Sunday, November 25, 2012
Lunatic Bachmann, CORRECT?
I'm reasonably certain that she wasn't aware of this (or she probably wouldn't have gone off on that John Quincy Adams stretch of hers instead) but, according the the Reader's Digest's Family Encyclopedia of American History, FOUNDING FATHER, George Mason (a Virginian, no less), was "an implacable foe of the slave trade and a fervent advocate for the rights of man." The volume also offers that, as a delegate to the national Constitutional Convention of 1787, "Mason demanded an immediate end to the slave trade (in addition to the inclusion of a Bill of Rights, later included in 1791) and that he "unsuccessfully opposed ratification of the Constitution in Virginia."...............................................................................Now, this is obviously only one of the Founding Fathers and the plain fact is that the majority of the southerners at least didn't even come close to this (a lot of 'em frigging owned slaves themselves) but Mr. Mason here, yeah, it kinda sounds like he did "work tirelessly."
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Thomas Paine, whose prescient modern ideas made him a bit of a
1775 anachronism, hit the nail on the head in 'African Slavery in America', best summed when he noted the irony of slaveowners wanting freedom for themselves:
"With what consistency, or decency they complain so loudly of attempts to enslave them, while they hold so many hundred thousands in slavery; and annually enslave many thousands more, without any pretence of authority, or claim upon them?"
OK, there's at least 2 now.......Yeah, yeah, I know, she's still a dope.
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