Life itself is a symbolic act.
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----- Original Message -----
From: theoldmole <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: Afghanistan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 3:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Afghanistan
>
>
> > On Monday 08 October 2001 15:03, you wrote:
> > > The only possible problem with this strategy, Robin, is if it happens
to
> be
> > > the police themselves who are threatening one's life. I know, it's an
> > > astonishing thought, but I'm told it does happen.
> > >
> > > A
> >
> >
> > Robin, you appear to have lived quite a sheltered life. The last thing I
> > would do if my life was threatened in this country is call the police.
As
> > Alison observes, they are most likely the ones doing the threatening,
> which I
> > learnt the hard way some time ago by helping out a little protest for
gay
> > rights by designing and printing posters. After escaping the police
> threats
> > and re-surfacing from the underground I went on to later work in
> publishing.
> > Here, I got death threats and was shot at for being a publisher
supporting
> > Asian immigration to this country from the local fascist hoons and the
> police
> > refused to act so a few people went out and acquainted their heads with
> the
> > pavement. So now, I know what to do. Go out the back and dig up my
trusty
> SKK
> > Chinese automatic assault rifle I got buried in my garden and start
> shooting
> > back. I may be opposed to the war in Afghanistan but the armed
> revolutionary
> > overthrow of my own government--
> > NO WORRIES MATE!
> >
> > Chris Jones.
>
>
> That isn't true in New York. Here, if you had the misfortune of getting in
> the way of the glorious strike against racism on Sept 11, the police would
> have risked their lives -- and many of them sacrificed their lives -- to
> save you, even if their imperialist hegemony was threatened by the purity
of
> your convictions.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Tad Richards "Well said, old mole."
> The Old Mole Wm. Shakespeare, Hamlet
> of the MoleNet Act I, Scene 5
> http://pages.prodigy.net/tadrichards
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