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Tue Jun-22-10 03:46 PM
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The different reactions to killing as a means of furthering one's agenda. If it's done through the military, you can kill millions and your supporters will forever remember your cause as just, your motives pure, and your actions reasonable. One death in one incident the other way, and even putative sympathizers will turn their backs. And the powers that be will use the occasion forever after as the epitome of what will happen should the powers ever slip or stumble, and therefore persuade the populace that as bloody and violent as the methods of the powerful are, they are preferable to any alternative.
Killing is bad, but millions of killings can be offset or even justified by one killing.
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| -Sterling Hall bomber dies at 58..........Madison, Wi 1970 |
a kennedy |
Jun-22-10 08:11 AM |
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Did you get to see the WI public tv show about what went on in Madison at that time? |
elocs |
Jun-22-10 08:21 AM |
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Do you remember the name of the program? |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 09:19 AM |
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It seems like it might have been. From Wikipedia: |
elocs |
Jun-22-10 09:35 AM |
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AWESOME film |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 09:54 AM |
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This film is available on Netflix, and their streaming video: |
elocs |
Jun-22-10 10:25 AM |
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Thanks- The Madison Public Library also has (or HAD) copies to loan out |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 10:27 AM |
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I was a first year grad student, out of town on vacation when the blast happened. |
Jackpine Radical |
Jun-22-10 08:26 AM |
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anti-war movement was heavily infiltrated by posers pushing extreme tactics.... |
blm |
Jun-22-10 08:30 AM |
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I do not believe the Armstrong brothers and Burt were infiltrators |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 09:24 AM |
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the infiltrators were those who PREYED on earnest activists, urging more violent tactics... |
blm |
Jun-22-10 10:06 AM |
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I don't know who, if anyone, influenced these 3 in their decision |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 10:16 AM |
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Leo Burt is still on the lam |
bluestateguy |
Jun-22-10 08:38 AM |
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Leo still sends LTTE, mocking the right... |
Scuba |
Jun-22-10 09:01 AM |
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question |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 09:45 AM |
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letters to the editor |
Scuba |
Jun-22-10 10:10 AM |
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duh - thanks |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 10:18 AM |
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no problem.. a common usage on DU, as I'm learning.... now, what does n/t mean? |
Scuba |
Jun-22-10 10:42 AM |
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ha - "no text" |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 11:11 AM |
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thank you !!! |
Scuba |
Jun-22-10 11:41 AM |
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Is there any proof it is really Leo Burt? |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 05:44 PM |
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i remember the day it happened... |
madrchsod |
Jun-22-10 09:10 AM |
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Sad - their cause was noble but they went too far |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 09:44 AM |
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R.I.P. Dwight...Condolences to Karl |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 09:57 AM |
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kick |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 12:26 PM |
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another bump |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 03:38 PM |
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Mickle strange |
gratuitous |
Jun-22-10 03:46 PM |
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We are missing the important part of the Sterling Hall bombing |
FightingBobsghost |
Jun-22-10 03:57 PM |
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when the blast went off ~3am, I was sleeping just blocks away... |
alterfurz |
Jun-22-10 05:13 PM |
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bump for the night owls |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Jun-22-10 10:01 PM |
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