The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
To: <ottosell at yahoo.de>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: The intellectual origins of America-Bashing


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> >From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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> > > Otto, the Students didn't think the symbol an empty one. That's your
> >opinion.
> >
> >Well, it didn't help them, didn't brought the US-Gov to intervene. It's
> >been an empty symbol.
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> You can't possibly have wanted the US to "intervene" (if by that you mean
> militarily) in that instance, can you?  That would have been the start of
> WW3.  And your claim that the symbol was "empty" is belied by the response
> it generated from the Communist government.  It was a very potent and
> greatly feared symbol.
>

No, I meant economically. And the response wasn't generated by the symbol,
it was just the way the leading junta reacts to political demonstrations.

> > > You disagree with what the students did.  They chose Lady Liberty as
> >their symbol. You claim  that the students chose the Statue of Liberty
> >because of  amnesia and ignorance.
> >
> >The Students were in error about it. They have all my sympathy but
they've
> >been in error.
>
> That is a very arrogant statement.  Many gave their lives in an attempt to
> gain democracy.  They might have failed, but the choice of symbol was a
> message heard and seen round the world.  They were as clear as could be.
> The fact that injustice still existed in the "free" world does not
diminish
> the validity of their desires and hopes, nor their courage.
>
> Let's ask a question.  If you were one of them, what would your choice
have
> been, either in symbol or action?
>
> Ghetta
>

Leave China.

Otto