Wednesday, November 23, 2011

The Truth about Thanksgiving

Julie Borowski explains that the generally told story about Thanksgiving leaves out many important facts, and that there was no huge feast, i.e. Thanksgiving, until the Pilgrims dumped their commie ways for a private property society. In other words, though few realize it, Thanksgiving is a celebration of the plenty delivered because the Pilgrims began to respect individual freedom and private property.

17 comments:

  1. God did what now?...Did I miss something here?
    Illegal to grow your own food?...The political terrorist Obama passed that law as well.

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  2. Oh, No! The poor girl's public school indoctrination didn't take. She needs to go to re-education camp!

    -Hitlery Klinton, Future POTUS

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  3. Gary North wrote a book about this as well:

    http://www.amazon.com/Puritan-Economic-Experiments-Gary-North/dp/0930464141/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1322073145&sr=8-1

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  4. Funny how that never made it into the schoolbooks.

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  5. She will never find a husband with that attitude.

    -Rosie O'Donnell

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  6. Thanksgiving has zip to do with Pilgrims whether they be economic collectvists or economic individualists. Lincoln proclaimed the holiday. There was a tradition of leaders proclaiming Thanksgiving holidays to mark victories in battle. Thanksgiving was part of that. John C Dvorak bitched about the whole Turkeyfest myth a few years back. See here.

    There are a lot of myths about Pilgrims too, but don't get me started. There is nothing more boring at a Thanksgiving dinner than a public holiday revisionist!!

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  7. I would add a quote from William Bradford about the communal system:

    "And for men's wives to be commanded to do service for other men, as dressing their meat, washing their clothes, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brook it."

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  8. This paints an even more grim picture.

    http://www.infowars.com/the-real-story-of-thanksgiving/

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  9. Hmm, sounds like Julie has read volume 1 of 'Conceived in Liberty', an awesome collection (by the way).

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  10. Well.... they also arrived at Plymouth in December 1620. Kind of hard to get the crops started when the snow is already on the ground. About 1/2 of them died that first winter before they really had a chance to grow anything as far as I'm aware. So I don't think you can blame the deaths on communism in this particular case, though communism is surely a killer. It seems it was about 2 1/2 years later in 1623 when private property was allowed. So they were still struggling during the time that Squanto the Indian was trying to help them.

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  11. I agree with her version of what really happened.

    But am I the only one who's a little annoyed that she doesn't give credit to whoever told her all this? I'm no historian, and therefore I always reference my source when sharing these things. My guess is she's stumbled onto DiLorenzo or Woods.

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  12. I recommend Conceived in Liberty by Murray Rothbard.

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  13. As do I! Conceived in Liberty was actually the first work from Rothbard that I read.

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  14. Communism was not their problem, per se.
    They all believed in an imaginary sky-daddy that would provide for them...Or not. I can hear this fool Billy Bradford saying how it is God's will that you are starving and dying. Think about a ship-of-fools sailing to the New World in December thinking they can find enough food to survive in 3 feet of snow. It was their "faith" that killed them.

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  15. @Anonymous 2:23 AM,

    Yes, they would have been better off had they been atheists at the time, wouldn't they?

    Now, you see how ignorant and stupid my question sounds? That's because it's essentially an ad hominem with a little genetic fallacy sprinkled on top....amongst other things.

    This is the second time you've come on here and made a similar statement.

    The first time you attacked Lew Rockwell's faith, yet when I asked you to provide examples to support your assertion, you didn't provide any; perhaps you didn't see my question after you posted.

    If you post in the future, do you believe you can do better than you have thus far? You're 0-2.

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  16. http://mises.org/daily/336

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  17. Thank you for posting Robert!

    Sean: I linked to a Mises Institute article and Independent Institute article in the description.

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