harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/09/91)
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I
hate them!
--Albert Einstein
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[Use GET on the file QUOTES RESOURCE ... Warning: current version is
largely a jumbled mess! Contributions welcome until end of June at
harel@dartmouth.edu]
##################################################################harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/16/91)
"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of
murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may
be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death
penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim
of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and
who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for
months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
--Albert Camus, writer, France.
[From "When the State Kills...The death penalty: a human rights issue"
by Amnesty International]
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Use the GET command with QUOTES RESOURCE for the (currently fairly
jumbled) file of quotes. Use GET with ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
files available with the GET command thru the activ-l archiver.
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To get a file named FILE NAME from the
archiver (files are two words separa-
ted by a space), send the 1-line message
GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L
to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
[or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
======================================harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/16/91)
"They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which
is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of
the sick bay or the graveyard."
--Alexander Cockburn, at the beginning of the latter part of
his column concerning the Panama invasion and today's
Panama [The Nation, Feb. 4, 1991]
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Use the GET command with QUOTES RESOURCE for the (currently fairly
jumbled) file of quotes. Use GET with ACTIV-L ARCHIVE for a listing of
files available with the GET command thru the activ-l archiver.
======================================
To get a file named FILE NAME from the
archiver (files are two words separa-
ted by a space), send the 1-line message
GET FILE NAME ACTIV-L
to: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.BITNET
[or: LISTSERV@UMCVMB.MISSOURI.EDU]
======================================harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai) (06/23/91)
"One fundamental goal of any well-conceived indoctrination program is to direct attention elsewhere, away from effective power, its roots, and the disguises it assumes. Thus to enter into debate over Vietnam, or the Middle East, or Central America, one is required to gain special knowledge of these areas while avoiding scrutiny of the United States. "Rational standards are permitted for the study of Soviet intervention, which focusses on Moscow, not Kabul and Prague; for us, however, the problems lie elsewhere, not here. Respectable commentators can even speak of "the tragic self-destruction of Central America," with the two superpowers playing a (symmetrical) background role (Theodore Sorenson). A similar comment about Eastern Europe would merely arouse ridicule." -- Noam Chomksy, _The Decline of the Democratic Ideal_, _Z_, May 1990