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In reply to the discussion: Jesse James and Debt Collectors [View all]aquart
(69,014 posts)30. He's not my hero.
But he is someone I had to spend years learning to understand.
Recognizing someone's humanity is not idolizing.
It may be "well know" what Quantrill and Bloody Bill Anderson did but I prefer links, sources, TESTIMONY to the game of telephone you are playing.
I repeat: this is the first rape accusation I have ever read against Jesse James and I am asking you to back it up.
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Well, yeah. Who else would have the power or the bloody-minded arrogance to fight heavy money?
aquart
May 2012
#56
Where's your sense of myth and of archetype? This tale de-centers the
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#15
See, you're sort of illustrating my point. It's fun attributing said saying to
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#52
And those "hauls" were from banks farmers were depositiing their money with.
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2012
#19
I thougt about that to but laughed at the story anyhow. I think the legends were increased in the
jwirr
May 2012
#6
At a certain point, I guess we must fall back on core principles and, at that point,
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#21
Brown's actions in Kansas and Missouri are far more problematic, imo, than
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#24
Well, you would know if you bothered to read anything about what went on in that area then.
aquart
May 2012
#11
Umm, I live in Missouri, I know far too well the evil that was the James brothers
MadHound
May 2012
#25
It is well know that both Quatrill's Raiders, and Anderson's group raped women
MadHound
May 2012
#29
Jesse James was a piker. MI$$ Rmoney took $100 million from workers, some of whom were widows,
jtuck004
May 2012
#13
Boy am I way off on this one......I thought you meant the Jesse James married to Sandra Bullock.
a kennedy
May 2012
#20
Real people who work in debt collections are among the lowest paid and most abused workers...
slackmaster
May 2012
#39