Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

[cfabel]

Is this a human need, do you think? I often wonder if people really want the
kind of freedom they would have without one.

C. F. Abel
Chair
Department of Government
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas 75962
(936) 468-3903




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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Paul Mackin
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 1:01 PM
To: cfabel; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden

On 5/16/2011 1:32 PM, cfabel wrote:
> On its current trajectory, it will topple itself.

Like the Roman Empire, though Gibbon blamed Christianity,  which in any
event assumed whatever political authority there was to be for a few
centuries.

One powerful institution replaces another.

P




> C. F. Abel
> Chair
> Department of Government
> Stephen F. Austin State University
> Nacogdoches, Texas 75962
> (936) 468-3903
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On 
> Behalf Of Michael Bailey
> Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 12:24 PM
> To: P-list
> Subject: Re: Noam Chomsky's statement on killing of Osama bin Laden
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>   Paul Mackin wrote:
>> I advise making the best of the empire we have now  because to topple 
>> it would require an even more powerful and bloody one.
>>
> as they used to say in The Mother Earth News before a timely quote on 
> the last page, "Let the men and women of wisdom speak!"
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