I don't see the point of going over the deployment of the term "genocide" again. We did that months ago and no minds were changed.
> >Remind me how it's an act of resistance to loot Serb-owned stores.
>
>Ah yes, abridging private property rights is now a horrific sin by the KLA
>among leftists shocked, shocked I say, that such human rights violations are
>allowed to occur during post-war reconstruction. That refugees who have
>lost their homes and businesses (often at the hands of those Serbs running
>current businesses) would privilege their own poverty and suffering over the
>property rights of a noble Serbian entrepreneur makes every socialist heart
>bleed I know.
>
>As in, give me a break-- you and a large chunk of folks on this list could
>find all sorts of reasons to justify Lenin appropriating the property of
>Kulaks in Russia in the name of war mobilization and subsequent
>reconstruction.
>
>I'm not going to justify such KLA actions as particularly noble, but you
>shouldn't engage in the silly rhetoric of suddenly discovering the sanctity
>of private property.
Do you believe for a second that the KLA is socializing property the way Lenin meant to? This is an analogy as spurious as the American Indian one. Store-owners are being attacked not because they're petty capitalists, but because they're Serbs. Who appointed the KLA the agent of the Kosovar Albanians?
Doug