Talk:Edward "Teddy" Taylor

Radio Message's Accuracy
Ok, there are more than a few minor problems with the facts given in the radio announcement talking about Edward "Teddy" Taylor. First of all Texas was not (and is not) very “pro Union”. Second there is no such thing as “spiritual wrongdoing” in US law. Such a law is a huge and direct violation of the 1st Amendment of the Constitution which guarantees freedom of religion. There have been moves against certain religions, but those tended to be in part because they violated laws already on the books, such as polygamy.

Next, the mob is described as being “abolitionists” and there were not a whole lot of those in Texas in this time period. In general mobs in the US are not very big at slowly roasting people alive either. Mobs hang people, they shoot people, they even hang someone AND shoot them at the same time. Maybe they burn your house down with you still in it. But hauling someone out and slowly roasting them to death is not something that happened often. When it did happen, it tended to be racially motivated and involved at least the accusation of rape and or murder. Burning someone for praying? That’s more than a little bit of a stretch.

Also we have to look at the other stories broadcast on the radio, specifically the one where it states that Booker fired into a crowd of people at the raffle when we know he didn’t. Columbia’s radio station exists to spread propaganda, not tell the truth and anything it broadcasts should be taken with a grain of salt the size of the Rock of Gibraltar. sm --Solarmech (talk) 13:22, November 10, 2017 (UTC)