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Reply To: | The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky |
Date: | Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:05:04 -0700 |
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And I don't think we would want to be punished for Clinton's slaughter
mainly through the use of ghastly shrapnel bombs, bringing torture and
death.
I thought his moist eyes about the Colo. massacres to be very touching;
at the same time he was (with the best of intentions) riddling the bodies
of women and children in Yugoslavia. We were warned; he helped his
own election in the first place by okaying the state murder in Ark. of
a man, clearly mentally defective.
wcm
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> Thanks for the apology Dan. I'm not sure which people you are referring to,
> but is it possible that rather than celebrating the slaughter they are simply
> well-intentioned people who see no other solution? I understand the desire
> to do something rather than nothing, but I wish people wouldn't be so quick
> to punish a population for the sake of going after its leader. By the way, I
> only know the stuff I wrote about genocide and the convention because I had
> the privilege of seeing Ward Churchill speak addressing the topic.
> Interestingly enough he argued how the elimination of North America's Indians
> was genocide and described how he's had to debate people who argued that it
> wasn't, as well as how others acknowledge that the Holocaust and the fate of
> Africans in America was genocide, but not the fate of the Native Americans!
> His speech was titled "A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in
> the Americas."
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