shoe on the other foot - Ramsey Clark's points

[Bill Irwin]

This is the most un-American junk thought I have ever heard.  This kind of
thinking denies our American heritage of narrow minded, red-neck, provincial
mind-set.  The very idea that any loyal American could possibly consider
things from a foreigner view point is disgusting.  This kind of thinking
could only lead one into becoming a terrorist or maybe even a liberal.  I
suspect that you may be a university professor or some other kind of hippie
liberal or maybe even an abortionist.  I suggest that you get a real
American flag and start waving it and proclaiming President Bush as the
greatest ever before the Homeland Security Police come knocking on your
door.
Bill Irwin


----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Strong <strongjim@yahoo.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: shoe on the other foot - Ramsey Clark's points


> Okay, here goes. Another way of looking at the
> imported Gitmo Tali-banners / John Lind Walker
> situation, it seems to me, is to assume the obverse
> (although ridiculously remote) possibility.
> --------------------------------------------------
> Suppose the Taliban , who were at the time the ruling
> power in Afghanistan, had prevailed over the US in a
> battle on US soil. And imagine further that they then
> scooped up selected US governmental leaders and
> military personnel and had flown them back to a prison
> camp at a military base of theirs on an island just
> off Pakistan, and held them there pending summary
> trial by a Moslem religious council under that body's
> rules and procedures.
> --------------------------------------------------
> Add the fact that what they were being accused of was
> violating the laws of Taliban-ruled Afghanistan - not
> any US statutes. Like maybe death penalty punishable
> adultery for some of the congressmen, and beating and
> stoning for female US military personnel who didn't
> wear the required veil and gunny sack in public during
> the conflict.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Their arguement would be, of course, they were at war
> with a country that had sent cruise missles reigning
> down on them launched from offshore US submarines a
> few years before. The US troops they took back to
> Afghanistan would be charged with conspiracy  to
> commit terrorist acts - while the Taliban continued to
> hunt down a fleeing Prez Dubyah and Mullah Chaney in
> the Piney Woods of East Texas.
> ---------------------------------------------------
> How would we view it?
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Billy Jim
>
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