Re: [HOE] Gamers Beware! A word of warning!!!

[PEGShane@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/5/2002 12:31:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu writes:

> follows. Disney wanted to build a new theme park in Virginia called Disney
> America. This wouldn't necessarily have been so bad except for the fact that
> they wanted to build it over a Civil War battlefield (I can't remember which
> one). Needless to say, the locals didn't like that one bit, so they took
> Disney to court. After a long- and hard-fought battle, the locals won. When
> asked for comment, Disney's lawyer's response amounted to a "this isn't
> over" statement. People wonder why I hate Disney. I cite this as one of the
> reasons.
>
> Nick Zachariasen
> Editor Emeritus
> Trojan Times


It wasn't going to be built on a battlefield, and probably cost our state easily 1 billion dollars per year or more--in a state with a severe budget shortfall and rising unemployment. (Hey, who needs to eat, right?) Not to mention might have turned on millions of kids to history.

This was a HUGE tragedy.

Don't punish success.

Shane