Nathan Hale Died for a Dumb Nation

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 20 January 2007 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Congressman Billybob]

Little of this will be news to Freepers. However, almost all of it would be news to the readers of the NY Times.

John / Billybob

[Kirkwood]

"Compare that with the execution of Major John Andre by the Americans in 1980."

1980?

[AggieMom x 3]

Oops...we aren't all so dumb. I don't think Maj. Andre was executed in 1980....might want to change that! :)

[HangnJudge]

1780

http://www.ushistory.org/march/bio/andre.htm

Andre was imprisoned at Tappan, New York, and on September 29, 1780, he was found guilty of being behind American lines "under a feigned name and in a disguised habit." Andre was hanged as a spy at noon on October 2, 1780.

[Enterprise]

"Compare that with the execution of Major John Andre by the Americans in 1980."

But if it happened in 1980 didn't Jimmy Carter consider pardoning him first?

[Nathan Zachary]

" Apparently both history education and books are in short supply in the mainstream media."

"Journalists" don't have much more than a high school education on the subject of History, even then it's a combined class called "Social Studies",and it's only worth one credit.

[Bahbah]

Even if they knew these things, and probably some of them do, they would ignore them as it does not advance their desired action line.

[Nathan Zachary]

Absolutely. In fact some "Journalists" have even said as much.
Even if they did take a history class, facts should never be allowed to get in the way of their mission to promote the leftist agenda.

[RaceBannon]

Only if he was spying against us, if he was spying for us, he would have let him stay in jail for a year or so.....

[The KG9 Kid]

Don't you remember how appalled we were when Jimmy Carter petitioned President Reagan to spare Major John Andre's life?

[Billthedrill]

Whoa - two hunnert years on Death Row? Andre must have had a heckuva lawyer.

[wastoute]

I have been trying to tell folks that were bitching about our treament of captured terrorists for years now that these jerks were lucky we didn't do with them what we had the right to do, a bullet in the back of the head at the side of the road where they were captured. This article makes it clear that IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENEVA CONVENTIONS people found under arms, on a battlefield, not in uniform or part of an organized military with a clear chain of command and authorized by a responsible government can be summarily executed where captured.

[ImpBill]

"Is becoming"?

Rather continues to become even dumber, might be the proper parlance, don't you think?

My tag line, from that antiwar song of the sixties becomes even more and more prophetic, IMO.

America ... Where are you now?">

And most importantly, Where are you going?

The slide continues, headlong into oblivion!

[JohnBovenmyer]

Maybe it will be easier for liberals to understand if we honor their (the liberals) 'religious values.' Either hang them with hemp or shoot them with non-lead bullets. In a just world there should be some way to kill them using just copies of the NY Times, but short of forcing them to read it I can't think of one. Even I agree that should be prohibited by the 8th amendment.

[Congressman Billybob]

Of course it was 1780, not 1980.

John / Billybob

[DugwayDuke]

The only reason this won't be news to most freepers is because of the yeoman work you've done here dissemination this information.

[Congressman Billybob]

Thanks to all for the correction. I've already notified everyone on my mailing list, especially my four editors, to correct my typo. Thanks to all.

John

[Nailbiter]

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[Mr. K]

'appling' ???


whats 'appling'


(p.s. you do great work)

[NCjim]

Who else has heard of an * referred to as a "Nathan Hale"?