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Old June 13th, 2007, 12:17 AM
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Default Re: War Guilt and Why the Allies Won the War

In Canada they have the Native Network funded by the tax-payers.
One time a well-respected program host interviewed for a History Channel program said (paraphrasing) ...

'the only difference between what you did in the Americas and what Hitler tried to do with his Final Solution was that you succeeded and write the history books and he failed.'

His program funding was reportedly cut for a while, but upon appeal and arbitration in a public forum, it was determined that 'however unpallitable the position was, it was founded in historical fact and was protected under the Bill of Rights'...even where freedom of media was not applicable in gov't funding.

Now I've got that old Bloom County (Opus) cartoon up on the wall of an office where Opus and the guys are at a table and everyone else in the restaurant are non-white-straight-males-whose-ancestors-kicked-ass and were ordered to 'apologize'.

As a hetero-sexual white male, politically incorrect as they come I do feel picked on no doubt. Persecuted even. Believe me.

But still, a spade is a spade no matter how much I want the card in that hand to be a diamond.

There is definately a double-standard in how we, the victors, write the history books too.
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