Yeah, yeah.

Another one of those "check the sources" historians with no respect  
whatsoever for the transcendental value of "truthiness."

You probably think all those children in the Theresienstadt films  
weren't happy either, even though they were, clearly, laughing,  
dancing, and performing in plays . . .  and OFFICIAL government  
sources . . . not the mention the International Red Cross . . .   
provided documentation showing, among other things, they were even  
better fed than the poor German soliders fighting godless Communism  
on the eastern front.

I am shocked . . . shocked  . . . by your clever, hidden suggestion  
that slavery wasn't just ducky.

I should also warn you that section 4, paragraph 3, of article 5 of  
the new patriot act allows wiretapping and "sneak and peek" home  
searches of valley-dwelling intellectuals whose contacts can be  
linked in five steps or less to either Thomas Jefferson or Kevin Bacon.

So . . . to sum up . .  ONE word:  James Madison.  Just four steps  
away from Bacon . . . and, probably from that other guy as well.

Hrrmmph.

Dan






On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:21 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> To my recollection, no serious scholar who has examined the
> evidence has concluded that slavery was a benign institution
> which, given a choice, any rational young person would
> chose


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