杰瑞发布于2022-10-23
希拉里的美国：民主党的秘密历史；对欧巴马与希拉里的分析很好 但过度宣传共和党稍微有点太偏颇了
Said I ought to go for it. I told him it was a wicked and unjust measure... - Yeah! - Hear, hear! ...and I should go against it. Let the cost to myself be what it might! [cheering, applause] [D'Souza] But the Democrats passed it, and Jackson signed it into law. [blows sharply] Alexis de Tocqueville, the French observer of early American history, describes what he witnessed firsthand. [Tocqueville] In the whole scene, there was an air of ruin and destruction. One couldn't watch without feeling one's heart wrung. We watched the expulsion of one of the most celebrated and ancient American peoples. [D'Souza] It was the Trail of Tears. The Democrats created reservations where those Indians that they hadn't killed could now live dependent on the federal government. In addition to stealing the land of the Indians, the Jackson Democrats embraced another theft scheme... slavery. They imprisoned their slaves not on reservations, but on plantations. No! Let me go! Massa, let me go! [D'Souza] Jackson owned hundreds of slaves. Mr. Jackson! Sir, sir! Betty here was getting a little uppity about her work. - Please, Mr. Jackson! - 50 lashes. - Oh! No! No! - Come on. - Please, Massa! - Come on. [Jackson] Betty is capable of being a good and valuable servant, but to have her so, she must be ruled with the cowhide. - [whip cracks] - Aah! [screams] [cries] - [whip cracks] - [screams] [cries] [D'Souza] What was Betty's offense? Betty washed clothes for neighbors without asking permission of the Jacksons. In 1804, Jackson placed ads in Northern newspapers for the return of one of his runaway slaves. Jackson offered $50 and an extra $1 0 for each 1 00 lashes, up to 300 lashes, which was pretty much a death sentence. And on his own plantation, Jackson's slaves were treated just as harshly. - [whip cracks] - How does that feel? - How does that feel? - Aah! [screams] You better think before you try to run! That's what will happen to you boys if you try to run. You understand me?