Since Dick failed to do so (as is his habit), I gave a link to the source of the text of the first message in the second message of this thread.

It is an article titled The Legacy of Mao Zedong is Mass Murder, By Lee Edwards, Ph.D., published in February 2010 on the Website of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, DC.

On the same day he started this thread, Dick reopened a 2003 thread about Neil Sharpley. He reopened the other thread by copying the text of somebody's 2003 message from earlier in the thread, and pasting it in as if it were his own message - giving no indication that this was a message written by another person in 2003.

This practice makes it difficult for the rest of us to carry on a discussion. If you post text that comes from somebody else, please do the rest of us the courtesy of telling us where you got the text from.

In addition, in both of these instances, Did did not post one word of his own. This is my personal opinion, but I think it is rude to post the work of somebody else without any explanation. If you wish to start or reopen a thread, don't just post a link or a copy-paste. Give at least a sentence or two telling us what you want to talk about, and what your own thinking is on the matter. These are not rules for Mudcat. These are my own observations of the principles of human communication. If you communicate only in copy-pastes and links, that's not really communication.

-Joe Offer-