[lbo-talk] The linguistic bubble!

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Tue Jul 12 09:10:53 PDT 2005


Jordan Hayes wrote:


>I mean really: what the fuck are we supposed to do about random
>senseless acts of violence?

Commit even larger senseless acts of violence in retaliation?

Doug

^^^^ CB: Cogent criticism.

Of course, one group of likely candidates for the London bombing probably considered that they were the ones retaliatiating for something the British state had done to _civilians_ overseas somewhere.

It's the old "who started it? " tit for tat.

One reason British military personnel would not be the targets of retaliation is that military personnel probably don't generally leave themselves as vulnerable and defenseless as civilians.



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