[lbo-talk] "the soldiers fighting in Iraq and elsewhere are defending the demonstrators' right to protest"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Carrol wrote:

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > boddi satva lbo.boddi at gmail.com
> >
> > > Finally, you have not put forward any rational concept of
> > > international law at all.
> >
> > ....The way you talk about law and orders,
> > there is no such thing as illegal orders, . . .
>
> I want to repeat my earlier point that this whole thread has been  
> distorted from the git-go by b.s.'s initial framing of it. It's  
> main result has been to create static between posters who, while  
> disagreeing, didn't need to disagree in quite such a hostile way  
> had the topic been decently framed.

Let's get away from Boddi's framing, then.  Consider this: "That the  
soldiers fighting in Iraq and elsewhere are defending the  
demonstrators' right to protest was a refrain repeated over and over  
again by Fort Benning supporters [i.e., counter-protesters against  
the annual SOA Watch protesters" (Michelle O'Donnell, "Annual Protest  
Draws Ire of Those Supporting Troops," New York times, <http:// 
www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=945>).  I've heard the same  
refrain elsewhere, too.  That -- "the soldiers fighting in Iraq and  
elsewhere are defending the demonstrators' right to protest" -- is  
the myth that needs to be questioned in public.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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