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To: arrogantsob
Why are you on a site wherein the people love the USA and will defend it? Anti-Americanism is more popular on DU. Check it out you will find kindred spirits there.

With that attitude I could ask you the same thing, why are you on a site called "Free Republic"? Maybe you could create your own site called "Constitutional Dictatorship"? I am sure to visit, not.

780 posted on 09/09/2010 9:56:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Where have I ever said I hated the Union? When have I ever extolled and praised terrorist traitors? When have I justified attacks on US forces?

There is nothing to criticize me for unless you are opposed to nationalism and patriotism.


781 posted on 09/09/2010 10:32:19 AM PDT by arrogantsob
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To: central_va
Or Constitutional Monarchy. That is what Hamilton advocated at the Philadelphia convention, only to be shut down and ridiculed by his fellow delegates.

He was also scheming to draw the United States into the Napoleonic Wars when Adams finally cut him off and cleared out his cabinet of the Hamilton loyalists. The previous 2 year "reign of witches," as Jefferson accurately dubbed it, had shown everyone what Hamilton's real vision of America was all about: the Alien and Sedition Acts, the attempted mobilization of a standing army to invade Spanish and French North America, a new federal Stamp Tax that was virtually identical to the one that sparked the rebellion against Britain, new federal land and property taxes spawning Fries' Rebellion in Pennsylvania, the arrest and imprisonment of opposition newspaper editors for "sedition," and the early stages of a scheme to forcibly purge the Jeffersonians from government.

Hamilton was an ambitious autocrat with a hot temper and even signs of insanity. When Burr shot Hamilton, it was the inevitable result of decades of recklessness and blustery on Hamilton's part. Despite his disingenuous claim to detest dueling in the note he wrote before his death, Hamilton had been involved in some form or another with at least 10 threatened duels that were averted at the last minute. Among his intended targets were sitting President John Adams in 1800 and future President James Monroe in 1797. That he got himself into a duel with sitting Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804 was thus neither out of the ordinary for him nor unsurprising when it happened.

Hamilton only lasted as long as he did by playing Wormtongue to Washington's Theoden. But practically every other founding father of any significance detested the guy, and with good reason.

788 posted on 09/09/2010 5:31:30 PM PDT by conimbricenses (Red means run son, numbers add up to nothing.)
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