Note to the "ladder of force left"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Oct 20 10:06:45 PDT 2001


ppillai at sprint.ca wrote:


>The rougue terrorists that staff the bodies of the US state
>have demonstrated themselves capable of
>stunning (and unprecedented) acts of violence, have resolved to kill
>unimimaginable numbers of people.
>That would include people like you, Nathan, Luke, even Leo
>throughout the world.
>There's no exemptions for even moderate Keynsian liberals
>(so long as they hail from the third world).
>Does this bother you at all?
>Or are you willing to take a spore for the empire?

Let me see if I can follow this out a bit: we should do nothing, let people kill us in large numbers because our state has done horrible things in building its empire? Is this assisted suicide as a revolutionary strategy?

Doug

PS: I never knew I was an enthusiastic supporter of the American empire; guess you know me better.



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