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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 09:45:05 -0700
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In article <3sasbj98eu1j1s954e1vnbshkht3uiu84j@4ax.com>,
 Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 19:04:35 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
> <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:
> 
> >In article <t1kpbjp3p5sf25daro2vph7in7vg211mgt@4ax.com>,
> >Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
> >>>You are the one who asserted that the Utah Education Department
> >>>would be fine with "The Turner Diaries" or "The Protocols of
> >>>the Elders of Zion."
> >>
> >>Have they banned either of them? Didn't think so.
> >
> >Are either of them in any public school library?  Or any
> >public library at all?  There are a lot of things that
> >nobody has bothered banning because no one has attempted
> >to perpetrate it.
> >
> >>I have long noted that wing-nuts exist on all sides. But only the
> >>Republicans have actually nominated two of them for President/VP.
> >
> >Which ones?  The usual suspects have accused every Republican
> >president since Eisenhower of being a Nazi.  (Except Ford, for
> >some reason; him, they just tried to assassinate.  Twice.)
> 
> Tried and, as with Reagan and Trump failed. 
> 
> Republicans survive assassination attempts.
> 
> Democrats don't.
> 

Only since 1902. I know of 4 presidential assassination attempts before 
then (3 dead Republicans and 1 surviving Democrat - pistol misfired, 
twice).

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