Al-Q Honcho Hit

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Demoralization is a form of social
>degeneration in which a community gradually loses the rules
>or principles which bind it together.  The end result, assuming
>the process isn't arrested, is a moral collapse in which the
>members of the community can no longer maintain it as a coherent
>social entity; something like civil war or a coup d'etat is
>likely to follow.  Personally, while I can see the historical
>grandeur of it all, I'm not looking forward to participating
>in it, and I'm wondering if there's some place I can hide out.
>Probably not, eh?
>
>I know this will seem hard to believe of good old America,
>but think about it.  A for-instance may help.
>
>1.  It's okay to kill some guys in a car in Yemen with a rocket
>because you suspect them of being members of Al-Qaeda.
>
>2.  It's okay to kill some guys in a car in Germany with a rocket
>because you suspect them of being members of Al-Qaeda.
>
>3.  It's okay to kill some guys in a car in Tennessee with a rocket
>because you suspect them of being members of Al-Qaeda.
>
>-- that sort of thing; see what I mean?  Everyone can play;
>locale isn't the only term you might vary.
>
>
>-- Gordon

What's worse than (3) already happened, though not in Tennessee: the 
bombing of MOVE in Philadelphia on May 13, 1985, incinerating an 
entire city block; and the burning of 76 men, women, and children in 
the assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco on April 19, 1993.

I guess demoralization is already pretty far gone.  It's no wonder 
that right-wing Belligerent Observers take assassination of 
foreigners in stride.
-- 
Yoshie

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