<HTML>In a message dated 05/09/2001 12:01:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-lbo-talk-digest@lists.panix.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">McVeigh and the Irish Republican who sets off a bomb on a crowded street are in the same moral situation as Clinton, Bush, and their servants, who if the newspapers are to be believed have also set off bombs on crowded streets and blown up day care centers.  (Literally, they have other people do these things, speaking of cowardice.) I haven't seen anything by Cockburn or Vidal that justify this sort of thing as good in itself; what they are pointing out is that McVeigh is not different from Clinton and the others except for the scale of his operations.  </BLOCKQUOTE> In my view, this collapses the distinctions once again. What Clinton is responsible for is something more akin to shoot ing at a policeman or a soldier. Leo Casey United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869) 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 -- </HTML>