We're Soft in Comparison to our Forefathers

There is an interesting read on FrontPageMag.com today called The Founders’ Solution for Terrorists. In it writer Debbie Schlussel describes some of the punishments meted out to Tory loyalists and other anti-Americans in the early days of this country. Besides risking being tarred and feathered, enemies of the state sometimes lost their property, their ability to work, and sometimes even their lives. In other words, dissenters were dealt with harshly. Think Abu Ghraib was bad? Listen to this. One individual who was convicted of aiding and abetting the enemy was sentenced to be hanged : “not ‘til you be dead, for you must be cut down alive…and then your head must be severed from your body, and your body divided into four quarters and these must be at the disposal of the Supreme Authority of the state.” Our forefathers didn’t tolerate anti-Americanism.

Can you picture a flag burner being transported back in time just as he lit the end of the cloth to set it on fire?

And here is a song made popular during the American Revolution, again disputing the liberals’ claims that our country was not founded on Christianity. It is called “Chester” and was written by William Billings.

Let tyrants shake their iron rods,
And Slav'ry clank her galling chains.
We fear them not, we trust in God.
New England's God forever reigns.
Howe and Burgoyne and Clinton, too,
With Prescott and Cornwallis joined,
Together plot our overthrow,
In one infernal league combined.
When God inspired us for the fight,
Their ranks were broke, their lines were forced,
Their ships were shattered in our sight,
Or swiftly driven from our coast.
The foe comes on with haughty stride,
Our troops advance with martial noise;
Their vet'rans flee before our youth,
And gen'rals yield to beardless boys.
What grateful off'ring shall we bring,
What shall we render to the Lord?
Loud hallelujahs let us sing,
And praise his name on ev'ry chord!