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ferryman777 -> RE: where is the outrage? [rant enclosed] (3/14/2007 8:44:27 AM)
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Hello, pardon my 1/2 cent worth. You are so very correct. Awhile ago, I had a client, the project was Washington and The Revolution. The Client wanted to tell the real story, not the official school textbook myth. So.....research was gathered, from rather somewhat obscure publications (the clent had access to orginal documents).
What you say is correct, also let me add..... B.Arnold was a businessman, and Was pressed into service by Gen.Washington, basically Arnold's payments were either nil, or very late, and in part at very best, in fact Arnold had to fund the escapades with his own money, supply the wagons, supplies etc., and with only a verbal promise of payment. Arnold was being bankrupted, the Brits came with an offer, and paid with ready money. Arnold did what any businessman would have done, decided it was folly to be a traitor to his country......England.
Consider this....The colonies paid taxes to the Brits, it took a year or so, for the ship to arrive in England. A year or so goes by, no payments, okay, send an embassary to the Americas, see what is happening, another year, embassary returns, another year, message delivered, the Colonys have revolted, declared independance. Another year or so to raise an army and set matters right. A year or so transportation of the army. Over simplfied, I know, but a time frame none the less.
There was no Email back then.
Our so-called Revolutionary War, was in fact a Civil War. There were no Americans then, everyone was a British Subject.
We were told the war was, in part, over the taxation by England, without representation, and to be free of taxes. Not true, Washington and cronies decided why pay the King these taxes, when the collected taxes could be theirs. Taxation did not stop, only transferred to Washington et al.
It was Washington and the founding fathers who were the traitors (to their country - England). Now research what became of the signers of the declaration of Independance. Civilians were indeed targeted, hunted, hung, families made desitute, etc.
Al Pacino made a film years ago - Revolution. Very interesting, the producers must have gleemed their info from some of the same sources my client did.
The project.......the original intent was abandoned, and, another text book myth was the end result. The truth could not be sold.
I find it amazing all the rage against Iraq, Iran, etc; as a people, Americans think, for the most part, that they are the only pure humans, and.... can,... have the god given right to impose their beliefs on the world at large, irregardless of the cultures, traditions, belief systems of other peoples which have been in place for centuries. It's a rather arrogant posture, don't you think? To have an enemy......the enemy MUST be different; in appearance, belief and idealologies.
but...what do I know.
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