"Wikipedia Contains Many False Entries"

[Scronx]

Do you folks get the IHR news roundups by email? One just arrived containing the item below, by a close Robert F. kennedy associate. My philosophy is to regard all sources as more or less prone to hearsay, fantasy etc., and to learn to discern the "genuine article".
<DIV align=left>Wikipedia Contains Many False Entries</DIV>
<DIV align=left>By John Siegenthaler</DIV>
<DIV align=left></DIV>
<DIV align=left>I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false, malicious "biography" that appeared under my name for 132 days on Wikipedia, the popular, online, free encyclopedia whose authors are unknown and virtually untraceable. At age 78, I thought I was beyond surprise or hurt at anything negative said about me. I was wrong. One sentence in the biography was true. I was Robert Kennedy's administrative assistant in the early 1960s. I also was his pallbearer. It was mind-boggling when my son, John Seigenthaler, journalist with NBC News, phoned later to say he found the same scurrilous text on Reference.com and Answers.com. I had heard for weeks from teachers, journalists and historians about "the wonderful world of Wikipedia," where millions of people worldwide visit daily for quick reference "facts," composed and posted by people with no special expertise or knowledge -- and sometimes by people with malice. </DIV>
<DIV align=left></DIV>
<DIV align=left>http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/18831.html</DIV>

[Michael]

Experts and the mainstream media are people who lie
to protect the powers that be. The Experts and the mainstream
media are, probably, the less trustworthy sources around.
As what is posted online by regular people most is, probably, factual,
but of course from time to time something false is
posted. As you point out one must “…discern the
‘genuine article.’” If someone believes everything they hear
weather from the mainstream media, experts or the Internet, they are
just lemmings who will follow others wherever they go.

[Scronx]

Righto. And the beauty of it is that evil always camouflages itself with good, so it's no surprise when there's stuff of genuine value mixed in with the bad. Our adventure is (1) becoming good detectives or connoisseurs of the former, (2) ripping off the devil by taking the good [his bait]and leavingthe trap sprung but empty,(3) teaching his other intended marks how to do this, and (4)laughing ourselves silly at the whopper lies and DT's liberals come up with trying to get around the truth.

[Scronx]

And now, the disgusting facts about Wikipedia. Go to this site's homepage for more 24k gold on The Problem, e.g. the Chosenite background of the Columbine massacre:


http://judicial-inc.biz/wikipedia.htm


History Of Wikipedia<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />

Larry Sanger, and Jim Wales, founded Wikipedia in Jan. of 2001. It was an offshoot of Nupedia, an more formal encyclopedia.

<?:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace><st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace>Wales</st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n></st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n> is presently in charge. Sanger left in 2002, and is a professor/lecturer at <st1lace><st1:PlaceName><st1lace><st1:PlaceName>Ohio</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <st1lace><st1lace>State</st1lace></st1lace></st1lace>.

Names like Jeremy Rosenfeld, Benjamin Kovitz, Seth Cohen, dot the landscape of technical staff.

Moderators openly admit to a pro-Jewish bias.

James Wales History

<st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace><st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace>Wales</st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n></st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n> who was born in <st1lace><st1:City><st1lace><st1:City>Huntsville</st1:City></st1:City>, <st1:State><st1:State>Alabama</st1:State></st1lace></st1:State></st1lace>, went to the exclusive <st1:City><st1lace><st1:City><st1lace>Randolph</st1lace></st1:City></st1lace></st1:City> prep school, and onto the <st1lace><st1lace><st1lace><st1lace>University</st1lace></st1lace> of <st1:PlaceName><st1:PlaceName>Alabama</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName></st1lace>. <st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace><st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace>Wales</st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n></st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n> graduates, and becomes a Futures Trader in <st1:City><st1lace><st1:City><st1lace>Chicago</st1lace></st1:City></st1lace></st1:City>. Next he opens Bomis, an 'Adult Content' website, which is followed by Nupedia, which morphs into Wikipedia.

<st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace><st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace>Wales</st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n></st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n> is the darling of the Jewish crowd at Harvard, being a fellow at the <st1lace><st1:PlaceName><st1lace><st1:PlaceName>Berkman</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <st1lace><st1lace>Center</st1lace></st1lace></st1lace> for Internet and Society, at the <st1lace><st1:PlaceName><st1lace><st1:PlaceName>Harvard</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName><st1:PlaceName>Law</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceName> <st1lace><st1lace>School</st1lace></st1lace></st1lace>.

