They just keep lying to us.

I was going to end the year with a couple  posts about the lies we have learned in our lifetime. I started doing some research and taking notes on lies written in books throughout American History. I gave up. There is just far too much material to put into a couple of articles.  I will just post ,or reveal ,a lie told to the public once a month or so. I would like to start out retelling one I wrote about in 2010. Remember the Alamo?

I do I was even stationed there in 1966.  I visited it a time or two.  I studied the battle in school and watched three movies about this part of American History.  But like most history the truth is usually shrouded in myths and half truths.

The Alamo was a battle to protect Slavery. Yes!  as horrifying as it sounds it is true.Texas was still part of Mexico after its War of Independence from Spain. But the land attracted so many American settlers, that they soon outnumbered the Mexicans. Incredibly, that was just fine with the Mexican government. In fact, many Texans wanted Texas to become a Mexican state.

But trouble started brewing in 1829, when slavery was banned throughout Mexico. This angered settlers who moved to Texas specifically to establish Southern-style, slave-powered plantations. Texas was briefly given an exemption, but in 1835, General Santa Anna revoked it.

This angered many Texans and they started to resist and break free from obeying Mexican law. A secessionist movement started and Santa Anna was sent to put this rebellion down. One wonders how many of the uneducated men who died there knew all of the facts.

A war started that the Mexicans were not prepared to win. Texas became a free country,for some.

Texas became a free nNation a year latter and slavery lasted until the Civil War. Those are the facts  just the facts.