STOP THE LIES

STOP THE LIES! Saying that the American “Founding Fathers” would have been “horrified” by the conduct of President Donald John Trump, as reported in the media, is far more than being mildly hyperbolic! Just stop to consider that the “Founding Fathers “ approved the duplicitous counting of ‘3/5s’ of the enslaved black people in Article 1, Section 2, of the 1789 Constitution’s tax and representation numerical quotas , while denying their blacks the legal status of basic ‘personhood;’ saying, rather, that blacks, (slave or free), like chattel—cows, horses, pigs, sheep —had no legal rights that white people were duty bound to respect, in 1857. Not even Donald Trump has been so vain as these founding fathers! Vanity! Oh vanity! Compound it by claiming that slaveholder George Washington never told a lie, after chopping down the cherry tree; that Benjamin Franklin flew a kite in the lightning storm with a key attached, miraculously discovered electricity, and avoided electric shock! And the greater shock was to claim that the “Declaration of Independence” was written by the slaveholder, Thomas Jefferson, not by pamphleteer, snubbed-Founding Father, Thomas Paine, of “Common Sense” who was not a slaveholder, but was an early American rarity, abolitionist! Horrified by Trump, you say! No way! For neither Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee nor the Confederate States of America’s hierarchy—civil or military—were ever tried for treason, nor hung outright, despite causing the secession deaths of a million men, women and children! Horrified by Trump? Stop the lies!