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[Dennis Perrin]

> "Deplorable behavior"??? What the fuck is this, Miss Manners?????
> Now Dennis seems to think that there's a correct way to behave and not
behave
> in relation to "national tragedies" that he'd like to force on everyone
else.
> If only Chomsky had been stirred to righteous patriotic anger, the way he
> should have, like everyone else. I guess if folks fail to live up to
Dennis's
> uber-morality on the level of enforced national mourning, they'll have to
> wake up the next morning to an egocentric lecture on how they're not
> bereaving the fatherland enough. Who's shed more tears? Who's flagpole is
> longer?
>
> National sentiment and media-prescribed reactions to news events are
simply
> conniving tricks and propaganda to justify the 8 million innocents killed
by
> the U.S. military since WWII.... Mourning is an individual and
> community-based activity, not a state-sponsored holiday! And any
psychologist
> will tell you that there is a huge variety of ways that one can deal with
the
> loss of a loved one.
>
> All of the commercialized Cheeto mourning for September 11th is nothing
but
> crocodile tears in the context of the tens of thousands of deaths that
occur
> daily inside and outside this country as a result of imperialist policies.
> Liberal, Christian-guilt crocodile tears. Don't make crypto-political
beefage
> out of the losses of individuals who suffered that day and continue to
> suffer!
>
> What does Dennis make of the 30,000 people that died on Sept. 11, *2002*?
>
> Sorry, Dennis, but I don't rely on George Bush, Jr. to tell me how "angry"
> I'm supposed to feel, and how I'm supposed to express it publicly....
>
>
> Sheesh,
> David

You are entitled to your opinion.

DP