aw. RE: aw. RE: Why did Elser plant the bomb?
Kai Frederik Lorentzen
lorentzen at hotmail.de
Sat Feb 14 09:37:52 CST 2009
Ok, we're talking about Hitler, and the year is 1939.
Michael says:
>
> History also tells us that successful assassinations bring on
> horrible retribution and do little to change policy.
>
This makes me speechless ... Would be interested what other P-listers
have to say to that ... Especially Jewish, Gypsie, Slavic, gay and
epileptic people ... Come on, don't leave it like that ...
Kai
>>
>> B-but I forgot:
>>
>> "Jesse brought home as an assignment from school 'write an essay on
>> What It Means To Be An American.'
>> 'Oboy, oboy,' Reef had this look on his face, the same look his own father
>> used to get before heading off for some dynamite-related activities.
>> 'Let's see that pencil a minute.'
>> 'Already done.' What Jesse had ended up writing was,
>> IT MEANS TO DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU AND TAKE WHAT THEY GIVE YOU AND DON'T GO
>> ON STRIKE OR THEIR SOLDIERS WILL SHOOT YOU DOWN.
>> 'That's what they call the 'topic sentence'?'
>> 'That's the whole thing.'
>> 'oh.'
>> It came back with a big A+ on it." (Against the Day, p. 1076)
>>
>>
>> kfl
>>
>>
>> "Each bird has his branch now, and each one is the Zone." (GR, p. 519)
>>
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