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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