On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:37 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote:
> Given that articles in the modern NYT sometimes have a tenuous
> relationship
> with what actually happened, I am inclined to approach thesea
> ccounts with
> skepticism: I bet the protests were more about food and conditions
> than the
> NYT let on. I think this partly because of the number of folks
> disciplined
> and partly becaue the food issue keeps coming up without any detail.
>
> That is not necessarily jack-booted fascism but could be, at least
> at this
> one location, closer to forced labor than propagandists would like
> to admit.
So we have:
* two newspaper articles
* an account from the sectarian press
and
* a feeling.
I know which my standards of evidence prefer.
In any case, the NYT says they weren't forced to work, they got kicked out of the CCC because they wouldn't go to bed at 11.
Doug