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To: Mark Harjes who wrote (3063)	6/14/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	1 Recommendation Respond to of 13056

<< Doesn't seem likely that coldhardtruth knows anything of Jefferson or his thinking, to say nothing of holding him as an icon. >> CHT wrote in post #3062 (this thread): "I view the Bill of Rights to be a divinely inspired document" Now didn't I tell you that miscegenist(sp?) Tommy Jefferson was one of his icons? These boys think unthinking superpatriotism is an unvarnished virtue. 'Course if they take a closer at history, they find things weren't quite as clear and black and white as they want to believe. In that same post, he claims that before the liberal media screwed us up, everything was wonderful and all us white folks were strong, proud, happy, and united. 'Cept that we weren't, of course. The Depression and Civil War were hardly signs of happy unity. Draft riots didn't first happen in the '60s. Try the Civil War. After the Battle of Gettysburg, a good part of the Union army was sent into New York City to stop those riots. During the War of 1812, the state legislatures of several New England states considered secession. And on and on. Ahh, for the good old days when we could believe whatever crap we wanted to without fear of being contradicted by inconvenient facts.