The United States: Blood & Fire

[unhappycamper]

The United States: Blood & Fire
El Universal, Mexico
By Antonio Navalón
Translated By Marissa Hamilton
21 January 2011
Edited by Michelle Harris

“What we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on one another.” -Barack Obama.

The United States is a violent country. The right to bear arms, granted in its constitution, comes from an undeniable situation: a country created in blood and fire.

The Civil War came about because there was a grave conflict between the North and the South; there were slaves and an institutional model that had been dragged along from more than 70 years prior. Nevertheless, the inherent ethnic violence in the country under Jefferson Davis’s leadership reached its culmination when the defeated Southern forces, who had been such gentlemen in the war like they were scoundrels in times of peace, provoked a climate of social hatred— as if they were a Sarah Palin of sorts. After the war they put a bull’s eye on Abraham Lincoln’s head.

Uncle Abe, as often happens to exceptional politicians, lived in a moment in which he lost the floor. Despite his Secretary of State William Henry Sewald’s vow to protect him, Lincoln couldn’t avoid going to the Ford Theater to see the play, “Our American Cousin.” The play ended up being the “Divine Comedy” that took him to his death.

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It is possible that she (Gifford) will be saved and will recuperate a large part of her bodily functions. What is not possible is to continue, like Sarah Palin, to place bull’s eyes on people's heads, as people have grown weary of these radically offensive tactics. One also cannot continue acting like the Tea Party is turning into a furious animal full of hatred as it is already a danger, both for the Democrats as for the Republicans, and for Obama, or whoever else wants to be president.

[ixion]

1. In all fairness, ALL nation-states are made from blood, fire, tears and money....

just sayin'...it's humans, as a species, that are violent. It's not limited to the US.

[cali]

2. well said.

[ixion]

4. Thanks, cali!

:toast:

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Who is Mauro Rivera Pilan?

A quick Google led me to some Spanish language sites, which I can't read. I know that many people don't accept James Earl Ray as MLK's killer, but I've never heard of Pilan.