[MD] French ingredient in the soup of sentiments

[ian glendinning]

J'accuse Arlo - first degreee sarcasm, no less.

But you make a great point.
Hypocrisy is my current buzzword (seemingly necessary hypocrisy in a
pragmatic organisational / institutional context, where complex
situations require dealing with)

Ian

On 4/7/06, Arlo J. Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> Ian/SA,
>
> At the risk of being accused of first-degree sarcasm, I don't see the
> complexity. Is not the MOQ pretty straight-forward in demanding "moral
> ruthlessness" in dealing with "threats to society"? One has only to turn on the
> "usual suspects" on their AM Radio, or pick up nearly any major media
> publication, to hear how illegal immigration is tauted as potentially being the
> issue that will destroy America, making illegal immigrants possibly the biggest
> threat to American society. Our survival as a nation, we are told (Bill
> O'Reilly has declared it has the potential to lead to a second Civil War)
> depends on dealing with these illegals.
>
> The MOQ, thankfully, is crystal clear. They are a threat to American society,
> and as such we can morally "kill 'em all like germs", the same way we have
> morally dealt with other "potential threats". Remember that the MOQ does not
> even propose that the threat must be "real", that's only commie-liberal marxist
> propaganda. Nor does the MOQ restrict our "morally ruthless" response to the
> specific threats, it gives us carte blanche in killing anyone and everyone in
> the potentially dangerous group in order to protect ourselves from our
> perceived threat. You see an illegal mother and her two illegal children, you
> off 'em. Simple as that. Bang. Like a germ. No more threat, American society is
> preserved, and the MOQ bestows its moral blessing.
>
> Indeed, according to the MOQ, we'd be perfectly justified in a "preemptive
> strike" at the heart of the illegals homeland, to stop the flow of these
> dangerous biological threats from even making it onto American soil. Nuke
> Mexico City. Nuke Tijuana. A few Mark V Fire Bombing campaigns onto the streets
> of Mexicali. And those illegals we do capture alive, well... hehehe... the MOQ
> gives us its blessing in torturing them so that they will reveal potential
> information that could help us in our War on Illegal Immigration (mark my
> words, you KNOW that phrase is coming...).
>
> Perhaps Arlo got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, you might ask.
> Perhaps. Perhaps Arlo is tired of the scare, scare, scare redundancy of
> American political discourse. Or is it the latent (and often blatent) hypocracy
> (did I spell that right this round?) of the dialogue. All of the above?
> Perhaps.
>
> Arlo
>
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