Re: Addressing Francophobianz

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> > The ideals behind American Revolution went back to Europe; and Europe
> > adopted America’s best traits, while America adopted many of Europe’s
> > ugliest ones.
> >Europeans stole _our_ freedom!
>
> freedom begins between the ears.
> if it leaks out it deserves to be stolen

>Nice point `@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ....except the idea of "deserves"....seems a bit
>vindictive...

those who leak freedom from their ears
may need a little vindictiveness. the world
tends to divide and conquer itself into
victims and victimizers. if you don't follow
the patterns of victimizer you may get
taken to be just another victim.

>for what? Being indoctrinated as a child?

yes, that balkrishna principle, the beingness
without much of the identification milieu in
place. to be young and stupid, pure bliss.

>Anyhoo, the "American Revolution", good idea or not was only sup****ted
>by a third
>of the *colonial* populace, another third remained loyal to the crown,
>and a third were undecided.

all things thrice compounded ?

>This might have been one of the bad examples that lead to the Maoist
>dictum that political
>power stems from the barrel of a gun.

this too shall pass

>Far from being "democratic" the revolution was caused by a violent
>minority.
>The Loyalists refugees and many of the undecided fled to the north
>(what would
>later become "Canada") - The Native Peoples were never consulted and
>we see how "fairly" they
>were later treated by the United States. Canada followed suit with
>abuses, but not quite
>equaling their southern kin in atrocities.  The Residential Schools
>were are more recent atrocity
>but not quite equal to the death marches and such, nor the abuses of
>Southern Slavery, Northen
>Factories, etc...

>...land of the free...

pack yer bags and move