And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
As a(n admittedly biased Brit) I always noted as how much of The US seemed to operate, interpret, enforce laws/regulations in a much more ‘Germanic’ (the whole “That which is not expressly allowed, is verboten” as opposed to the Anglo “That which is not expressly forbidden, is allowed”) manner than others. And yes, The South is better, which is why I always flew into GWB International (Lord save me from NY!).
There is this video of 2 Conferderate Veterans that was filmed in 1929 and they consistently refer to the Union Army as "The Dutch". We are so far from understanding what was going through peoples minds during the Civil War it's ridiculous. In their minds the were fighting the Dutch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTf44Wwa2Fo
And note the hard left governments most of those German areas have. Lucky for me, my German ancestors came South
ReplyDeleteAs a(n admittedly biased Brit) I always noted as how much of The US seemed to operate, interpret, enforce laws/regulations in a much more ‘Germanic’ (the whole “That which is not expressly allowed, is verboten” as opposed to the Anglo “That which is not expressly forbidden, is allowed”) manner than others. And yes, The South is better, which is why I always flew into GWB International (Lord save me from NY!).
Deletenow I'd like to see another map including "More Residents of Spanish Ancestry"
ReplyDeleteThere is this video of 2 Conferderate Veterans that was filmed in 1929 and they consistently refer to the Union Army as "The Dutch". We are so far from understanding what was going through peoples minds during the Civil War it's ridiculous. In their minds the were fighting the Dutch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTf44Wwa2Fo
ReplyDeleteIt was Germans, they got the Dutch label from Deutschland (what the germans call Germany)
DeleteThat was my point though maybe i didn't make it very well. I guess from a Confederate point of view we've had 3 wars against the Germans!
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