RE: MD Quality and the Nuremberg-Tokyo Tribunals

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Apr 30 2005 - 21:43:06 BST

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    > Mark Steven Heyman said:
    > ....But I'm not picking on Nixon alone. If they were tried under the
    > rules
    > of Nuremberg, every American president since the end of WWII would be
    > hanged...
    >
    > flabbergasted, Platt replied:
    > That's an idea of such low quality it requires no response.
    >
    > dmb says:
    > What Platt means to say is that he can't bear to imagine the idea. What
    > Platt means to say is that he doesn't want to believe such a thing could be
    > true, that the mere suggestion causes him severe emotional distress. It
    > can't be true because it'll hurt his feelings. And anyone who says its true
    > is a NAZI Marxist anti-Semite. (Pssst. Don't tell Platt that Chomsky is
    > Jewish. Let's see how far he digs the hole this time.) That's why the USA
    > cannot be compared to any other nation or regime on earth. Its special. In
    > Platt's Rockwellian America, "all the men are strong, all the women are
    > good looking and all the children are above average" and don't you dare say
    > otherwise!
    >
    > This is how patriotism works and patriotism on steriods is fascism.
    >
    > This kind of deliberate refusal to confront or otherwise face the facts of
    > history makes honest political analysis impossible. So the assetion that
    > there can be no "moral equivalance", that America is somehow special, is
    > another type of anti-intellectual bullshit. Once you learn about its
    > shape-shifting nature of this poop, you'll see that the place is just
    > covered with it.
    >
    > Seriously.

    What Platt means to say is exactly what Platt said. DMB offers no
    intellectual values to rebut, just a lot of sophomoric insults which are
    his trademark. Seriously.

    Platt

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