from childhood, stood ready for any scheme that promised to gratify inordinate ambition. James Brown, Secretary of the Territory, was Burr's creature. Judge Prevost, of the Superior Court at New Orleans, was Burr's stepson. Jonathan Dayton, whose term as senator ended the same day with Burr's vice-presidency, shared and perhaps suggested the "projects." John Smith, the senator from Ohio, was under the influence of Burr and Dayton. John Adair of Kentucky was in Wilkinson's confidence. The Swartwouts in New York, with the "little band" who made Burr their idol, stood ready to follow him wherever he might lead. In South Carolina Joseph Allston, the husband of Theodosia Burr, might be induced to aid his father-in-law; and Allston was supposed to be the richest planter in the South, worth a million of dollars in slaves and plantations. The task of uniting these influences and at a given moment raising the standard of a new empire in the Mississippi Valley seemed to an intriguer of Burr's metal not only feasible, but certain of success. (這裡提到一些人，這些人士是當年有頭有臉的美國菁英，雖是菁英，但Burr也都能欺騙他們，或者說，他們也不能免於被Burr欺騙。Dayton不久後發現Burr說謊，但還是與Burr狼狽為奸，一道欺騙其他同夥。)
Burr暗中與英國、西班牙的駐美使節聯繫，尋求該兩國的財政與軍事支持，在他的期待成為泡影之後，他為了讓他的政治生命能夠延續下去，他開始編織一連串的謊言，欺騙他的同夥。
"The conspiracy counted on the aid of Great Britain, which was to be the pivot of the scheme; but Burr's hopes were blasted by learning from Merry that no answer had been received from the British government in reply to the request for money and ships. ----- hope of aid from the British government had vanished." (註: Merry是英國派駐美國的使節Anthony Merry。)
"The death of Pitt destroyed all immediate possibility of drawing England into conspiracy with Burr, -- if indeed a possibility had ever existed. The attempt to obtain money from Spain was equally hopeless." (註: Pitt是英國首相William Pitt the Younger。)
在外援沒有來之後，"Burr was reduced to many devices in order to keep his conspiracy alive. ------Burr wrote to Wilkinson a letter evidently intended to conceal his diplomatic disaster and to deceive his friend."
"Conspiracy was easier than poverty; but conspiracy without foreign aid was too wild a scheme for other men to join. ----- In order to retain any friends or followers he was obliged to deceive them all, and entangle himself and them in an elaborate of falsehood. Dayton alone knew the truth, and helped him to deceive." (Burr的陰謀與計劃因為缺乏外援，所以對同夥與其他人而言，都只是瘋狂的冒險，為了讓那些同夥與追隨者不要跑掉，Burr必須欺騙他們，他開始編織一 套精心設計的謊言，來自欺欺人，只有Dayton知道真相，他幫助Burr來欺騙其他人。)
"---- impudence had become their (註: 指Burr與Dayton兩人) only resource. Every step taken thenceforward by the conspirators (註: 指Burr與Dayton兩人) was taken by means of a new imposture; until at last they became petty swindlers who lived from day to day by cheating each other. How flagrant their imposture was, has been partly shown in their attempt to deceive Yrujo; but their treatment of Wilkinson was far more dishonest." (註: 因為英國、西班牙的外援不來，Burr與Dayton只好不斷欺騙他們的同夥與他人，他們每天忙著編織謊言，互相欺騙，他們的騙術翻陳出新，欲罷不能，令 人目不暇給，他們吃了熊心豹子膽，連Wilkinson及西班牙的使節Marques de Casa Yrujo都敢騙。)
(Burr在5/13/1806發給Wilkinson、Wilkinson於7/29/1806收到的一封密碼信函中，謊話連篇，宣稱形勢大好，但做為美國領地軍區司令的Wilkinson豈是沒有資訊可做判斷依據的等閒之輩?)
"He (註: 指律師Harman Blennerhasset) confided in his gardener, ----- Peter Taylor, that Colonel Burr would be king of Mexico, ---- He added that Burr had a great many friends in the Spanish territory; two thousand Roman Catholic priests were enlisted in his corps; ----- that the Spaniards, like the French, had got tired of their government and wanted to swap it; that the British were also friends to this expedition ----" (註: 在Burr的騙局中，受害最大的可能是出錢出力不少、期待在Burr的陰謀成功後可以被國王Burr封為公爵、並將有豐厚收入的受騙者 Blennerhasset，Burr因為外援沒來，所以設計很多騙錢與搞錢的點子，讓Blennerhasset這些缺乏判斷力的人提供政治獻金，從 Blennerhasset的園丁這些證人在法庭的供詞中，我們可以知道Burr這種政治神棍的厲害與受害者的無知與貪婪，也可以知道Burr編織了許多 外援及革命形勢大好的謊言。)
"Burr was engaged in deceiving every one; but his attempt to deceive Yrujo, if seriously meant, was the least comprehensible of all his manoeuvres."
