Talk:Homer E. Capehart

message: Are the Congressional biographies at http://bioguide.congress.gov/ copyrighted?  Can we incorporate them into articles in the 'pedia?
:That's not the question, Zoe. First let's figure out if we SHOULD incorporate them. I'm against verbatim copying of anything, except a brief passage in quotation marks. We're supposed to be writing an encyclopedia, not building a library. What's wrong with the external link I put in? --Ed Poor
::I note the current "stub-class" rating. I think it's rather better than that, I'm quite impressed by the article. I assume the facts are accurate, the article paints a coherent picture of someone who had his moments in history, I enjoyed reading it. JohnHarris (talk) 08:27, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Congressional biographies  copyrighted?

message: From the artcile history, mentioned above:
:February 5, 1946 concerning this United States administration, which has been carrying on the deliberate policy of mass starvation (of Germans) without any distinction between the innocent and the helpless and the guilty alike."...
:Senator Homer. E Caphart of Indiana's remarks:
:"The fact can no longer be suppressed, namely, the fact that is has been and continues to be, the deliberate policy of a confidential and conspiratorial clique within the policy-making circles of this government to draw and quarter a nation now reduced to abject misery...'In this process this clique, like a pack of hyenas struggling over the bloody entrails of a corpse, and inspired by a sadistic and fanatic hatred, are determined to destroy the German nation and the German people, no matter what the consequences."... "At Potsdam the representatives of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Socialist Republics solemnly signed the following declaration of principles and purposes: "It is not the intention of the Allies to destroy or enslave the German people."
:"Mr. President, the cynical and savage repudiation of these solemn declarations which has resulted in a major catastrophe, cannot be explained in terms of ignorance or incompetence. This repudiation, not only of the Potsdam Declaration, but also of every law of God and men, has been deliberately engineered with such a malevolent cunning, and with such diabolic skill, that the American people themselves have been caught in an international death trap."...
:"For nine months now this administration has been carrying on a deliberate policy of mass starvation without any distinction between the innocent and the helpless and the guilty alike."...
:"The first issue has been and continues to be merely humanitarian. This vicious clique within this administration that has been responsible for the policies and practices which have made a madhouse of central Europe has not only betrayed our American principles, but they have betrayed the GI's who have suffered and died, and they continue to betray the American GIs who have to continue their dirty work for them."...
:"The second issue that is involved is the effect this tragedy in Germany has already had on the other European countries. Those who have been responsible for this deliberate destruction of the German state and this crimimal mass starvation of the German people have been so zealous in their hatred that all other interests and concerns have been subordinated to this one obsession of revenge. In order to accomplish this it mattered not if the liberated countries in Europe suffered and starved. To this point this clique of conspirators have addressed themselves:'Germany is to be destroyed. What happens to other countries of Europe in the process is of secondary importance."
Ikip  17:44, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 2002 version of this article with speech