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Thomas Jefferson

The real reason Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the Quran~
 
A 232 Year History of our fight against Islam & why it is no longer taught
in our public schools...
When Thomas Jefferson saw there was no negotiating with Muslims, he formed
what is now the Marines (sea going soldiers). These Marines were attached to
U S. Merchant vessels. When the Muslims attacked U.S. merchant vessels they
were repulsed by armed soldiers, but there is more.
 
The Marines followed the Muslims back to their villages and killed every
man, woman, and child in the village.
 
It didn't take long for the Muslims to leave U.S. Merchant vessels alone.
 
English and French merchant vessels started running up our flag when
entering the Mediterranean to secure safe travel.
 
Why the Marine Hymn contains the verse, "To the Shores of Tripoli ".
 
This is very interesting and a must read piece of our history. It points out
where we may be heading.
 
Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago the
United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the
charge!
 
At the height of the 18th century, Muslim pirates (the "Barbary Pirates")
were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic
.
 
They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant
ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote
heart-breaking letters home, begging their governments and families to pay
whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.
 
These extortionists of the high seas represented the North African Islamic
nations of Tripoli, Tunis , Morocco , and Algiers - collectively referred to
as the Barbary Coast - and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to
the new American Republic .
 
Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the
protection of Great Britain . When the U.S. declared its independence and
entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France.
 
However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets.
 
Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy. Beginning in 1784, 17 years before he
would become president, Thomas Jefferson became America's Minister to
France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim
adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid
bribes to the Barbary States rather than engaging them in war.
 
In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Dye of
Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple
case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any
further payments.
 
Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied
nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A
disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.
 
In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to
Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and
enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards
America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.
 
The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman
Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that
it was written in their Quran that all nations who would not acknowledge
their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war
upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could
take as prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in
battle was sure to go to Paradise."
 
Despite this stunning admission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim
nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders,
including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and
would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the
u\American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe
passage of American ships or the return of American hostages.
 
The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over 20 percent of the United
States government annual revenues in 1800.
 
Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third
President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note
demanding the immediate payment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every
year forthcoming.
 
That changed everything.
 
Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with
his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American
consulate and declared war on the United States.
 
Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.
 
Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for
anything beyond coastal defense, but, having watched his nation be cowed by
Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet
force with force.
 
He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the
Muslim nations of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never
forget. Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all
vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to "cause to be done all other
acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify".
 
When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and
acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and
the right to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to
Tripoli.
 
The war with Tripoli lasted for four more years, and raged up again in 1815.
The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line "to the
shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Hymn, and they would forever be known as
"leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to
prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding
enemy ships.
 
Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified doing in the name of their
prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply.
 
America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact Jefferson, himself,
had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but
fundamentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.
 
A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but
mandated violence against unbelievers, was unacceptable to him.
 
His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose
an even greater threat to the United States .
 
This should concern every American. That Muslims have brought about
women-only classes and swimming times in America at taxpayer-funded
universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been
banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged;
Piggy banks and Porky Pig tissue dispensers have been banned from workplaces
because they offend Islamist sensibilities; ice cream has been discontinued
at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looks
similar to the Arabic script for Allah; public schools are pulling pork from
their menus; on and on and on and on..
 
It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most
Americans have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across
America. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is
really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our culture,
the United States is cutting its own throat with a politically correct
knife, and helping to further the Islamists' agenda.
 
Sadly, it appears that today America's leaders would rather be politically
correct than victorious!
 
IF YOU DO NOT REMEMBER THE PAST, YOU ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.

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Six Boys and Thirteen Hands

Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC,
with the eighth grade class from Clinton,WI where I grew up, to
videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation’s capital,
and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's
trip was especially memorable.

On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima
memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and
depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the
six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky
hill one island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II

Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and
headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base
of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, 'Where are you guys
from?'

I told him that we were from Wisconsin. 'Hey, I'm a cheese head, too!
Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story.'

(It was James Bradley who just happened to be in Washington, DC, to
speak at the memorial the following day.  He was there that night to
say good night to his dad, who had passed away. He was just about to
leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to
us, and received his permission to share what he said from my
videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled
with history in Washington, DC, but it is quite another to get the
kind of insight we received that night.)

When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are
his words that night.)

'My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo,
Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I wrote a book called 'Flags
of Our Fathers'. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.

'Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the
ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He
enlisted in
the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team.
They were off to play another type of game. A game called 'War.'  But
it didn't turn out to be a game.  Harlon, at the age of 21, died with
his intestines in his hands.  I don't say that to gross you out, I say
that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and
talk about the glory of war.  You guys need to know that most of the
boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old - and it was so hard
that the ones who did make it home never even would talk to their
families about it.

