Fw: Re: Sides? (was Re: the terrorist bombings in London

[Bekah]

At 9:57 AM -0400 7/8/05, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jbor at bigpond.com
>Sent: Jul 8, 2005 7:01 AM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Sides? (was Re: the terrorist bombings in London
>
>
>If it comes down to a choice between the G-8 summit, and throwing 
>rocks, breaking car windows (and misusing words like "junta"), to ease 
>poverty in Africa and implement environmental reforms, I'm pretty sure 
>I know which "side" I want to be on.
>
>The fact that the protests against the G8 are ineffective does not 
>preclude the notion that G8 summit should be protested.  As usual, 
>Bush was allowed to walk away from the summit with his (his junta's, 
>his cabal's, his gang-of-four's, whatever you want to call 
>Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Rice) agenda intact.  He derailed the 
>summit as surely as the terrorists derailed the trains, but, 
>ultimately at a much higher cost in human lives.

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Well stated.  Thanks.  Does anyone have an honestly viable plan for 
what truly would help Africa?

Bekah