Identity politics leads to ghettoisation of minorities, and I quite agree with you. I would even add that this kind of patronising regonition of African-American Literature as being apart from the mainstream, is itself a benign form of racism.
we have made blunders and we have VERY FEW good options. We can not stand by and do nothing to punish those that attacked us on 9/11. Our problem is that we do not have the support of the majority of Moslems. When something goes wrong we get the worst of everything. We did not punish the bad guys and the civilian death of Moslem
Two days back a CIA drone attacked a house located in a thickly populated residential district of the Norh Westy Frontier Province of Pakistan. The reason for the attack: alleged presence of the Al Qaeda leader, Zarqawi. The USA has repeatedly violated the national soverignty of her allies by launching illegal air strikes against targets presumed to be hostile. In th
It has become fashionable to call the USA an empire. Whatever the term may mean to radicals and conservatives the fact remains the both groups do not see the present international overreach of the USA as imperial. I have some trouble accepting such generalities because they obcure certain hard ground realities. A better mway of phrasing the question would be: Does the
Any civil libertarian will find phone tapping electronic eves dropping and mail interception extremely distasteful.Should the Government be armed with the powers to evesdrop? I think not.
Nice hack job on the statistics. Your average killed does not say over what period of time you arrived at that average. From the numbers you used, it appears to be over days. Not a very accurate way to judge the numbers of a 3 year campaign The figures include those killed on the line of fire including
Bahu, with your rationale, please explain Libya. Qaddafi almost pooed his pants when the US invaded Iraq. Since then, he has totally complied with non-proliferation people at the UN and rolled over for all the world to see. He was unswayed by the example of Iraq? He saw the writing on the wall, my friend <BR
This has got to be one of the most ignorant statements I've EVER heard, and shows just how much you don't think. If anything they should have learned that "brandishing" nuclear weapons is a "sure" fire way to bring the US do USA will not attack a nuclear power. See how it is pussy footing over North Kor
Too often, the criticism or condemnation of an Israel leader is interpreted as anti Semitism. This is NOT the case. Ariel Sharon is the Prime Minister of Israel.. he is NOT the leader of the Jewish people. To be critical of Israel or any of its policies is just that... it is not an act of anti Semitism. As an Israeli, I feel I
Study and get a good mangement position and look after your mparents when they are older. That way you can give to them a small part of what they have done for you.
George Bush II famously described Iran as part of the "axis of evil". Since then the situation with regard to Iran is perilously close to war. Had the ground reality on Iraq been different, there is no doubt that Bush and the Bushmen would have exported their version of "freedom and democracy" to Iran. Now that the USA is bogged down in an ever widening spiral of viol
Ariel Sharon was, may be the past tense is not proper, is a bold politician. His single minded withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza strip, no matter how imperfectly done, represents a radical departure from traditional LIKUD ideology of not vacating seized territories. While his ruthless pursuit of Israeli interests earned him many admirers at home, the policy of ta
The PEOPLE decide what's best for the people, and our government is just an instrument used to carry out that will. You are turning political theory on its head:Representative democracy works best when the political leadership acts in accordance to the mandate from the people. If this is how the US de
As usual a good post and I am sure that everuone can learn from the expriences that you have shared.
A careful and passionate defence of Capital Punishment. The purpose of judicial procedures that are separate from the apparatus of the State (an Independent Judiciaay) is to enforce a socially acceptable retribution on those who trangress the written laws of society. This being the case, Homicide is to be punished according to the facts, the circumstances and the environment sorrounding the crime. Ans social norms change hence the judicial procedures.
Robbery is wrong. Murder is wrong. Committing cold-blooded (especially race-biased, as he did) murder in the act of a robbery is VERY wrong. Tookie Williams got what he deserved I have not in any manner justified any of his crimes. In fat I have listed them all out.
Firstly, the prerogative of saying who shall live and who shall die belongs to the State and the State alone. By killing, Tookie committed the crime of lese majeste and on that ground alone he ought to have been executed Man you are way off the track. The state has no right over the lives of the citizen
What does race have to do with it? Are you saying that Tookie should not have been executed for murdering four people because he was black or something? Then answer the question: Why are the majority of the inmates on DEATH ROW in American prisons predominantly black and statistically speaking well beyo
dont know how many times you have to be told this, Bahu, TOOKIE DID NOT WRITE ANY BOOKS. They were ghostwritten by a WOMAN who paid him a portion of the profits to use his NAME. OK But he did warn the youth not to follow him into crime and he did not profit from crimes that he paid for with his life. A
On December 13, 2005 a few minutes past mid night a well built, healthy man walked the last few hundred feet between his cell on Death Row at San Quentin and the excecution chamber. That Tookie Williams was a ruthless killer no one denies. That he had a violent youth in which a dissipated life careened out of control uder the influence of poverty and drugs too no one
The recent exposure of the systematic and illegal snooping around building in which American who have opted for the Islamic religion reside or work, has rightly led to an uproar against the brazen manner in which the cherished civil liberies of the citizens have been trampled. There is nothing surprising in this. The liberals who feign outrage at what happened do not
Col Gene, as usual, is spot on. We have been saying the same thing on our posts for more than a year, Now that is clear that the USA will have to exit from Iraq without a plan to put together a stable legitimate government in Iraq, that country will emerge as a great threat to US political interests in the region. This could have been avoided if only Bush had focussed on the WAr against Terror and not tilting against windmills.
What I find most ironic is that Saddam complains about not having a fresh supply of underwear when he murdered at will for the slightest of reasons without any trial for his victims. The point is that in the interests of the Iraqi people there is need for a free and fair trial. Saddam Hussein has never
Ramsey Clarke, a former Attorney General of the United States, has joined the international team that is now defending Saddam Hussain. It is not an easy task to defend Saddam Hussain in Iraq as 4 of his lawyers have already been shot. However, afair trail according to the standards of existing jurisprudence is something that even Saddam is entitled to. Making the form
Under George II, the regime now in place in Washington DC has become a law unto itself. Even rougue states like Libya and North Korea did not ever attempt the blatant violations of International Law that has become the norm under the Bushmen. USA is not a party to the Internation Criminal Court of Justice. This perhahs explains the studied impunity with which the Bush
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