Progressives have no obligation on the below, one can be confident that the
corporate media will issue an appropriate number of peeps indeed of rants.

At 08:32 AM 2/25/02 +0100, you wrote:
>"D. Simmons" wrote:
> >
> > It's been days and not a peep out of the chomskyite faction concerning the
> > treatment of an American Jew held prisoner by the Islamic 'Freedom
> Fighters'
> > of Pakistan. No demands for the Red Cross (or even the Green Crescent)
> to be
> > allowed a visit? Oops! That's right, they would only have a bodiless
> head to
> > speak to! That wouldn't do.:-)
>
>Who are you talking about?  I haven't heard anything about an American
>Jew being held prisoner.  Why did you tell us this person is a Jew, and
>an American, instead of telling us the person's name?  What difference
>does it make to you that a prisoner is Jewish or American?  After all
>we've written here, why would you still think Americanness and
>Jewishness would matter to us?  Can you tell us more about this person?
>The only prisoner I have heard about in the news is Daniel Pearl.  He's
>dead.  I assume he was American, but I don't know if he was Jewish. But
>he had the weight of the State Department, the CIA, the WSJ, CNN, the
>Pakistan police and who knows what other institutions working on his
>behalf, so I don't know what more we could have done.
>
> >   Oh well, I guess we have to keep in mind that these 'Freedom
> Fighters' have
> > legitimate grievances against the imperialist forces of evil descending
> upon
> > their peaceable kingdom.
>
>I don't think anyone referred to these people as freedom fighters,
>although since Ronald Reagan and George Bush used the that label to
>refer to the terrorists in Nicaragua, I suppose we must concede your use
>of it use here.  IT still seems obscene to refer to killing civilians as
>freedom fighting though.  Nevertheless, Pakistan isn't a kingdom,
>although it does have a dictator at the moment, whom the US is
>supporting with big dollars and arms shipments.  But some of those arms
>shipments are just the fighter jets we sold to the previous, corrupt
>regime that the current dictator overthrew.  I suppose he's a nice guy.
>He seems ok.  But, lest we forget...
>
>A dictator's a dictator
>No matter how small
>A dictator's a dictator
>After all.  -- Horton T. Elephant
>
>Maybe he will allow the people to vote soon.  I hope your message isn't
>meant to imply that anyone here advocates terrorism against the US.
>That would mean we really aren't communicating.
>
>martin
>
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