Complicity and _GR_

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jbor:
> I've nothing against the legitimate historical reportage and investigations,
> the subpoenaing of archival documents, the reports of the legal proceedings,
> the suits. What is less defensible is the filibustering and inflammatory
> rhetoric which greets these reports, the overt or covert ulterior motives of
> the filibusters to discredit the Bushes, Microsoft or Disneycorp c. 2001 and
> so undermine their constitutionally-legitimate political or corporate or
> cultural status, the misappropriation of genocide and suffering as metaphor
> and its reduction to balance sheet calculations etc.

Ah, but the question is precisely their constitutionally-legitimate
political or corporate or cultural status. The past is how they got
where they are today; it tells us something about them; it discredits
them only if the listener feels they should be discredited. It serves to
strengthen resolve for the the listener who refuses to acquiesce to their
present status.

Why did Slothrop notice that rockets fired from The Hague were guided by
an installation on a building connected with Shell? To unfairly diminish
that company's status? Or because he was beginning to see that the real
forces at work were not the ones reported in the newspapers?

Yoors,
Eric R