Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Katelew who wrote (153895)	1/11/2011 5:13:22 AM
From: 8bits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542254

Spilling the blood of patriots sounds quite incendiary, even without knowing the context. Yes Thomas Jefferson could sound incendiary on occasion: foundersquotes.com

To: Katelew who wrote (153895)	1/11/2011 1:16:48 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542254

>>Do you have a direct quote for the other language? Spilling the blood of patriots sounds quite incendiary, even without knowing the context.<< The blood of patriots line is from Thomas Jefferson, and I've seen both oblique and direct references to it from people such as Michele Bachman. It's a big favorite with the Tea Party set. Here's a direct quotation from a Bachman TV ad: "I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us ‘having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,’ and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we’re not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States." Armed and dangerous? I suppose this all could be interpreted as just trying to get people out to vote. It's not quite as bad as I remembered it. Of course Sharron Angle referred to that Jefferson quotation, too, and spoke of people having to resort to "Second Amendment remedies."