五
當台灣與台美鄉親們讀了以上這些精彩的片段，大家就會恍然大悟，原來歷史會重演，也正在重演，包括在台灣重演。
政治神棍與薩哈夫層出不窮，但「喬治華盛頓」卻是「稀有動物」，只有「喬治華盛頓」才能一眼洞悉政治神棍與薩哈夫的陰謀與拆穿政治神棍與薩哈夫的騙局與把戲。
「台灣建州運動」發起人周威霖
David C. Chou
Founder, Formosa Statehood Movement
(an organization devoted to making Taiwan a state of the United States)
再談美國立國早期的政治神棍Aaron Burr (7/25/2011補述與發表)
「台灣建州運動」於6/22/2011發表「George Washington的法眼可以一眼看透政治神棍Aaron Burr」一文(我們把它重貼在下面)，我們今天順著那篇文章，接著做一點補充。
我們今天的補充資料來自美國史家Henry Adams的名著 "The Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson"第二冊的第十九章，標題是 "Burr's Trial"。
Chapter 19: Burr's Trial(審判Aaron Burr)
這一章第一段的部分內容是:
-------The Democrats (註: 在傑佛遜總統執政時期的美國的Democrats，分佈於當時美國東北部、東部及西部，與Jefferson-Madison結盟，他們與南方的 Republicans結盟，成為Jefferson-Madison執政團隊的主要支持基礎) had never been able to persuade themselves that the Union was really in danger, or that Burr's projects, whatever they were, had a chance of success; and in truth Burr's conspiracy, like that of Pickering and Griswold, had no deep roots in society, but was mostly confined to a circle of well-born, well-bred, and well-educated individuals, whose want of moral sense was one more proof that the moral instinct had little to do with social distinctions. (Aaron Burr圖謀分裂美國西部、建立一個帝國的計劃，在沒有得到英國與西班牙的支持之後，仍然以欺騙支持者及金主的方式繼續運作，他雖然隱瞞真相，繼續欺騙支 持者與金主，但Democrats並不認為他有成功的機會，因為他的圖謀並不具社會的基礎，他的支持者只限於一個很小的圈子中，那一小撮人出身好的家庭， 受到良好的教育(註: 被政治神棍欺騙的人並非只是一般民眾，連受過高等教育的人也會受騙，他們之所以會受騙，多半是由於他們在那個政治騙局中，有特殊或不可告人的考量，或者他們與政治神棍有平行的利益)。
These comments were sharp, yet the pages of Blennerhassett's diary were not so severe upon any of the witnesses for the government as they were upon Burr himself. Blennerhassett had wakened to the discovery that Burr was, after all, but a vulgar swindler. (在Aaron Burr的陰謀詐騙中受害極深、財產都因而失去的人是Blennerhassett，到頭來他發現Burr只是一個粗鄙的騙子。)--------the ruin which had fallen on Blennerhassett's property at the island,—taught the Irishman how thoroughly he had been duped:
"The present trial cannot fail to furnish ample testimony, if not to the guilt, at least to the defect of every talent under the assumption of which this giddy adventurer has seduced so many followers of riper experience and better judgment than myself." (Blennerhassett在Burr受審時發現，被Burr誘騙的人士中，有不少人比他具有較成熟的經驗及較好的判斷力。註: 政治神棍通常具有誘騙有豐富的社會經驗及良好判斷力的人士的邪惡天份，即便連總統或當過總統的人都可能會被他們蒙騙與誤導，更何況是一般民眾。)
在我們的補述發表了大約兩個月後，我們把文章寄給一些美國人參考，包括AIT與國務院的官員，讓他們更好地了解台灣這個利用美國詐騙、損壞美國形象、要把美國拖下水的政治金光黨。
我們在信函的開頭說: 這幾年來，台灣有一個林XX小黨派，自組一個所謂「台灣X政府」(Taiwan ...... Government)的荒唐組織，他們在自營的網站上及其他地方公開宣稱他們的「政府」與他們的「駐美辦事處」受到美國政府的「認可」，他們不斷編織謊言，並宣稱由於美國政府從來沒有出面否定他們的說法，那就表示他們的說法得到美國政府的「默許」或「贊同」，他們不斷編造謊言，許多台灣人與台美人都信以為真，這些被他們欺騙的台灣人與台美人包括受高等教育的菁英份子。
「台灣建州運動」發起人周威霖
David C. Chou
Founder, Formosa Statehood Movement
(an organization devoted to making Taiwan a state of the United States)
David C. Chou
Founder, Formosa Statehood Movement
(an organization devoted to making Taiwan a state of the United States)
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