MDDM Dixon's act of violence
David Morris
fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 8 08:37:18 CST 2002
Amen to this. But neither Pynchon's texts nor reality-at-large are big
enough to resist Doug's urge to reshape all into a non-violent world of
sweetness and light. And he expects us to listen to his shit. He's all
yours, Mr. Monroe.
David Morris
>From: jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>
>I also understand the arguments you are parroting in regard to the military
>intervention in Afghanistan. You advocate "reconciliation" - appeasement in
>other words - which would thereby legitimise terrorism as a political
>strategy and lead to more atrocities such as the attacks of September 11.
>You also recommend that some type of non-violent "police action" should
>have taken place after September 11 instead of the unanimously-sanctioned
>international military action against the terrorists and their protectors.
>In other words, you would have left the Al Qaeda and Taliban armaments in
>place and sent (unarmed?) public servants in to try to apprehend the
>perpetrators and their armies? I'm extremely thankful that decisions of
>this kind will never be left in your hands.
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