Re: Political philosophy and abdication

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 21:05:04 MDT


On Wednesday, September 13, 2000 1:53 PM Michael S. Lorrey
retroman@turbont.net wrote:
> The question though, if you are going to maintain that the 'death squads'
(they
> obviously don't call themselves that, its a moniker applied by leftist
> propagandists), especially considering the marxists have killed far more
private
> citizens than the 'right wing death squads' have, yet I don't see the
media
> complaining about 'left wing death squads', as if the people they kill
deserve
> it....

While I rarely agree with you on political issues, this is a fine point. I
once watched a documentary on the Phillipine guerilla movement on PBS in the
early 1990s. It talked about how the Right wingers were killing people. It
also showed a heavy Nazi influence on the Right wingers and their "God
centered ideology." (This, in itself was scarey enough. The appeal of
Naziism extends far outside White supremacists, you know?) Then it actually
showed a Leftist group, which during the filming killed someone. The
killing was done by capturing the person, carrying him up into the hills,
trying him (only guerillas at his trial, if my memory's correct), then
executing him and returning his body to his family.

While this was a nice gesture, the documentary did not question the fact
that they [the Leftists] murdered someone. The documentary tried to make it
look like due process, like, as you put it, the guy deserved it. You're
dragged from your bed in the middle of the night and some people take you
out into the woods and decide your fate. Sounds like a mockery of justice
to me.

Cheers!

Daniel Ust
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/



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