Just a short point. My family was kicked out of the US for being loyal to the legitimate government at the time. The extremists forced loyalists into concentration camps and practiced what we would call ethnic cleansing for any community that did not support the revolution. Even the so called noble George Washington suggested that it not be a crime if a loyalist was killed in his house or that his land was seized etc. He went so far to advocate tarring and feathering any loyalist left.
Not too far from what various extremists want to do these days to the opposition. On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Sisk, Kris <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Like, there wasn't this "*everyone* want's to be free of England" >>mentality, right? Wasn't it sorta a minority that even pushed the >>revolution through, so to speak? > > Yeah, smugglers mostly. A few rich white guys who didn't want to pay > taxes (some things never change). Probably one or two guys who just had > massive problems with authority. > >>The Catholic church was already crazy powerful, all over the world. >>Had a real nice racket going for a bit, IMHO. > > The Catholic church remained crazy powerful up until Napoleon took the > Pope prisoner. > >>And heck, churches in general were more powerful back then. I'm >>pretty sure for a while you *had* to pay a certain amount of money to >>your local church, and *had* to go to church on Sunday. > > I'm not sure if that was true in the 1700s, but it was true in the > middle ages. > >>Quite a bit of the hate that is preached in this world comes from >>Religion. I hate hate. ;) > > Quite a bit of hate is preached towards Religion to, most of it > undeserved. For instance I've been called all kinds of nasty names > because of Phelps and his ilk despite the fact that I have basically > nothing in common with the man ideologically speaking. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320982 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
