Gee PDQ--why not bring the discussion a little closer to the present? Are you so desperate for scandal and outrage you have to trawl for it down the annals of history? Here's a tip: Google "John WIlkes Booth" or "Keating Five" or "any number of other hot topics.

Sheeshe.

That said, Marks sounds like a piece of work, all right. Is it your intent to imply that he in some way represents the thinking of others on the liberal side of the spectrum? Because if you are trying to imply that, it is a pretty covert way to do it, sort of passive-aggressive, if you see what I mean. Totally aside from the fundamental observation that such an implication would be totally nutball. So it couldn't be what you meant, but if it isn't I wonder what you are trying to say with your historical researches?


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