Never heard any oppositin to it either. In the 80's his ADA was supporting it. Steve
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote:
> Excuse me, but I can't recall Leo ever voicing support for the CIA's
> funding of bin Laden and Co.
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> -- Luke
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> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Stephen E Philion wrote:
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> > Now you're just trying to convince us that Chomsky's argument is one of
> > moral equivalence. Pathetic, that has nothing to do with Chomsky's
> > argument. Like I said, if more people had acted like Chomsky in the
> > 1980's, well maybe you wouldn't have to worry about your daughter's safety
> > from terrorist attacks. I think your support for the CIA's role in
> > Afghanistan in the 1980's and your support for retaliation contribute to
> > the very disaster that you've been forced to react to this week.
> >
> > In reality you're angry at Chomsky for not supportinng the war machine.
> > There are sound moral arguments for doing that, which you cast as
> > unpatriotic. I wish more people were unpatriotic when we were militarily
> > and financially supporting the 'forces of freedom' in Afghanistan 20
> > years ago...
> >
> > Steve
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> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 LeoCasey at aol.com wrote:
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> > > And one last point on the nature of the exchange here: what a grand irony
> > > that the very folks who injected race into the discussion, by labelling as
> > > racist a rejection of Chomsky's moral equivalence between an act that took
> > > one life, and was designed to minimize the loss of innocent human life,
> > > with an act that took thousands upon thousands of innocent life, and was
> > > designed to maximize the loss of innocent life, now complain about being
> > > race baited. Imagine the chutzpah of someone like me that I might actually
> > > respond to such a charge.
> > >
> > >
> > > Leo Casey
> > > United Federation of Teachers
> > > 260 Park Avenue South
> > > New York, New York 10010-7272
> > > 212-98-6869
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > -- Frederick Douglass --
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