re Re: MDDM Washington

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

In a message dated 07/01/2002 12:25:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
millison at online-journalist.com writes:


> Otto:
> >Agreed, my girlfriend said yesterday he's maybe saying that this escape
> >might have been planned beforehand, she meant it in the sense that GW says
> >that there hasn't been any trouble recently to explain the escape.
> 
> You two ought to write a historical novel that shows how it might have
> happened and subvert the mistaken popular belief that slavery is some kind
> of evil, by showing how benevolent slave-holding is really a good thing,
> not some feudalistic holdover that denies a slave a fundamental human right
> -- you could make it really pomo and show how slavery is neither good nor
> evil, it's just a matter of whether or not the property owner is a nice
> human being, the pragmatic approach, you know, that leaves those property
> and economic relationships untouched and expects that people will be nice
> to each other out of enlightened self-interest and respect for property
> values.
> 
> 
> 

Bravo, Doug!  Now maybe they'll shut up -- or better yet, get off the list.  
Oh, wouldn't that be a glorious day?

Provocatively,

jbf
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