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From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America Bashing
Message-ID: <46@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 12:48:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  2 12:48:21 1985
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> = Charles Forsythe
>> = Me

>>My complaint is with people who performed the following scenario on an
>>international scale:  (As far as I know, the following did not happen, but
>>just suppose it did for a moment.)  After the attack, this man is hurting,
>>scared, wondering, "Why me"?  Person X sees him and rather than trying to
>>soothe his wounds, instead decides that he must be guilty of something to
>>cause his attacker to beat on him.  Otherwise, why the attack?  So X reads
>>off a list of greivances that X thinks someone *like* him did to someone
>>*like* his attacker.  He protests.  X then tells him that even if he didn't
>>cause those greivances, he was obliged to fix them.  That in any case, he
>>is responsible, and therefore deserving of everything he got.
>>
>>Again I say, NONSENSE!

>I have to agree with your point, but I don't see that connection to the
>discussion. If the attacker came out and said,"I hit you because you are
>ugly," then perhaps even the "Don Black" solution (a bullet in the head)
>would be perfect. But if the attacker came out and said,"You killed my
>children you slimy American bastard!" then the bullet-in-the-head
>response would be nasty. I don't think there are many El Salvadorians
>who dislike the Americans for better reasons than ugliness.

Do you know what a model in microcosm is?  The discussion started with the
TWA 847 hijacking.  What does it have to do with the problems of the El
Salvadorans (check your spelling)?  Was the sailor killed because he killed
children?  Since he was killed personally, he must have been personally
responsible for some problem with the hijackers -- right?

>>"To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere

>To label who has sense and who is a fool is the privilege of the
>arrogant.

Ooooo, you really got me with that one.
"Oh, the-pain-the-pain-the-pain-the-pain..." -- Dr. Smith aka Jonathan Harris

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David Olson
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