ABB’s Patriot Rant (revised a wee bit)…Most Americans study the Revolutionary War at some point in our lives. Along with the details of specific battles and historic moments, that history provides a very clear understanding of what an American patriot was and is.
This nation was founded by radicals. The rest of the folks were loyal to the monarchy. Speaking out against the monarchy was illegal…they called it sedition and it was punishable under law. Every single published quote…every single speech…every public gathering or meeting…every act of melting household items to make bullets or hoarding food to feed soldiers…all of that shit was radical as a motherfucker.
Her point is extremely timely since everyday I feel this overwhelming dread of creeping complacency in my activist life. It’s always good to be brought up by the short hairs from time to time and reminded not to believe the revisionist BS history of the “founders”. The founders while flawed had some serious kick ass moments.
Which begs the question, when was your last kickass activist moment? The Grannies, you don’t need to weigh in, you know who you are!
So what say the rest of you?
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(BEZERKO on
Mar 27, 2008 4:46 PM)
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted Don Siegleman an appeal bond.
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2008/03/siegelman_to_be_released_from.html
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