Posted on 07/04/2019 4:57:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
They would weep.
“Why aren’t you men shooting yet?”
We don’t HAVE to wonder:
When it turned out Benedict Arnold had used sensitive intel against the country...
THEY HANGED HIM.
They didn’t wait around for years, then more years, while judges beard-stroked and made hand tee-pees about whether to release more docs.
We don’t have to wonder, we can simply look at history.
I agree. All those who fought for our country, many dying would weep as well. It is so sad what America has become. This was not God's Plan; however, He knew the end from the beginning and we are living it. We all have choices and right now many are making the wrong ones for their own selfish and evil agenda.
The letters the founders wrote between themselves throughout the course of their lives reveal the true state of their minds...Jefferson and Adams being the most well-transcribed over the course of many years...(Both men died on July 4th, 1826)
I don’t think you realize how frustrated they were from the very get go. LoL
Major John Andre --apparently he played some role in the turning of Benedict Arnold.
So it wasn't ONLY Arnold whom they hung, they even hung the people who had SOMETHING TO DO with his betrayal.
THey were already weeping in the short years following the Declaration. The Constitutional convention was a very draining process and I think people feared the experiment would never work out.
They didn’t hang Arnold. He survived the war but went a bit crazy in his final years in England.
The founding fathers would probably shake their heads in disbelief
Benedict Arnold live in England after the war.
I imagine they’d be akin to Hillary Clinton supporters the evening of November 8, 2016...only justified.
I think they would be horrified at the assaults on our Bill of Rights (especially freedom of speech, religion, bearing arms, and states rights from the left). They would be shocked at the overreach of the federal government versus state and local governments and at how strong the presidency as grown compared to the powers of the Congress. Most would be baffled at how we give federal justices and judges total veto power over the other two branches of government, and they would be sad that political “factions” have cause even more divisions among Americans than in their time. Many would be especially sickened by the moral decay of the nation.
On the other hand, many would be pleasantly surprised I think that their Constition is still the governing document of the land after all this time. Look at how many changes of government the French have gone through in the same amount of time. Many would be thrilled simply to know we are still Independent and that no foreign power has ever conquered us.
They would be horrified by what has happened culturally. The size and scope of government would be well behind.
Damn, the lack of historical knowledge on this thread burns! lol, and it was expressed with such vehemence.
Vastly disappointed.
But he’d say that pretty much about any existing country today, I believe.
Up until the early 1960s, I think they would have generally been approving, with strong reservations...these days not so much.
They’d be glad they’re dead.
Happy Independence Day from foreverfree!
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