Wikipedia System Of Control

Wikipedians (Jewish volunteers) will concentrate on a certain subject, and actively moderate any new replies. Once an individual edits an article, his ISP number is recorded, and he is assigned a sayanim that will monitor all his future writings.

Individual contributors are assigned a tracking page, and an open record of all writings. Through out the cycle the contributor this will be monitored by Hillel, ADL, SPLC, type control agents.

[example]

Theresienstadt

In 1941, <st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace><st1:country-regi&#111;n><st1lace>Germany</st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n></st1lace></st1:country-regi&#111;n> gave Jewish artists their own experimental town as prototype refuge, to protect Jews. Subsequently the Jews have altered history, and refer to it as a death camp.

When a 1943 documentary film was edited into Wikipedia's Theresienstadt page, the Hillel Wikipedians immediately deleted, saying it was propaganda and holocaust denial

Wikipedia's Stance

Theresienstadt was Nazi hellhole, where Jews were starved to death, and then sent on to <st1lace><st1lace>Auschwitz</st1lace></st1lace>.


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Before you leave this page, do check out THIS one also:


http://judicial-inc.biz/Jewish_inves...ww2_war_crimes. htm


That is, if you really want to know why ameriKa fought WW2, and are prepared to drop all previous assumptions...............


</st1lace></st1lace></st1lace></st1lace>Edited by: nelson

[Scronx]

Time for a roster of Wiki articles that are just plain cracked -- meaning, usually, liberally twisted beyond recognition.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton-- barely a hint she's the most hated criminal on earth. COMPARE:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh-- ranges every possible taint against Lucky Lindy


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism-- paints it as an ideology, mentions not an iota of its real-world impact. COMPARE:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism


LATER. About those pseudonymous Wikipedia authors....... I think this guy deserves a medal for making fools of so many liberal entities at once -- but don't assume he even realized what a coup he's pulled.


The riotous irony of the case is that people are only miffed that they were deceived, not that they got bad information (which apparently they didn't).


The real moral of the story is probably not that Wiki can't be trusted (which, frankly, it can on 1000s of subjects) but that you don't have to be old, recognized, and multi-degreed to be smart and useful.


Didn't they make a comedy fantasy movie about a blithering idiot that got himself passed off as a major intellect? Gee, do you think they'll jump to make one about this real life case whose hero is anordinary young white guy? I'm not holding my breath.


http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&amp;objec tid=10427234
<H1>Top Wikipedia professor actually twenty-something student</H1>


NEW YORK - Wikipedia has been thrown into one of its biggest crises after a twenty something student from Kentucky posed as a professor of religious studies and made more than 20,000 alterations to controversial topics on the online encyclopaedia.


Using the pseudonym "Essjay", the fraudster had become one of Wikipedia's most prolific "editors", trusted to adjudicate on factual disputes and charged with keeping the site free from vandalism.


He had even been immortalised in an article in the New Yorker, which took his claims to be an expert in canon law at face value.


Now, though, he has been unmasked as Ryan Jordan, a 24-year-old who had weaved an entire false identity, claiming to be a tenured professor at a private university, but who in fact relied on books such as Catholicism for Dummies when correcting articles on religious dogma.


"He holds no advanced degrees," the New Yorker admitted in a shamefaced editor's note.


"He has never taught."Although anyone can alter the site's 5.3 million articles, some 75,000 people are regular contributors, gaining more privileges to adjudicate on disputes as they gain the respect of their peers.


This loose affiliation of 75,000 obsessives and techno-nerds, who typically hide behind online pseudonyms, has been thrown into turmoil by the scandal.


While many users defended Mr Jordan, saying his editorial judgment had never been questioned, others expressed their sense of betrayal.


Over the weekend, Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, asked Essjay to resign his voluntary position, and now he is suggesting that senior editors be forced to reveal their identities and prove their credentials.


"I have an MA in finance," Mr Wales said.


"I could fax a copy of the degree to the office."


Mr Jordan made a final posting late on Saturday.


"I hope others will refocus the energy they have spent the past few days in defending and denouncing me to make something here at Wikipedia better."





