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Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:46:47 -0700

"In medieval Europe it was not uncommon for domestic animals--for example, pigs and asses--to be tried in criminal courts on charges such as murder and adultery. In one well-documented case, a sow was found guilty of murder in the trampling of the swineherd's boy. Despite the best efforts of her defense attorney, she was sentenced to death by hanging. Her motive was thought to have been the desire to save another pig from slaughter. Several other pigs were shown to have squealed during the general commotion surrounding the crime and were given similar sentences as accessories."

--Alva Noe, Out Of Our Heads, p. 35-36

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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:29:30 -0800

"Should we bomb military sites? Should we bomb military sites and civilian sites? Should we bomb military sites and civilian sites and use fragmentation bombs? Should we do it and use fragmentation bombs that are made out of plastic? Should we do it and use fragmentation bombs that are made out of plastic and look like toys? That's what they come to. All the way to that. Why? Because they drop the thing, it hangs in the tree and a kid comes a long, grabs the thing, the thing explodes and now the kid has fragments, i.e. plastic fragments throughout them. What can you not do with plastic fragments? You can't see them with x-rays. So the whole purpose of this isn't to kill the kid who picks up the toy. The whole purpose of this is to destroy the infrastructure and the morale of the enemy because the child lives in a wretched state and has to be cared for by four or five other people. These are the minds that we're dealing with here. This is not a fun game that we're in. They're not fucking around. They want to achieve an end, they'll just do any goddamn thing that they feel they need to to achieve their ends..."

(Michael Albert on Vietnam)
http://instructionals.zcommunications.org//RTInstruc/id63.htm

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Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:38:15 -0700