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VOICES FROM HISTORY

“And honor to Crispus Attucks, who was leader and voice that day:
The first to defy, and the first to die, with Maverick, Carr and Gray.
Call it riot or revolution, or mob crowd as you may,
Such deaths have been seeds of nations, such lives shall be honored for ay.”
Poet, John Boyle O’Reilly

“Fire! Fire and be damned!” The six foot two inch tall escaped slave pushed to the front of the crowd that day. He was prepared to day for freedom. Freedom for others not for himself. He understood, that once freedom took hold it would spread to all.

(Slavery has been fruitful in giving itself names. It has been called “the peculiar institution,”…It has been called by a great many names, and it will call itself by yet another name; and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form this old monster will assume, in what new skin this old snake will come froth next.)
Frederick Douglass

Slavery did in fact take on new names. It became know as “sharecropping,” “welfare,” “projects,” “public schools,” and “good intentions.” Frederick Douglass was right, we must keep watch for the new names of slavery, we must also keep watch for the new opportunities of freedom. Mason Weaver: The New Underground Railroad. www.masonweaver.com

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will…Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get.” Frederick Douglass

Boston Commonwealth, July 10, 1863:

HARRIET TUBMAN
Col. Montgomery and his gallant band of 300 black soldiers, under the guidance of a black woman, dashed into the enemy’s country, struck a bold and effective blow, destroying millions of dollars worth of commissary stores, cotton and lardly dwellings, and striking terror into the hearts of rebel-dom, brought off near 800 slaves and thousands of dollars worth of property, without losing a man or receiving a scratch. It was a glorious consummation.

After they were all fairly well disposed of in the Beaufort charge, they  were addressed in  strains of thrilling eloquence by their gallant deliverer, to which they responded in a song….”There is a white robe for thee,” a song so appropriate and so heartfelt and cordial as to bring unbidden tears.

The Colonel was followed by a speech for the black woman who led the raid, and under whose inspiration it was organized and conducted. For sound sense and real native eloquence, her address would do honor to any man, and it created a sensation…

Since the rebellion she was devoted herself to her great work of delivering the bondsman, with an energy and sagacity that cannot be exceeded.

Tubman returned dozens of times into the enemies territory. She did no in spite of a $40,000 Dead or Alive bounty on her head. She led countless slaves to freedom and never lost a soul. The Underground Railroad’s best conductor!

It amazes me to see the length bias news reports are willing to go through in explaining to us that night is day and day is night. If you have been paying attention you will believe that Isreal “lost” this conflick with Hezbolla terrorist in Lebanon. They do not count the casualities on both sides, the destruction of each country nor the land taken and occupied by the conflicting warriors. Not the press seems to count victory based upon Isreals reluctancy to totally slaughter civilians the Hezbollah terrorist were shooting behind.

It seems the most effective weopon Hezbollah has is its ability to place civilians between them and the Isrealie army. So with South Biruit in ruins, Isrealy troops 20 miles inside Lebanon and complete domination of the ground, air and sea, Isreal lost because Hezbolla continues to launch Fireworks from the back of pick up trucks.

I found this strangly familiar. It sounds like the same voice saying we “Lost” the Vietnam war. After taking every military objective, inflicting 300,000 deaths on the enemy and controlling every major city we were not run out of Vietnam, we were ordered out. Ordered out by our government that did not have the will to inflict casualities on the civilian population. We were facing an enemy that understood the American press would publish such actions so they stood behind their population. If we had been ordered to take North Vietnam, Cambodia or Laos we would have done so. Instead, we were ordered to abandon our positions and leave country. Not because of the action of our enemies but the action of our government.

No one could doubt the ability of Israel to take South Lebanon if they wished to. It was more of a political postering that a military action from Hezbollah. Already there are violations of the cease fire. How can we really have a peace with one side still pledging the total destruction of the other? But if you continue to get your news from the bias press and not think for yourself, you will be misled. You will think everyone hates Bush, Christians and Republicans, you will think the war against terror is a lost and you will think surrender is victory.

In Iraq the victory is almost complete but you would not believe it from reports. You would have to go to the Department of Defense website to see the following facts:
Instead of prasing the efforts of the Iraqi people we are feeding the treasures of our enemies with the high fuel prices. Iran is making more money off the West’s need for Oil than we are spending to defend the free people of Iraq. Iran is taking that money and supporting people trying to kill us. So we worry about profits of the oil companies and try to tax them more instead of rescuing the world by developing our own oil supply.

It is time we understand the war we are in and fight it like it is World War !!!. Would we have traded with Japan after Pearl Harbor? Then why send billions of dollars to the Middle East?

Black Americans thank the Republican Party

History of the Republican Party

From the beginning… AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Abolishing slavery. Free speech. Women’s suffrage. In today’s stereotypes, none of these sounds like a typical Republican issue, yet they are stances the Republican Party, in opposition to the Democratic Party, adopted early on. Reducing the government. Streamlining the bureaucracy. Returning power to the states. These issues don’t sound like they would be the promises of the party of Lincoln, the party that fought to preserve the national union, but they are, and logically so.
With a core belief in the idea of the privacy of individuals, the Republican Party, since its inception, has been at the forefront of the fight for individuals’ rights in opposition to a large, bloated government. The Republican Party has always thrived on challenges and difficult positions. Its present role as leader of the revolution in which the principles of government are being re-evaluated is a role it has traditionally embraced.
At the time of its founding, the Republican Party was organized as an answer to the divided politics, political turmoil, arguments and internal division, particularly over slavery, that plagued the many existing political parties in the United States in 1854.