WIKI COMMENTS:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EssjayEdited by: nelson

[Scronx]

In reviewing the above post and reading more of the Wiki article linked, I note that one of the schools the young anti-hero of the piece famously dropped out of is called Bluegrass Community and Technical College. THAT should multiply the anguish and shame of the Wiki-punditry!


Latest news: The said punditry is seeing the folly of offering a resource "anyone can edit" and starting over with a new project, "Citizendium" -- thankfully, a monocultural name this time.


Am I seeing things, or is this analogous to socialism (and maybe even open borders) in its failed implementation of the proletariat?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizendium


http://boston.com/business/personalt...es/2007/03/26/ wikipedia_competitor_seeks_to_cut_out_errors/?page=full
<H1>Wikipedia competitor seeks to cut out errors</H1>


In just six years, Wikipedia has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane.


To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable -- and relatively small -- price to pay for the dazzling breadth spawned by its "anyone can edit" open design.


But Larry Sanger doesn't buy it. To Sanger -- who was present at the creation of Wikipedia (in fact, call him a co founder, although that, like many things within Wikipedia, is disputed) -- its charms seem to outweigh its warts simply because it has no competition.


And that's precisely what Sanger hopes to change.


This week, Sanger takes the wraps off a Wikipedia alternative, Citizendium. His goal is to capture Wikipedia's bustle but this time, avoid the vandalism and inconsistency that are its pitfalls........

[Nelson]

Now the eggheads have done it (thanks, Don)—but shouldn't they have seen this coming?


http://www.propagandamatrix.com/arti...t2007/140807_w ikipedia_credibility.htm


Credibility Of Wikipedia Takes a Dive After Wired Exposé
Online encyclopedia outed as bias tool of intelligence agencies, corporations by new Wikipedia Scanner database
The credibility of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has taken another dive after a newly developed software program exposed how the CIA, corporations like Diebold and others routinely edit entries to bury criticism and manipulate the truth.
In one of our previous investigations, we revealed how a group of trolls were engaged in a concerted campaign to erase the 9/11 truth movement, along with a host of other controversial subjects, out of cyber existence by voting to delete pages about subjects and individuals that obviously warrant a page on Wikipedia.
Examples we cited included such manifestly provable "conspiracy theories" as "List of Republican sex scandals," "People questioning the 9/11 Commission Report" and "Movement to impeach George W. Bush".
Trolls were even allowed to delete the Wiki page for Dylan Avery, who has appeared on Fox News, CNN and in hundreds of newspaper reports. Avery is the producer of the most watched documentary film in Internet history, he clearly merits a biography page on an online encyclopedia, but Wikipedia had no qualms in letting Morton Devonshire and other trolls deep six the entry.
Devonshire and his cohorts have exhibited extreme bias and agenda driven tactics in organizing to purge Wikipedia of material about the 9/11 truth movement, but Wikipedia hasn't done a damn thing to stop it.
Now a CalTech graduate student has developed a software tool that threatens to slam the final nail in the coffin of any credibility Wikipedia had left.
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV align=left>


"Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of CalTech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses," reports Wired News.


"On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits." </DIV>
<DIV>"In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself. And it is far from an isolated case. A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations" .................</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>

[Nelson]

I like IHR.ORG's titkle for this item: "US Government Agencies Are Editing Wikipedia".


http://www.upi.com/International_Sec...ging_Threats/B riefing/2007/08/22/dhs_in_top_5_agencies_editing_wikipedia/6 786/print_view/


DHS in Top 5 agencies editing Wikipedia


WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The Department of Homeland Security is among the Top 5 U.S. agencies where computers have been used to anonymously edit Wikipedia entries.

The figures come from a new software package called Wikiscanner, which lists the owners or hosts of Internet Protocol addresses associated with edits to Wikipedia -- the popular online encyclopedia, collectively written and edited by its readers.

The Wikiscanner figures show computers using IP addresses registered to Department of Homeland Security networks had made 4,018 edits as of Aug. 4, making them the fourth most prolific editors in the .gov domain -- just ahead of the House of Representatives but behind the state government of California and Department of Veterans Affairs. NASA was the U.S. agency from which the most changes were made.

The editing done from Homeland Security computers ranges from the benign -- updating information about departmental employees or plans to move its headquarters, and adding external links to department sites -- to the bizarre -- adding “All these theories are retarded!” to the page about Sept. 11 conspiracies; or references to an article in the satirical newspaper The Onion about porn videos allegedly made by former U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abrahams to his page.

