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Michael Bellesiles' Bancroft
Award?
To Columbia University
Officials
by Angel
Shamaya
Director@KeepAndBearArms.com
December 10,
2002
From: "Angel Shamaya" <Director@KeepAndBearArms.com>
To: bollinger@columbia.edu, rupp@theIRC.org,
ab65@columbia.edu, sloan@columbia.edu
Subject: Michael Bellesiles' Bancroft Award?
Date sent: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 23:50:31 -0700
To:
Lee C. Bollinger, President
bollinger@columbia.edu
George Rupp, Past President
rupp@theIRC.org
Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History/Department Chair
ab65@columbia.edu
Elaine Sloan, Vice President for Information Services/University Librarian
sloan@columbia.edu
RE: Michael Bellesiles' Bancroft Award
We understand you're considering the revocation
of the Bancroft Award from debunked professor Michael Bellesiles for his fraudulent work in the
fictional novel entitled Arming America.
The fact that you haven't already done so
tarnishes the Bancroft's many winners who actually deserved the award.
We polled our website visitors and members at
to whether or not they thought Mr. Bellesiles' unearned award should be revoked
and thought we'd share
the numbers with you.
The question we asked: "Should Columbia University revoke the Bancroft
prize awarded to Michael Bellesiles for his fraudulent
book "Arming America"?"
1,456 people voted.
96.5% said yes.
That's 1,405 people who see clearly what you
might consider seeing and acting upon -- that allowing a fraud to keep an award
he won under false pretenses is wrong.
http://keepandbeararms.com/polls/pollmentorres.asp?id=81
FYI, we don't want you to revoke this novelist's
award because he claimed firearms weren't owned by the people who defeated the
greatest military power on the planet over two centuries ago. We want you to
revoke his award because he lied through his teeth to achieve a political
objective by asserting such an absurd notion -- and the national community of
activist writers should not be allowed to think they can get away with such
overt deception.
Respectfully,
Angel Shamaya
Founder/Executive Director
KeepAndBearArms.com
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