On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 20, 2009, at 1:52 PM, I wrote:
>>
>> Obama lauded those who fought at "Concord and Normandy and Khesan." Not
>> a word, of course, about the thousands of African-American slaves who threw
>> off their chains to fight and die against the revered slavedriving Founding
>> Fathers...
>
> Quoting from memory, I forgot that Obama included *Gettysburg* in that list.
> I should have included mention that the "Americans" who fought there wore
> Grey as well as Blue, and called for a parallel to Fort Pillow. Nathan
> Bedford Forrest, who should have been hanged a hundred times over, was
> amnestied just like Bush (de facto) will be, and he went free to found the
> KKK.
>
>
>> ...and for the legitimate government of their country. Nor, of course, a
>> rhetorical parallel of Normandy and Tokyo or of Khesan and Mylai-- even
>> though the soldiers perpetrating those genocidal massacres were no
>> different--and perhaps were even the same persons--as those who fought at
>> Normandy and Khesan...
>
>
> Shane Mage
>
>> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>>
>> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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