Potemkin Village??

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Mar 2, 2007, at 4:06 PM, Daniel Morrow wrote:

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