Vermin
The American colonists feared one group of people amongst them. This group originated in the Middle Ages,and had counted thousands of people as their victims for centuries with little punishment. This group of human parasites were hated throughout the colonies yet the magistrates would not punish them even though a majority of colonists wanted to.
Of all who sailed from England to Plymouth in 1620, not one of these two-legged "vermin" were aboard. "Vermin" is what the colonists called them parasites who fed on the unfortunate creating human misery wherever they went. Yet they were permitted coexistence within the colonies for a while anyway.There were laws,of course,prohibiting the practice of their infamous craft,but as they were masters of twisting,and manipulating the truth,ways were found around them.
In 1641, Massachusetts Bay Colony took a novel approach to the problem. The government attempted to starve out the "devils" through economic exclusion. They were denied wages,and it was thereby hoped they would perish. Four years later, Virginia followed their lead,and for while it seemed that the problem was solved. However, this is a particularly sticky group of parasites,and hard to be rid of.
In 1658 Virginia proposed what should have been the 'final solution': banishment and exile. The "treacherous ones' were cast out of the colony. At last, after enduring the psychological gloom of these hovering vultures,these birds of death, the sun came out,and all was well with the world. The elation rang from the hills for a generation!
History is not clear as to why they were ever allowed to return,but return they did like a festering pustule bringing their plague once again upon the land.In 1680, after twenty-two years of exile, the "vermin" were readmitted to the colony on the condition that they be subjected to the "strictest surveillance".
How soon they forgot! During the century that followed,the restrictions were slowly and quietly lifted and swept away,and those who were abhorred since their first appearance have wormed their way into every transaction that takes place in our society until nothing can be done without their foul odor polluting the air.
These perverters of the truth, these manipulators of the law, these usurpers of humanity, these"vermin" were lawyers!
The Revolution will not be televised.
Of all who sailed from England to Plymouth in 1620, not one of these two-legged "vermin" were aboard. "Vermin" is what the colonists called them parasites who fed on the unfortunate creating human misery wherever they went. Yet they were permitted coexistence within the colonies for a while anyway.There were laws,of course,prohibiting the practice of their infamous craft,but as they were masters of twisting,and manipulating the truth,ways were found around them.
In 1641, Massachusetts Bay Colony took a novel approach to the problem. The government attempted to starve out the "devils" through economic exclusion. They were denied wages,and it was thereby hoped they would perish. Four years later, Virginia followed their lead,and for while it seemed that the problem was solved. However, this is a particularly sticky group of parasites,and hard to be rid of.
In 1658 Virginia proposed what should have been the 'final solution': banishment and exile. The "treacherous ones' were cast out of the colony. At last, after enduring the psychological gloom of these hovering vultures,these birds of death, the sun came out,and all was well with the world. The elation rang from the hills for a generation!
History is not clear as to why they were ever allowed to return,but return they did like a festering pustule bringing their plague once again upon the land.In 1680, after twenty-two years of exile, the "vermin" were readmitted to the colony on the condition that they be subjected to the "strictest surveillance".
How soon they forgot! During the century that followed,the restrictions were slowly and quietly lifted and swept away,and those who were abhorred since their first appearance have wormed their way into every transaction that takes place in our society until nothing can be done without their foul odor polluting the air.
These perverters of the truth, these manipulators of the law, these usurpers of humanity, these"vermin" were lawyers!
The Revolution will not be televised.
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