Thursday, December 29, 2011

PATRIOT AND FOUNDING FATHERS, "JEWS"

IT IS OFTEN VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO SEE HOW CURRENT JEWISH AMERICANS (WHO TEND TO BE MARXIST AND AT THE LEAST SOCIALIST ORIENTED) CAN COME FROM THE SAME BACKGROUND AND RELIGION AS THE EARLY AMERICAN PATRIOT JEWS OF THE REVOLUTION.
LET US LOOK AT JUST ONE IN THIS POST.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF HAYM SALOMON?
HE WAS A JEW OF PORTUGUESE BACKGROUND BUT BORN IN POLAND.  HIS PORTUGUESE ANCESTORS FLED FROM PORTUGAL TO AVOID THE CATHOLIC INQUISITION AND SETTLED IN POLAND.  HE TRAVELED EUROPE AND SPOKE SEVEN LANGUAGES.
HE IMMIGRATED TO NEW YORK IN 1772, BECAME A PROSPEROUS BANKER AND BROKER, SHORTLY THEREAFTER JOINED THE LOCAL BRANCH OF THE "SONS OF LIBERTY".
PATRIOT SOLOMON WAS ARRESTED BY THE BRITISH IN 1776 AND FORCED TO WORK AS AN INTERPRETER TO THE GERMAN HESSIAN TROOPS.
HE ESCAPED AFTER APPROXIMATELY 18 MONTHS, MOVED TO PHILADELPHIA AND RETURNED TO FUNDRAISING FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY TROOPS.  MUCH OF THE MONEY CAME FROM SOLOMONS PERSONAL ACCOUNTS, FROM WHICH OFFICERS SALARIES AND ENLISTED MEN'S WAGES WERE PAID, AMMUNITION, CLOTHING AND FOOD PURCHASED.
EVEN BACK THEN "FOLLOW THE MONEY" WORKED. THE BRITISH REARRESTED SOLOMON AND JUDGED HIM TO BE GUILTY OF TREASON AND SENTENCED TO BE HUNG.  FORTUNATELY, HE ONCE AGAIN ESCAPED AND RESUMED HIS WORLD WIDE AND PERSONAL FUND RAISING FOR GENERAL WASHINGTON.
IT IS RUMORED THAT WHEN GENERAL WASHINGTON WAS TOLD THERE WAS NO MONEY TO FIGHT THE LAST BATTLE OF YORKTOWN, HE SUPPOSEDLY SAID , "GET ME HYAM", WHO RAISED ENOUGH MONEY FOR THE BATTLE TO BE WON.
HYAM SOLOMON, A PATRIOT AMERICAN JEW DIED IN POVERTY WHILE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OWED HIM $800,00.00 DOLLARS, WORTH OF 40 BILLION TODAY.

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