2010-07-03-samantha-clemens.Mp3
They look so nice in their wigs and nifty little outfits, but the verbal combat at the beginning makes things look kind of tame now…
Consider this:
Thomas Paine denounced George Washington in an open letter as “treacherous in private friendship…and a hypocrite in public life.” He even wondered aloud whether Washington was “an apostate or an imposter; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.” Wall Street Journal, June 26/27, 2010
Nice.
We’ll have a walk down memory lane about just how rough things were back then….
Are you stoked that we are still independent??? If you were alive then, would you have:
- supported the revolution or deferred to authority?
- been willing to die for it?
- advocated use of force?
- put your family at risk for it?
Thomas Jefferson made slip in Declaration, Talking Points Memo
And Don Leka, writer and self-described recovering lawyer, on “Our Independent Judiciary and Other Myths.”