This is the Olympic Files, and I'm one of your hosts.

I'm in a good mood today.

Al.

And I'm Theo, and this is a return to where we left off once upon a time.

I think we left off at the Reconstruction era, Al.

There's a lot we're not told there.

That's an interesting chapter of our history probably is critical

as the inception of the country because

what not even a hundred years into this uh... supposedly republic

i think you could say that the

civil war eviscerated the United States to a certain extent

and made it subservient to external forces, but of course behind closed doors or behind the curtain, however you want to mention it.

And it also did much to expand the notion and the actuality of centralized government getting bigger all the time.

I'll just leave it there.

So you go ahead.

I pull some stuff also, but take us through this if you would.

Well, I have before me the entire one of the two books by James Montgomery that are available online. This one is

the United States is still a British colony. I have it before me. I printed it up off of a PDF

file. And what I'm looking at right now is Chapter 1,

will the real government please stand up?

There is much he writes about it and documents

actual history here about the Reformation.

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