Subject: Re: Just an item of interest
From: Chris Kubica (chriskubica@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 10:28:36 EDT
Let's be careful and stay on topic, k?
Chris K
--- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> Even our comic strips aren't safe:
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=308068
>
> I'd like to point out that it's missing the point to
> blame Bush and
> Ashcroft and the Big Bad Republicans in charge for
> all this. They're
> giving us what they perceive the majority of
> Americans want. And believe
> me...lots of people do want this. We criticize them
> for not taking
> sufficient action (remember all that stuff about FBI
> memos not long ago --
> never mind that every single hijacking in US history
> had always been for
> ransom, and as a result pilots were trained to
> cooperate with
> terrorists...we're talking about a major paradigm
> shift that was supposed
> to be implemented based upon a little bit of
> intelligence and one study) to
> prevent Sept. 11th, so now to avoid looking like
> they're not doing enough
> they're doing everything they can think of. At this
> point, we're still
> pulling the strings. Public opinion created this
> situation and can reverse
> it.
>
> The real problem isn't with the government trying to
> take more power (they
> always do), but with the people who want them to.
> Hitler, we should never
> forget, had incredible popular support at least at
> one time.
>
> Here's what one group of people are doing about the
> situation:
>
>
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.26A.hentoff.liberty.htm
>
> And, for your own personal amusement, here's my Top
> Ten List (items 10 and
> 11 were contributed by others).
>
> Jim's Recommended FBI Must Reads (or, "How to get on
> the FBI short list")
>
> 1. _Why America Sucks_ by Osama bin Laden.
> 2. _Mein Kampf_ by Adolph Hitler. Make sure you
> return the copy with lots
> of underlining. Remember to use only pencil.
> 3. _The Communist Manifesto_ by Karl Marx (but only
> if you check it out
> repeatedly).
> 4. _J. Edgar Hoover: Cute in Fishnets?_ by
> Anonymous.
> 5. _Capitalism and Americans Must Die!_ by Musharraf
> Mohammed al-Yaniah.
> 6. _Why Capitalists are Stupid_ by John Omlor.
> 7. _New York: Love It or Bomb It_ by Edward Said.
> 8. _How to Make Really Neat, Compact Bombs that Kill
> Lots of People, or,
> 101 things to do with Plastique and Cow Manure_ by
> the Unabomber.
> 9. _If You Don't Think Like Me You're Wrong_ by the
> Caliph Wabhabbi.
> 10. _Fun Uses of Flour in Letters_ by Ima Hoaxer
> 11. _Khmer Rouge After Hours_ by Brad Pitt
> 12. _Incendiary Rhetoric for Idiots_ by Jim Rovira
>
> Jim
>
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