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Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]>
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Oh, and the means that the gun-toting rednecks aren't whining when they want 
the right to shoot up the local bar?

But, the DA who summarizes the stupidity to the jury, is surely whining!

Double standard, my dear barrister!

Anne


Anne Pemberton
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [VA-HIST] Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus Africa


> Your point has been directly rejected by the Court.  Militias have 
> nothing
> to do with the rights of individuals to possess guns in their  homes.
>
> Please read: 71 06/26/08  07-290 _District of  Columbia v. Heller_
> (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/07pdf/07-290.pdf)  AS 554/2
>
> J South
>
>
> In a message dated 6/26/2008 3:37:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> There  you go, whining again, J. South.
>
> The Founding Fathers envisioned an  armed MILITIA, not gun-toting rednecks
> out to defend their right to be  "bitter" over the outcome of the civil 
> war.
>
> Anne
>
> Anne  Pemberton
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.erols.com/apembert
> http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
> -----  Original Message ----- 
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To:  <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 3:18  PM
> Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [VA-HIST] Richmond and VA slave Traders, plus 
> Africa
>
>
>> Proud to be such a caricature on the day the US Supreme  Court finally 
>> and
>> definitively affirmed what the Founding Fathers  meant in enacting the
>> Second
>> Amendment to the US  Constitution.  Now us "right wing" gun-toters aren't
>> "nuts", just  Constitutional scholars.
>>
>> J South
>>
>>
>> In a  message dated 6/26/2008 2:08:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>  [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> You're  like a caricature of a  right wing nut....
>>
>> [log in to unmask]  wrote:
>>>  This is whining,
>>>
>>> J South
>>>
>>>  Neil,
>>>
>>> People will study whatever parts of  history  interest them.  Putting 
>>> the
>> name
>>> of an  unknown African on a rock  at Poquoson would not be   correct,
>> inasmuch
>>> as the slaves came  in initially at  Jamestown.
>>>
>>> But,  if you want to make the   point that Africans enslaved Africans
>>> before
>>>  the  British came  to the idea, go ahead and write a book or two and 
>>> make
>> your
>>>
>>> case. In the meantime, those  interested in naming the AMERICANS who 
>>> were
>>> complicit in  this long chain of immorality, should not be  challenged.
>>>  The
>>> CHRISTIANS and those who cheered for and/or  signed the  Declaration of
>>> Independence were promising a NEW way  of  living, an attempt at true
>> freedom
>>> for man, and then  a  decade later turned their backs on those brought
>>>  here
>> as
>>>  slaves.
>>>
>>> How can men  claim morality when they profess their  love of  their own
>>  freedom
>>> and deny that self-same freedom to  their neighbors  and  workers?
>>>
>>>  Anne
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 6/26/2008 1:40:35  P.M. Eastern  Daylight Time,
>>> [log in to unmask]  writes:
>>>
>>>  J  South,
>>>
>>> I  don't see that people "whine" about slavery,  so much as I hear   a
>>> continuous "whine" about the Civil War, the  actions of the  north
>> necessary
>>> to end that conflict, and the   effects of reconstruction which  led to 
>>> a
>>> backlash known as  Jim  Crow which dragged the issue of slavery  into 
>>> the
>>  20th
>>> century,  and which is still a factor today, in the  21st  century.
>>>
>>>  Anne
>>>
>>>  Anne  Pemberton
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>   http://www.erols.com/apembert
>>>   http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
>>> -----  Original Message  -----
>>> From: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To:    <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 26,  2008  1:30  PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Bulk] Re: [VA-HIST]  Richmond and VA slave  Traders, plus
>>  Africa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Of  course  involuntary servitude is immoral by 21st  century 
>>>> standards.
>>>> However, I am really tired of Americans  who   continually whine about 
>>>> it
>> as
>>>> if  it
>>>> has had some  impact on  their lives  today.
>>>>
>>>> JD  Southmayd
>>>>  a/k/a J  South
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  In a  message dated 6/26/2008 12:30:29 P.M.  Eastern Daylight   Time,
>>>> [log in to unmask]  writes:
>>>>
>>>> I   don't  think that  any of us feel that slavery was a good thing.
>>>>  But
>>>> historically it was a fact of life. It should be   remembered  that
>>>> slavery was legal and practiced in the  North  as well. But  the
>>>> economics in the North did  not promote  widespread slavery. It  was
>>>> found in  certain industries (like  the iron industry) where   large
>>>> numbers of the workers in  places as far north as  NJ, PA, and NY  were
>>>> enslaved. The  Saugus IW north  of Boston used prisoners of war  for
>>>> their   workforce (not much better).
>>>>
>>>> Most of us   alive  today wish that  the Founding Fathers could  have
>>>>  figured  out a way to abolish  slavery.  But they did not and  slavery
>>>>  continued to be a  problem  until it was  abolished as a result of 
>>>> the
>>>> American Civil War (or   whatever you choose to  call it). The 
>>>> abolition
>>>> movement was  a   Christian movement. It took almost 2000  years, but
>>>>   other religions  were in no hurry to end slavery until 
>>>> Christianity
>>>> (supported by  European navies and  armies)   appeared.
>>>>
>>>> The fact remains  that slavery as  a  world wide  practice was ended 
>>>> by
>>>> the nations of Europe (and  the  US), often   by force. It was the US 
>>>> and
>>>> British  Navy that ended  the  West  African slave trade by blockading
>>>>  or
>>>> embargoing the coast. The   East African and  interior  slave trade 
>>>> (both
>>>> about equal in size   to  the West  African trade) continued to 
>>>> flourish
>>>>  until they  were   essentially ended as a result of European
>>>> colonization
>>>> of   Africa.   Slavery continued to be legal in a number of   countries
>>>>  until well  into the late 20th century.  It is  still practiced, 
>>>> albeit
>>>> illegally,  in  parts of Africa  and    Asia.
>>>>
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