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2004-01-28 Home Front

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-01-28 10:29|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good response by Rick Parks, not that it will make a bit of difference to Mr. Heinrich.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2004-1-28 10:47:00 AM|| 2004-1-28 10:47:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Well said. Interestingly enough, according to many history books - only about 35% of Americans supported the revolutionary war at the time. Roughly 40% liked the status quo & wanted nothing to do w/it. About 25% either tacitly or actively backed the crown. Just some minutia to mull over that I'm not sure many are aware of. Despite the less than majority that supported the war, looks like things turned out okay ;)

Posted by Jarhead 2004-1-28 11:00:59 AM|| 2004-1-28 11:00:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Well done, Sarge, and glad to see you're still "ranting" in good form.

Posted by Mike 2004-1-28 11:34:04 AM|| 2004-1-28 11:34:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 TH White, a pacifist with actual moral convictions, highlighted the struggle against oppressors in The Once and Future King. Fittingly his book ends with a slaughter. I think that the Tutsi were quite happy that world pacifism ruled the day a decade ago. The 15% should really high-five each other over that one.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-28 11:48:55 AM|| 2004-1-28 11:48:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I read an account of a soldier fighting in the latter part of the revolution. He wrote that most who were now fighting on the kings side were revolutionaries at the beginning of the war and that most of those now fighting for the colonies had been loyalist to begin with. It was as if both sides had exchanged members.

Posted by Lucky 2004-1-28 12:25:34 PM|| 2004-1-28 12:25:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Regardless of majority or minority support for a particular action, when the goal is increased freedoms, opportunities, and the commonners' control over their own person and property, history judges the world as improved over what came before the action...

Posted by Hyper 2004-1-28 3:12:50 PM|| 2004-1-28 3:12:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It was as if both sides had exchanged members

Hmmmm... wouldn't know. My family was too busy making liquor (for both sides).

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-28 3:58:05 PM|| 2004-1-28 3:58:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I've run into this attitude in public. Generaly the Left in this country and around the world seems to have the attiude that if you got killed by Saddam or are persecuted by Mugambe(sp) its your own damn fault for being the nail sticking up. The freedoms we enjoy here in the west are not for the rest of the world. It is the fate of others to live in oppression, ignorance and fear. At least thats the way it seems to me.

Posted by Cheddarhead 2004-1-28 5:07:07 PM|| 2004-1-28 5:07:07 PM|| Front Page Top

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