----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:48 PM Subject: RE: Peaceful Change L3
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:26:53 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda wrote > > > The fact that you feel somehow compelled to defend > > such a thoroughly disgusting figure > > When did I defend Ramsey Clark? <quote> Ramsey Clark is representing Saddam Hussein. You say that makes him a bad person. Are you saying that anybody who would provide legal representation for Saddam Hussein is bad? Or that anyone who represents any criminal is bad? Are you opposed to civil rights, fair trials, the right to be represented by an advocate? Does he have any right to a trial, or should be just shoot him? Where do you draw the line? It seems as if you're saying that Clark's representation of Saddam proves that Clark is a bad person... how did you get there? <end quote> >I'm taking issue with your association of him and his politics with *anybody* who would participate in >any peace and justice event. In that I see as McCarthyism -- guilt by association, very distant association > in this case. Nick, are you reading different posts than I am? Dan M. > You went to Harvard, so should we assume that you therefore endorse and stand > for Jim Wallis' ideas, since he teaches there? Heck, you participate in Brin- > L and so do I, so does that mean you endorse all of *my* ideas? All of David > Brin's? Are your conservative friends going to tell you that by participating > here, you are showing that you are a fool, a traitor or worse? That's guilt > by much closer association than you're proposing is true of Clark and the > peace movement. > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
