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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Futurework] Fw: The Italian poisoner


> Selma Singer wrote:
>
> > Some more frightening information.
> >
> > Selma
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 6:33 PM
> > Subject: The Italian poisoner
> >
> >
> > Berlusconi is not just another rightwinger; he is a threat to democracy
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,991976,00.html
> >
> > Martin Jacques
> > Saturday July 5, 2003
> > The Guardian
> >
> > The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, may have been forced to
> > apologise, albeit belatedly, for his extraordinary attack on Martin
> > Schulz, the German MEP, but it seems likely that the bitter taste will
> > remain to sour the next six months of the Italian presidency. More
> > importantly, this incident could serve as a long overdue wake-up call to
> > Europe's politicians and opinion-formers about just what kind of
political
> > threat Berlusconi represents.
> [snip]
>
> We know that forcing someone to apologize is generally
> not an unambivalently constructive accomplishment
> for the apologizee, since the apologizer tends to
> remember having been intimidated and comes to
> harbor a grudge.  (After you force someone to apoligize,
> redouble your watch on your back.)  The phenomenon of
> what Timothy McVeigh called "payback time" is not
> just a speculative scenario somebody at Rand Corporation
> thought up in the 1950s....
>
> \brad mccormick
>
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>
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>
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