i have no idea how to read this, since my reference to the lone gunman was meant to be ironic. i am completely confused, and i admit it is partly my fault, but it means i'm not entirely sure what you thought you were responding to and so, i'm not sure what you're getting at.
j
On 6/15/05, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Actually, I do buy the lone gunman theory: 40 years of
> investigation haven't shown anything else to be the case.
>
> And I don't think courts should order that someone be made
> dead (as Ralph Nader put it) because judges are not satisfied
> with her brain capacity.
>
> Just as I don't think that they should order people be
> sterilized because (in the words of SC Justice O. W. Holmes),
> "Three generations of idiots are enough."
>
> But I am a bit surprised at the willingness of some
> progressives to acquiesce in state-ordered killing. --CGE
>
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:55:33 -0500
> >From: Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Schiavo had half a regulation brain
> >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> >>
> >but DR bill frist (he has an md, you know) watched
> >*videotapes* of her and concluded that she was NOT in a
> >"persistent vegetative state"!
> >
> >i'll bet y'all buy the lone gunman theory, too.
> >
> >suckers.
> >
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