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: You removed the word "immoral", but the article is still extremely unbalanced. About 98% of the article pushes a particular POV, and the article fails to even mention the opposing POV. Unless this is remedied, I favor deleting the article. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 12:04, 6 December 2008 (EST)
: You removed the word "immoral", but the article is still extremely unbalanced. About 98% of the article pushes a particular POV, and the article fails to even mention the opposing POV. Unless this is remedied, I favor deleting the article. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 12:04, 6 December 2008 (EST)
::Burnett was an eyewitness to these events and participated as part of the U.S. troops who were tasked with carrying out the relocation policy. Simply put, this was not the angry views of one of the dislocated Cherokee, but the somber reflection of a U.S. soldier who realized that a great wrong was taking place under a false pretense of legitimacy. That is as relevant as any other reference, and certainly as relevant than any historian's armchair observations that could be added to this article.
::As for your view that my edits were lacking balance, it's sad that you chose to address this by censoring the truth. Changing the account from to replace this being a forced relocation to "and some of them moved voluntarily and peaceably" is beyond a whitewash - it's a willful act of suppressing an unflattering truth about this nation's history. This encyclopedia is supposed to respect the truth and be grounded in moral values, and it's ironic that someone like me who's often accused of negative "liberal-x" characteristics is the one who's fighting for the truth to remain in this article.
::I've added nothing that was unfair, untrustworthy, or unverifiable, and had the essence of it removed because it supposedly "lacked balance". If that's the case, then instead of removing edits added in good faith and full compliance with the Conservapedia Commandments, RSchlafly, why don't you act with integrity and add balance to the article by restoring my edits and instead ''contributing'' fair, trustworthy and verifiable ''new'' content to the article. If you can find encyclopedic material to represent that this wasn't a tragedy, that most of the Cherokee were not forced to relocate, and that the conditions imposed on the people being relocated by the U.S. Army were not the primary cause of 4,000 deaths, then I'll leave them intact. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 16:07, 6 December 2008 (EST)