(Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
I see you are a disciple of one of the most bloodthirsty anti-semitic figures in history...If I had to guess I'd say you're a Rudy Tooty supporter.
1483 Tomas de Torquemada was appointed head of the Spanish Inquisition. In his twelve years in office, 13,000 Jewish converts to Christianity accused of practicing their original faith in secret were burned at the stake on his orders.
BlackElk, you’re a bloodthirsty antisemite, what can I say.
I have no precise idea how many were executed by the Inquisition in the days when the victory of Ferdinand and Isabella was being completed by the policy of Christendom in Spain. Neither, truth be told, are you likely to have an accurate clue. Anyone executed was convicted and not merely accused. 1492 Spain did not have a First Amendment freedom of religion any more than do paleoPaulie's Islamofascist passion pals and there were far more Islamotyrants who were expelled from Spain than Jews. You will also want to look up Franco's role in saving hundreds of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by running them through Spain to Spanish Morocco and freedom. The TdTGC is an actual subgroup pf Catholic Freepers for purposes of waging wars here against SSPX schismatics and excommunicati and uphold Catholic doctrine against them when they pose as Catholic. Some, but not all, of us also uphold American patriotism in our foreign wars and bash paleoPaulie. Personally, I am relentless in my support of Israel and opposition to our nation's and their nation's Islamofascist enemies. Sorry about you. Some of us, regrettably, (certainly not me or my family) may even be planning to vote for the paleowimpburger in next year's primaries and caucuses. The general common sense of Republicans and the enthusiasm of real Republicans for killing America's enemies in, you should pardon the expression, WARS, is quite likely to guarantee that paleoPaulie will be erased from the GOP POTUS contest in a couple of months, as you well know. If he runs third party (Al Qaeda?, Libertoonian?, Faux "Constitutionalist", Feckless Wimp? or whatever), he will hurt her Hillaryness more than he will hurt the GOP.
Under American standards or general moral standards, the expulsion from Spain of Jews who retained their Judaism was an outrage. So was the eagerness with which the expulsions enriched Spaniards who got to buy the property of those expelled for less than value. That some Jews chose instead to be baptized while secretly continuing in Judaism is understandable under the circumstances but they well understood the risk they were facing. These were known as Moranos, BTW. Those were difficult times but the unification of Spain as a Catholic country was acceptable in the context of those times. Of course, we were primarily expelling Muslims after nine hundred years of their using Spain as a foothold in Europe so I am not surprised at Paulistinian objections to the rule of Ferdinand and Isabella.
You don't like the Catholic concept of Christendom. I promise to be concerned about that right after I work out a near infinity of more important agendas.
I can safely say that I will NEVER vote for a despicable gutless peacecreep like paleoPaulie. I find it hard to imagine voting for Julieannie but I would at least give a brief ear to him. PaleoPaulie will NEVER get that consideration since he is nopthing more than a delusional and dishonest antiAmerican antiwar antimilitary moonbat.
Looking forward to early 2008 when we destroy your candidate for POTUS and the later Congressional primary when we take his antiAmerican backside out of Congress.
BTW, so far from being a Julieannie supporter, I was a state chairman for Ronaldus Maximus in 1976 when he challenged Ford. No one ever questioned RR's patriotism. No one ever suspected Run Paul's patriotism (at least for the US).
If you recognize yourself as frustrated now, just wait until the votes start coming in.