Posted on 10/01/2004 11:27:00 AM PDT by Getsmart64
It's a good post. But after over 5 years of Internet circulation, you're the only one who hasn't seen this before.
Entertaining as this is, it's not true; you might check this topic out at "Snopes.com" for the truth.
urban legend. phony as a democrat.
*cough* *gag* *GLURGE*
http://www.snopes.com/glurge/declare.htm
okokokok....just something I ran across sheesh...I'll check out the snopes deal tho...
Thanks for the reminder. :)
And we have FR threads about how afraid people are of having their car scratched for having the "wrong" bumper sticker.
Never hurts to remind us that "some gave all" in the defense of Liberty, and that is still true today.
I bet you didn't know Al Gore was one of the signers...
Don't bother.
While this document is an exaggeration, the Snopes site is equally bad.
Snopes claims none of this document is true, but in fact many of the signers did suffer harm due to their support for the CAUSE of Indpeendence. Snopes plays a subtle word switch by saying that none of the, suffered harm for signing the document. True enough: the British didn't care anything beyond that they captured enemy combattants. That was enough. But the fact is that many were captured, killed, impoverished or mortally sickened by living up to the OATH contained in the document.
Please, people: Snopes is hard-core leftism. Do not refer people to it!
I don't find the supposed "debunking" at snopes very convincing at all.
Snopes focuses all its attention on how "none of them were specifically targeted for having signed the Declaration", which of course completely misses the point.
They signed a document knowing that by doing so it would start a war, and in that war all their lives and fortune will be put at risk.
Whoever wrote that at snopes is an intellectual fraud.
That's a matter of opinion, but I'll forego arguing it. I think the point you concede is one that's important: those who signed the Declaration of Independence were remarkable men in the final analysis; they don't need a glurge fiction to make them any more noble. When such fictions are allowed to stand, they only denigrate the character of the real people who founded this nation.
John Hart was my g-g-g-g-greatgrandfather. I always want to live to what he did for our Nation. Thanks for the reminder!!!
The debunking would have been more persuasive if they actually pointed out what the "glurge" was.
It didn't say anything was factually untrue, only that those men were "targeted", which is a very weak rebuttle. It seems clear Snopes was determined to prove this article false, couldn't come up with anything, and nitpicked instead.
Oh come on.
Maybe sometimes, but not all the time. See http://www.snopes.com/glurge/birdwell.htm.
Hell, snopes is more balanced than CBS, the NY Times and/or the LA Times or any other major media outlet.
Oh come on what?
I read the article, I don't need you to link to me again. Now tell me, where did the article point out any falsehoods, other than claiming that those men suffered as revolutionaries in general and not as signers specifically. All I ask is proof that those men did not suffer in the way the article said they did, it would be simple to proof or disproof those claims, not one time did Snopes say that any of the tales involving any of them were false.
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