antw. Re: "Vum-vum vum!" (66)

Otto ottosell at yahoo.de
Sat Aug 9 08:53:02 CDT 2003


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From: "lorentzen-nicklaus" <lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de>
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Subject: antw. Re: "Vum-vum vum!" (66)


>
>
>                              David "freedom quarter" Morris schrieb:
>
>                     > do you (do you?) see the US-Americans as the new
nazis?
>
>
>   still thinking about it, anyway, history (which of course does not
repeat
>   itself as such) will show ... pynchon, from what we can tell from his
books,
>   he's a freedom-loving left anti-imperialist: so why doesn't he use his
>   discoursive power to work against the bush-administration?
>
>   kfl +
>

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little
longer."--Henry Kissinger
(The Sayings of Secretary Henry, N.Y. TIMES, Oct. 28, 1973, ยง 6, at 91, 95
(DuPre Jones comp.). )
http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm

What kept (and keeps) America from becoming fascist (or communist) is the
basically mafiotic structure of  the society (Enron, Halliburton) -
everything/everybody can be bought/sold. The Texas-oil mafia has the country
in its grip.

To answer your question: I think he's careful, and he has said some things
in the 1984-foreword as I interpret it.

Luckily the Austrian-born Schwarzenegger cannot become president.

Otto




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