[Vision2020] Journalistic integrity

[Douglas]

Visionaries,

I am glad everything is so simple for Tom Hansen -- made even simpler by 
the Southern Poverty Law Center, the world's richest civil rights organization.

Cordially,

Douglas



At 10:37 AM 10/27/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Simple:  Follow the links.  Wilson to Wilkins to the League of the South.
>The Southern Poverty Law Center has exposed the League of the South to be
>white supremacist in nature.  Or are they lying, too?
>
>It is truly that simple.
>
>Tom Hansen
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: bill london [mailto:london@moscow.com]
>Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 10:25 AM
>To: Douglas
>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Journalistic integrity
>
>
>     I am not representing the Daily News, but I think it is clear that
>Doug Wilson and his various buddies are trying to kill the messenger
>since they really do not enjoy the message.
>     The message is that Doug has been exposed as clearly and directly
>supporting the abhorrent practice of human slavery.  Wilson has lately
>been stepping carefully away from what he co-wrote in that booklet
>("Southern Slavery: As It Was").  He now says he really meant that
>slavery should have been ended without the Civil War, but the book is
>quite obvious.  Wilson said that human slavery was justified in the
>Bible and justified historically by the wonderfully humane system of
>slavery developed in the South.  Wilson has been exposed writing
>blatantly untrue assessments about the nature of Southern slavery (ask
>any historian).
>     Since Wilson is worried about this message getting out, he is
>sending out the troops to attack the Daily News as the messenger.
>     The topic of Wilson's February conference is "Revolution and
>Modernity."  However,  it is accurate for the Daily News to indicate
>that a discussion of Southern slavery will be incorporated into the
>conference.  Wilson and his co-author (Steve Wilkins) from the slavery
>book are both featured speakers.  In previous years, these annual
>conferences sponsored by Wilson's church have included discussions of
>slavery whatever the stated focus of that year's conference.   Wilson
>acknowledged that he expected the topic of slavery to arise at the
>February conference as well.
>     I thought the Daily News article was more than fair to Wilson,
>giving him plenty of space to define his views.
>     Looking back at the published article, I was amused to read again
>the subtitle: "Debate, emotions already stirred as preface to February
>conference at UI."   Yup, that about sums it up.
>BL
>
>Douglas wrote:
>
> > Visionaries,
> >
> > Ambrose Bierce once defined ink as a "villainous compound of
> > tanno-gallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to
> > facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime."
> >
> > On Friday, The Idaho Statesman picked up the article which had
> > previously run in the Daily News. They ran it with this by-line: "Pair
> > to give their "biblical" defense of practice at U of I conference."
> >
> > 1. The conference is not on slavery. Never has been. The Daily News
> > really needs to quit relying on anonymous flyers as part of their
> > crackerjack reporting team. The savings in payroll are not really
> > worth the embarrassment.
> > 2. No, we are not going to give a defense of slavery at the conference.
> > 3. It is not a U of I conference.
> > 4. Having shouted their error on the front page, the Daily News had
> > whispered a teeny correction later on. The Statesman must have missed
> > it somehow.
> >
> > I would like to ask Nathan Alford to respond, or someone at the Daily
> > News. Who is responsible for misrepresenting our history conference in
> > this egregious way? What are you going to do about it?
> >
> > Cordially,
> >
> > Douglas Wilson
> >
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