On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:14:16 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes:
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> Personally, I am coming to believe in the Chinese solution: nine
> grams in the back of the head, and they make the family pay for the
> bullet. I'd take every free market academic economist and everyone
> from the Senior VP level up at any company taking bailout money and
> just have them shot. No defense. No lawyers. No appeal. Maybe a
> little enhanced interrogation beforehand to get them to name names.
> Sentence carried out within a half hour of the special court's
> determination that they fall into the appropriate category. And I'd
> charge the families for the bullet.
And we shouldn't forget that free market academic economists have often been the enthusiastic handmaidens for repressive and unsavory political regimes. Witness the role that Milton Friedman and his disciples played in Pinochet's regime in Chile. After having declared Chile a rousing success (except for all those people who died either directly from political repression or indirectly because of the negative effects the policies promoted by Friedman et al. had on living standards for working people), they then went on to replicate similar policies on a global scale throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
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> Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.
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> I think it would have a salutary purging and deterrent, as well as
> an appropriately retributive effect, as well as ridding us of a lot
> of crooks, fraudsters, self-appointed masters of the universe, and
> other lowlifes.
We shouldn't even have to wait for the revolution. We should consider launching a purge of the universities. The same sort of tactics that have been used to run people like Ward Churchill or Norman Finkelstein out of the academy ought to be used against a few select targets could be used by progressives. We have to start playing hardball because our enemies certainly haven't refrained from doing so.
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