-- Luke
--On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:05 PM -0400 RE <earnest at tallynet.com> wrote:
> and at the same time that
> some of the motives of their actions can't be regarded as "insane" or
> "monstrous," that they reflect human misery and suffering, and that any
> attempt to try to address what is happening in the Mideast will have to
> somehow reflect this aporia by not angrily dismissing those motives.
> Are you, Leo, pleading for something like a moment of silence, or a
> period of grief, before we try to make sense of this? re
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: LeoCasey at aol.com
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 11:22 AM
> Subject: (no subject)
>
> I have alternating feelings of incredible depression and barely
> controllable rage when I read some of the post-WTC e-mails to this list.
> Are folks so removed from simple sentiments of human compassion, much
> less feelings of human solidarity, that in the face of thousands of
> innocent human lives destroyed, they can do nothing more than spin
> justifications for such mass murder, and even join in celebrations of
> it. How sad that you are so detached from your humanity. How fucked that
> you think mass murder has anything to do with human liberation and human
> freedom; you are prisoners of an ideology that has lost all real touch
> with its purported ends. How pathetic that all you can do is quarrel
> over how many thousands are dead, as if the escape of intended victims
> makes this murder less of a crime. I feel no kinship whatsoever with
> those of you who have posted these notes; you are the spin masters of
> mass murder.
>
> Leo Casey
> United Federation of Teachers
> 260 Park Avenue South
> New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
>
> Power concedes nothing without a demand.
> It never has, and it never will.
> If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
> Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men
> who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without
> thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its
> waters.
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> -- Frederick Douglass --
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