writing assignment
posted by Lang' Squal', a student of the perverted arts on November 2, 2004
i'm giving myself a research project: the 25 most "evil" men/women in american history. Of course, EVIL is a religiously loaded term that i intend to define later. Roughly, define it as the activities (inaction counts as action) of a person that causes the most deaths, suffering, to people & animals, loss of property & livlihood.
Christopher Columbus, slave trader, should start out the list. I'll be thinking of this list while i go vote right now. what are yalls thoughts?
How are you defining "American History"? Do you want events that happened on American soil, regardless of person's origin? Or do you want Americans who have caused all those things? Or both.
For example, Timothy McVeigh, would be seem to be a shoo-in: The perpetrator was American, the victims were American, it happened on American soil.
But the World Trade Center attack is a little sketchier. That's probably the greatest number of Americans killed by people on American soil in a single event, but the perpetrators appear to have all been foreigners. (There's also the question of which one person gets the finger for that particular event.)
And then there's the whole Pauly Shore thing ...
Posted by: McFrozen at November 2, 2004 07:35 PM