Bet ya didn’t know that Ben Franklin was the world’s first blogger? (Hat tip: The Smedley Log)
Not so far a stretch, really. He pamphleteered, self-published, delivered colonial dish, news and opinion, sampled other’s work and remixed it into his own mash.
He wrote anonymously, or under pseudonyms. Instead of posting daily, he squirreled away his words and published them in an almanac.
Doesn’t this sound familiar?
Happy Birthday Ben! — Colonial America’s philosopher and conscience who was born 300 years ago today.
[RELATED STORY – Pete duPont says Mr. Franklin would be firmly on the side of President Bush in NSA- wiretapping-of-terror-suspects debate.
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant on calls between American citizens in the United States and people abroad who are, or are suspected of having ties to, terrorists?
Benjamin Franklin (whose 300th birthday is today) would not have thought so. In 1776 he and his four colleagues on the Continental Congress’s foreign affairs committee (called the Committee of Secret Correspondence) unanimously agreed that they could not tell the Congress about the covert assistance France was giving the American Revolution, because it would be harmful to America if the information leaked, and “we find by fatal experience that Congress consists of too many members to keep secrets.”
(This is such a loser issue for the SurrenderCrats!) ]
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
He was America’s first “Rock Star” personality.
As with Abraham Lincoln, the likes of him will not pass this way again.
Regards,
Peter Hughes
“we find by fatal experience that Congress consists of too many members to keep secrets.”
Notice the reliance on structural properties. He was not saying that one party or another could not keep a secret, but that the structure of the body itself precluded it.
Today, most structural arguments are made by the republicans. Its as if the left of center does not understand the underpinings of liberty… or my worst fear… that they do, and don’t like it.
Dear God,
Please bless us with more Franklins, Adams, Hamiltons, Jeffersons, and Washingtons. We sorely need them.
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Given the commentary and proclivities of today’s liberal kooks to cheerlead for our enemies, I wouldn’t trust them anymore than I could throw Ted Kennedy.
And if you wanted Teddy to move, all it would take is tossing a bottle of Chivas Regal.
That ignores the fact that the US Constitution wasn’t ratified until 1789 making wiretaps on American citizens illegal without a warrant.
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