To: Bob A
In the matter of Judge Dale's document and Wikipedia variance, several things are at play regarding Alexander Hamilton.
Wikipedia is not 100% reliable since the host/owners of Wikipedia themselves are not 100% independent and subject to revisions on many of their topics. Even the top of their site notes the material is subject to change, but we do not know who changes it and what is their basis of establishing criteria credibility. They are a far cry even from Britannica standards, or other more scholarly sources. I know from my own research over the past twenty years of accessing the Internet that Wikipedia has been less than honest about the whole subject I am sharing in the series of things not taught in the public schools. As such I don't rely on Wikipedia. Historians consider Wikipedia for the masses and not the serious researchers. Subjects at Wikipedia get revised so often that it receives a lot of complaints by users.
Secondly, I prefer not to quote the Judge and don't like to bring up Judge Dale as a source because there are some things that I take issue with the judge over. He is not the best source document, and far from it, to be sure, the judge notes religious differences that were for me troubling to consider him an authority. Since the document is more of a general overview of hidden history in America pertaining to the nation's bankruptcy in 1933 even I have reservations. We can't expect to get the truth in one package, as it has taken many researchers years to get bits and pieces for researchers to know which is a rabbit trail and which its the mother lode.
My American History professor in college taught his history majors that recorded history is the "victor's version". The true or real history gets white-washed in the editing/publishing stage. The most recent example that comes to mind are the books published back in the late 1990's on the truth about the real story on the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. President Roosevelt knew before hand by months what was coming. In fact, he even took selective actions to guarantee the Japanese attack. He deliberately had the Pacific fleet headquartered and based at Pearl Harbor as a sitting duck. He deliberately sent the new aircraft carriers off on a trip to Wake Island to get them out of the target area. He used old battleships from the First World War era to be sitting ducks. He was allowing the attack on Pearl to take place, primarily for one reason. The US citizenry were not interested in going to war with Germany. The USA was "isolationists" and had no desire to go to war. Roosevelt needed to change the public opinion and the attack at Pearl was his excuse.
The Roosevelt administration blamed the attack on the failure of Admiral Kimmel and General Short, from which Roosevelt kept secret cables reporting of the day to day progress of the Japanese navy's movements. The USA had broke the Japanese "Code Purple" months before the attack. We [referring to the the US high command] knew their location at all times for two weeks before the actual attack. Admiral Kimmel and General Short were exonerated of all guilt by a US Senate investigation in 1999, but there was nothing published to erase the image of their guilt. The were simply "patsies" just as Lee Harvey Oswald was for JFK's assassination.
A big issue that the public is faced with today is the fact that the major publishing houses are owned and controlled by powerful forces. I once in my varied secular career worked for two major well-known academic publishing houses, and I know editors have their own agendas and people to whom they answer to. I worked for McGraw-Hill and Prentice-Hall in their college division and I wanted to pull my hair out over many things in college history books that were for the lack of a better word, were "sanitized" for market. This fact is so well established by the fact that executives of both companies have always been members of the CFR [Council of Foreign Relations] for years.
Independent publishers are virtually frozen out of the school text book business, because they can't sustain their independence for lack of the millions needed to be a viable threat to the big boys. It can take a minimum of a million dollars to bring out a major text book. I can tell you that no history book, civics book, political science book, gets published without the scrutiny of massive editorial copy teams of editors. Nothing, and I mean nothing gets past the editorial teams. Added to this dilemma is another issue, and that is an even bigger issue. The text books are simply abridged or condensed overviews, and for the most part do not have the room for the "specifics" details. My grandson's tenth grade textbook that is passed off as American History is a joke. Publisher's set limits on the number of pages a book will be, for cost reasons, and other reasons, so what is retained at the editorial phase is often the victim of economics or economy of scale.
The issues in getting to the bottom of the truth in history comes down to having access to the papers, writings, journals, personal papers. This is something that for most researchers is a daunting task. My college history professor was a Harvard-trained historian, "Summa Cum Laude" but was denied his Ph.D. because he exposed the truth about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's involvement with the Rothschild banking dynasty and the Federal Reserve. My history professor already had a J.D. law degree (and was a member of the PA BAR) from the University of Pennsylvania. He had been a Major in the US Army Judge Advocates Corp, formerly active duty and on reserve status when I was one of his history majors.
Judge Dale's remarks about Hamilton's background are for the most part credible based upon the writings of others that have deeper connections and whose specialty is unearthing hidden history. My old history professor died in the summer of 2001. Over the 1980's and '90's I tried to visit him every summer for a couple days at a visit. I had him speak at my student-pastor churches several times a few miles from his home and the college. Beside being stunningly brilliant he was as comical as George Carlin.
James Montgomery's 'The New American History' is definitely more detailed and accurate as to this issue but few people are interested in real colonial history and even fewer would pay for a copy. At least for some you can listen to it on the Internet. Things are changing already on the Internet about publishing in general and what will be permitted in the coming months. Those wanting to censor the Internet have wasted no time in bringing about their agenda. I am afraid we are not going to have the freedom of the Internet much longer that we have had the past twenty-years or so. The Internet has been God's blessing to access of information, not something it was completely intended for. Just one trip to the Library of Congress twenty years ago, cost me nearly a 'grand' for a week's research in expenses.
As to whether one can trust Judge Dale, I operate on the basis of confirmation and validation by other scholars . I take all writings with a grain of salt until I can fully corroborate, and cross-check external sources for the information from as many sources as I can get access to.
Most people today still believe that Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack and at least half the population still believe the World Trade Center was brought down by Muslim piloting the hijacked aircraft even though they could not land a Cessna C-172 at the flight school they went to in Florida. As you may well know the nightly news is orchestrated and scripted, but it is no better than reading the headlines of the "National Enquirer" at the grocery store checkout line. However, due to litigation issues, even the rag "National Enquirer" generally has reliable sources for the big stories they break.
While the Bible tells us that in the end all things will be uncovered and lies exposed, it doesn't guarantee we will get all of the story particulars. In the mean time we just keep digging away for the truth.
Blessings,
Pastor Bob