{"id":1709,"date":"2005-09-12T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T05:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2020-03-28T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T01:09:32","slug":"horatio-bunce-and-davy-crockett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"Horatio Bunce and Davy Crockett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked me why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/paul\/\">Ron Paul<\/a> voted against a hurricane relief bill; was there something poisonous in it, or did he think it would be ineffective?  I replied that I would expect Dr Paul to vote against any such bill on Constitutional grounds; and appended a link to the story, familiar to some of you, of how Davy Crockett was turned away from the Dark Side (or, as you may prefer, toward it).<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s first example of the story happens to be on Ron Paul&#8217;s own website.  Rereading, I found that the text of that copy appears to be somewhat corrupt; so I looked for others.  Indeed, the full story is substantially longer and more instructive.  Copies at: Lew Rockwell; Patrick Henry On-Line (Martin Lindstedt); SlimPickins; Return of the Gods; TRIM (John Birch Society) <i>(broken links removed 2020)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Later:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmu.edu\/departments\/economics\/wew\/articles\/05\/permissible.html\">Walter Williams<\/a> collects some quotations from other early politicians on the same theme.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2020:<\/strong> The story is repeated at <a href=\"http:\/\/hushmoney.org\/Davy_Crockett_Farmer_Bunce.htm\">hushmoney.org<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healingandrevival.us\/davey-crockett-christian-american-politics-horatio-bunce-deception\/\">Healing and Revival<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constitution.org\/cons\/crockett.htm\">Constitution Society<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/resources\/not-your-to-give\/\">Foundation for Economic Education<\/a>; and debunked at <a href=\"https:\/\/crockettincongress.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/not-yours-to-give-fable-re-examined.html\">Jim&#8217;s Corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend asked me why Ron Paul voted against a hurricane relief bill; was there something poisonous in it, or did he think it would be ineffective? I replied that I would expect Dr Paul to vote against any such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1709\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4065,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}