Posted on 06/30/2005 9:32:25 PM PDT by 68skylark
Brian Williams of NBC news just compared the new Iranian President to the Founding Fathers
Why can't the Iranian just show a photo of himself around that time and clear it up or better yet get the guy that looks like him to show his face?
What a country in which we live! Terrorists are coddled and set up as founding fathers, while our brave men and women in the military are labeled Nazis and torturers.
There's no end to moral equivalency smearing by the left. this is just the latest and most repugnant, considering that this comes just before July 4.
If a U.S. soldier (like George Washington) is like a Nazi, and if the founding fathers are like Islamic terrorists, then does that mean Islamic terrorists are like Nazis? Or is that being insensitive to terrorists?
"Several of us". Sounds right at NBC. And he was right to wonder about the "germaneness".
Here's hoping Williams does for NBC what he did for MSNBC.
But our founding fathers aren't bad guys. And I defy Brian Williams to keep saying that they are.
The brits were the one burning innocents.
Well I care. If he is indeed one of the hostage takers then it opens a whole can of worms regarding what we should and can do about it.
Declaration of Independence
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
There were atrocities on both sides -- especially by militia troops in the south on both sides. But these things were not the fault of our founding fathers.
When I see quotes like these it kind of reminds me of the construction worker who lacerated himself with a power tool then tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head several times with a pneumatic nailer because of the pain.
That's good!
I keep my supper down only because I stopped watching this crap years ago.
What an outrage! Despicable. I am sure back during the American Revolution that the Crown had but the greatest respect for the Revolutionaries in America and would never of thought them to be a threat to the Crown.
Yeah, I can relate. When I hear about this kind of thing I want to put a pneumatic nailer to my head -- so I don't have to hear about the opinions of blow-dried, air-headed celebrities.
Dan Blather = Brian Williams!!!
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