[lbo-talk] Re: Alex Cockburn

[Brad DeLong]

>On 17 Aug 2003 22:14:15 -0400, Jonathan Ruby <Jon.Ruby2 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>>And it would be nice to ask if there's a statute of limitations on 
>>>genocide. I'm sure there are Germans who are wondering when they 
>>>don't have to labor under the legacy of the Holocaust-- after all, 
>>>if the mass murder of the Amalekites can be forgotten or forgiven 
>>>or thrown into the dustbin of history, then why not they?
>>
>>My dear fellow, if there were no time limit on the crime of genocide
>>and if its guilt was collective and eternal you would not be writing
>>to us; you, like everyone else, would be hanging from a gallows.
>
>I'd like to know one thing: if I, "like everyone else," was hanging 
>from a gallows, who'd be the hangman? Who'd be volunteering to affix 
>the rope, set the knot, and yank the lever?

The Neanderthals, resurrected using nanotechnology, of course...