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The Plymouth Rock comic is typical of the ignorance that goes into these diatribes.

1) The Rock is on a beach, not in a field with trees as depicted above.

2) No immigrants stepped onto it; that is a myth that is set straight for everyone who visits the Rock.

3) The Massachusett and other nearby Indians were illiterate, so they could not document it (though they certainly took notice), and

4) They can't be undocumented when there was a sign there (see the comic), when they were sent there by investors in another land, and when every day of their activities was chronicled in diaries and journals both locally and in Europe.

What do you think?

Dale, my boy, the Plymouth Rock cartoon is called S-A-T-I-R-E. When Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, there were no little bitty people called Lilliputians who tackled giants like Gulliver and pinned them down with toothpicks and thread--which is what those materials look like in the books. Pigs and other farm animals don't really talk politics, as they do in Animal Farm. (Well, actually, come to think of it, there ARE lots of pigs in Washington--in the White House, in the House and in the Senate--who talk politics all the time. Also chickens and chicken hawks. And weasels. And rats. And jellyfish.)

Okay. Let's forget it.

As I remember, though, Plymouth Rock, which someone painted red years ago, does have a little temple above it where it sits on the beach amid pebbles the size of a dime. What can you draw but satirical stuff about something as ridiculous as that? So what if the Pilgrims/Puritans didn't step out on it. One man's ignorant ranting is another man's history lesson about immigration.

Emily Dickinson said,"Tell all the truth/But tell it slant.." She had something there.

I'll bet Jesus didn't really walk on the water, either.