Maybe they are not of the same order because killing most other people would not boost Obama's ratings by a humongous amount..
Cheers ken
----- Original Message ---- From: Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 3:52:00 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fidel: El asesinato de Bin Laden/The assassination of Bin Laden
On May 5, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Look, the guy was of a totally different order from a leader the U.S. had shot
>for promoting land reform or something.
>
Not at all totally: both were members of the order of murder victims; and the
order of people accused of crime but presumed innocent until proven guilty
beyond reasonable doubt in a court of justice; and the order of people of whom a
President of the US, having directed their assassination, proclaimed "Justice
Was Done."
Shane Mage
"scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to"
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