Ignorant writing

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 18:15 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 5:07 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> > Better description:
> >    http://www.fee.org/thanksgiving/
> 
>   Interesting... but is that a reliable source?  The site seems...
> shall we say... somewhat biased.  Can you cite another source -- one
> that isn't explicitly trying to push laissez-faire economics -- that
> "the first Thanksgiving" really had anything to do with that?

I had the same reaction.  A little googling turned this up.  

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/eada/html/display.php?docs=bradford_history.xml

The spelling is unreliable, but searching for Plato will pull out the
section quoted in fee.org.  You will still need to do a fair amount of
reading from Bradford's Journal to decide if fee.org mangled the
context.


>   I've seen other (equally dubious) sources that assert it was
> explicitly, by design, before the first one even happened, to be a day
> of thanks to God that they (the colonists) made the journey safely,
> blah blah blah.
> 
> -- Ben
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