[lbo-talk] Cult of Roosting Chickens

Leigh Meyers leighcmeyers at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 22:04:52 PDT 2005


Michael Pugliese


> http://www.zombietime.com/churchill_in_bay_area/churchill_sf_march_25_2005/

The Rooster hats are good... they're right in there with rasta tams with the fake "natty dreads". Ah... the bay area. Gotta love it.

<...> The basic one-sentence summary of Churchill's Eichmann analogy is this: Eichmann was not a cold-blooded killer, but rather a bureaucrat whose willingness to be a cog in the Nazi machine contributed to the Holocaust; and since the long history of America's heinous crimes against humanity make the United States at least as bad as Nazi Germany, then anyone who works, however passively, to allow the functioning of American society is thereby the moral equivalent of Eichmann, and thus the victims of 9/11 were "little Eichmanns" who basically had it coming." <...>

I'm not sure that Hannah Arendt would disagree with what this fellow says Ward Churchill is saying, summarized in one (badly constructed) sentence.

Leigh



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