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::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)
::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)
:::Also, to follow up on Ed Poor's comments, the purpose of a trustworthy encyclopedia is to present the truth in a fair way, which is more important that trying not to "make one side look worse than another". Certainly the articles on Atheism, Evolution, and the like are written to present the POV approved by the leadership, and not to necessarily provide "equal time" to all other views. The amount of otherwise-valid edits on this site removed for being "liberal claptrap" are testament to this. That's the editorial policy of CP, and the site has every right to promote the conservative POV.
::I do not equate being conservative with suppressing the truth about this nation's history, however. Moral men and women have a duty to acknowledge immorality when it occurs, and to avoid doing so because it presents this nation in an unflattering light is not justifiable. To do so is to make CP look like the Japanese textbooks which omit any mention of the atrocities and war crimes committed in WWII, because they are ashamed of that portion of their history.
::We are not the men who executed the policies and acts that led to the Trail of Tears, so why the reluctance to be honest about it even if was shameful? We have a duty to report on great wrongs, and frankly if they were shameful then they should be shown as such, otherwise we're succumbing to the so-called moral relativism that is condemned here. Atrocities committed by governments within the U.S are still atrocities, whether we're discussing slavery, the Trail of Tears, or a deep-south sheriff unleashing attack dogs on black protesters. I may be blocked for this view, but if so it will be taken with pride for holding to my moral code. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 16:20, 6 December 2008 (EST)