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"We learn from history that we do not learn from history" - Hegel

Salt Lake Tribune reporter/blogger Brooke Adams' coverage of the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup continues to outclass all of the Texas media by a country mile. Yesterday she published this wonderful historic image on her blog at the paper, The Plural Life, along with links to various present-day cartoonists' portrayals of the Texas raid. This cartoon was published in the Salt Lake Tribune toward the end of the Short Creek saga in 1953:Ironically, a commenter pointed out, the state legislator who sponsored new statutes in 2005 specifically targeting FLDS, Rep. Harvey Hildebran, R-Kerrville, recently told the press "I don't think this will be another Short Creek." But he's already wrong. You could change the characters above to Governor Rick Perry and the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals, and the cartoon would be utterly current.continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 13, 2008 (boomark / email).