Is it time to revise history?
the Ds are doing it. . isn't this the way mass delusion is created? -- j
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It is my opinion that these facts are being used to systematically destroy the heroes of our past. I think this has less to do with the actual flaws those heroes had and more with the desire to remove the concept of "hero". Heroes are non-egalitarian by definition, and there is a strong element in our society that wishes to reduce us all to the philosophical and social equivalent of 'grey pablum'.
Destroying the heroes of the Revolution is especially poignant.
Jan
they can elevate themselves to the position of ruling class, with
all of the constraints which religious people put on God. . none. -- j
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Revolution--BAD Ignorant--good
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The PC crowd will inform our future school children the Declaration of Independence was actually written by a slave named Frederick Douglas and then stolen by Thomas Jefferson. George Washington, of course, was a complete idiot and never would have won the Revolutionary War had it not been for the sage advice of a woman named Susan B. Anthony. (It doesn't matter when these people actually lived or what they actually did, it only matters to put out a narrative that captures the correct emotional effect.)
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In addition, the Constitution of the US was actually written by the Iroquois and then stolen by Ben Franklin (oh wait! I've actually seen this in a "history" book in spite of the fact the Iroquois had no written language!).
Perhaps it will fall to us to preserve our country's heritage, just as Taiwan preserved China's past during Mao's Cultural Revolution!
Imagine O's smiling face on one dollar bills.
I'm certain Super Zero would not veto legislation that would replace Jefferson's face on a nickle with Al Sharpton's.
You see, a nickle is too low a denomination for the Great And Powerful O.
Come to think of it, maybe that would also be true of a dollar.
Mr. Benjamin Franklin, I have some bad news for you.
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If one does not know from whence one came,
one will not know what or whom one is nor where one might be going.
Txs for this post.
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I remember when The Patriot came out, replete with flaws, etc it still stirred many on both sides. The libs in particular were incensed.
There are a few good works out there like John Adams, Jeff Daniels' depiction of Washington and crossing the Delaware, taking the Hessians by surprise and all. I'd love to hear of some more that people may know of. The lack of coverage compared to how much incredible material there is - is appalling and deliberate.
I remember when The Patriot came out, besides the furor over Tarleton, were the howls over the relationships portrayed between some of the black and white families in the plantation culture. It wasn't all whips and chains.
And then contemplate just who was enslaving who on the various continents. Just who captured and sold the Amistad slaves? And the imagery in the Mountains of the Moon as Richard Burton witnessed the Arab slave trade in Africa.
It certainly is arguable that in the ever present vigilance of freedom, an important component is the need to be ever vigilant of the revisions of history.
in many parts of the world. . it is a horror which pervades humanity
from time immemorial. -- j
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people for inexpensive coitus ... people whom I was sure were sex slaves.
and they have some very attractive women there. . I was married,
then, and took it seriously;;; my compatriots thought I was weird for saying no.
I mean, a quickie for 5 dollars? . who would say no to that? -- j
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Just more hypocrisy.
The R's should pick this up and adopt him as representing their ideas, and have a Jefferson dinner to spite the D's as extoll the good that he did,
The association of "colored" people continues assigning blame to an extinct practice, when the difference is far more apparent in pants around one's ankles, spinners on 22" wheels on 1970 cars, and other intentionally differentiating practices conducted by those claiming other discriminate against them! It is tragic that a solid voice among them is now silenced by an unrelated, but terrible sex crime...Cosby.
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American Indian tribes preyed on each other, stealing territory, destroying property, taking slaves, and committing savage acts of butchery. What we call the Seminole tribe were actually Creek conquerors who committed genocide, wiping out the native tribes of Florida, only interrupted by the arrival of the Spanish. The Comanche adopted the newly arrived horse as a means of extending warfare against other tribes similar to the Mongol hordes.
Indian tribes in New England saw the European arrivals as naive dupes, whose advanced weapon technology could be used for their conquest. They convinced the Europeans to enter into alliances that involved ongoing tribal hostilities, offering them the lands of conquered tribes as payment.
The fact that the aboriginal tribes realized what a terrible relationship had been created in their dealings with land-hungry European settlers, the numbers of the relative populations had tipped against them. There are some modern American Indian writers who acknowledge that their forebears had helped get themselves into the adversarial disadvantageous relationship, but they are not in favor with the liberal academians or press.
The Jews of the Sanhedrin and the Catholics of the Nicene Council burned, scrubbed and burned, and sadly King James, and Martin Luther passed on their disinformation. Then 1,969 years after Christ Ascended into Heaven, an archeology student, working a dig near Mitspe Shalem on the north shore of the Dead Sea in Israel, disturbed a small rock and found a cave with a half dozen amphora filled with scrolls and the truth was known.
That Jesus the Rabbi, born of Mary ben David was the third son and had six sisters, was married to Mary Magdalene, that he fathered seven children, and that Mary His mother and Mary His wife and children fled to Gaul [France] escaping the Roman Ethnic Cleansing that followed Masada in 50 ECE.
Another scroll, a Roman History of Augustus's Caesarian Period speaks to the role of the Sacred Feminine so eloquently portrayed by Cote De Pablo in the TV Miniseries "The Dove Keepers," the healers the MCE Christians would call Sorceresses or Witches.
There are more than two hundred scrolls, and fewer than fifty have been restored and translated by heroic and expensive work. They were undoubtedly secreted from the great Library in Alexandria to protect them from the Nicene Council. The Library was mysteriously destroyed by fire in 336ECE. Those that have been preserved and translated can be seen by special permission of the Israeli Historical Commission at the American University in Tel Aviv.