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To: fgoodwin
Times have changed since the days Baden-Powell formed his Boy Scout movement almost 100 years ago. Those were the days of “manifest destiny” and empire, when Europeans called the blacks of Africa “primitive savages.”

What a silly argument.

You could say the same about Harvard University, the NAACP, France, General Motors or any other organization that's been around a century or longer.

This ditzy chick should try running her own life, and stop worrying about how other people run theirs.

7 posted on 05/12/2006 3:10:51 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
What a silly argument.

Methinks she needs a refresher in history. Almost one-hundred years ago would be what, 1910? Manifest Destiny was all the rage then, for sure!

In fact, it was about the same time that we had just finished colonizing California, which had originally belonged to the French, when the first Secretary General of the United Nations, Thomas Hart Benton said, "I came, I saw, I conquered," shortly after landing on the moon.
40 posted on 05/12/2006 6:12:03 PM PDT by Das Outsider (Only fascists and Stalinists tear down crosses. Thank you, Mayor Sanders! Keep up the fight!)
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