----- Original Message ----- From: <con1453 at aol.com> In a message dated 7/22/01 6:06:54 PM, issodhos at aol.com writes:
<< The individual, having voluntarily taken an action that set into motion subsequent events that culminated in his death, bears full responsibility forhis own death. Yours, Issodhos >>
-As, no doubt, did Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney, or, for that matter, Jesus -Christ. Putting oneself in a potentially dangerous situation doesn't give -anyone the right to kill you.
I myself would not compare this particular death to either Jesus or Goodman et al. The NLG press release was written with some care - based on a relatively hard debate on how to deal with what may be a partly culpable person who was killed - to emphasize that whatever the particular actions of either protester or police, the real responsibility for the deaths and injuries lies with those who have militarized protest and systematically violated legitimate means of free speech, thereby channelling protest into increasingly dangerous avenues where such violence and death becomes inevitable.
The elite wants to play a game of pitting accusations of evil culpability as cops accuse protesters and vice versa. In this case, you had two scared and angry kids, protester and police, in a militarized zone where fear was inevitably going to lead to tragedy.
I personally don't think the victim was a selfless martyr and don't think the cop was a demon, but I do think the global leaders who set them both up are criminals.
Nathan Newman, NLG