-----Original Message-----
>From: Norman Fay <vietgrove@gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 11, 2007 8:06 AM
>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Fwd: In Memoriam
>
>Generally, I assume that people who forward these things generally do
>so with good intentions. Those who originate these things, OTOH, I
>think do so with the worst of intentions - to set people against each
>other.
>
>I always think of the antecedents - the one about "winterval", and the
>black plastic bin liners one from the eighties. People still believe
>those in good faith, so it's obviously an effective form of
>propaganda. Propaganda for what, though.
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Some time ago, Snopes posted a "warning" about gang-members driving with lights out.
Any oncoming drivers who subsequently flashed their lights were then targeted for
execution by those gang members. This was supposed to be "initiation" into the gang.
Pure bollocks it was, the entire thing. But not before millions passed the rumours
with forwarded messages.
Am sorry to say the reference about removing the
Holocaust from history textbooks is absolutely ridiculous. Same thing has occured in the States.
Almost no mention these days about the 1861-1865 Civil War , where more young souls died
on US soil, than all other foreign wars combined . And very few in the Western world
know of the atrocities with the Greeks-Turks-Armenians . and many more...
"Ethnic Cleansing" name only masks the horrors of genocide which has been occuring
most everywhere throughout history .
How will our successors now in schools be prevented from repeating the horrors
of our forebears, if they're educated in a "safe antiseptic" environment ?
...That's all I mention about this topic,folks. This list isn't the place for discussions
as the orig. one forwarded to us . With a multi-cultural,multi-faith extended family,
I've become more understanding/compassionate with the years.
But I never denied or concealed what those long before my time have done to their fellow human beings.
'Nuff said, -- Jerry Korb