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To: Knitebane
Odds are Lincoln wanted to get elected, and it's probably always been customary in Illinois to avoid challenging the mob all that much.

BTW, we didn't stop at the hangings ~ my grandfather's first cousin was married to Dillinger, for example, and I discovered that only by keeping my eye on the comings, goings and doings of the Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born.

Still, you never really find everything first time around. Just the other day I noticed that Elliot Ness (Nese), of Untouchable's fame, had parents who were from "Northern Norway". One never proven story is that it was Dillinger who did the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago for the purpose of blaming that atrocity on Capone so that Ness could blow him and his gang away.

Well, the COTFB and "Northern Norway" have a lot in common, particularly the part of "Northern Norway" where the Smolt Sa'ami live, which is really Russia!

I will continue to watch for "evidence" that there was any connection between Ness and Dillinger through the COTFB ~ could be interesting stuff worth a screen play or two.

Oh, yes, Lincoln was a RAILROAD ATTORNEY ~ everybody in Illinois who wanted a railroad to go through their town rather than somebody else's town probably hated him.

107 posted on 11/18/2004 5:57:53 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
That's something that those who have semi-deified Lincoln seem to have ignored.

First and foremost, he was a politician, and politicians then were about they same as they are now.

108 posted on 11/18/2004 6:06:58 PM PST by Knitebane
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