My Stupid State, part XV, Florida Legislates History

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
We certainly don't have a perfect track-record. Then again, we've done more for global democracy and freedom than whatever piss-ant Euro country you come from...

Unless you are Great Britain, in which case, their horrible rule of their colonies led to more calls for democracy and freedom than any other

[chequita guevara]

:snicker:

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

What freedom would that be?

The rejection of monarchy and other unrepresentative forms of government which the American Revolution set into motion and which the United States has greatly supported throughout its 230-year history.

Ah yes, in Bourbon France and Morocco, two of its early allies.

In Shah Reza Pahlavi's Iran, one of its former allies.

And also in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, two of its current allies.


And also of course in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Chile, South Viet Nam, Brazil, apartheid era South Africa, and all those other delightful vacation spots where the United States:

[rejected] monarchy and other unrepresentative forms of government

in favour of democratically elected representative forms of government.

I'll smoke some of what you're on Drake, it must be really strong stuff.

[Drake Tungsten]

Ah yes, in Bourbon France

We all know what happened to the Bourbons after the French population caught on to the example the Americans had set...

[Guardian]

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I guess we'd better do our thinking and have our discussion today.

Tomorrow there may be a law against it.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Ah yes, in Bourbon France

We all know what happened to the Bourbons after the French population caught on to the example the Americans had set...

Yes, they had the Terror, mass killing, a revolutionary war, were invaded by their European neighbours, beaten at Trafalgar and Waterloo and elsewhere, and saw the creation of the undemocratic military dictatorship of the Napoleonic Empire and a return of the monarchy during Napoleon's absence in Elba.

Oh, and the return of the monarchy again, after his defeat.


And of course the democratically minded U.S.A. weren't so democratically minded that they didn't consider offering M. Napoleon help in getting rid of those troublesome former slaves who had revolted and freed themselves in Saint Domingue and were giving dangerous ideas to American slaves....

" People shouldn't read into venue locations into someone's heart. "

Associated Press, January 12th 2000

Bushbaby responding to complaints about his having given a speech at a former slave plantation.

we've done more for global democracy and freedom

History on L.S.D. , 101

" First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de septiembre, and-"

Matthews: " What's that in English ?"

Bush: " Fifteenth of September."

Hardball, MSNBC May 31st 2000

Let freedom reign- a day early perhaps....


Someone who obviously earned all those medals and all that American aid for his support for

democracy and freedom

[Drake Tungsten]

Yes, they had the Terror, mass killing, a revolutionary war, were invaded by their European neighbours, beaten at Trafalgar and Waterloo and elsewhere, and saw the creation of the undemocratic military dictatorship of the Napoleonic Empire and a return of the monarchy during Napoleon's absence in Elba.

Well, they are French. They got the right idea from us, but we can't help it if they ****ed up the execution. Same goes for Latin America and its Bolivarian revolutions.