"Thomas Paine came to America from Great Britain in 1774 when he was 37 years old. He burned with righteous indignation at the cruel tyranny of kings. Half a million copies of "Common Sense," his plainspoken call for rebellion, flooded this fledgling nation of three million people. His rhetoric so moved and persuaded George Washington that he read Paine's words to the troops at Valley Forge. After America won its independence, Paine found himself in another fight, the French Revolution, and wrote another best-seller, "The Rights of Man." But he got into trouble in France and was thrown into prison, narrowly avoiding execution. He returned to America in 1802, a prophet without honor in the nation he helped to create." Watch this video .
I don't even really care about this. Should I?
ReplyDeleteCare about the tea parties? Or care that they're sponsored?
ReplyDeleteLots of people protest. But I'm just trying to remind people that this isn't a grassroots organized protest.
It is a mob, of lots of angry, average-joe, mostly Republicans. But the mob was organized and sponsored by Fox News.
Yeah I care about the organization part. I just don't care about the protests themselves. They almost feel, dare I say, not relevant.
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