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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1547041" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>ur lucky i talk to u at all with your poor track record of adding anything meaningful.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>The Founding Fathers did lead the war for independence from Britain. But they did not do it for the equal right of all to life, liberty, and equality. Their intention was to set up a new government that would protect the property of slave owners, land speculators, merchants, and bondholders.</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>-howard zinn who wrote a peoples history of usa</strong></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>The Founding Fathers, largely wealthy slaveholders, feared direct democracy. They rigged our political process to thwart popular rule and protect the property rights of the native aristocracy. The masses were to be kept at bay. The Electoral College, the original power of the states to appoint senators, the disenfranchisement of women, Native Americans, African-Americans and men without property locked most people out of the democratic process at the beginning of the republic. We had to fight for our voice. Hundreds of workers were killed and thousands were wounded in our labor wars. The violence dwarfed the labor battles in any other industrialized nation. The democratic openings we achieved were fought for and paid for with the blood of abolitionists, African-Americans, suffragists, workers and those in the anti-war and civil rights movements. Our radical movements, repressed and ruthlessly dismantled in the name of anti-communism, were the real engines of equality and social justice.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>-chris hedges</strong></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1547041, member: 56035"] ur lucky i talk to u at all with your poor track record of adding anything meaningful. [SIZE=3][B]The Founding Fathers did lead the war for independence from Britain. But they did not do it for the equal right of all to life, liberty, and equality. Their intention was to set up a new government that would protect the property of slave owners, land speculators, merchants, and bondholders.[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B]-howard zinn who wrote a peoples history of usa[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B]The Founding Fathers, largely wealthy slaveholders, feared direct democracy. They rigged our political process to thwart popular rule and protect the property rights of the native aristocracy. The masses were to be kept at bay. The Electoral College, the original power of the states to appoint senators, the disenfranchisement of women, Native Americans, African-Americans and men without property locked most people out of the democratic process at the beginning of the republic. We had to fight for our voice. Hundreds of workers were killed and thousands were wounded in our labor wars. The violence dwarfed the labor battles in any other industrialized nation. The democratic openings we achieved were fought for and paid for with the blood of abolitionists, African-Americans, suffragists, workers and those in the anti-war and civil rights movements. Our radical movements, repressed and ruthlessly dismantled in the name of anti-communism, were the real engines of equality and social justice.[/B] [B][/B] [B]-chris hedges[/B][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][B][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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