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HuffPo Tweets: America's pilgrims were refugees, too
Twitter ^ | 11-24-2015 | HuffPo

Posted on 11/25/2015 11:05:51 AM PST by Citizen Zed

This Thanksgiving, remember America's pilgrims were refugees, too

http://huff.to/1Myh3RL

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


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KEYWORDS: immigration; nofactcheck; notruthzone; pilgrims; refugees
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And two years ago HuffPo said the Pilgrims were guilty of Genocide.
1 posted on 11/25/2015 11:05:51 AM PST by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

Liberal’s Love the Compare Game


2 posted on 11/25/2015 11:07:45 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Citizen Zed

Yes, refugees who left to AVOID religious persecution, not to PRACTICE it.


3 posted on 11/25/2015 11:08:26 AM PST by IronJack
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....and history tells us what happens to a native population


4 posted on 11/25/2015 11:08:39 AM PST by grania
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To: Citizen Zed

Colonists.

They were colonists.

Not immigrants. Not refugees.

Colonists.


5 posted on 11/25/2015 11:08:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Citizen Zed

They are mental midgets.


6 posted on 11/25/2015 11:09:16 AM PST by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Citizen Zed

This is easy. The Pilgrims did not run throughout the nation burning, raping, pillaging and destroying all structures that existed before. Yes, there were some isolated events of Crusader Overeach, but the violence was not done en masse and in tribute to their religious principles.


7 posted on 11/25/2015 11:10:17 AM PST by lee martell
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Yes, the Pilgrims were refugees.

From persecution, not as the perpetrators of it.

8 posted on 11/25/2015 11:10:56 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Citizen Zed
Perhaps they could be called refugees. For the sake of argument, let's label them as Liberals are so fond of doing.

Those refugees did not carry islam with them and were not intent on destroying any other peoples or religions that were different from theirs.

Comparison invalid.

9 posted on 11/25/2015 11:10:58 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Trudeau compares his Syrians to the 1970’s Boat People


10 posted on 11/25/2015 11:13:05 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Citizen Zed

Exactly. I reject the comparison, but if we go with it...how did it work out for the welcoming native population? They just keep outsmarting or outdumbing themselves with their oh so (they think) clever thoughts.


11 posted on 11/25/2015 11:13:35 AM PST by Anima Mundi (Envy is just passive, lazy greed.)
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To: BenLurkin

They were a lot of things but Refugees isn’t one of the words I would use.

Many of them said screw it and gave up when the other ship (The Speedwell) began falling apart 200 miles out of england.


12 posted on 11/25/2015 11:13:40 AM PST by cripplecreek (Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
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To: Citizen Zed

No they weren’t. They left Holland because they wanted their kids to grow up English, not Dutch.

They fled to Holland because they wanted to escape the political blow back that happened due to the Royalist restoration in England.


13 posted on 11/25/2015 11:15:35 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: Citizen Zed

HuffPo is trying to control the debate by redirecting the language. The problem isn’t with refugees; it’s with terrorists. The law - and fairness - demands that they be subject to the same inspection given to any alien who applies for admission to the US, under the section of the Immigration and Nationality Act (Title 8 USC) that outlines the various grounds for exclusion.

Nice to see that Huff had “evolved” to a compassionate view of the original Puritans. Maybe they can also ask themselves how the existing open borders and lax immigration system worked out for the other Americans?


14 posted on 11/25/2015 11:15:47 AM PST by DPMD
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Christian Refugees!

IOW, not a threat.

15 posted on 11/25/2015 11:16:18 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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no moral equivalency between Christians and mohammedans


16 posted on 11/25/2015 11:17:29 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Citizen Zed

Yeah....i remember reading all those stories of Pilgrims burning people alive in cages.


17 posted on 11/25/2015 11:17:58 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: Citizen Zed

And their values and conduct was substantially better than the ones HuffPo wants to brown nose.


18 posted on 11/25/2015 11:19:10 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (In Missouri, and coming to a State near you, #BlackLiesMatterz)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

. In 1607, the English attempted another colony, this time in the Chesapeake Bay, which was better suited to deepwater navigation and where they hoped the Indians might be friendlier. By then, James I had ascended to the throne and ended the long war with Spain. Riches would no longer come from stealing Spanish gold but from cultivating natural resources, a plan long advocated by Richard Hakluyt (the younger) and Thomas Hariot. Investors also hoped to take advantage of widespread underemployment in England caused, in part, by a population boom. Thousands of laborers would sail to Virginia and send back timber, glass, tar, sassafras, and perhaps even gold and silver, while spreading the Protestant faith to the Indians.


19 posted on 11/25/2015 11:19:18 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Yes HuffPo, you are sooooo right. I just finished reading how the Pilgrims signed up for unemployment insurance, Obama phones, family assistance, Obamacare, and public housing as soon as they stepped foot North American ground.

Tell you what, how about we see how the new pilgrims do when provided the same level of support the original pilgrims had?

20 posted on 11/25/2015 11:19:46 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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