Klarinet Archive - Posting 000170.txt from 2007/05

From: Erik Tkal <bbtkal@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] NOT about Wagner
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 15:51:16 -0400

Walt, I wasn't trying to tie them together explicitly, those are just
attributes that terrorists have stated they dislike about America.
Capitalism isn't bad by itself, but it can be manipulated by those with
certain attributes.

In any case, I was simply trying to indicate to Sarah that 9/11 wasn't
at all about racism, more about nationalism.

GrabnerWG@-----.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/20/2007 3:52:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> bbtkal@-----.org writes:
> On 9/11, 3000 people died because they worked in a pair of symbolic
> buildings that to a group of fanatics could be used to make a statement
> about the insensitivity, callousness, greed and hypocrisy of the
> policies of the capitalistic society that is America.>>
>
> This sentence just infuriates me.
>
> People died because terrorists wanted to kill people.
>
> You know, I actually agree that there is insensitivity, greed, and
> callousness in the United States, just as there is in any human society.
>
> To tie it to capitalism is just plain ignorant.
>
> To include it in the same sentence seems to give the terrorists an "excuse"
> for their behavior. There is no excuse for butchering innocent people>
>
> Walter Grabner
>
>

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