So out of morbid curiosity, I went to Freeperville to see their reactions to Zinn's death...

[Ardent15]

"The nice thing about the American Historical Association membership list is that it makes a great death list. When the balloon goes up, we can round them up and shoot them all.

No chance of a friendly kill."

"It’s always a good day when another old Lefty bites the dust."

"Thank God that communist bastard is dead. May he roast in hell for his crimes. His work has poisoned the minds of generations. Seeing a poster of his A Peoples' History of the United States along with the book in our kids' elementary school classroom was the final straw that led us to beat feet out of the Puget Sound area."

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Those are just three samples.

I truly believe there are evil people in this world, and many of them live in Freeperville.

[arcadian]

1. His feet aren't the only thing he's beaten.

[JuniperLea]

2. Thanks for taking one for the team!

I'm always curious, but don't have the intestinal fortitude to actually go there myself.

[Ardent15]

4. We need to know our enemy to defeat them

I almost never go there, but someone has to expose these pieces of slime.

[JuniperLea]

11. Amen!

I couldn't possibly agree more!

[The Doctor.]

13. They are not the enemy.

They are merely the poor, brainwashed idiots that ensure their corporate master's agenda is met with little resistance.

Morons? Yes.

Enemies?

No. They are not quite sentient enough.

[Zoeisright]

3. What a bunch of pigs.

Apologies to pigs.

[niyad]

5. these are not pigs (which are noble, intelligent animals) but hate-filled, murderous thugs.

[Marr]

6. Do you suppose even one of them has ever read anything he wrote?

[The Doctor.]

14. Not a one.

It is far easier to simply be told that something is wrong than to study it.

[HughBeaumont]

21. I think the more appropriate question would be that, minus the last two words.

:)

[EmeraldCityGrl]

7. And Puget Sound breathed a sigh of relief.

The calls for violence are getting louder and more frequent. These are seriously dangerous people.

"When the balloon goes up" whatever that means.

[Jim Lane]

19. "When the balloon goes up" means that the battle is about to begin.

In the days before other forms of aerial surveillance were available, balloons were often used for artillery spotting. If one side was about to begin an artillery barrage, it would first send up an observation balloon. An observer in the balloon could tell whether the shells were on target or needed to be redirected.

[The Straight Story]

8. Our side does it when the falwells, oral roberts, and reagans die all too often

:shrug:

[niyad]

9. ummm, we don't generally talk about hit lists and rounding them all up and killing them

(and yes, I do breathe a sigh of relief when one of those hate-mongering bastards is no longer using oxygen, but I don't help them along--just ignore those little stuffed dolls, OKAY????)

[libnnc]

10. Howard Zinn never wished for me and mine to rot in hell for eternity.

Pretty stupid comparison.

[Quantess]

12. I agree there is far too much grave dancing.

It's un-classy.

[apocalypsehow]

17. You are quite correct, but the chorus of "bu-bu-but THAT'S DIFFERENT!!!!11" has already started.

As you've seen.

[Salmonslayer]

18. You can find the same type of hate filled comments on DU

I thought it would be different when I joined DU. Seeing similar comments on DU is very disappointing.

[rockymountaindem]

15. Good to know they're already planning who to round up in future n/t

[David Zephyr]

16. Most of that ilk don't read books and would not know Howard Zinn's name.

.

[HughBeaumont]

20. siiiiiigggghh . . . .

Drop the goddamned "Red Menace" crap already, you dog-dick-stupid idiots!!


"LEFTIST COMMIE MARXIST SOCIALIST LENINIST SOVIET LIBERAL DEMOCOMMIE (drool)"

Jesus CHRIST. Will they NEVER let this moldy chestnut DIE? A message to the old, angry and grizzled - NOBODY CARES. There aren't any "Reds undah th' bed". There are no more Brezhnevs, Khruschevs, Andropovs or Chernenkos. I don't take your stupid bullshit seriously and no one else does either. You support a party that believes in taking all of your freedom away and making you a slave to a corporate entity; you either haven't yet figured it out or are still itching your lobotomy scar. In the immortal words of Indiana Jones: "Who gives a DAMN what you think?"