Posted by
thekeenobserver on Monday, October 12, 2009 6:15:51 PM
One of the more painful stories of our American Revolution is that of William Franklin:
When Benjamin Franklin flew his kite in a thunderstorm (in his famous experiment), his illegitimate son, William, was his only companion. Together they traveled through the western woods of Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War, and fought in the colony's protracted political battles.
But mysteriously, as war with England approached, Ben Franklin's son grew steadfastly loyal to Great Britain and King George. After his father had became an outspoken advocate of revolution, William Franklin refused to take up arms against his "mother country."
In 1779, loyalist William Franklin was captured and imprisoned by New Jersey colonial forces.
Later - upon his release - Franklin headed the "Board of Associated Loyalists" out of British-occupied New York, rallying those Americans who opposed revolution. In 1782, he fled to England and was thus bitterly disowned by his father.
Benjamin Franklin - upon his death - left orders that none of his vast wealth was to be given to his loyalist son..."who had opposed me so many years before."
In England, William Franklin died a poor, depressed man in 1813.
Although Ben Franklin would never understand it back then, if he were alive now, he'd simply shrug his shoulders and say..."My once-beloved son had been born a liberal."
When British policy tightened during a "recession" in New England, passage of the hated Sugar Act in 1764 furnished tax-collector Samuel Adams with fuel enough to spark the first colonial resistance. Adams also sought to discredit his local enemies - particularly Massachusetts governor, Thomas Hutchinson.
Enforcement of the Sugar Act was counter to Boston merchants, who had accepted molasses smuggling as a way of life. They had no intention to pay the new three-pence levy on sugar imports.
The radical Adams had drafted a set of instructions, attacking the Sugar Act as unreasonable, being contrary to the "natural rights of each and every colonist," because it had been levied "without assent from a legally elected representative."
Hence, the battle cry, "no taxation without representation," had been sounded.
But what if Samuel Adams had also been born a liberal. Would there even be a United States of America today?
Undoubtedly, a liberal Sam Adams would have promulgated the unlawful sugar tax, and would have - in the back of his mind - planned on replacing Hutchinson as governor; and currying favor as "King George's most trusted man in America."
But that's basically how all liberal politicians see themselves:
Have they EVER been known to be patriotic?
Liberals lust for power; seeing themselves as superior to their fellow man. They have a compulsion to control everyone's lives, because it is THEY who know what's best for their inferior constituents.
Ironically, liberals always use their power to deny others liberty; but do it in the name of being "fair to all."
But even more ironic is that Massachusetts, once the colonial origin of patriotic fervor - blossoming into the American revolution - now clouds our survival as a free republic, and threatens the transforming of America into a socialist, unconstitutional nanny state.
Indeed, Massachusetts has become a synonym for the dreaded word "liberal," and no man who ever served in government fits better that moniker than the late, slithery hero of the Left, Senator Edward (Teddy) Kennedy - the lion born with a chicken heart.
Teddy Kennedy was a marital cheat, proven liar, shameless demagogue, and probable murderer. Indeed, in the mind of the liberal, he was a great man: It was all for a good cause - expanding the political power of the Left.
And despite his wonderful "known" traits", it's been well-concealed that Kennedy had been a dangerous US security risk - dropped from Army Intelligence School (in 1951) - and later, becoming a genuine traitor - offering US nuclear arms negotiation secrets to the Soviet Union.
After being expelled from Harvard for cheating, Ted Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1951. After basic training at Fort Dix, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped (after a few weeks) "without explanation."
In mid July of '69, While America’s eyeballs were diverted to Neil Armstrong’s step onto the moon, Chappaquiddick subtly competed for the headlines.
Despite testimony from a diver that Mary Joe Kopechne appeared to have died of asphyxiation (while gasping for oxygen in an air pocket), the local coroner refused to perform an autopsy, ruling her death an "accidental" drowning; and released her corpse for burial in another state.
Later, attempts to exhume her body were successfully fought by Kopechne's own family - having received $150,000 dollars in KNOWN hush money.
One year after the incident, the official inquest into Kopechne’s death was done in secret - on orders from the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
Was Kopechne’s death really a tragic accident? We’ll never know for sure now; but Ted Kennedy HAD to have performed near-magic for the sake of his political career - which was of course, all that mattered.
