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Re: Not one person in WWII said"...under God"

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From: Thomas A. Paine
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:18
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:07:23 GMT, vonroach@ix.netcom.com (vonroach)
wrote:

>On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 18:57:15 GMT, Thomas A. Paine
><tommy_paine@NO!2SPAMaustin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>You poor, ignorant dumbass. Our "government" didn't come into
>>existence until the Consitution was adopted.
>>
>>What you wanted to say was "the founding fathers."
>>
>>But, as you're an ignorant dumbass, you didn't.
>>
>You simpleton, our government came into existence with the dispatch of
>the Declaration of Independence. We fought a revolution to validate
>it. Why do you think we celebrate Independence Day on the Fourth of
>July? The Continental Congress progressed to the Confederation and
>they called for a Convention in Philadelphia to revise the government
>again since strains had developed among the States. We became free
>self-governing people by the declaration that we chose that course in
>a dispatch to King George III of England.  I shudder at the ignorance
>instilled about the history of this country by the bureaucratic public
>education system.


I stand corrected. :)


They say patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings
Steal a little and they put you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king

-- Bob Dylan
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From: Thomas A. Paine <tommy_paine@NO!2SPAMaustin.rr.com>
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