Today I am reflecting on how thankful we are to have chosen John Thune to represent us in the U.S. Senate beginning January 4th. I found this to further reinforce the importance of the 2004 election results:
Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in a country where we can have them.
This is the ending to a Richard J. Maybury piece called, "The Great Thanksgiving Hoax". Here is the introduction:
Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating.
It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning.
My motivation to search for this report came from Rush Limbaugh’s mention of William Bradford. Here is what Maybury said about Bradford:
The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hardworking or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.
In his 'History of Plymouth Plantation,' the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years, because they refused to work in the fields. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with "corruption," and with "confusion and discontent." The crops were small because "much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable."
In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, "all had their hungry bellies filled," but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first "Thanksgiving" was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.
What few of us may know is that the Pilgrims came to America and were experimenting with socialism:
This had required that "all profits & benefits that are got by trade, working, fishing, or any other means" were to be placed in the common stock of the colony, and that, "all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock." A person was to put into the common stock all he could, and take out only what he needed.
Here is how Bradford solved the problem:
This "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was an early form of socialism, and it is why the Pilgrims were starving. Bradford writes that "young men that are most able and fit for labor and service" complained about being forced to "spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children." Also, "the strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was weak." So the young and strong refused to work and the total amount of food produced was never adequate.
To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was the end of famines.
Today I am more thankful than ever. I am thankful for all the comforts and goods and services we have that make our life much more enjoyable verses the difficulties that faced our Pilgrims. I am thankful to the Founding Fathers who fought for freedom and set up the Constitution so that generations to come could enjoy the fruits of freedom.
I am also thankful for one development above all others today. That would be the Internet. Today I can utilize the freedom provided by the First Amendment. After becoming frustrated by the stifling of that important right by the Argus Leader, I am blessed to be able to speak my mind here.
I am also thankful that my message may have been a small factor in helping the truth about the socialistic beliefs of the left and one of their leader’s, Tom Daschle, to have become known to more people than what would have happened if I had not started this web site. I am also thankful to all of the members of the Dakota Blog Alliance.
But I am the most thankful to all those who have participated in the democratic process by reading the findings of the blog alliance and took action.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, including those on the left. May you find the wisdom to understand the errors of socialism and that there is nothing progressive about the ideology of today's so-called liberals.
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