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Re: A question of remembrance...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 2 May 2001 18:48:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> How about when one side is a nation that says it wants to exterminate a
> certain religion's adherents and the other side is an almost weaponless
> group of members of that religion in the inner city of an occupied capital
> of a country that nation invaded?
I thought this was supposed to be hypothetical, not rhetorical...
=oP
Plus I plead the 5th, or maybe the 9th -- whatever gets me out of the
trouble of having to answer this one...
> Clearly yes, Timothy McVeigh is a terrorist.
Did he really write this? Was this the motivation behind the bombing?
http://www.kwtv.com/news/bombing/mcveigh-essay.htm
I dunno, do his words speak a kind of sick genius, or are they hollow
because they resonate against the dead souls of his victims? Still, he
seems to have real grievances that motivated him. So yeah, terrorist I guess...
But how do we stop producing McVeighs, Larry? Maybe the U.S. should stop
making the world safe for democracy or whatever...
...I think I hear James Monroe turning in his grave.
-- Richard
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| (...) How about when one side is a nation that says it wants to exterminate a certain religion's adherents and the other side is an almost weaponless group of members of that religion in the inner city of an occupied capital of a country that nation (...) (24 years ago, 2-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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