-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Mass Earth First! Alert: Shays Rides Again/March on Boston for O3! Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:45:04 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (by way of Native Forest Network) Subject: Mass Earth First! Alert: Shays Rides Again/March on Boston for O3! MORE DEMOCRACY/LESS DEMOCKERY! Many of the same issues of democracy that we are struggling with today in Massachusetts and the nation were present over 200 years ago when farmers and townspeople in Central and Western Mass. took part in an insurrection called Shays' Rebellion (after Capt. Daniel Shays of Pelham, one of the rebellion's leaders). The wealthy merchants (corporados) of Boston controlled the political process in the state and taxes were inordinately heavy on those with lesser means. When the people tried to petition the General Court (state government) through town meetings and county conventions with their grievances they were stubbornly ignored. Democracy was truly in crisis. The Boston elite, having gained independence from the King of England the decade before, attempted to install their own form of thinly veiled aristocracy, for the most part, on the backs of the common people. Many of the Shaysites were veterans of the Continental Army that won independence, but their service was only rewarded with near worthless certificates. In the postwar economic depression they saw their family, friends and neighbors homesteads suffer foreclosures. The prisons began to fill with debtors and the homeless. When all legal recourse failed and their avenues to the democratic process blocked, the Shaysites resorted to civil disobedience. Little democracy then, little democracy now. So, what has changed? There are no more debtors prisons, but our prisons are filling daily with the dispossessed and disempowered. We're not in an economic depression (yet), but the disparity between the rich and the poor has never been greater. The corporate elite and their cronies have most of the power, the people have......television and junk from WalMart? Join us October 3 as Shays' Rebellion returns to life and the people of Central and Western Massachusetts march on Boston for the first Presidential Debate to demand MORE DEMOCRACY, LESS DEMOCKERY! (18th Century attire required, call or e-mail for details) Call: (413) 253-0851 for further information, or e-mail the neo-shaysites at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more detail on Shays' Rebellion see "Shays Rebellion - The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection" UMass Press, or go to: http://www.shaysnet.com/dshays.html <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
