My mother is a Hutchinson and descended from guess who (Governor Hutchinson) :0) Yet is was another ancestor from the same family who participated in the underground railroad. I have a great grandmother who was full blooded Chippewa and lost her land and her family. My daughter is descended from Jefferson Davis. We are all related in some way to someone guilty of something or a victim of something or someone. Thank god they only dumped the tea and didn't replace it with a bomb headed back to England. Of course if that had happened today...




>>You make it seem as if it's just a whimsical decision. Iran (and Islamic fundamentalism) was responsible for the hostage crisis in Iran in 1979,
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>So were the unruly British citizens responsible for the tea crisis in Boston. For some reason they didn't like the empire that ruled them, because they felt it as foreign.
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>> the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, and the 9/11 attacks. We've been morally justified in destroying them all along.
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>And they were morally justified in shaking off a king hoisted upon them by foreign powers, and any representatives of those powers.
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>>Believe me, I would take no pleasure in the fact that many innocent individuals would die. But you fail to realize something - it is the aggressors (Iran, bin Laden, etc.) who would ultimately be responsible if their citizens perished.
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>So what's the going rate? 100 of them for 1? 1000 for 1?
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>When was it that any Iranian armed forces invaded American soil? Unless you count the embassy, which was implicit in getting the Shah to power and installing the whole regime, by which it lost neutrality.
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>>I'm tired of those closed-minded folks like yourself who are content to get their news from Fox.
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>>I don't get my news (just) from Fox.
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>Are you sure one can get news from Fox?