A quick survey of the edits reveals most of them to be changes to pages about non-homeland security-related matters, such as TV shows, movies and books.

There are, however, a number of possibly self-interested politically sensitive edits -- adding critical text to pages about Democratic presidential candidates Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico and former Sen. John Edwards, or removing it from pages about President Bush.

[Michael]

An article entitled "Passing off propaganda as fact and the ever present Zionist need to change history"





http://www.davidduke.com/general/pas...ropaganda-as-f act-and-the-jewish-need-to-change-history_3766.html

[Michael]

An article entitled "Wiki - The Chaos Controller"


http://www.rense.com/general82/wiki.htm








Wikipedia can be useful if one already knows the information and just needs a quick source to cite. Also, articles that are basic facts that Jews don’t care about or where Jews are put in not so great of light even ones where the article appears to be bragging about Jews betraying Christian to Muslims and presenting it as the right thing for Jews to do. I saw piece on Wikipedia once that was very good and not at all pro-Jewish propaganda but a short time later it was changed to pro-Jewish politically correct propaganda.

[Nelson3]

This article looks like part of a series and has a master file of Obama-eligibility links at bottom of its webpage! Note what Wiki calls the stark naked truth about its tan everyman deity-emperor: "fringe material".</span>

Again I'll say it. On subjects with no strong left-right political orientation -- by the millions -- Wiki is accurate and invaluable. But the rest happens to be the most important subjects in the world, and on those, Wiki has the mind of a 10-year-old gewish public school indoctrination victim. Totally unreal, totally doctrinaire, totally childish mindless lockstep with PC in the face of all reality.
<br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51);">OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL</font><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51);">
Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility</font><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51);">
Mention of citizenship issues deleted in minutes, 'offending' users
banned</font><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51);">

<hr style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51);" size="1">By Aaron
Klein</font><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 51);">
�2009WorldNetDaily</font>

Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited
entirely by its users, has been deleting within minutes any mention of
eligibility issues surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, with administrators
kicking off anyone who writes about the subject, WND has learned.

A perusal through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama" target="_blank" target="_blank">Obama's
current Wikipedia entry</a> finds a heavily guarded, mostly glowing biography
about the U.S. president. Some of Obama's most controversial past affiliations,
including with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and former Weathermen terrorist Bill Ayers,
are not once mentioned, even though those associations received much news media
attention and served as <a class="kLink" &#111;nc&#111;ntextmenu="return false;" id="K&#111;naLink0" &#111;nmouseover="adlinkMouseOver&#101;vent,this,0 ;" style="positi&#111;n: static; text-decorati&#111;n: underline ! important;" &#111;nclick="adlinkMouseClick&#101;vent,this,0 ;" &#111;nmouseout="adlinkMouseOut&#101;vent,this, 0;" href="http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=91114#" target="_top" target="_blank">dominant</span></font>
<div id="preLoad0" style="display: n&#111;ne; left: -18px; top: -22px;"></div></span></a> themes during the presidential elections last year.


Also completely lacking is any mention of <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=90447" target="_blank" target="_blank">the
well-publicized concerns surrounding Obama's eligibility</a> to serve as
commander-in-chief.

<a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=81550" target="_blank" target="_blank">Where's the
proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the "natural-born
American" clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more
than 300,000 others and sign up now!</a>

Indeed, multiple times, Wikipedia users who wrote about the eligibility
issues had their entries deleted almost immediately and were banned from
re-posting any material on the website</span></font>
for three days.

In one example, Wikipedia user "Jerusalem21" added the following to Obama's
page:

"There have been some doubts about whether Obama was born in the U.S. after
the politician refused to release to the public a carbon copy of his birth
certificate and amid claims from his relatives he may have been born in Kenya</span></font>.
Numerous lawsuits have been filed petitioning Obama to release his birth
certificate, but most suits have been thrown out by the courts."

As is required on the online encyclopedia, that entry was backed up by
third-party media articles, citing the Chicago Tribune and WorldNetDaily.com


The entry was posted on Feb. 24, at 6:16 p.m. EST. Just three minutes later,
the entry was removed by a Wikipedia administrator, claiming the posting
violated the websites rules against "fringe" material.................http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=91114</span>

LATER. Damning article whistles in the dark about Wikipedia's objectivity but merely shows in HD ow gewish it really is.

