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Pirates pursued democracy, helped American colonies survive
Physorg.com ^
| June 28, 2006
| Cathy Keen
Posted on 06/28/2006 10:42:22 PM PDT by JmyBryan
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Aargh!
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posted on
06/28/2006 10:42:24 PM PDT
by
JmyBryan
To: JmyBryan
Thanks, Mateys! Arrrrr....
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posted on
06/28/2006 10:44:57 PM PDT
by
inkling
To: JmyBryan
captain jack sparrow ping alert!
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posted on
06/28/2006 10:47:46 PM PDT
by
Irishguy
(How do ya LIKE THOSE APPLES!!!!)
To: JmyBryan
Yeah, right. The founding fathers were no better than pirates. More from the moral equivalence crowd. My disgust with modern academia grows daily.
To: JmyBryan
Arrr! I'm thinkin' that Captain Acosta be stretchin' the point just a bit, matey. Time to keelhaul the buggerblaster for castin' aspersions on old Ben and the boys. They was all sorts of social organizations with charters and elected heads in them days, including a number of chorches. And they was all sorts of poirates, too, from privateers to rogue military ships to escaped prisoners commandeering vessels. Not all was nice like that Laffite feller.
I wuz allas suspicious of that Sammy Adams feller, though. Allas in and out at all hours of the night and he niver seemed to lack for rum. If'n I didn't know bitter I'd say he was a smuggler, arr, begar and arrr...
To: LibWhacker
You're lucky. Mine can't grow any further. The outhouse is full to brimming.
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posted on
06/28/2006 11:05:43 PM PDT
by
SAJ
(r)
To: JmyBryan
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posted on
06/28/2006 11:05:57 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: inkling
You know why pirate jokes are so funny, don't you????
They just arrrrrre.
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posted on
06/28/2006 11:07:32 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(MSM are holding us hostage. Vote Dems into power, or they will let the terrorists win.)
To: Defiant
Will ye be seein' the new Jack Sparrow movie, then? I hear it's ARRRRRRR rated...
To: Billthedrill
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posted on
06/28/2006 11:11:42 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(MSM are holding us hostage. Vote Dems into power, or they will let the terrorists win.)
To: LS
To: Billthedrill
"And they was all sorts of poirates, too, from privateers to rogue military ships to escaped prisoners commandeering vessels."
One o' me ancestors, feller name o' Oliver, were a privateer in Revolutionary days.
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posted on
06/28/2006 11:16:59 PM PDT
by
decal
(Different Tagline Tomorrow!)
To: JmyBryan
The pirates and the Founding Fathers do have a lot in common. Whether it is common knowledge or not, many of the Founders were Freemasons, and so were the pirates. The common symbol of pirates, the skull and crossbones flag was, and still is a Masonic symbol.
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posted on
06/28/2006 11:17:10 PM PDT
by
b3arsfan
To: JmyBryan
I agree with the story. Did Pirates have the moral equivalence of our founding fathers? No, absolutely not, and thats not what the story is saying, but they were rebels and outcast, and had a rugged individualistic personality, and most important a disdain of aristocracy. The same can be said for many of our early patriots, Militiamen, pioneers and frontiersmen. There is plenty of historic documentation that Pirates and their descendants played a role in the American Revolution. I happen to be a related to the lieutenant on the frigate Josiah which was captained by Pirate Bartholomew Sharpe. No less than 10 men in this family line are on the roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. Not bad for the blood kin of a Pirate.
To: JmyBryan
I'm glad to know my ancestor John Paul [Jones] was doing the right thing. After all, he did add the "Jones" to avoid taxes. A noble goal.
To: NavyCanDo
No, absolutely not, and thats not what the story is saying, but they were rebels and outcast, and had a rugged individualistic personality, and most important a disdain of aristocracy. The same can be said for many of our early patriots, Militiamen, pioneers and frontiersmen. And it could be said that their leaders, our Founding Fathers, were at the very least upper class, though not born into it.
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posted on
06/29/2006 12:25:43 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: JmyBryan
...another ignorant, Euro-identity academic, in her wishful thinking, confusing privateers with pirates. Revisionism is disgusting.
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posted on
06/29/2006 12:35:07 AM PDT
by
familyop
("Either you're with us, or your with the terrorists." --President Bush)
To: LibWhacker
"Yeah, right. The founding fathers were no better than pirates. More from the moral equivalence crowd. My disgust with modern academia grows daily."
I think you may have missed the point...
But, then again, it might be a Freudian slip? Have something you want to share with us?
To: b3arsfan
The pirates and the Founding Fathers do have a lot in common. Whether it is common knowledge or not, many of the Founders were Freemasons, and so were the pirates. The common symbol of pirates, the skull and crossbones flag was, and still is a Masonic symbol.
That's a steaming pile.
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posted on
06/29/2006 2:06:32 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(I'm from a little place called Smithereens. It ain't pretty out here.)
To: JmyBryan
Good, so now we have a "cultural reason" to make librat traitors walk the plank? Shooting isn't good enough for these treasonous scabs.
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posted on
06/29/2006 2:08:40 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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