END THE FED at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

[Brad Zink]

ACTION ALERT:

New Yorkers will bring the END THE FED movement to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade:


Contact: Drew
www.nyccfl.com (http://www.nyccfl.com)
nyccfl@gmail.com
347-493-6661

Meet at 10:30 am
Columbus Circle (Central Park Corner)
8th Ave
New York, NY 11220

"Wear Your End the Fed T-Shirt and bring Literature and DVDs"

RestoreTheRepublic (http://www.restoretherepublic.net/group_announcement.php?group_id=82&announcement_id=209)

[s35wf]

bump.
wish i was in ny; but ill be watching on tv from fl.

[Jeremy]

good idea :)

[JamesButabi]

That is awesome.

[Danke]

The Real History Of Thanksgiving



Thanksgiving Day is one of my favorite special days of the year, and not because of the great food. The real virtues of this unique American celebration lie in the lessons in humility and maturity offered by its history. Offered, that is, by its true history, not the "Thank God (sorry, politically incorrect-- make that, "Thank Fortuitous Random Chance"...) we were saved from starvation by the generosity of our neighbors-- see how wonderful socialism can be!" lie about the feast we commemorate each fourth Thursday in November, which is systematically drilled into the head of every American child who has been put into the hands of the Obedience Training and Approved Knowledge Implantation Centers otherwise known as "public schools". In fact, the feast we commemorate had nothing whatsoever to do with "generosity"-- indeed, the truth is almost the very opposite. What we actually commemorate on Thanksgiving is the effect of the Plymouth Rock colonist's having come to recognize that only when each person looks to his or her own interests, and has a secure claim to the proceeds of his or her own efforts, can a society truly prosper.



In very brief summary, the Plymouth Rock colony began as a commune, organized under the principle that the proceeds of every individual's labors would be claimed of right by the community as a whole, and then redistributed in equal measure to every member. This system lasted for several years, during which the colony grew ever more hungry and impoverished until, in 1623 and on the verge of the colony's failure, this feel-good foolishness was replaced by formal acknowledgement that no one has the right to dictate the disposal of the product of another's labor. The practice of holding that the community had a claim on the food produced by each member was done away with, and the colonist's rights to their own production was secured. Only then did the colony have its first bountiful harvest, for which the members properly gave thanks. It is this that we have celebrated ever since. William Bradford, governor of the colony during these years, expresses the lesson taken by these ancestors of the American revolutionaries of a century-and-a-half hence with these words:

"The experience that has had in this common course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst Godly and sober men, may well evince the Vanities of the conceit of Plato's and other ancients, applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of propertie, and bringing into commone wealth, would make them happy and flourishing, as if they were wiser than God."

The experience of the Plymouth Rock Colony was firmly in the American memory at the time that our founding principles were spelled out and inscribed into permanence in our great chartering documents-- the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and our federal and various state Constitutions. That memory contributed to the fact that prominent among these principles is that no government (which is, in theory, the agent of the community acting as a whole) has a claim of right to any property other than its own, and that produced by the exercise of its own unique prerogatives. The virtuous lessons learned by the Plymouth Rock Colony's near-disastrous experiment with a fancied "alternative" to this basic reality of natural law; and the wisdom of our Founders in taking those lessons to heart and hardwiring them into our American legal structure; are well worth giving thanks for, and celebrating with an annual ritual of remembrance. by Peter Hendrickson



(A somewhat more comprehensive discussion of the history of Thanksgiving, by the excellent Richard J. Maybury, can be found here (http://www.mises.org/story/336).)