Cooper weighs in

[lweiger at umich.edu]

Right, Carrol.  It was just a crime against a mere 5,000 persons.  Using 
the prevailing LBO-talk logic at the moment, the final number will probably 
be much greater due to the horrific response that's likely to be provoked.

-- Luke

--On Wednesday, September 19, 2001 5:28 PM -0500 Carrol Cox 
<cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


>
>
> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > , and when 5,000 people are still
> > entombed in the ruins of what can only be called a crime against
> > humanity,
>
> "Crime against humanity" was first introduced, I believe, in the
> Nuremberg trials to describe the deliberate and methodical killing of
> six million jews, romani, homosexuals, "mentally deficient," etc. It is
> idiocy to use the same term for the September 11 attacks. Against that
> standard, those attacks of last week were a very minor episode we ought
> not to be fussing about.
>
> Carrol