Lyle:  This was the right thing to do.  Jane.

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>From: "Lyle E. Browning" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Oct 17, 2008 7:41 PM
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>Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Willie Lynch Letter
>
>As a teaching device, I'd turn it around and set your student the task  
>of researching the letter and set the parameters to include pro and  
>con views and let her work through the issues of when stock phrases  
>came into being and to research the phraseology to guide her to the  
>conclusion that the letter is undoubtedly a fake. Once she realizes  
>that certain phrases haven't always been in use and can be dated to  
>first use and thus will date a document, she will have a different  
>take, if she's got the octane to deal with it.
>
>These things take on a life of their own for various idiotic and/or  
>nefarious purposes. The "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is perhaps  
>the most famous of the nasty myth documents that seemingly have a  
>vampire sort of life wherein stakes through the heart work for a short  
>time and then they reappear all over again for another generation of  
>the gullible.
>
>Sounds like your student is not about to listen to any collection of  
>wise elders but will have to discover for herself that disinformation  
>is an insidious problem.
>
>Lyle Browning
>
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Lillian Jane Steele

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