Sounds like a red herring to me. Do the people who dislike this train company because of its long-ago Nazi connections feel the same way about, say, Volkwagen, or Bayer (the aspirin company), or Siemans? Do they feel this way about General Motors which, as I recall, tried to sue the US gov't after the war for the wartime loss of its German factories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_General_Motors#World_War_II)? Do they feel the same about Ford (Henry Ford was about as vocal an anti-semite as lived in the US at the time)? Or the Kennedy family (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.#Anti-Semitism)? How about the US space program, the rockets for which were designed by V-2 designer Werner Von Braun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro)? :-)
It seems to me that what a company did more than a half century ago, under entirely different management and political circumstances, has rather little to do with whether they should be engaged with today. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== michael sylvester wrote: > > > > > There is a mounting controversy brewing here in Central Florida about > a proposal to build a High speed rail with train routes from Orlando > to Tampa to Miami and other points.One of the companies that put in a > bid is a French company that was utilized by the Germans to transport > Jews and others to Nazi concentration camps.There are pros and > cons.Given the shady past of that company and "sensitivity" > factors,many have given a thumbs down.In at least 200 words compare > and contrast the train proposal and the ground zero proposal. > > Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD > Daytona Beach,Florida > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=4795 > > <http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd0da&n=T&l=tips&o=4795> > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-4795-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > <mailto:leave-4795-13132.a868d710aa4ef67a68807ce4fe8bd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4800 or send a blank email to leave-4800-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