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/.../wikipedia-str ives-for-balance-on-divisive-issues

Yes, the resource is often more politically incorrect than you'd expect. But on too many red-hot issues, e.g. wrold war gew and the holohoax, it's doctrinaire like a fundamentlist. Well, it is exactly that -- liberal-zionist-fundy.


Edited by: Nelson3

[Michael]

An article entitled "Fears over future of Wikipedia as 49,000 volunteers leave site"


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...-1230790/Fears -future-Wikipedia-49-000-volunteers-leave-site.html

[Nelson3]

".........allows registered users to modify entries but this can leave it open to
abuse, most recently when its page for footballer Thierry Henry was
flooded with obscenities after his handball helped France to beat
Ireland in a World Cup play-off."

ROTF!!!!!!!!</font>


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[Nelson3]

Warmapedia</span>

http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.2950

LATER -- 5/10: The Lichter-Rothman Report, which smashingly documented liberal bias among media personnel, doesn't even rate an article in Wikipedia! Tragically, it's either mostly forgotten today or is being suppressed in Google and Youtube search results as well.


Edited by: Nelson3

[Michael]

An article entitled "Wikipedia on Race


‘World’s biggest encylopedia’ serves up propaganda. "


http://amren.com/features/200807wikipedia.html

[Nelson3]

A week or more into the scrumpdiddlyumptious Al Gore sex scandal, and I can't find a ghost of a mention of it in Wikipedia's article on him. Can anybody else?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore

Like they say, a lot depends on whose ox is getting gored.

[Nelson3]

Mentions Wikipedia Jews. Is that redundant?

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/gila...nited-against- knowledge.html
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Gilad Atzmon: United AgainstKnowledge



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<div> Friday, August 20, 2010 at 8:00AM</span> </span> Gilad Atzmon
</span><br style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">The </span>Guardian reported today
that two Israeli groups have set up training courses in subversive
Wikipedia editing aiming to 'show the other side' of the Jewish State.</span>

LATER... .ADDED ELSEWHERE:
</span>
When Wikipedia spends an entire article condemning its subject, you know it's got to be a "must" read!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sec...onship_Between _Blacks_and_Jews
</div>

Edited by: Nelson3

[Michael]

An article entitled "Israelis Plot to Infiltrate Wikipedia"

Ariel is an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank, but that isn’t the only Israeli topic to be edited on the Internet. Good luck finding a detailed honest account of the Jenin Massacre, including the Israeli refusal to allow UN inspectors to inspect the rubble of that massacre. If you type in "Jenin Massacre", you’ll find it renamed the "Battle of Jenin" and the article talks of "rumors" of a mass slaughter of hundreds to thousands of Palestinian civilians. If there were no mass slaughter, why did Israel refuse to allow in UN inspectors?

In other words, the Internet is something the Jews do not control and the Jews consider this a problem.

This has always been the problem with Wikipedia: it lends itself to ideological distortion and propaganda on the part of the people who control it. They also control who is allowed to make posts and edits, and who are also allowed the even more important power of deleting the work of others.

http://www.davidduke.com/general/isr...-to-infiltrate -wikipedia_19238.html

[Nelson3]

This normal healthy article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_Lane_ghost

.........was introduced in this nutty yellow journalism fashion as "Today's featured article" -- still showing as I write:

<b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Fanny scratching[/b] in 18th-century London's </span>Cock Lane was so notorious that interested bystanders often blocked the street. It became the focus of a religious controversy between </span>Methodists and orthodox </span>Anglicans, and was reported on by celebrities of the period such as </span>Samuel Johnson. </span>Charles Dickens referred to the phenomenon in several of his books, including </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Nicholas Nickleby[/i] and </span><i style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">A Tale of Two Cities[/i],
and other Victorian authors also alluded to it in their work. One
enterprising resident diverted the crowds that gathered in Cock Lane by
allowing them to converse with a ghost he claimed was haunting his home,
to which he charged an entrance fee. Fanny scratching eventually
resulted in several prosecutions, and the </span>pillorying of a father. (</span><b style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">more...[/b])</span>


Edited by: Nelson3

[Nelson4]

This stuff is what Wikipedia does every day, but it's nice to see somebody chronicling it from a grassroots perspective:

http://godfatherpolitics.com/4992/wi...gan-reference/