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2019-03-27 -Land of the Free

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Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2019-03-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 And thus the US Navy was created to defeat the Barbary Pirates.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2019-03-27 04:27|| 2019-03-27 04:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The US Navy was created at the very beginning of the Revolutionary War. Ezek Hopkins was the first Commodore.

Posted by Uleck Spererong9442 2019-03-27 06:41|| 2019-03-27 06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 captured two American ships, the Maria and Dauphin, and enslaved their crews.

Slave reparations anybody? Seems at the time, slaving was an equal opportunity operation regardless of race, color, or creed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-27 08:01|| 2019-03-27 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Which is why Jefferson had a copy of the koran. "Tom what the hell is going on with these muslims"?

Sadly 233 years later we refuse to condemn a murderous death cult founded by a pedophile caravan robber. The story of his child sex trades and slaughter in Medina should have been enough.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-03-27 08:35|| 2019-03-27 08:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The Revolutionary War Navy was before the US Government was official and the colonies were not occupied by British forces, of which George Washington would become the first US President, and who would then form the official US Navy as described below www.History.Navy.Mil.

Naval History and Heritage Command

Some three months before President Washington signed the Naval Act of 1794 into law ─ the act authorizing the construction of the Navy’s first six frigates ─ Congress passed a resolution to establish with haste a national navy that could protect U.S. commercial vessels from attacks by Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean and nearby Atlantic waters.

The resolution passed narrowly ─ 46 to 44 ─ and resulted in the creation of a nine-man committee to study issues of naval buildup, especially cost and size. On 6 February 1794, the committee recommended four 44-gun ships and two 20-gun ships.

Congressional debate on whether to act on the committee’s recommendation lasted until 10 March and built on years of indecision and ambivalence on the issue of a national navy. While everyone agreed that the British were behind the Barbary attacks and were otherwise imperiling United States trade in the West Indies and elsewhere, there were sharp differences of opinion on whether the establishment of a navy might help or hurt Americans’ chances of maintaining neutrality in this most dangerous moment...

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Posted by Neville Dark Lord of the Wee Folk7365 2019-03-27 10:18|| 2019-03-27 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 They were men of the Enlightenment, and sadly, the Enlightenment has no idea how to permanently deal with Dark Age savagery.

So we have temporary expediences and "shock and awe" and then we get bored and frustrated and hope the problem goes away or can be sufficiently mitigated to be forgotten or ignored.

And then it starts all over again.

Something tells me that Locke and Hume and Voltaire and Montesquieu ain't gonna be the answer,

Posted by charger 2019-03-27 19:44|| 2019-03-27 19:44|| Front Page Top

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