(He pointed to the statue) 'You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon
from New Hampshire If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this
photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would
find a photograph... a photograph of his girlfriend Rene put that in
there for protection because he was scared.  He was 18 years old.  It
was just boys who won the battle of Iwo Jima.  Boys.  Not old men.

'The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike
Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They
called him the 'old man' because he was so old.  He was already 24.
When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say,
'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country' He knew
he was talking to little boys.. Instead, he would say, 'You do what I
say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'

'The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian
from Arizona. Ira Hayes was one of them who lived to walk off Iwo
Jima. He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told
him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero
when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked
off alive?'

So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together
having fun, doing everything together.  Then all 250 of you hit the
beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira
Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind.  Ira Hayes carried the
pain home with him and eventually died dead drunk, face down, drowned
in a very shallow puddle, at the age of 32 (ten years after this
picture was taken).

'The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from
Hilltop, Kentucky.  A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy.  His best friend, who
is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know, we took two cows up on the porch
of the Hilltop General Store.  Then we strung wire across the stairs
so the cows couldn't get down.  Then we fed them Epsom salts.

Those cows crapped all night.' Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy.

Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19.

When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to
the Hilltop General Store.  A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his
mother's farm.  The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into
the morning.  Those neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.

'The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John
Bradley, from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised.  My dad lived
until 1994, but he would never give interviews.

When Walter Cronkite's producers or the New York Times would call, we
were trained as little kids to say 'No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not
here.  He is in Canada fishing.  No, there is no phone there, sir.
No, we don't know when he is coming back.'  My dad never fished or
even went to Canada.

Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell's
soup.  But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't
want to talk to the press.

'You see, like Ira Hayes, my dad didn't see himself as a hero.
Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and
on a monument.  My dad knew better.  He was a medic. John Bradley from
Wisconsin was a combat caregiver.  On

Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died.  And when
boys died on Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed, without any
medication or help with the pain.

'When I was a little boy, my third-grade teacher told me that my dad
was a hero.  When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me
and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima
are the guys who did not come back.  Did NOT come back.'

'So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo
Jima and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000
boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of
the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank
you for your time.'

Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a
flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the
heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero.
Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero
nonetheless.

One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th-grade students in DC
that is not mentioned here is... that if you look at the statue very
closely and count the number of 'hands' raising the flag, there are
13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he
simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.

Great story - worth your time - worth every American's time.

"Freedom is not free!"

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Two things on the marijuana subject:

1--Define "availability and controlled use of medical marijuana".
2--While I agree that "normal" human behavior is far too loose a cannon to assume anything but the long-term worst in the use of recreational marijuana, the same applies to legal alcohol which, by the way, poses (and actuates) far more documented threats to humanity, micro and macro, than pot ever could.

That said, to keep this drug on the same list (Schedule 1 Drugs) as the likes of heroin proves only how owned and completely manipulated the Government is by the alcohol and Big Pharma lobbies.

As for Big Tech, comparatively speaking, marijuana of any kind doesn't even show up on society's threat board. This is not good news, and that's only when one can confirm that it actually is news rather than the leftwing propaganda continuously pumped out by Silicon Valley. Also, the fact that Google was co-founded by someone who grew up in the Soviet Union (Sergei Brin), and that he still created an infrastructure over which Lenin and Stalin would have virtually died from society-dominating ecstasy proves the insidious, unbridled nature of the internet, especially relative to that loose cannon of human nature, the"Dark Web" being the best example.

As for Capitalism and "greed", that famous speech from Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in 'Wall Street' is not the premonition of devastation that its writer, Oliver Stone, wrote it to be for that film's plot. In fact, he tells the story of often meeting people who said that that movie and that speech in particular led them to pursue a career in the financial world. Again, it all comes down to balancing human nature and values. I can take a hammer and use it either to build a house or sink it into someone's skull.

The hammer itself is neither good nor bad. Greed itself is neither good nor bad, in part because its definition cannot be agreed upon. The left sees Capitalism itself as greed for money. But, when you call them on their own "greed" for anything and everything that they most often irrationally desire, they call it 'finding their muse', 'living their passion', or generally 'being free', regardless of the consequences of their expression of that "greed".

They're no different from people who screw other people over money. The only problem I have with that scenario is that the Law often protects the thief. Then again, so it does regarding the "freedom of expression" that so many use to screw other people out of their own liberty.

In the end, Humanity is more the broken clock than it is the well-oiled machine that needs regular maintenance.

-P

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