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→One-sided comments: I don't know enough about the matter to cast a moral judgment
::::If this site stuck to only posting verifiable facts instead of opinion, then the [[Barack Obama]] article would be a fraction of its current length. I restored the reference to Burnett's account, and leaving the rest of the article alone. I have a question for RSchlafly though - while you state above that you are not "expressing an opinion about whether the Indian relocation was good", I took that to refer to the policy of relocation itself. Do you personally believe that the way the government handled the relocation, and the deaths of 4,000 that resulted directly from it, was somehow not immoral? I'd sincerely like to know. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 13:44, 7 December 2008 (EST)
::::If this site stuck to only posting verifiable facts instead of opinion, then the [[Barack Obama]] article would be a fraction of its current length. I restored the reference to Burnett's account, and leaving the rest of the article alone. I have a question for RSchlafly though - while you state above that you are not "expressing an opinion about whether the Indian relocation was good", I took that to refer to the policy of relocation itself. Do you personally believe that the way the government handled the relocation, and the deaths of 4,000 that resulted directly from it, was somehow not immoral? I'd sincerely like to know. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 13:44, 7 December 2008 (EST)
::::: I don't know enough about the matter to cast a moral judgment. But I do know that most of the stuff I removed is just plain wrong. Eg, RJJensen keeps putting in statements about how Jackson "rejected the Supreme Court decision on the matter". There was no such decision.
::::: RJJensen also inserted: ''Robert Remini, Jackson's most fervent defender, admits that the Trail of Tears had horrors that "beggar the imagination," noting the Indians were "American citizens who were denied their basic civil rights as well as their property because of the nation's perceived need and fear."'' I looked this up. Remini actually wrote that sentence about Japanese-Americans, not Indians. [[User:RSchlafly|RSchlafly]] 14:19, 7 December 2008 (EST)