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kinkbound -> RE: Another thing from the Termodrive of yesteryear (12/13/2010 8:39:52 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or
It was founded by the pilgrims who decided to leave their own country,
which didn't encourage freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom
of the individual. So they migrated to an uncivilized land inhabited only
by savages. The rock where they landed was to become a national shrine --
and one of the most famous monuments in the world.
They drove off the natives, built rude shelters and houses of worship,
meanwhile setting aside a special day to give thanks.
These pilgrims -- all stern, austere men -- believed in their God, but
they also believed in work. They establsihed schools under religious
leaders that, in a way, became the first public, free education in the
world.
Through hard, determined labor they forged a colony while the rest of the
world chuckled.
But the pilgrims perserved. Intolerant of wrongdoing, they used gallows to
punish criminals. In their day-to-day activities they had no patience for
the weak and degenerate, who, if papmered become the cancer of a nation.
Shortly, these pilgrims engaged in trade and commerce as their community
grew. In the process, they became moderately prosperous.
Other colonists came and established other communities. And some of the
noblest words ever written began to surface. Facades of our modern
government buildings bear some of the legends written back then:
"liberty," "justice," "freedom of worship."
Then one of the older nations sent tax agents to exploit the colonists.
Alarmed, the colonists sent their greatest men as representatives to a
general assembly, choosing a gentleman farmer as their leader. he united
them and shook off the shackles of oppression as they won the fight
against the "old world" and became a strong nation. That farmer is know as
the "father of his country." Today, a famous U.S. city is named after him.
The new nation formed two houses of government. The more powerful was the
Senate, whose members could be elected only if they were men of probity
(integrity), honor, patriotism, and religion. The nation became a
republic, though it is a republic no longer.
Ultimately, a civil war divided the fledgling country. Its leader, who
tried to keep the republic united, was assassinated in the shadow of
government buildings.
Eventually, many of the nation's senators became ambitious for power. They
began to make deals with leaders of important factions.
And the republic now became entangled in alliances with foreign nations.
The alliances brought wars; the wars brought taxes. But the citizens
didn't seem to mind. War, after all, also increased trade and industry.
And, besides, the new taxes affected only the rich.
The farmers rebelled, sending petitions for subsidies, price supports.
Government, wanting support for its own schemes, bought up the surplus
crops and stored them in warehouses, where they rotted. Not to be outdone,
industrialists were next to ask for tax benefits.
Finally, the government became all powerful. It guaranteed to protect the
people from all forces of nature. And taxation grew and grew. Bureaucracy
thrived as free housing, free food, free entertainment came next. The
middle class declined under the added tax burdens. And crime became so
commonplace that it was dangerous to walk the streets at night.
A crippled man led the nation into more wars and foreign entanglements.
Patriots became known as radicals.
A general, who had been victimized by the government, pleaded with the
nation to remember her past, to return to honor, to decent government, to
the principles of the founding fathers. The people scoffed and he died
bitterly thinking his anguished thoughts.
An honest senator dared to speak out for a halt to foreign subversion and
to constant foreign aid and draining away from the people's money. The
public at large recoiled, branding him a reactionary.
The nation fell deeper into debt. It joined a league of the world with
enemies that exploited her. She increased taxes to send her wheat to her
enemies. And she devalued her currency, substituting base materials for
precious metals in her coins.
She became allied with powerful barbarians in still another stupid war.
She sent "experts" to school the barbarians in the latest scientific
discoveries.
The nation was now totally corrupt. Its middle class was finally dead.
Let's give it all back to the Indians. They lived in harmony with nature, wasted very little, and were far better caretakers. [;)]
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