ZGram - 11/22/2001 - "Thanksgiving Thoughts: More Relevant Than Ever!"

[irimland@zundelsite.org]

  Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

 ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

 November 22, 2001

 Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

 MacKenzie Paine, who writes and/or sends her searing Truth-Seeking
Missiles (to subscribe, write to natalie@tadp.org) has found George
Washington's first Thanksgiving Speech somewhere on the Net.  In light of
what is happening, this speech can really bring tears to your eyes.

 I borrow the text from her and add only one important item - the names of
the 11 US Senators who *refused* to bow to the Israeli Lobby and would not
sign what is called the "The Bond/Schumer Letter for Strong Support of
Israel".

 As I understand it, this document was asking President Bush to make yet
another concession by toning down General Colin Powell's long-awaited
speech on giving the Palestinian a state of their own and the dignity these
tormented people have longed for and deserved.

 These courageous senators are:

 Joseph Biden
 Jeff Bingaman
 Robert Byrd
 Thad Cochran
 Judd Gregg
 Chuck Hagel
 James Feffords
 Patrick Leahy
 Richard Lugar
 Patty Murray
 Pat Roberts

  These senators deserve the thanks of all freedom-loving Americans on this
Thanksgiving Day.  If, later in the day, someone on my list will take the
time ferret out their e-mails, I will send them to you in a separate
e-mail.

 Here is the Thanksgiving Speech by the most extraordinary of the Founding
Fathers of the American Republic, its first President, George Washington.
I also include a bit of historical background:

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 From Spark's Washington, Vol. XII, p. 119

 The  following background information was submitted by Wayne Winters of
Pocatello,  Idaho.

 Shortly after the Thanksgiving Proclamation was written it was  lost for
over a hundred years. It was apparently misplaced or attached to some
private papers in the process of moving official records from one city to
another when the capital was changed. However, it happened the original
manuscript was not in the official archives until 1921 when Dr. J. C.
Fitzpatrick, then assistant chief of the manuscripts division of the
Library of  Congress "found" the proclamation. It was at an auction sale
being held at an  art gallery in New York. It was written in long hand by
Wm. Jackson, secretary  to President Washington and was signed by George
Washington. Dr Fitzpatrick  purchased the document for $300.00 for the
Library of Congress, where it now  resides.

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 The Speech

 Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge  the providence of
Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His  benefits, and
humbly to implore His protection and favor; and Whereas both  Houses of
Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me "to recommend to  the
people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be
observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors
of  Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to
establish  a form of government for their safety and happiness:"

 Now, therefore, I  do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of
November next, to be devoted  by the people of these States to the service
of that great and glorious Being  who is the beneficent author of all the
good that was, that is, or that will be;  that we may then all unite in
rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks  for His kind care and
protection of the people of this country previous to their  becoming a
nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable
interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late
war;  for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have
since  enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been
enable to  establish constitutions of government for our safety and
happiness, and  particularly the national one now lately instituted' for
the civil and religious  liberty with which we are blessed, and the means
we have of acquiring and  diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for
all the great and various  favors which He has been pleased to confer upon
us.

  And also that we may  then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and
supplications to the great  Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to
pardon our national and other  transgressions; to enable us all, whether in
public or private stations, to  perform our several and relative duties
properly and punctually; to render our  National Government a blessing to
all the people by constantly being a  Government of wise, just, and
constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully  executed and obeyed; to
protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially  such as have show
kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments,  peace, and
concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and
virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally to
grant  unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone
knows to be  best.

 Given under my hand, at the city of New York, the 3d dy of  October, A.D.
1789.

 G. Washington

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 Thought for the Day:

 "They're [a Mexican activist group] are so sick of the ADL, et al, that
they're now more interested in saving America than taking it over."

 (Letter to the Zundelsite)