Pentagon/WTC Bombings, Mainstream Media, Socialist Left and Far Right

Lawrence lawrence at krubner.com
Sat Sep 15 19:20:11 PDT 2001



> But as it is the passengers are defenceless
> not only against terrorists but all those wicked government agents
> everywhere whose aim is to ensure that you cant protect ur freedoms
etc.etc.
> Your problem is that u are a sicko liberal who wants to regulate our
> American freedoms away in the name of removing terrorism and in the
process
> taking away the very means by which we could protect our freedoms and
> ourselves against terrorism.

Posts like this simply indulge the anger of the person who writes them. But they don't do anything to build national unity, or to build a local consensus, or even to further the debate. Posts like this revolve around insults. "Liberal sicko" is such an extreme thing to say in a public forum that it is the only thing I can really notice in this email. The poster fails to convince me of his point, simply because his use of insults is so jarring that everything else he says gets ignored. There is nothing constructive in these kinds of posts.



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