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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: MrsSmith on March 29, 2011, 05:44:52 PM
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Slaves who had the temerity to run away from their plantation “home†paid dearly if they were caught and returned. Measures were taken to make them an example to others who might harbor similar thoughts about freedom.
Among those measures were brutal public beatings of rebels to which other slaves were forced to bear witness and digest with great clarity the price of rebelliousness.
Such is the fate today of those uppity souls who choose to challenge the authority and legitimacy of our inexorably growing government plantation.
Those with interests for the care and feeding of this plantation cannot physically punish these rebels with the whip.
Their whip is the mainstream media and the means of punishment of this virtual whip is not beating of a physical body but assassination of character.
This perspective helps us understand the ongoing liberal obsession with destroying Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
Thomas and Palin are particularly threatening to liberals because their lives fly in the face of liberal mythology.
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by Star Parker, another threat to the liberal mythology (http://townhall.com/columnists/starparker/2011/03/28/why_liberals_hate_clarence_thomas_and_sarah_palin/page/full/)
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We'll see this same thing with Allen West and Herman Cain.