A Modest Proposal for The Empire

Gordon Fitch gcf at panix.com
Tue Dec 25 15:11:17 PST 2001



> >Empire and Capital have been very busy erasing the world and its
> >people for a very long time. They have been performing WTC scale
> >destructions on a vast and routine basis and calling it development
> >and progress. That's why bin Laden and others decided to do something
> >like crash into the WTC towers. That's the whole reason in a
> >nutshell---do unto Empire as Empire has done unto you...

Bradford DeLong:
> Truly the words of a truly sick and malignant fuck.
>
> Killing a lot of dishwashers, cooks, janitors, secretaries, travel
> agents--and a few bond traders--is not doing anything "unto Empire."
> It is murdering a lot of dishwashers, cooks, janitors, secretaries,
> travel agents, and a few bond traders.
> ...

No, he's simply describing the rather logical mental processes which we can easily suppose to go on in the heads of people like Mr. Atta and his friends: fight fire with fire, use State methods against the states you don't like. You may not believe there is moral equivalence between killing thousands of people in the World Trade Center and killing thousanda of people in Afghanistan (or Serbia or Iraq or Panama, etc. etc. etc.) but the _method_ is the same, and some people exposed to State methods are likely respond in kind even though _you_ think they're morally inferior.

If you really want to engage in that sort of thing, you've got to harden your heart and not worry too much about the dishwashers who stand in the way of the Will of God or whatever you believe in that has a license to kill. Your leaders certainly evidence no such sentimentality except during propaganda exercises.

-- Gordon



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