From: "Daniel Davies" <dsquared at al-islam.com> To: " owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com" <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> Subject: Re:lbo-talk-digest V1 #5247 Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 01:18:22 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0
>Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 23:25:11 -0500
>From: "Joe R. Golowka"
>Subject: Re: Marable weighs in
>> Sorry to be a vulgar empiricist, but how many people did >>El
>>Salvador's death squads kill, and how many have the >>NYPD killed? The
>> ratio's something like 10,000 to 1, no?
>So what? A death squad is a death squad whether they kill >50 people or
>5,000 people.
This isn't true, though, is it? No state is so small as to only have 50 enemies. A "death squad" which only kills 50 people over a time frame of a year is clearly just occasionally lashing out at targets of opportunity. One which kills 5,000 people in a year is having a fair crack at eradicating opposition. Only the second really deserves the title of a "death squad".
dd
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