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YerArseInParsley

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Re: An analogy

Oct 18, 2002, 11:14

Potentially my proposed action could kill a few people, I admit that, and will work to avoid that as it has been avoided in the past. My inaction will certainly kill many more people though. Stopping the oil flow in the UK temporaily will bring this country to a standstill, damage the economy and force people to think about why it is happening. It seems a far more reasonable target than blockading military bases for both moral and practical reasons.

I don't care if people hate me, no change there. I will hate myself if I could have stopped the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and decided not to in case it made me unpopular. We are hated for allowing Bush to wage war with impunity, and some concrete show of solidarity with the Iraqi people may in the long term save many more British lives, it may dissuade the next Bali bomber.

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Chomsky on Iraq – grufty jim, Oct 16, 2002, 23:50


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