----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Frederick Fausz" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE


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> When the legislature moved back to regular session in Richmond,
> however, that warm and cozy feeling quickly vanished.  As I read
> in the St. Louis Post Dispatch on 1/17, Delegate Frank Harmon
> spoke against a "measure that would apologize on the state's
> behalf to the descendants of slaves."  He allegedly told a
> Charlottesville reporter that "our black citizens should get over
> slavery" and then added:  "are we going to force the Jews to
> apologize for killing Christ?"  Needless to say, his comments
> "drew denunciations from stunned colleagues."
<snip>
>
> Fred Fausz
> St. Louis


In these times of political correctness, I wonder what Delegate Frank 
Harmon's "stunned colleagues" were whispering behind closed doors? Do you 
think that, in secrecy, some of his "stunned colleagues" weren't so stunned 
after all and agreed with what he said in part or in whole? Would they have 
denounced Delegate Frank Harmon if his words were spoken in private? It is 
so hard to tell fact from fiction when political correctness is the name of 
the game.

Tom
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