Every year Americans go through the thoughtless rituals of Thanksgiving
 Day, without actually knowing anything about the Pilgrims, the
 Mayflower Compact, or the society the Puritans established in modern
 day Massachusetts. In an ironic twist of fate, millions of Americans sit
 down to a turkey feast, in order to celebrate the religious freedom of early
 settlers who came to the New World precisely for the purpose of creating
 a Zion in the Wilderness, a utopian place where absolutely NO religious
 freedom would be allowed.

 Several years before the Mayflower arrived with the first boat-load of
 illegal immigrants, Puritan separatists fled England for the Netherlands,
 soon deciding to relocate altogether in the Americas. However, these
 Puritans did not so much seek freedom, as much as they sought to escape
 what they thought was a permissive environment, fostered by the Church
 of England. The migration of the Pilgrims in 1620 was the beginning of a
 larger migration of Europeans to the New World. The increasing interest
 in the New World as a source of easily exploitable wealth enabled the
 Pilgrims to obtain financing through the assistance of a group of investors
 called the London Adventurers. The agreement was that the Adventurers
 would put up the money, and the settlers would perform the labor, and
 they would divide the profits equally. Needless to say, this venture --
 while historic -- was not profitable. The original decision had been to
 land within the domain of the Virginia charter, but as a result of bad
 weather, they wound up in what is today Massachusetts. The Mayflower
 Compact, the document that was signed by those first settlers, was not
 intended to imply that the settlers were agreeing upon any new or radical
 democratic system of government. It was actually a modified form of
 customary church covenant to meet a temporary crisis in an unfamiliar
 situation. This first European state in the New World, at Plymouth, was a
 theocratic dictatorship. It was a throwback to the 1200s, with a pillory
 and public stockade for those who gave in to temptation, and engaged in
 any disallowed activity. The Mayflower Compact guaranteed that the
 colony would remain under the iron control of the Pilgrim Fathers for the
 first 40 years of its existence..................

.........Massachusetts Bay was the strongest colony in New England, and it had  been founded in 1629, by a charter granted to, "The Governor and
 Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England." It was clear that
 the intention of the Crown had been to charter an ordinary
 stockholder-type commercial venture, but through shrewd and illegal
 maneuvers, the benefactors of the charter transferred the management
 and the charter itself to the New World, to Massachusetts itself. ........
............
Massachusetts Bay was the strongest colony in New England, and it had
 been founded in 1629, by a charter granted to, "The Governor and
 Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England." It was clear that
 the intention of the Crown had been to charter an ordinary
 stockholder-type commercial venture, but through shrewd and illegal
 maneuvers, the benefactors of the charter transferred the management
 and the charter itself to the New World, to Massachusetts itself. .....
.........
However,
 the colonists were pursuing a grasping land policy which was causing the
 native American Indians increasing degrees of desperation, as the
 encroaching White Man deliberately penned them in. One of the most
 powerful driving forces among the white people was pure greed,
 something that is justified today with the capitalist ideological-moral that if
 it makes money, it is good........
.........
It is a serious mistake to practice holidays based on a false history. The
 young people find out on their own that they are involved in a lie, and it
 makes them rage with fury and contempt. To watch a whole society
 practice empty rituals that celebrate horrible people, while deceiving
 ourselves into justifying what those horrible people did, is an
 abomination. It should surprise no one that after raising children honoring
 the memory of the Pilgrim fathers, that they grow up to hate freedom as
 much as the Forefathers did. It should surprise no one that a society that
 worships the Pilgrims -- who ruthlessly scalped the Indians (teaching them
 how to do it), who indiscriminately torched Indian villages, and murdered
 their women, children and elders in the precursors of total war, and
 holocaust -- should produce children who grow up to join street gangs,
 and who seek the experience of murdering other human beings for kicks.
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