On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:51:52 +0100, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One side's patriot is the other side's traitor. One side's freedom > fighter is the other side's terrorist*. However, old Ben was never a > combatant. Much worse, he was a diplomat encouraging the King's more > dangerous enemies, the French. > > *To the best of my knowledge the rebels (revolutionists, since we won) > never committed atrocities against civilians. The Kings men didn't > always draw that line however. But, that may depend upon whose history > books you read. > > -graywolf Since the British civilians were 4,000 miles away, it would have been hard to have atrocified them. J > > > Christian wrote: >> Bob W wrote: >>> It's Benjamin Franklin, >>> terrorist, >> >> We prefer "freedom fighter" or "patriot" :-) >> >> > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
