Well I would meet you at the Olive Green Jack you old Hienlein fan you!
Read again, carefully, what I wrote first though. I happen to believe those
words too. They are a reflection of perhaps the only principal worth
holding to: Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself. And there are
no conditions about which others. (The other principal is if the ad says
rust in only the usual places its still rust!)
I don't mind offending the brits (well not too much, and just occasionally),
I'm mostly irish with just enough german to be stubborn. But we don't need
to perpetuate the old nyaa nyaa nyaa my cave is bigger then your cave
syndrome. And we don't need to be simpering over what happened to those who
signed that declaration. They knew the risk, they paid the price. Hell
they were traitors. They stood up for what they believed in; and few enough
did then and too few do now.
Everybody forgets of course that they believed as they did because they were
raised in a society that had at its roots the Magna Carta, another document
of some import to the world.
Regards Lou
(avocational socio-cultural historian - i.e unpaid)
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cougarjack@aol.com>
To: <lou@frontier.net>
Cc: <mil-veh@uller.skylee.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Meet me on the green??
> In a message dated Wed, 4 Jul 2001 7:01:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
"lou" <lou@frontier.net> writes:
>
> blah blah clipped cute story about little retarded english girl
> >
> > "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men >are created
equal,
> clip rest of Declaration of Independence....
> >are fine inspiring words but few, including the writer, >believed them
then.
> >And too few, in this country today, seem to live as >though they believe
them now.
>
> Jack responds:
> I tend to believe them. Wanna meet me on the green? Bring your big musket,
and a few friends to help carry bodies. Well, even if we can't do this
today, (no permit for public gathering, disturbing the peace, open display
of weapons, discharging firearms within city limits, terror of the public,
terroristic threats, tresspassing, impersonating a soldier, possession of
more than five pounds of black powder, possession of assault rifles with
bayonet lugs, contempt of court, ad nauseam....) they sure as hell did it
back then, so someone must have taken those words to heart. Are we so far
gone from our founding documents that we think they are ridiculous now? I
hope another revolution is not necessary, because it's illegal these days!
> Jefferson, addressing the body of prospective signors of above document,
responding to charges that the inflammatory language he penned in would just
offend the British: "Well, this is a revolution, we have to offend someone!"
> Jack on Jeff
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