Playboy hatchet job "On a grim April morning I stood in a bathroom of a Branson, Missouri hotel, surrounded by a quartet of white supremacists. I shared the sink with a 'Christian patriot' named Don. There was a picture of a blood-streaked baby in my mind as I wiped my hands with a paper towel. This particular snippet of CNN footage had been haunting me since I had seen it on the Atlanta airport 48 hours earlier. This was not the place to be having sympathetic thoughts about the Oklahoma City victims. I wadded up the spent towel and tossed it into the wastebasket and looked at Don. This broad-faced Oklahoma farmer took us all in with his dead blue eyes and said, 'They've been taking this country from us, piece by piece, for years.' A grin stripped Don's teeth as he peered malevolently at me over his Wal-Mart glasses. 'But we got a piece of it back in Oklahoma City.' We all laughed." [end of quote] The above is the first few paragraphs from an article in the August 1995 issue of Playboy magazine by Michael Reynolds of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The name of the article (starting in page 68) is "Day of the Zealots". It is a concerted and highly biased attempt to paint the militia and patriot movements as violence prone white racists. In short it is a "hatchet job". The conclusion of this article is that racist hatred was the cause of the bombing in Oklahoma city and anyone associated with "patriot" or "militia" organizations is to blame. My intention is to write to Playboy and inform them that my subscription will not be renewed unless I see a rebutting article printed prominently in their magazine. Anyone who feels the same as I do may contact Playboy at this address: Playboy 680 North Lake Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60611 8----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Amiga Channel BBS - 804-733-5596 - USR Dual Standard 6----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5