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Re: Pedro Zamora to be picketed by Fred Phelps and WBC (fwd)

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From: D. Citron
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 19:50
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Gino Castellano (dale@gate.net) wrote:
: D. Citron (dcitron@gate.net) wrote:
: : Conrad Sabatier (conrads@new-orleans.neosoft.com) wrote: 
: : : Phelps and his merry little band of angels recently demonstrated at a reading 
: : : by poet Maya Angelou, who was so shaken by the incident she was unable to 
: : : continue her performance.
: : : Most readers will recall Ms. Angelou's reading at President Clinton's 
: : : inauguration of a poem she had written specifically for the occasion.
: : : One of Phelps' sons was quoted as saying Angelou had been targeted because of 
: : : her association with Clinton and the "liberal left-wing fringe".

: Didn't I read somewhere that the poem that she "wrote" was actually 
: plagiarized from another poet, and that this other poet was pretty pissed 
: off about it?  It got very little press, as it is politically incorrect 
: to point out this kind of thing when a celebrity minority is the 
: offender.  Consider that it was reported that Dr. Martin Luther King 
: plagiarized his doctoral thesis, yet one never hears much about it.

And that the Chappaquiddick kid cheated on his law exams (or was it 
another Kennedy?) yet one never hears much about it either.

: : PLEASE bear in mind that there are many of us (probably most Americans) who 
: : are equally disgusted by both the lies and demagoguery of the Clintons and 
: : the hatred and bigotry of the Phelpses of this world. To be against one 
: : does not in any way suggest that you support the other.

: Correct.
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Subject: Re: Pedro Zamora to be picketed by Fred Phelps and WBC (fwd)
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