Revisionist Reinterpretation

[blancw at pylon.com]

Responding to msg by Jim choate, quoting another:

>> We might also add Shay's Rebellion, Bacon's 
>Rebellion, the Hudson
>> River Renters' Uprising, the Pullman Strike, the 
>Homestead Strike, the
>> Ludlow Massacre, the Lawrence Textile Strikes, etc., 
>etc.  Many of
>> these were full-scale insurrections.  This country's 
>"progress" is
>> really just a series of grudging concessions made by 
>authoritarian
>> power structures to various nearly catastrophic 
>crises.

I have a hard time comparing any of these histricaly 
important but comparatively minor events to the half a 
million dead of the Civil War or the 50,000+ dead of 
Vietnam. Perhaps you have extended the  analogy a 
little too far?...
..........................................................

I think he was talking about the Principle of the deal, Jim -  
about what this means regarding the relationship of the 
citizenry to the big G.
Put all of those insurrections together and what do they spell?

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Blanc