Maine National Guard bars Green Party leader from flying

measl at mfn.org measl at mfn.org
Sun Nov 4 10:48:20 PST 2001



On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 jamesd at echeque.com wrote:

> Analogously in Vietnam, the enemy mingled with the populace,
> so that even with the best of intentions, US forces wound up
> killing a lot of ordinary civilians, a problem made far worse
> by the stupid "body count" policy, where young ambitious
> officers, like the future Senator Kerrey, were apt to rack up
> very large body counts by any means convenient.
> 
> Senator Kerrey was cerrtainly a mass murderer, and the
> guardsmen who stopped her from flying were certainly thugs,
> but the reason there are arguably grounds for overlooking
> Kerrey's cynical murders and the guardsmen's thuggery ,is
> that in the face of this quite real threat even good people
> will do things that are hard to distinguish from the things
> that bad people do. 

Amazing!  Here you make an "argument" that mass-murder is an acceptable
behaviour, while you are simultaneously arguing that a political BELIEF is
*not*.

>     --digsig
>          James A. Donald

This is the exact kind of "logic" and "policy" that gets the US attacked
in the first place James.  Ultimately, the problem isn't this woman's
political beliefs - it's YOUR political beliefs.  And the fact that the
USG both shares them and *lives by them*.

-- 
Yours, 
J.A. Terranson
sysadmin at mfn.org

If Governments really want us to behave like civilized human beings, they
should give serious consideration towards setting a better example:
Ruling by force, rather than consensus; the unrestrained application of
unjust laws (which the victim-populations were never allowed input on in
the first place); the State policy of justice only for the rich and 
elected; the intentional abuse and occassionally destruction of entire
populations merely to distract an already apathetic and numb electorate...
This type of demogoguery must surely wipe out the fascist United States
as surely as it wiped out the fascist Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The views expressed here are mine, and NOT those of my employers,
associates, or others.  Besides, if it *were* the opinion of all of
those people, I doubt there would be a problem to bitch about in the
first place...
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