Exactly why it was the inauguration of desolation - the obamanation standing where he ought not.
Posted on 06/22/2012 6:02:22 AM PDT by ETL
(Reuters) - A gold-embossed piece of U.S. history will go up for sale this month, when Christie's auctions off George Washington's personal copy of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The documents, which date to 1789 and are signed and annotated by the first U.S. president, are poised to fetch from $2 million to $3 million when they hit the block on June 22, the auction house said on Wednesday.
The bound papers constitute Washington's personal copy of the Acts of Congress. These include the Constitution, whose preamble promises to "secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity," along with the draft Bill of Rights - the first 10 amendments to the Constitution which include such fundamental liberties as the right to free speech, press, assembly and religion.
The volume, embossed with "President of the United States" in gold on the cover, was described by Christie's as being in near-pristine condition after 223 years. It was specially printed for Washington in 1789, his first year in office as president.
The margins include Washington's handwritten brackets and notations highlighting key passages concerning the president's responsibilities.
The Acts of Congress volume was sold from Washington's library at Mt. Vernon in 1876 and was eventually bought at auction by collector Richard Dietrich in the 1960s. It is being offered for sale by the family's estate. ..."
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Sheldon Adelson — or Romney himself — ought to buy it and threaten to destroy it publicly. Just to start a conversation. I suspect we’d discover we revere the physical document more than the liberties it embodies.
That would be good.
Exactly why it was the inauguration of desolation - the obamanation standing where he ought not.
"The raised fist (also known as the clenched fist) is a salute and logo most often used by left-wing activists, such as: Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, and black nationalists. The raised fist is usually regarded as an expression of solidarity, strength or defiance."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_fist
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Anarcho-syndicalism
A common Anarcho-Syndicalist flag.
In the early 20th century, anarcho-syndicalism arose as a distinct school of thought within anarchism.[78] With greater focus on the labour movement than previous forms of anarchism, syndicalism posits radical trade unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the state with a new society, democratically self-managed by the workers.
Anarcho-syndicalists seek to abolish the wage system and private ownership of the means of production, which they believe lead to class divisions. Important principles include workers' solidarity, direct action (such as general strikes and workplace recuperations), and workers' self-management. This is compatible with other branches of anarchism, and anarcho-syndicalists often subscribe to anarchist communist or collectivist anarchist economic systems.[79] Its advocates propose labour organization as a means to create the foundations of a non-hierarchical anarchist society within the current system and bring about social revolution.
Too bad it was sold from Mt. Vernon in the first place. Maybe someone will donate it back, or to another worthy museum.
Anarchy = Lawlessness
The Obamas and their ilk have made it obvious from the beginning that they despise the rule of law, our Constitution, traditions and way of life.
The usurping of the highest office in the “free world” has made them drunk on power and has magnified their arrogance.
Anyone supporting these vile, despotic thugs is without excuse, and are but carbon copies of the beast. Unfortunately they are not content to simply pile onto the Obama-beast-bus on the highway to hell, they are mowing down anyone who won’t hop aboard.
Bill Ayers: "I considered myself partly an anarchist then and I consider myself partly an anarchist now. I mean, I'm as much an anarchist as I am a Marxist which is to say I find a lot of the ideas in anarchism appealing."
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"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama
YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
(note the red communist star, and anarcho-syndicalist red and black, on his shirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY
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http://www.newser.com/story/148703/george-washingtons-book-sells-for-10m.html
“The volume sold for $9,826,500 at Christie’s to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association, the proprietors of Washington’s estate in Virginia.”
Click here for the story.
The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...
See #9. Note that I picked the buyer! I just didn’t know that they had the money. It is going to a good home. It’s going to the right home.
Nice job, George!
Indeed, nice job! I was there last week...God bless the Mt Vernon Ladies.
“It was in his library when he died and now it will be returned there,” said Ann Bookout, Regent of the Mt Vernon Ladies Association.
You did, but it was far from a "donation". They paid over 3 times the expected 3 million.
From Pharmboy's Fox News link:
"A book owned by George Washington and containing his own annotated copy of the Constitution sold for almost $10 million at Christie's, more than three times what it was expected to draw.
A fierce bidding war between two unidentified parties forced the price up, and applause erupted in the venerable auction house when the hammer came down and the 223-year-old book sold for $9,826,500 to the Mount Vernon Ladies Association."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/06/22/george-washington-personal-copy-constitution-ready-to-hit-auction-block/
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From the website of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association:
"Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, is owned and maintained by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, the oldest national historic preservation organization in the United States.
Founded by Ann Pamela Cunningham of South Carolina, the Association might never have come into existence were it not a tradition for ships to toll their bells when passing Mount Vernon. When in 1853 Miss Cunningham’s mother was summoned to deck by such a bell, ringing in homage to the nation’s first president, she was horrified at the sight of Washington’s once grand house covered with peeling paint and overgrown weeds, its famous portico so dilapidated that it was propped up by a sailing mast. “I was painfully distressed,” she later wrote to her daughter, “at the ruin and desolation of the home of Washington, and the thought passed through my mind: Why was it that the women of his country did not try to keep it in repair, if the men could not do it? It does seem such a blot on our country.”
Inspired by her mother’s conviction, Ann Pamela Cunningham launched a campaign to raise the funds necessary to purchase and preserve the home of Washington. The Association she founded in 1853—a nationwide organization of women—appealed to the American people for $200,000 in an unprecedented grassroots fundraising campaign. The country responded, and five years later the Association purchased the Mansion, outbuildings and 200 surrounding acres from John Augustine Washington III, a great-grandnephew of George Washington.
Recognized as the first national preservation organization in America, the women who banded together in 1853 to form the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association were embarking upon a single-minded mission — to protect George Washington’s home from commercial development. But the rescue of Mount Vernon was just the first chapter in a long and illustrious preservation story. Inside, the Mansion was almost empty — only a handful of Washington Family pieces were left behind. The challenge of preserving the estate at a time when there was no historic preservation standard was made even more daunting by the fact that the country was about to be torn apart by Civil War. Room by room, garden by garden, and building by building, Washington’s estate was returned to its former glory. The women of Mount Vernon proved to be closely-watched pioneers in the evolving field of preservation and became an inspiration and guide to other preservation groups, often spearheaded by women, for protecting the homes of other founding fathers, inventors, and community leaders.
The Ladies took possession of Mount Vernon and opened it to the public in 1860. Under the Association’s 150-year long trusteeship, the estate has been authentically restored to its original appearance. Today Mount Vernon is a national monument that is open to the public every day of the year, serving an average of over one million visitors annually. ..."
http://www.mountvernon.org/educational-resources/library/mount-vernon-ladies-association
Note her name regarding books that need returning to the library! You can’t make this stuff up!
BTW, I agree with you on Mr. Vernon — an impressive place. Anybody who falls for that old story that Washington was “ill educated” (an idea one of my children’s teachers in Berkeley, CA tried to impart to the kiddies in 1967) should visit Mt. Vernon and just see all of the knowledge ad expertise required to run that plantation!
Hopefully, the seller will have a sudden attack of ‘conscience’ and donate/return a portion of the $10 mill to the association.
Wouldn’t that be nice!
Thanks! Nice updates!
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