Re: Canada enacts Islamic(Sharia) Law!

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:24:51 -0600, Don Ocean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Scott...Go back to your books...Thanksgiving wasn't official for 
>many years later. And the Puritans worked very hard, but knew
>little of survival. Maybe you should look at Bradfords history and
>perhaps you should read the official logs and diary's of the day.
>They were a crude lot. But it might surprise you the education level.
>But that is a job for you...Go look it up

>We did burn a few folks that kept getting things wrong. 
>Called them witches..ya know!  ;-p

I will never understand how it is that Christians are not ashamed of the
atrocities they have commited against people who simply wished to practice a
different religion from their own.  The first rule of Wiccans is, "Do no harm."
Their tormentors had similar rules - they just never lived by them.

>Scott Stephens wrote:
>> 
>> Moderate Mammal wrote:
>> 
>> > What the fuck is wrong with these people?
>> 
>> Socialism does not work. One way socialists delude themselves is to drop
>> the context circumstance takes place in. How can they be impoverishing
>> their people, when they take from those that earn money and property,
>> and give it to those that haven't?
>> 
>> How can they be denying health-care, when they dumb-down incentives for
>> health-care providers to be cost effective?
>> 
>> How can they be culturally insensitive, when they establish conflicting
>> systems of law for different cultures?
>> 
>> Perhaps Canadians want a sex-trade market. A couple Muslims here in the
>> US got jail time for selling their 14 yr. old daughters to some rich old
>> men. Maybe that will now be OK in Canada, if you go to the right
>> (Muslim) court with the right bribe.
>> 
>> (from L i b e r t y W i r e)
>> 
>> The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
>> By Richard J. Maybury
>> 
>> Each year at this time school children all over America
>> are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and
>> newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts
>> of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and
>> fascinating.
>> 
>> It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing
>> like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a
>> whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which
>> divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning.
>> 
>> The official story has the pilgrims boarding the
>> Mayflower, coming to America and establishing the Plymouth
>> colony in the winter of 1620-21. This first winter is
>> hard, and half the colonists die. But the survivors are
>> hard working and tenacious, and they learn new farming
>> techniques from the Indians. The harvest of 1621 is
>> bountiful. The Pilgrims hold a celebration, and give
>> thanks to God. They are grateful for the wonderful new
>> abundant land He has given them.
>> 
>> The official story then has the Pilgrims living more or
>> less happily ever after, each year repeating the first
>> Thanksgiving. Other early colonies also have hard times at
>> first, but they soon prosper and adopt the annual
>> tradition of giving thanks for this prosperous new land
>> called America.
>> 
>> The problem with this official story is that the harvest
>> of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists
>> hardworking or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many
>> of the colonists were lazy thieves.
>> 
>> In his 'History of Plymouth Plantation,' the governor of
>> the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists
>> went hungry for years, because they refused to work in the
>> fields. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the
>> colony was riddled with "corruption," and with "confusion
>> and discontent." The crops were small because "much was
>> stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce
>> eatable."
>> 
>> In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, "all had their
>> hungry bellies filled," but only briefly. The prevailing
>> condition during those years was not the abundance the
>> official story claims, it was famine and death. The first
>> "Thanksgiving" was not so much a celebration as it was the
>> last meal of condemned men.
>> 
>> But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of
>> 1623 was different. Suddenly, "instead of famine now God
>> gave them plenty," Bradford wrote, "and the face of things
>> was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for
>> which they blessed God." Thereafter, he wrote, "any
>> general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to
>> this day." In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced
>> that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn.
>> 
>> What happened?
>> 
>> After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, "they
>> began to think how they might raise as much corn as they
>> could, and obtain a better crop." They began to question
>> their form of economic organization.
>> 
>> This had required that "all profits & benefits that are
>> got by trade, working, fishing, or any other means" were
>> to be placed in the common stock of the colony, and that,
>> "all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their
>> meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common
>> stock." A person was to put into the common stock all he
>> could, and take out only what he needed.
>> 
>> This "from each according to his ability, to each
>> according to his need" was an early form of socialism, and
>> it is why the Pilgrims were starving. Bradford writes that
>> "young men that are most able and fit for labor and
>> service" complained about being forced to "spend their
>> time and strength to work for other men's wives and
>> children." Also, "the strong, or man of parts, had no more
>> in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was
>> weak." So the young and strong refused to work and the
>> total amount of food produced was never adequate.
>> 
>> To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished
>> socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and
>> told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it
>> away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced
>> socialism with a free market, and that was the end of
>> famines.
>> 
>> Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states,
>> all with the same terrible results. At Jamestown,
>> established in 1607, out of every shipload of settlers
>> that arrived, less than half would survive their first
>> twelve months in America. Most of the work was being done
>> by only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths
>> choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609-10, called
>> "The Starving Time," the population fell from five-hundred
>> to sixty.
>> 
>> Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free market,
>> and the results were every bit as dramatic as those at
>> Plymouth. In 1614, Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote that
>> after the switch there was "plenty of food, which every
>> man by his own industry may easily and doth procure." He
>> said that when the socialist system had prevailed, "we
>> reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty men as
>> three men have done for themselves now."
>> 
>> Before these free markets were established, the colonists
>> had nothing for which to be thankful. They were in the
>> same situation as Ethiopians are today, and for the same
>> reasons. But after free markets were established, the
>> resulting abundance was so dramatic that the annual
>> Thanksgiving celebrations became common throughout the
>> colonies, and in 1863, Thanksgiving became a national
>> holiday.
>> 
>> Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the
>> official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and
>> only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God
>> we live in a country where we can have them.
>> 
>> Mr. Maybury writes on investments. This article originally
>> appeared in The Free Market, November 1985.
>> 
>> --
>> Scott
>> 
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