Thanksgiving Day Turkey should be edible National Symbol - not the eagle

Rex Curry

The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States of America. It is probably one of the country's most recognizable symbols, and appears on most of its official seals, including the Seal of the President of the United States.

Perhaps it is appropriate that the symbol of government is a symbol of thievery and totalitarianism. The government's eagle is often in a vampiric pose. It is a bird of prey. The only better symbol for government would be the skull and crossed bones for "deadly poison." That mentality leads to shortages, poverty, misery, theft and mass slaughter.

Under the growing socialism in the United States, humans behave like eagles. http://rexcurry.net/thanksgiving.html

In comparison, the turkey is a wily wild bird and also a beneficent farmed bird - a wondrous symbol of capitalism. Today, capitalism saves wild Turkeys with farmed turkeys.

Thanksgiving is a celebration of the bountiful plenty of capitalism. Give thanks for capitalism and turkeys, as America's early settlers did. It saved early Americans from starvation and it still does. It would be wonderful if Americans could "serve" their national symbol (serve it for dinner and eat it).

The national significance of the eagle symbol dates back to June 20, 1782, when the Continental Congress officially adopted the current design for the Great Seal of the United States.

Some states had earlier adopted the bird as a symbol. New York State adopted the symbol in 1778. The reason that New York is known as the "Empire State" is because it is a reference to the "Roman Empire State" in that New York has many references to Rome (Ithaca, Syracuse, Troy, Utica. Rome, New York was the home of Francis Bellamy (born 1855), America's most notorious national socialist and the author of the "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag and the source of stiff-arm salute (see the work of the symbologist Dr. Rex Curry, author of "Pledge of Allegiance Secrets" and see the video on youtube.com at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssWWZ3XEe4

At that time (and now), people from Rome, New York referred to themselves as "Romans." It is one possible origin of the myth that the Pledge's early stiff-arm salute came from "ancient Rome" (in Italy). http://rexcurry.net/pledgerome.html

The eagle symbol continues to be found on top of flag poles, on both national seals, and on the back of several coins (including the quarter dollar coin until 1999), often holding a fasces or near one. http://rexcurry.net/fascism=socialism2a.jpg

The eagle was also a popular symbol under the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as was the early American straight-armed salute. http://rexcurry.net/fascism=socialism.html

One has to choose between serving one's country and serving the country's government (at meal time or any other time). Serving one's country is not the same as serving one's government. Americans need to make a clearer distinction between the two. Perhaps the turkey should be the symbol of the country, and the eagle could remain the appropriate violent symbol for government.

In 1784, after the end of the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Franklin wrote a famous letter to his daughter from Paris criticizing the eagle and suggesting the Wild Turkey's character as a desirable trait.

Despite Franklin's objections, the Bald Eagle remained the emblem of the United States.

The following is Franklin's comment. If the word "socialist" is substituted for "eagle" it provides deeper philosophical meaning:

For my own part I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen the Representative of our Country. He is a Bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead Tree near the River, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the Labour of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a Fish, and is bearing it to his Nest for the Support of his Mate and young Ones, the Bald Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.

With all this Injustice, he is never in good Case but like those among Men who live by Sharping & Robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank Coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the District. He is therefore by no means a proper Emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our Country . . .

I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America . . . He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."

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The Tampa Tribune Newspaper and its writers, Daniel Ruth and Elaine Silvestrini, were exposed and defeated in recent public debate challenges about the topics above. Learn more at http://rexcurry.net/elaine-silvestrini-tampa-tribune.html

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net