"fascistic disposition" paragraph

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat May 10 06:50:42 CDT 2003


on 10/5/03 5:05 PM, Paul Nightingale wrote:

> Why play a numbers game here? Does it matter how many ("some") people
> have read the passage this way? Or is it, rather, a question of 'who'? I
> have no interest in the neverending flamefest that, for many, gives the
> p-list its raison d'etre.

No numbers game, just an acknowledgement that three or four people, plus Jim
Knipfel, have decided, perhaps even independently of one another, that
"bombs falling" and "homeland" must mean 9/11 and the Patriot Act.

But the ad hominem stuff is to be expected. When all else has failed ...

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