Posted on 10/31/2003 12:31:44 PM PST by July 4th
It was first composed as the minority report in the Klu Klux Klan hearings of 1871. Woodrow Wilson then codified the racial essense of it in his 'History of the American People.' Since then, it has been continually pumped as an organizer for the Democratic Party, but following desegregation in the South the Dems dropped it and it wandered over into the Republican camp. Ah, the dangers of a history that is a lie agreed upon.
Pray tell what part is false?
The romantic imagery associated with the sum of all evils known as slavery. It first started as the justification for the organization of the slave patrols and the Konfederat vets into the Reconstruction KKK. It was embedded into our education system in the Wilson era. In no small part credit for this goes to the media, and Wilson was our first president to really understand and abuse the power of the mass media, most notably in 'Birth of a Nation,' which was adapted directly from his 'History of the American People.'
Tell me the New England states didn't think they had the RIGHT to secede in the early 1800s?
Some folks did, but they didn't. Tell me J.Q. Adams wasn't censored in the House by the southern representative for just mentioning that possibility.
Tell me the founders didn't say that when a government became oppressive it was the right of the people to overthrow it?
Yes, they did, but it was the south that boycotted the Convention of the States in 1861, not the North. The right to secede was recognized by the North. The right to steal from and engage in open warfare with the Northern states was not. In any case, as Alexander Stephens noted directly after the war, it was not a war against slavery, it was a war to protect African subordination.
You don't think that the Civil War was one of the milestones on the path to the overwhelmingly large Federal government we have today?
It was the end of the first real attempt to install such a thing. That attempt came in the form of the fugitive slave act which attempted to install slavery into free states. What remained afterwards was the heritage of the tyranny of the Davis government, which is today the very epitomy the thing you falsely credit to Lincoln. It is simply absurd to see someone like you rant about the 14,000 violations of Habeus Corpus credited to Lincoln, when Davis did it for 9 millions, 3.5 million of whom never even had the right to be considered a human being.
That wasn't really heroic. Cool, but not heroic.
Heroic would've been if he had tackled the guy while he was doing the shooting, which from the look of the tape he easily could've done. The shooter was so involved in his, uh, work that a couple guys could've taken him down easy.
Snidely
I think SS was making a broader point about our being a nation of laws, and that attacking those who are charged with keeping this a nation of laws is not merely a personal attack, but in fact an attack on the fabric of our government and society. Last I checked, America still wasn't a nation of churches. Filled with religious people, yes, but that's a different thing altogether.
Snidely
Leni
Just the facts here:
1. The coffee in question was near-boiling, despite numberous (like 700) previous reports and warnings to McD's that they were serving their coffee Too Damned Hot. Coffee outta your coffee maker, which feels boiling, is really only about 140F, which isn't hot enough to cause serious, significant injury. The coffee in question was more like 190F. McD's reps testified in open court that the company required that the coffee be kept that hot, even though they knew damned well that doing so could cause severe injury.
2. The plaintiff sustained 3rd-degree burns, not internal injuries, to her crotchular area and legs, which required debridement and skin grafts.
3. The plaintiff in the case actually asked McD's to settle before trial for like $20K, but they refused.
4. The jury found the plaintiff 20% at fault, and awarded her $160K in actual damages, plus $2.7M in punitive damages, roughly equivalent to 2 days' coffee sales for McDonald's. The punitive award was later reduced to $480,000. An out-of-court settlement was eventually reached, which remains secret.
Snidely
I ain't smiling, babe. People use the word "hero" far too loosely these days.
Snidely
LOL.
Actually, it doesn't. It says "Department of Justice."
The camerman thought it was more important to get the film than to be a human being (his words) and tackle the shooter.
"The Justice Channel."
So nice that everyone just stood there and watched! sarcasm
Just a lawyer?
Lawyers are the very foundation of our civilization! ;-)
He's also a reserve deputy sheriff.
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