No BenZapp I believe you are incorrect.
According to the book "John Adams" by David McCullough and the book "George Washington" and the book "Ben Franklin" the term "terrorist" was used by both the Brittish Crown and Colonists as far back as 1774, almost 25 years before the French Revolution. Terror inflicted on the colonists since 1595 Jamestown, was refered to 100 years earlier than the Napoleonic Wars.
But the terms Freedom and Terrorist are IMHO, subjective at best, and completely relative to the group using them. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.
More depressing is the notion you maintain that Freedom is not the natural state of man. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," i.e, "Freedom" is a right by all men.
"Your vision of freedom is a dream, a dream that has never really existed. Perhaps it existed in the early days of the American Republic for a few rich landowners of European decent....."
Again, you oversimplify freedom by infering that if some indiginous natives and imported slaves were not free, then nobody was free. Even today in the U.S, the top 1% of the income population are still completely free. Our impending crisis in the U.S. today is that the middle classes have lost all their freedoms because they cannot use political and monetary influence to "clear the park" for their arrival prior to a picnic, for example, or that a large legal team can get them out of harms way with authorities before charges are even filed.
Your example of Hati as a demonstration of what a 200 year free society is unfair. Hati is a deperately overpopulated island populated by tribal and voodo obsession, which is the only reason it is a "living hell" as you put it.
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No BenZapp I believe you are incorrect. According to the book "John Adams" by David McCullough and the book "George Washington" and the book "Ben Franklin" the term "terrorist" was used by both the Brittish Crown and Colonists as far back as 1774, almost 25 years before the French Revolution. Terror inflicted on the colonists since 1595 Jamestown, was refered to 100 years earlier than the Napoleonic Wars. But the terms Freedom and Terrorist are IMHO, subjective at best, and completely relative to the group using them. One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. More depressing is the notion you maintain that Freedom is not the natural state of man. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," i.e, "Freedom" is a right by all men. "Your vision of freedom is a dream, a dream that has never really existed. Perhaps it existed in the early days of the American Republic for a few rich landowners of European decent....." Again, you oversimplify freedom by infering that if some indiginous natives and imported slaves were not free, then nobody was free. Even today in the U.S, the top 1% of the income population are still completely free. Our impending crisis in the U.S. today is that the middle classes have lost all their freedoms because they cannot use political and monetary influence to "clear the park" for their arrival prior to a picnic, for example, or that a large legal team can get them out of harms way with authorities before charges are even filed. Your example of Hati as a demonstration of what a 200 year free society is unfair. Hati is a deperately overpopulated island populated by tribal and voodo obsession, which is the only reason it is a "living hell" as you put it. pacplyer