[lbo-talk] Lyndie England

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Surprised to see you go for the Lt. Calley defense,
Doug. Sure, Rummy and Gonzalez and ultimately the W
himself are the ones who are really responsible, and I
hate scapegoating and nailing the grunts while
criminals in suits and ties sip martinis and watch the
sun rise -- but we were all produced by a particular
set of circumstances and are all twisted by the
institutions we have operate in. True, the ones
England found herself in were particularly awful, and
have turned a lot of other things being equal nice
kids into murderers and torturers. 

That's not an excuse, though. It's an explanation. But
nobody coerced her to do those things, and she knew,
or should have known, that they were terribly wrong.
No? And she should be punished because whats he did
was very bad as well as illegal. Matter of fact, she
got off pretty easy compared to some of the others
involved -- 3 years as opposed to 8 or 10 year
sentences handed out to more senior participants. 

Am I being too harsh here? I don't think so.

jks

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Leigh Meyers wrote:
> 
> >It's all true, and Lyndie England is STILL
> responsible for her actions.
> 
> In a legal sense, yes. But it gives me the creeps
> how quick you are 
> to denounce her with enthusiasm. She was produced by
> a particular set 
> of gender and class relations and then twisted by
> the military. You 
> sound like some hyperindividualist right-winger -
> which is not 
> unrelated to hippiedom, is it?
> 
> Doug
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