Tuesday, January 15, 2013

America's False History: Mark Karlin interviews Robert Parry


Department of OMG. Confirms what you suspected, but it's even worse than that.

truthout
America's False History Allows the Powerful to Commit Crimes Without Consequence
Mark Karlin interviews Robert Parry

See also The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
by Thom Hartmann, Truthout | News Analysis for some more history that sets the record straight.


4 comments:

Dan Lynch said...
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Dan Lynch said...

Re: Thom Hartman's crap history

The right of individuals to bear arms dates back at least as far the 1689 English Bill of Rights. Can't blame that on slavery.

Hartman neglects to mention that the New England states also cherished the right to bear arms.

Pennsylvania was the 1st state to adopt the right of invidividuals to bear arms, in 1776,pre-dating the US 2nd amendment by quite a bit. Can' blame that on slavery.

While there is a grain of truth to Hartman's claim -- sure, the southern states were pro-slavery -- Hartman dishonestly ignores the English and New England tradition of individual rights, including the right to bear arms.

http://www.guncite.com/journals/halvt.html

Tom Hickey said...

Dan, he and other make a good case, however, that historically the Second Amendment was about slave militias. That is not what is represented today wrt respect to its pedigree. If there are other reasons for the right to bear arms, they should be mentioned separately. I doubt that courts today would be partial to bringing in the 1689 English Bill of Rights tho.

Beal said...

Mr. Lynch seems to be attempting to make the case that state militias organized and armed to maintain the institution of slavery does not make sense logically. That is in light of a legal precedent n England - passed by wealthy land owners. Thus the facts - in their own words and deeds of slave owners passing laws concerning the rights of militias to bear arms cannot have happened, though those directly involved in the argument say it is true in their own words. That might be a crappy way for Patrick Henry and James Monroe to behave, but it is certainly not "crap" history.