Evangeline

A little different sort of video this week in observation of the "Great Upheaval".  This video coming from the Learn Liberty series.  It tells a story of peaceful people in economic harmony caught between their links to indigenous neighbors and warring interlopers from Europe.

July 28th is a day of remembrance for those where cast off by their government; government which always claims its purpose is to protect people. 

Longfellow wrote about the Acadian expulsion in his poem Evangeline:

"Once in an ancient city, whose name I no longer remember,  

Raised aloft on a column, a brazen statue of Justice  

Stood in the public square, upholding the scales in its left hand,  

And in its right a sword, as an emblem that justice presided  

Over the laws of the land, and the hearts and homes of the people.  

Even the birds had built their nests in the scales of the balance,  

Having no fear of the sword that flashed in the sunshine above them.  

But in the course of time the laws of the land were corrupted; 

Might took the place of right, and the weak were oppressed, and the mighty  

Ruled with an iron rod."

Thanks to The Institute for Humane Studies.