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U.S. And NATO Say No Russian Troop Withdrawal
RFE/RL Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty ^ | Tuesday, May 20, 2014 | RFE/RL Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

Posted on 05/20/2014 12:57:00 AM PDT by WhiskeyX

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To: caww

“Do consider....”Separatist” George Washington and cohorts planning armed militia operations....I wouldn’t underestimate those in Eastern Ukraine fighting for their Independence.”

Thank you for so ably demonstrating your bottomless ignorance of American history and general stupidity on the subject. George Washington was already for many years a commissioned officer of the Royal Colony of Virginia with the rank of Colonel at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. His commission was granted by the same colonial government, the Virginia House of Burgesses which was lawfully chartered by the contemporary and prior English sovereigns, and the Virginia militia was organized under the authority of the Virginia government chartered and authorized by the King.

The revolutionary conflict began as an effort to defend the already existing rights under the Magna Carta and other laws of England which were being usurped unlawfully by the King, the king’s Ministers, and the Parliament. When the King and the Parliament refused to acknowledge those Englishmens’ rights in the American Colonies, the defenders of those rights were left with a choice between surrender to the usurpation of their rights, their properties, and the forfeiture of their very lives or seek to prevail independent of the usurpers.

The situation in the Ukraine with the pro-Russian separatists is the opposite situation from what George Washington and the American Revolutionaries were forced to confront. Rather than seeking to enforce their rights as Ukrainians, the separatists are a mix of foreigners from Russia and elsewhere who are using armed force and terrorism to subjugate the dissenting majority of the local population to the totalitarian governance of the foreign nation of Russia. Instead of using armed force to oppose the usurpation of their just rights as Ukrainians, the separatists are collaborating with foreign invaders to overthrow and usurp the rights of the Ukrainian citizens and subject them to the usurpation of their Ukrainian rights by the foreign government of Russia. Whereas the American colonial governments were lawfully chartered by England’s sovereigns, the separatist governments in the Ukraine were not lawfully chartered or organized by anyone, are not recognized by the international community, and have no lawful authority to grant military commissions or enlist combatants. In other words, your comparison of the Ukrainian separatists to George Washington and the American armed forces of the Revolutionary War are about as far opposed to each other in principle and practice as you can get.


41 posted on 05/21/2014 1:47:04 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

The red flags are photo shopped....as is much of your statist rhetoric.


42 posted on 05/21/2014 5:45:05 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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You’re free to provide evidence of the photoshopping!


43 posted on 05/21/2014 9:01:49 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: WhiskeyX
.....”Thank you for so ably demonstrating your bottomless ignorance”.....

Well with that introduction to your response there was no purpose or reason to continue reading further into your post...nor giving it any consideration whatsoever let alone a response beyond this.

44 posted on 05/21/2014 11:42:15 AM PDT by caww
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To: WhiskeyX
.....”Thank you for so ably demonstrating your bottomless ignorance”.....

Well with that introduction to your response there was no purpose or reason to continue reading further into your post...nor giving it any consideration whatsoever let alone a response beyond this.

45 posted on 05/21/2014 11:42:15 AM PDT by caww
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“Well with that introduction to your response there was no purpose or reason to continue reading further into your post...nor giving it any consideration whatsoever let alone a response beyond this.”

No surprise there, given how your willful ignorance is as your willful ignorance does.


46 posted on 05/21/2014 1:41:55 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
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47 posted on 05/21/2014 2:26:40 PM PDT by caww
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