Later, in 1983, honest Teddy Kennedy was apparently willing to engage in treason for political gain.
In quotes from a Soviet memorandum (discovered by a London Times reporter) Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the Soviet KGB, had addressed a note to Premier Yuri Androp; the subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.
But first, we flash back to 1981, and the swearing-in of Ronald Reagan:
In the early 1980's, Ted Kennedy had been a key supporter of Randall Forsberg's "Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign," a Soviet-sponsored initiative that would have unilaterally reduced America's nuclear capabilities, with no concomitant concessions from the Soviet side.
In effect, Kennedy's sponsorship of a nuclear freeze was an actual declaration of surrender. As Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, warned at the time, "If a nuclear freeze goes through, America won't exist in 1990."
On March 24, 1983 -- the day after Ronald Reagan's Strategic Missile Defense speech, Kennedy went to the Senate floor and condemned the President's "misleading Red-Scare tactics and reckless Star Wars schemes."
Indeed, it was Kennedy who had christened the bold initiative as "Star Wars."
Kennedy's secret overtures to the Soviet Union (via the KGB) were presented by Kennedy's old college roommate - then Democratic Senator from California, John Tunney, who had traveled overseas to Russia in 1983.
According to the KGB note, Kennedy was "deeply fearful" that the two nations were coming perilously close to nuclear confrontation, and spoke of his desire to stop Reagan's allegedly aggressive defense policies; and thus, his 1984 re-election bid.
Kennedy had suggested a plan to put Premier Yuri Andropov in touch with influential members of the American media, through whom he would "better present" his message of co-operation, and make his case for ending the Cold War.
The plan? Ted Kennedy sought to paint Reagan as the aggressor in the Cold War; and Andropov as a man of peace.
Kennedy and friends would hook-up Andropov with television reporters Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters, with an opportunity to appeal directly to the American people about the so-called "peaceful intentions of the U.S.S.R."
In essence, Kennedy would assist the Soviets (in crossing Reagan) by telling them how to "brush up" on their propaganda. Kennedy planned to allow Andropov to be favorably interviewed on American television, and would make certain the arrangement would be rigged to look like "honest journalism."
BOTTOM LINE: Mr. Kennedy would "root out the threat of nuclear war" and "improve Soviet-American relations," while hurting Reagan's 1984 re-election prospects.
The memo closes with Chebrikov saying that..."Tunney remarked that Senator Kennedy wants to run for president in 1988, suggesting the remarkable lengths to which some on the American Left, including a sitting U.S. senator, were willing to go to stop Ronald Reagan."
Even in a jaded world, is it not incredible to discover a U.S. senator, secretly collaborating with Soviet leaders in an attempt to undermine Reagan's nuclear defense policy, during the height of the Cold War?
This information was only released AFTER the breakup of the USSR, and has seldom been acknowledged by our lamestream media.
And par for the course, liberals are denying yet another Ted Kennedy horror story. That's because if you're compassionate (liberal) enough, you too can betray your country - get away with it - and even be called a "lion."
And in yet another dastardly cover-up, Kennedy had begun collaborating with the Soviets well before Reagan was elected, having had a direct hand in passing the 1978 "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act."
As a result of Kennedy's treasonous efforts - crafted to prevent detection of his seditious activities - the FBI was later prevented from accessing critical intelligence that could have warned of 9-11.
In 1992, the full story was published in the London Times. Predictably - in the U.S - it would receive no attention - not a word in the liberal American media.
In his 2006 book, "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism," historian Paul Kengor reprinted the memorandum in full: “The media,” Kengor says, “ignored the revelation.”
Gee whiz, doesn't that make one wonder how many other treasonous Washington Leftists our constitutionally protected "Fourth Estate" may be ignoring?
And given all that, it's plain to see why these darling Liberals are so very forgiving of their own: they all have so much in common.
Liberals seem universally wicked. Their only means to retain power is by bullying, lying, cheating, stealing...and if necessary, betraying their country; because to an atheistic, God-denying liberal, the end ALWAYS justifies the means.
"And the meek shall inherit the earth."