From: "heather" <heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: [v-nv-mobilize] The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:51:25 -0000


Hope you enjoy  this, jt, as much as we all enjoy your posts
;-)
H
> I live today in a socialist, totalitarian police state
> controlled by
> legal tender, fiat currency capitalists.
> Implementation of
> socialism, other than as a voluntary community,
> requires the
> use of force because some of us take issue with being
> robbed
> of our labor. And since everyone will not volunteer
> for such a
> community, an armed force is necessary to protect the
> assets
> of even a voluntary socialist community.
>
> Democracy is the vehicle by which the productive are
> robbed by
> parasites via an armed force controlled by the
> parasites. As has
> been aptly described, democracy is two wolves and a
> sheep
> voting on what to have for dinner.
>
> Jim
>
>
> The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
> by Richard J. Marbury
>
> Each year at this time school children all over
> America are taught the
> official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio,
> TV, and magazines
> devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all
> very colorful
> and fascinating.
>
> It is also very deceiving. This official story is
> nothing like what
> really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and
> sanitized
> collection of half-truths which divert attention away
> from
> Thanksgiving's real meaning.
>
> The official story has the pilgrims boarding the
> Mayflower, coming to
> America and establishing the Plymouth colony in the
> winter of 1620-21.
> This first winter is hard, and half the colonists die.
> But the
> survivors are hard working and tenacious, and they
> learn new farming
> techniques from the Indians. The harvest of 1621 is
> bountiful. The
> Pilgrims hold a celebration, and give thanks to God.
> They are grateful
> for the wonderful new abundant land He has given them.
>
> The official story then has the Pilgrims living more
> or less happily
> ever after, each year repeating the first
> Thanksgiving. Other early
> colonies also have hard times at first, but they soon
> prosper and
> adopt the annual tradition of giving thanks for this
> prosperous new
> land called America.
>
> The problem with this official story is that the
> harvest of 1621 was
> not bountiful, nor were the colonists hardworking or
> tenacious. 1621
> was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy
> thieves.
>
> In his `History of Plymouth Plantation,' the governor
> of the colony,
> William Bradford, reported that the colonists went
> hungry for years,
> because they refused to work in the fields. They
> preferred instead to
> steal food. He says the colony was riddled with
> "corruption," and with
> "confusion and discontent." The crops were small
> because "much was
> stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce
> eatable."
>
> In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, "all had their
> hungry bellies
> filled," but only briefly. The prevailing condition
> during those years
> was not the abundance the official story claims, it
> was famine and
> death. The first "Thanksgiving" was not so much a
> celebration as it
> was the last meal of condemned men.
>
> But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest
> of 1623 was
> different. Suddenly, "instead of famine now God gave
> them plenty,"
> Bradford wrote, "and the face of things was changed,
> to the rejoicing
> of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God."
> Thereafter, he
> wrote, "any general want or famine hath not been
> amongst them since to
> this day." In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced
> that the
> colonists were able to begin exporting corn.
>
> What happened?
>
> After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, "they
> began to think
> how they might raise as much corn as they could, and
> obtain a better
> crop." They began to question their form of economic
> organization.
>
> This had required that "all profits & benefits that
> are got by trade,
> working, fishing, or any other means" were to be
> placed in the common
> stock of the colony, and that, "all such persons as
> are of this
> colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and
> all provisions out
> of the common stock." A person was to put into the
> common stock all he
> could, and take out only what he needed.
>
> This "from each according to his ability, to each
> according to his
> need" was an early form of socialism, and it is why
> the Pilgrims were
> starving. Bradford writes that "young men that are
> most able and fit
> for labor and service" complained about being forced
> to "spend their
> time and strength to work for other men's wives and
> children." Also,
> "the strong, or man of parts, had no more in division
> of victuals and
> clothes, than he that was weak." So the young and
> strong refused to
> work and the total amount of food produced was never
> adequate.
>
> To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished
> socialism. He
> gave each household a parcel of land and told them
> they could keep
> what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit.
> In other words,
> he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was
> the end of
> famines.
>
> Many early groups of colonists set up socialist
> states, all with the
> same terrible results. At Jamestown, established in
> 1607, out of every
> shipload of settlers that arrived, less than half
> would survive their
> first twelve months in America. Most of the work was
> being done by
> only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths
> choosing to be
> parasites. In the winter of 1609-10, called "The
> Starving Time," the
> population fell from five-hundred to sixty.
>
> Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free
> market, and the
> results were every bit as dramatic as those at
> Plymouth. In 1614,
> Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote that after the
> switch there was
> "plenty of food, which every man by his own industry
> may easily and
> doth procure." He said that when the socialist system
> had prevailed,
> "we reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty
> men as three men
> have done for themselves now."
>
> Before these free markets were established, the
> colonists had nothing
> for which to be thankful. They were in the same
> situation as
> Ethiopians are today, and for the same reasons. But
> after free markets
> were established, the resulting abundance was so
> dramatic that the
> annual Thanksgiving celebrations became common
> throughout the
> colonies, and in 1863, Thanksgiving became a national
> holiday.
>
> Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from
> the official
> story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only
> source of
> abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in
> a country where
> we can have them.
>
> ====> "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of
> servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
> go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms.
> Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your
> chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye
> were our countrymen."
>
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