me: > The FBI most wanted list used to be totally about alleged domestic > criminals. It's only recently that alleged international criminals > (like Osama) were added.
Shane Mage wrote: > One murder in New York is a domestic crime. Three thousand murders in > New York is what? It was a domestic crime (allegedly) committed by an (alleged) international criminal. But in truth, in the case of 911, it was part of an on-going war.[*] Of course, civilian casualties are crimes, even during wars. Things have changed: the Japanese leaders who organized the attack on Pearl Harbor weren't put on the FBI "10 Most Wanted" list, even though they killed a bunch of people in the US during a time of official peace. Nowadays, the "war against crime" and actual war have merged, as the International Criminal Court in the Hague is used as a weapon against the leaders of countries which the US policy elite hates, using "human rights" rhetoric and the like against "our" friends while leaving US allies off the hook. (Bush #2 also got the US itself exempted from prosecution.) So it's only natural that the "10 Most Wanted" list would go international, complementing the US war effort. -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein [*] an undeclared war, yes, but explicitly declaring war went out of fashion due to the Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
