Posted on 04/28/2010 9:07:00 PM PDT by stolinsky
Perhaps we have watched too many televised trials and seen famous, high-priced lawyers make mountains of evidence “disappear” to get their clients acquitted.
Perhaps we have watched too many politicians posturing for the media, while accomplishing nothing even remotely useful.
Perhaps we have watched too much TV and seen mousse-haired “talking heads” shamelessly slanting the news, while omitting inconvenient facts.
We may have gotten the impression that the truth is something we can fabricate to suit ourselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at stolinsky.com ...
‘The total death toll for both sides in the Civil War was about 624,511. About one-third of a million white men and boys died fighting for the Union. This does not include African American soldiers who died, nor does it include Confederate deaths.
Approximately one in four Union soldiers who served died in the war. The total population of the Union was about 20 million. One-third of a million deaths represented an enormous loss of life.
In addition, all serious arm or leg wounds were treated by amputation. Veterans on crutches or with pinned-up sleeves were a common sight on American streets for many years.
If all those severed limbs, and all the blood that soaked into the earth from the dead and wounded, do not constitute reparations, nothing ever could’. -—
Now that’s powerful!
Well said and God bless!
Perhaps we have watched too many televised trials and seen famous, high-priced lawyers make mountains of evidence “disappear” to get their clients acquitted.
"If the glove don't fit, you must acquit."
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