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> From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:27:57 -0400
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: Re: back street boy backs off
>
> The media has been pretty bi-partisan is slamming down anyone who has tried
> to "explain" or blame anyone for the Sept 11 attack. Falwell got trashed
> for blaming it on gays and liberals, Schundler running for governor in New
> Jersey blamed military cutbacks for the failure to stop the attacks and was
> slammed by everyone, including the sitting GOP governor.
>
> I actually think this is healthy, since there is very little that "caused"
> or could have prevented folks willing to prepare for years to use boxcutters
> to take over airplanes, then kill themselves in using them as airborne
> weapons. Oh sure, folks will find some way to close this particular barn
> now that the horse has gotten out, but there is no way to create a security
> system with no holes that can never be exploited by those willing to kill
> themselves using them.
>
> If people would deal with this basic reality of vulnerability, we might be
> able to back people off their kneejerk support for cutting back civil
> liberties in the vain hope of absolute security.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ravi" <gadfly at home.com>
> To: "LBO Talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 2:18 PM
> Subject: back street boy backs off
>
>
>>
>>
>> for lbo-talk members who are backstreet boys fans (a majority i
>> would hope, for who can be for peace, love and all things nice
>> and not love these fellows), a bit of heart warming news (and
>> dont ask me where and how i find this stuff ;-)). last post for
>> the day:
>>
>> http://www.bayarea.com/entertainment/news/docs/009464.htm
>>
>> Backstreet Boy apologizes for 'insensitive' remark
>>
>> Knight Ridder Newspapers
>>
>> In an exclusive on-air interview with New York pop-radio station host
>> Paul ``Cubby'' Bryant, Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys
>> apologized for what he called ``insensitive'' statements made in an
>> interview with Canadian television channel MuchMusic last week.
>>
>> Richardson said: ``I just think we are a little bit of an arrogant
>> nation and maybe this is a little bit of a humbling experience. What
>> has our government done to provoke this action, that we don't know
>> about?''
>>
>> Thursday, Bryant and WHTZ-FM, who have close personal and professional
>> relationships with many of today's stars, gave Richardson the chance to
>> clarify.
>>
>> ``I appreciate this opportunity,'' Richardson began. ``I just want to
>> say that our prayers and our thoughts go out to all the victims and
>> their families. I want to clarify something that I said, and my
>> thoughts weren't put together quite properly.
>>
>> ``We had been doing about five interviews in Toronto, Canada, and as I
>> was sitting there listening to the rest of the guys talk, I just got
>> overwhelmed with anger and frustration, on `How can this happen in our
>> country, in this nation that we live in?' And I said that I think we as
>> a nation may be a little arrogant. Maybe this is a wake-up call for our
>> nation.
>>
>> ``What I meant by arrogant is that we've been a little overconfident,
>> we've maybe taken our freedom for granted, taken our security for
>> granted. And I just want to clarify myself. I apologize if I have
>> offended anyone, any of the families of the victims, if my statement
>> seemed insensitive, but I was reacting out of anger and out of
>> frustration, and I was emotional.
>>
>> ``I don't want anyone to think that I don't love this country -- I'm
>> proud to be an American. I just want to clear that up.''
>>
>> ----------------
>>
>> --ravi
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
>> man is said to be a rational animal. i do not know why he has not been
> defined
>> as an affective or feeling animal. more often i have seen a cat reason
> than
>> laugh or weep. perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps,
> also
>> inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the 2nd degree. -- alasdair
> macintyre.
>>
>>
>