Is there a nonviolent response to September 11?

[Ken Hanly]

Do you really think that it would make much difference if Bin Laden turned
himself in? There is no distinction made between terrorists and those who
harbor them is there? bin Laden is not even mentioned the last while. It is
the Taliban regime that is the target right now. The aim is to overthrow a
government. bin Laden's turning himself in would be little more than a
momentary embarassment.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: Is there a nonviolent response to September 11?


>
> Well, Kells, there was a possibility before we sent in the bombers of
> treating this as a criminal investigation, as it should have been. If the
> guy had been French, and not hiding out in the Third World, do you think
> they would be bombing Paris? Notta fukin chance. So don't tell me there
was
> no other way, even to get a  bad guy who won't stop. Of course, talking
> about how it could have been is idle in a sense. But makes an important
> rhetorical point about the kind of war we have and the kind of government
we
> have.
>
> The war complicates things immensely. It makes it harder to bring OBL to
> justice; it ensures the likelihood of further terrorist acts, and, as the
> Bushies cheerfully remind us, it opens the prospect of an open-ended
> natoonal security sattes taht feels free to intervene anywhere in the
third
> world at any time foreover. This is just what they want. They want more
> terrorist acts, and the last thing the want is for OBL to come out of the
> mountains and say, so try me! That would cork their party. So we have to
> demand and end to the war and the resumption of legal process. LOL jks
>
> >
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