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I agree.
But what is revealing here is that we don't hear D. Simmons raising his
voice in indignation about the war on drugs. Apparently, the operative
moral principle is that once one raises one's voice in indignation on
any issue, one must from that point on raise one's voice of indignation
equally on all issues, or else draw the hypocracy charge. That would
certainly explain Simmons' silence on the drug war issue and pretty much
everything else. Of course, now the cat is out of the bag. Simmons has
driven his stake in the sand by raising his voice in indignation about
my not raising my voice in indignation about the murder of Daniel
Pearl. (And here I must apologize to those of you who assumed, since I
did not raise my voice in indignation about the kidnapping and murder of
the American Jew Daniel Pearl, that I actually support kidnapping and
murder, and that I am anti-semitic and bent on overthrowing democracy in
the US and replacing it with a fundamentalist Islamic state; I should
have seen how any sane and thoughtful person would naturally arrive at
those conclusions.) Yes, from now on we can count on Simmons to raise
his voice of indignation on every issue, from the bombing of civilians
in Afghanistan to the imminent war in Iraq, to the single-handed
dismantling by George Bush of the reformist movement in Iran (and for
purely domestic political purposes), to the afore-mentioned drug war, to
state terrorism whether by the US or Russia or China, and on and on. It
will be good to have you on board, Simmons. Stout fellow.
martin
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