History textbook controversies abound, really. Just a list to pull some sources together:
- European history generally, under the EU (from Eurozine)
- Europe, Spanish Civil War
- Europe, how to remember totalitarian governments
- Israel, Israeli Arabic text calls 1948 war “catastrophe” for Palestinians (New York Times)
- Taiwan, what is “national,” what is Chinese?
- Japan and Korea, in 2005
- List of Japan’s textbook controversies from Wikipedia, including most recent issue over mass suicides on Okinawa; a more academic treatment from Charles Cummins at the Washington University of St. Louis
- Controversy in China, 2004; and a biased view in 2007
- Past controversy over Chinese university texts
- For the sake of history, a recounting of the 1947-1948 controversy at the University of Wyoming
- California controversy resolved, over treatment of Hinduism
- Romania, in 1999
- Mexico in 2003, over the 1968 political violence
And I don’t remember the Secret Service doing anything about the NRO website openly calling for a military coup to “take care of the Obama problem.”
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The use of imprecatory Psalms in Scripture, for instance?
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“I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.”
Very Biblical that, isn’t it? “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?” Luke 12:20
I suppose it could be taken as a threat, but wishing someone would die soon isn’t really the same as threatening them, unless you believe in black magic. It’s certainly less threatening than say….Pat Robert$on wishing a bomb would drop on D.C. The Secret Service didn’t do anything about that IIRC.
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This is the end of “Masters of War.” It’s link to Bush is what?
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
And I hope that you die
And your death’ll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I’ll watch while you’re lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I’ll stand over your grave
‘Til I’m sure that you’re dead.
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Hmmm. Dylan wrote the song over the winter of 1962-63. He called for President Bush to die?
I mean, I knew some people regarded him as a bit of a prophet, but that’s pretty good, to predict in 1962, before George H. W. Bush had ever been elected to Congress, that George W. Bush would one day be president.
George W. Bush was 16 when Dylan wrote the song. Maybe he was a particularly vexing teenager, eh?
Can the FBI read a calendar?
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Here is a report from the not so distant past. Students investigated by the Secret Service for trying to sing a Bob Dylan song from more than 40 years ago.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=247437&page=1
“The students told ABC News affiliate KMGH-TV in Denver they are performing Bob Dylan’s song “Masters of War” during the Boulder High School Talent Exposé because they are Dylan fans. They said they want to express their views and show off their musical abilities.
But some students and adults who heard the band rehearse called a radio talk show Thursday morning, saying the song the band sang ended with a call for President Bush to die.
Threatening the president is a federal crime, so the Secret Service was called to the school to investigate. ”
So is Dylan now to be banned? Then what about Pete Seeger with “Bring em home”?
Or Country Joe with “I feel like I’m fixin to die” or “Cakewalk to Bagdad”?
Wingnuts will stop at nothing.
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