Posted on 05/31/2011 4:09:56 AM PDT by tellw
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." You might read the paragraph preceding the one where this famous quote appears.
ML/NJ
Do you want to retract your assertion that black slaves stayed on their owner's plantations willingly - YES or NO?
We’re not talkin’ ‘bout the “Mass of men” - we’re talkin’ ‘bout the ones who were brought here [unwillingly] and kept[unwillingly] in chains, COMRADE.
You get that ticket for Sudan yet?
Thoreau Pfffft.
Timmy McVeigh liked to quote that kinda crap too. What’s next, Invictus - you and your Flash Mob posse gonna “dance” whilst blowing up a Federal office building or two?
NO SALE
Listen, Pal. Willingly is your word not mine. You may not think that African slaves were a part of the mass of men, but I always have.
Keep reading those airline schedules. Thoreau, de Tocqueville, probably Aristotle too, all cr@p to you. What an embarrassment to FreeRepublic you are!
ML/NJ
[but I always have.]
Goes with your idiocy.
When’s the next “dance” at your local Klan rally, comrade?
>>Willingly is your word not mine.
"for the most part before that they [slaves] did [stay their master's "property"] of their own free will."--ML/MJ
Those were your words I was quoting back to you! To be sure, I did agree with the premise but with this qualifier, "albeit sometimes with the fear of what would happen to them if they were caught." In other words, for sort of the same reason merchants collect sales tax.
ML/NJ
Slaves stayed on the plantation “of their own free will”.
LOL.
Only in Comrade ml/nj’s Revisionist universe.
What a schmuck you are! Are you so afraid to engage based upon historical facts, or ar you simply unable to comprehend them?
ML/NJ
>>What a schmuck you are!
Says the Idiot supporter of Code Pinko commies who “dance” and provoke the park police at the Jefferson Memorial.
ESAD, Troll.
NO SALE
ML/NJ
Breaking the law generally provokes a law enforcement response.
If you and your Code Pink comrades don’t like the legal framework of this Republic, then pack up your shyte and move to someplace like Somalia where you can dance to whatever tune the local tribal warlord (flash) Mobster calls.
"Walnut Street Jail, named after the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania street on which it was located, was the first prison built in the United States to use individual cells and work details.In 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a new jail was opened to receive the overcrowded prisoners of High Street Jail. It was located on Walnut Street, where it acquired the name Walnut Street Jail."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Street_Jail
"In 1789 the US Marshals Service was established, followed by other federal services such as the US Parks Police (1791)[19] and US Mint Police (1792).[20] The first city police services were established in Philadelphia in 1751"
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