Baby Killers & Collateral Damage

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Thu Apr 26 07:59:12 PDT 2001


At 12:44 AM 4/26/01 -0400, yoshie wrote:
>Irony is that in this society it is OK to call Timothy McVeigh & the
>like "baby killers," but it is a big ideological no-no to use the
>same term to refer to the machinery of terror -- the U.S. military &
>what it protects -- that produced them.

Do not forget the sickening American morbid fascination with violence and delinquency - manifested inter alia by making idols out of social outcasts and criminals - and the class of intellectual commodity producers (writers, film makers, singers) who cater to that morbidity.

wojtek



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