'Celebration' banned for Jamestown's 400th--You can't celebrate an invasion

Worldnetdaily ^ | 3-8-07 | Bob Unruh

[SJackson]

Why can't you celebrate and invasion?

[dinoparty]

I'm sorry, but a few wandering tribes did not have a right to monopolize an entire continent, most of which was unused.

[Jacquerie]

This is what a couple decades of political correctness has wrought. PC tells us that all that is good, decent and enlightened in our history and traditions are not worth defending.

Europe is no long willing to defend its civilization. We are not far behind.

[Flavious_Maximus]

An invasion? You mean like what Mexico is doing to us now?

[gunnyg]

Just one more indication of just how far things have gone here in (what used to be) America!

We are all acutely afflicted with this plague called (whispered) Political Correctness!!!!! It runs the gamut from....whatever, to the audacity to use not-so-nice words in a cartoon--WTF!!!!!!!!!!

[Military family member]

With all due respect, the Eastern tribes were not wandering. Their villages were organized on grids. They were heavy into agriculture.

Not every Indian comes from a John Ford Western

[CheyennePress]

Okay, quick, first person to name a modern nation state that was founded in its present state without colonization or warfare gets a cookie!

Mary Wade is, suffice it to say, completely incapable of dealing with history with an honest, objective lens and is woefully incapable of fulfilling the job she hopes to fufill.

[SJackson]

Perhaps Norway.

[advance_copy]

This what Virginians get for electing two DemocRAT governors, Warner and Kaine. Silly Virginians, you have handed the Commonwealth to the left, and now they are destroying it.

[Paisan]

Their villages were organized on grids. They were heavy into agriculture.

Yup, and those tribes and their villages are still there, organized into gambling casinos and heavily into Government subsidies.

America - What a country!

[KenD]

Yeah. I thought this was going to be an article about the end of celebrating Cinqo de Mayo.

[johnny7]

PC tells us that... is good, decent and enlightened in our history and traditions are not there's nothing worth defending.

[MBB1984]

Are the lunatics in control of the asylum? Jamestown should be celebrated and those opposed should fall on their sword to assuage their self inflicted guilt relating to their ancestors. With such weak mindedness, our nation is ripe for invasion.

[albee]

What is this bullcrap?

Does it mean we can't celebrate D-Day of June 6th, 1944?

Now that was an invasion!

[dmz]

http://www.jamestown2007.org/about-commemoratiiongoals.cfm

The link above is to the commemoration goals. Too bad no one at WND daily has a dictionary handy.

commemorate: to celebrate the memory of, as with a ceremony.

[tlb]

That article made a very good and important point on PC run amuk, but then the remaining 4/5s was virtually a sermon. Worldnet should leave that part to the religious blogs and focus on the immediate issue.

[MarkL]

Ms Wade, you're a descendant of really horrible people who did horrible things. I think you owe it to yourself, and all of us, if you would commit sepiku. I'm sure that you'll feel better about it in the morning.

Mark

[SJackson]

No one at WND knows how to write a short article without a sermon.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Their issue was that the entire concept of spreading Christianity has been left out of the 400th anniversary celebration, as far as they are concerned, thus re-writing the history of why we were here and changing it to an invasion.

[SJackson]

An invasion? You mean like what Mexico is doing to us now?

That's a reconquista. It's OK to celebrate that. The beer companies would probably be glad to participate.