I meant "the crime preceded the punshment,"
sorry.
Barkley
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 12:58 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:6972] Re: Re: Kurds and Kosovars
>Michael,
> Part of what is really frustrating about all this
>is the general wrongness of everybody involved.
>Those who have noted that what was happening
>before the bombing started are exactly correct.
>Likewise, the bombing in no way justifies what has
>been done since there by S.M. and his underlings.
> This is not equivalent to the execution cases you
>cite. At least in those cases, the came preceded
>the punishment. Not so in Yugoslavia.
>Barkley Rosser
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 9:27 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6933] Re: Kurds and Kosovars
>
>
>>Why do it then? We are all exposed to the CNN stuff, as Lou P. has
already
>>noted. What good does that do? Nobody here is ready to make S.M. a hero.
>If
>>he were President of the U.S., he might even possibly be as bad as
Clinton.
>>
>>Governor Davis just executed Manny Babbit. His excuse was that Manny
>Babbit
>>killed a woman. The governor justified the execution because Manny Babbit
>>killed the woman. Babbit did not deny it. He only said that he did not
>>remember it. Here was a guy that has a family filled with mental illness.
>He
>>suffered a traumatic brain injury as a child and was not expected to live.
>Then
>>he fought in Viet Nam.
>>
>>He came home whacked out. The police found him wandering about and took
>him to
>>a mental institution drugged him up for a few days and released him ....
>>
>>You can repeat that he killed a woman. Nobody defends that act, but the
>death
>>penalty is wrong. Just repeating the crime gets you no where.
>>
>>We are bombing to flex NATOs muscles and then call it morality.
>>
>>Clinton murdered Rickey Ray Rector to get elected and called it justice.
>>
>>"J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote:
>>
>>> Louis,
>>> You are correct that it is as "hard as shooting fish
>>> in a barrel" to figure out what is really going on with this
>>> situation in Yugoslavia.
>>
>>--
>>Michael Perelman
>>Economics Department
>>California State University
>>Chico, CA 95929
>>
>>Tel. 530-898-5321
>>E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>
>
