Posted on 10/01/2005 12:07:06 PM PDT by XR7
Slavery has been a part of man’s history since the beginning of recorded time. The pharaohs of Egypt used hundreds of thousands of African slaves to build the pyramids. The Romans used slaves from all over their empire to build their magnificent structures. The ancient Greeks used slaves to build the Parthenon and other palaces and temples. The Great Wall of China was built by Chinese slaves.
When the Americas were discovered, slavery migrated with the people to the new world and was accepted like all the rest of the “old” world traditions. This acceptance lasted even through the drafting of the Declaration of Independence where we find, “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.”
It took Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party, and a Civil War with hundreds of thousands of Americans dying to formally break the shackles of slavery in the United States. However, the slavery advocating Democrat Party has not surrendered the concept of slavery. When Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant the war was not over for the Democrats.
Today, the leaders of the Democrat Party realize that the majority of individuals put their physical well being ahead of anything else. These socialist have looked back into history to see how to continue slavery in America, and in today’s America all the slaves are not all black.
Karl Marx showed Vladimir Lenin and Adolph Hitler, that the people will sell their freedom to anyone that promised to take care of them. In the United States Karl Marx’s ideas took hold in the 1930’s with FDR and the new “socialist” Democrats. The Democrat Party has been constantly telling the masses they are not able to achieve personal security on their own without the government to help them.
So now we have returned once again to slavery in the United States. The new Democrat “socialist” power figures have learned their lessons well. It is not a slavery using physical whips and chains, but rather slavery using the individual's own mind to control him.
The national disgrace of the City of New Orleans only spot lights the problem. The Federal government spent uncounted millions of dollars providing for food, clothing and shelter for thousands of individuals that were very willing to let the government take of them. When a natural disaster struck these individuals had no idea where to go, or what to do. The ability to be independent and think for one self has been bred out of modern day slaves.
Louisiana and New Orleans government was made up of politicians that were elected on their campaign promises of social equality. The leadership capabilities of the elected individuals were never even considered. The net effect was that the population was left to take care of themselves without any resources.
Individuals that still retained the ability to think for themselves said, “to hell with local government leaders” and got out by whatever means possible. One enterprising young man commandeered an unused school bus and drove his neighbors to safety without local government permission or help.
Now leaders of the Democrat “Socialist” Party are trying to blame President Bush and his administration for their incompetents. All of the party slave holders are scrambling to find ways to cast the blame on someone else for their bungling.
Even when the facts are exposed to the light of day, modern day slaves still have a great deal of problems accepting that they must take responsibly for their own well being. If you are not on top of the Democrat “Socialist” pyramid you will always be a slave.
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No, we are not "still" fighting anything. We simply deplore everything about "Yankees" [read blue state people]. And a Southern [read red state] lady does not raise her voice, much less "yell" -- we leave that to you Yankees [read blue state people]. It is a cultural thing, not a South/North thing.
I am from the south and proud of it.I don't think slavery was right.All men were created equal.Some of my own ancestor had slaves,Some didn't.They fought each other over it.Sad.
How is this relevant to anything I have posted?
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Sorry,I guess I posted to the wrong person.I was just giving my veiw.Peace
I would re-phrase this. I would state: I know that slavery is wrong.
We cannot re-live the past; nor can we re-write history. Hopefully, in the early 21st century, we are more enlightened than they were in the past. We should learn from the mistakes of the past and make every effort not to repeat them.
In the early 22nd century they will probably be more enlightened than we are today. I will not condemn the past and hope that the future will not condemn us. Times change and customs change. We can all only try to live a moral life during the time in which we live.
And, I am still proud to be a Southerner and will not be a Yankee -- in this world or the next.
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