Post by ccgandrt on May 7, 2007 12:51:23 GMT -5
How much do they really want the common man to know about our Founding Fathers?
So many of the details in history are neglected, are erased or are changed. How much do we know? Sometimes, the truth is just a click away and sometimes not.
For example, in the last paragraphs of this government issued biography on Benjamin Franklin, it fails to include the most criminal details of the "ruling elite, corrupted men of the time" It is written:
"......But, within less than a year and a half after his return, the aged statesman set sail once again for Europe, beginning a career as diplomat that would occupy him for most of the rest of his life. In the years 1776-79, as one of three commissioners, he directed the negotiations that led to treaties of commerce and alliance with France, where the people adulated him, but he and the other commissioners squabbled constantly. While he was sole commissioner to France (1779-85), he and John Jay and John Adams negotiated the Treaty of Paris (1783), which ended the War for Independence.
Back in the United States, in 1785 Franklin became president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. At the Constitutional Convention, though he did not approve of many aspects of the finished document and was hampered by his age and ill-health, he missed few if any sessions, lent his prestige, soothed passions, and compromised disputes.
In his twilight years, working on his Autobiography, Franklin could look back on a fruitful life as the toast of two continents. Energetic nearly to the last, in 1787 he was elected as first president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery-a cause to which he had committed himself as early as the 1730s. His final public act was signing a memorial to Congress recommending dissolution of the slavery system. Shortly thereafter, in 1790 at the age of 84, Franklin passed away in Philadelphia and was laid to rest in Christ Church Burial Ground."
The truth of the Benjamin Franklin is more like:
Franklin, low class and self educated was a big hit with the people but not the elite. Everyone, locally born, poor and otherwise wanted independence from the English rule and wanted Franklin to be the first president. When the aristocrats heard rumors of this, they quickly shipped the him off to Europe, thinking they'd get rid of him permanently ... he was old but not ill, old but still clever and wise, he knew what was going on. They couldn't stand he popularity. He saw USA independence but his plans always met resistance, and he saw near the end his quest for the people to rule as indicated in the Constitution, was becoming a lost dream because of the rich elites control, greed and immoral corruption.
Knowing this minute "overlooked" detail, has let me analyze, and now you, too, today's present situation and compare the continuing similarities in how 'they' are treating this country.
Can we answer one question: where is that honest and good strong leader for the people?
View the lack of respect:
Image Credit: www.rootsweb.com/~pahsc/ourflag.html
So many of the details in history are neglected, are erased or are changed. How much do we know? Sometimes, the truth is just a click away and sometimes not.
For example, in the last paragraphs of this government issued biography on Benjamin Franklin, it fails to include the most criminal details of the "ruling elite, corrupted men of the time" It is written:
"......But, within less than a year and a half after his return, the aged statesman set sail once again for Europe, beginning a career as diplomat that would occupy him for most of the rest of his life. In the years 1776-79, as one of three commissioners, he directed the negotiations that led to treaties of commerce and alliance with France, where the people adulated him, but he and the other commissioners squabbled constantly. While he was sole commissioner to France (1779-85), he and John Jay and John Adams negotiated the Treaty of Paris (1783), which ended the War for Independence.
Back in the United States, in 1785 Franklin became president of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania. At the Constitutional Convention, though he did not approve of many aspects of the finished document and was hampered by his age and ill-health, he missed few if any sessions, lent his prestige, soothed passions, and compromised disputes.
In his twilight years, working on his Autobiography, Franklin could look back on a fruitful life as the toast of two continents. Energetic nearly to the last, in 1787 he was elected as first president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery-a cause to which he had committed himself as early as the 1730s. His final public act was signing a memorial to Congress recommending dissolution of the slavery system. Shortly thereafter, in 1790 at the age of 84, Franklin passed away in Philadelphia and was laid to rest in Christ Church Burial Ground."
The truth of the Benjamin Franklin is more like:
Franklin, low class and self educated was a big hit with the people but not the elite. Everyone, locally born, poor and otherwise wanted independence from the English rule and wanted Franklin to be the first president. When the aristocrats heard rumors of this, they quickly shipped the him off to Europe, thinking they'd get rid of him permanently ... he was old but not ill, old but still clever and wise, he knew what was going on. They couldn't stand he popularity. He saw USA independence but his plans always met resistance, and he saw near the end his quest for the people to rule as indicated in the Constitution, was becoming a lost dream because of the rich elites control, greed and immoral corruption.
Knowing this minute "overlooked" detail, has let me analyze, and now you, too, today's present situation and compare the continuing similarities in how 'they' are treating this country.
Can we answer one question: where is that honest and good strong leader for the people?
View the lack of respect:
Image Credit: www.rootsweb.com/~pahsc/ourflag.html