kelley wrote:
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> At any rate, not to speak for everyone, but i don't think that anyone here
> thinks that the people who did this shouldn't be brought to justice. i, for
> one, think they should and i'm pretty sure that others here also want that.
> even Yoshie wants that, though not in the way you want it.
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Angela Davis, correctly I think, has been arguing for the abolition of prisons. Were I on any jury I would almost certainly vote for acquittal without even listening to either the defense or the prosecution. Johnny Cash wrote a song, entitled I think "San Quentin," in which he proclaimed that that prison had never done any good for anyone.
I don't see any reason to desert these principles.
What exactly does it mean, anyhow, to say that "the people who did this should be brought to justice"? And what business is if of anyone except those engaged in the justice system? Why should we have an opinion either way? The courts or the FBI aren't very interested in our opinion.
Carrol
P.S. The outcomes of vote.com are NOT depressing. It is really encouraging that under the present overwhelming cascade of patriotic shit 4% of respondents actually opposed military action. That's several million people -- and undoubtedly another 4% would have said the same except that they were (reasonably) too timid (too sensible, given the isolated nature of a poll-respondent) to speak up on their own and say what they thought rather than what they are expected to say. The task of leftists is to speak to that 4+%, to give them courage, to show them they are not really alone.