Refuting Patrick Henry
Rebate by Rafael Lopez
Patrick Henry was a great orator. Fearless with words. Massive with sentences. He was genius. No matter how genius he was he also committed mistakes like any normal human. He is mentions god and how he would want war. He believes god who teaches us values and morals would like for people to kill themselves. He believes by invoking god in his speech that he will get more people, which is true but why did he have to do it in such a savagely way. Patrick Henry like any educated person knew that you did not need to be smart to get people’s attention you just needed, to pretend that you know god, and that you know what god wants.
Patrick Henry´s main idea was that one should fight for revolution. One should be strong to kill for ones country. That he knew how much his people were oppressed. He knew that is God wanted something it was for that country to have freedom. His solution was killing men who were armed with a musket but who also had families.
He says that people only want peace between British and colonist. But he wishes nothing but war. He is no diplomat; he is indeed nothing but a savage. He is such an animal who believes to solve his problems he must kill. No idea is so big to kill a family member. To traumatize a kid who has just lost his mother and father, only because some ding dong wanted his idea to be heard. Patrick Henry is not thinking beyond, oh yeah well sometimes ideas are worth killing for, which is not the smartest thing to say, at least not if you know about history because you know that people who have killed for an idea are people like Hitler. We also have to see that Patrick Henry is not in the modern world and probably does not know all that we know, about killing for ideas. What has happened because of fighting for an idea.
A better solution were to instead of using so much money on weaponry. On using that money to use for food for the needy. To use time spent on war, on preparing diplomatic speeches on how to get rid f the brit without violence. On having a well thought plan to get the british out without violence.
Patrick Henry wanted great things for his country. He was smart. He was dedicated. He knew that there was a way to end what his countrymen were going thru, unfortunately for him he did not choose the smartest way, he did not choose the diplomatic way. Patrick Henry chose the easy way out. By telling men to fight for god and heavens, just like any regular religious martyr. Patrick Henry thought that his problems could go away by the shooting of a musket. The question is how could Patrick Henry sleep at night knowing how many families he’s destroyed? , how can he sleep while knowing how many men he has killed once he has opened his mouth. Patrick Henry was smart but not smart enough.
