Comments on: UPDATED: A July 4th Toast To Thomas Jefferson And The Anglo-Saxon Tradition

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:06:30 +0000

Great stuff Ilana. The last three paragraphs, the words of Hamilton, were brilliantly prophetic in 1802 and unhappily a prophecy fulfilled today.

Hope all of you folks had a good fourth.

Huggs..

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:37:26 +0000

I am eternally grateful that my forebears, lawful Jewish European immigrants into these United States, were able to benefit from the Anglo-Saxon system Ilana describes. In just one generation, a descendant of poor Russian peasants was offered a full scholarship in engineering to Cornell (there was no affirmative action back then.) Another forebear, a descendant of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, authored several patents on new technology. This would never have been possible in the Old Europe; the system set up in this country, based on its Anglo-Saxon heritage, allowed lawful immigrants to excel beyond what they might have ever dreamed of achieving under persecution in their former homelands.

Thank you, Thomas Jefferson, and other Founders: You provided the framework that allowed many to achieve their dreams…not by providing “government benefits,” but by providing the ultimate benefit of freedom from government coercion.

By: Steve in Texas

Steve in Texas — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:27:12 +0000

The real genius of Anglo-Saxon government was the bottom-up approach, with leaders being chosen at the lowest level and being given greater responsibility as they proved themselves worthy.

In many ways the exact opposite of today’s party system.

By: DENNIS

DENNIS — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:01:34 +0000

The United States – warts and all – is my home. Perpetrating theft, fraud, murder, slavery, bigotry, or any other moral infraction on the lives, persons, or property of fellow Citizens is the same as doing so to my blood relatives and dearest friends, so, I avoid those actions as best I can. As a nation, we have reached the standard of living, including education, we have because we have practiced a system of mutually beneficial, voluntary trade, i.e. I’ll buy your loaf of bread for $$$ as long as you have made it with quality ingredients and skill at a competitive price. I believe this is the system that will raise the rest of the world up from ignorance, poverty, and bare-subsistence existence. Please…believe in your “home” and celebrate its birthday for without a “home”, we will become purposeless vagrants and nomads in a very harsh world. HAPPY 4th of JULY TO ALL.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:11:03 +0000

Certain concepts of justice, property. and the Liberty Bell’s inscription: ” Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof” go further back to ancestors of Ilana and myself. Nevertheless, after the Jewish state was decimated by Rome, the religion focused primarily on maintaining religious traditions in vulnerable ghettoes for 1600 years. Christianity was co-opted by the Roman Empire and the divine authority of Kings until the Protestant reformation brought Cromwell, the Glorious Revolution, and the Enlightenment to England that combined the ancient Torah-based concepts with a modern Parliament-based constitutional monarchy.

Unfortunately, England viewed the American colonies as not part of England but as part of an Empire with SUBJECTS made up of a motley ensemble of fortune seekers, slaves, debtors, former indentured servants, Indian “savages”, Frenchmen (in Quebec) to be controlled and managed by agents of the King. The Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act were examples of this imperial management that greatly upset the colonists. The taxes were small charges to force the colonial freeloaders to pay for the “benefits” of the Empire. Thus Jefferson and the other White Christian Men (OOPS – Politically Incorrect) that gathered in Philadelphia sought to restore their inalienable rights.