Thanksgiving Reality Reflections
As you prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, please take a moment to familiarize yourself with the reality that represents the history behind this *holiday* and what your really celebrating when you sit down with your loved ones this year.
With each passing year I find it increasingly more difficult and challenging to find anything to celebrate thanksgiving for. The majority of those who will celebrate this holiday will not acknowledge the true history that it represents, selective celebration, a celebration of denial and ignorance.
This year I will celebrate the reality that this kind of truth is surfacing more often across the internet and that as a result more individuals are being exposed to it.
Along with celebrating the opportunity to get together with family & friends, have a day or long weekend off from work and such, please also remember the origins of this holiday and the truth of the sacrifices made & lessons provided in that history.
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the coming 45 days
its gonna be an interesting time till 20 january 2009 to see if any of this takes place, for myself and mine ive laid in 25,000 rounds of ammo for all my fire arms, 6 months of stable food and water supplies, and have zoned and ranged the entire area where i live for protection of intervening forces that may or may not arrive and most of the former military men in thia area have done the same i have a force of about 300 prople that will fight to keep their independance from being threatened by any one
Thanks for?
Ken Driessen
at_lib@hotmail.com
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a unique holiday because it is neither religiously nor nationally inspired. While it is similar to ancient pagan harvest festivals, this holiday named 'Thanksgiving' has North American roots. Although it is popularly known to have been held at the Plymouth Plantation in 1621, the first Thanksgiving celebration recorded was held in St. Augustine Florida on September 8, 1565. These early Thanksgiving celebrations were not annual events. Sarah Hale, who wrote Mary Had a Little Lamb, began to petition the US government to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1846. Abraham Lincoln answered her request in 1863 making the 4th Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day. Franklin Roosevelt tried to make it a week earlier to help the economy by increasing the shopping season but in 1941 the Congress changed it back to the 4th Thursday.
For modern day Thanksgiving some people travel great distances so family and friends can gather for a big dinner and watch football. This year I've noticed quite a few pre-Thanksgiving Christmas commercials on TV. Everywhere in the news we are told this recession will lead to a depression if we don't bail out billionaire bankers and auto industry executives flying around in private jets. This depression may be the best possible thing for me. You see, I have been a mechanic, nurse aide, miner, first aide responder, millwright, industrial electrician, welder fabricator, and even an engineer. I was also a union steward rebelling against the trickle down theory and wars instigated to make people who have never worked a day in their lives rich beyond a workingman's comprehension. Some people around here who know me also know it is a mortal sin to express any politically dissenting opinion in public. Free speech upsets the money gods and his duly appointed angels will not tolerate free speech in any manner. Back in 1989 this "looser" bought 80 acres for $10,000 and built a house on the land myself. During a divorce and midlife crisis I sold it before the land speculators really got going and drove the price of land over $2000 per acre. If I worked all the overtime in the world at 10 times what I made back then I still could not afford to buy the same land back I used to own outright.
So while gods and money are still unquestionable mysterious forces that we all must bow to if we are to reach the economic status of well-fed slave, I remain unemployable in the eyes of the conformists. Yes, even as an individual who experiences the hate of many and the love of a few members of our community, I am grateful and hopeful this Thanksgiving. Grateful to be spending this 2008 American holiday with loving family and friends; hopeful that this recession/depression will continue until speculation and usury become worthless sin; then people who do mental and physical work for the benefit of mankind will reap their righteous rewards.
Peace and Happy Thanksgiving