[lit-ideas] Re: Defending Offense.

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 23:58:13 -0600

Good try, Lawrence, but no cigar.  As American Westerners, you and I have 
beheaded 30,000+ innocent Muslims in Iraq and 6,000 to 10,000 in Afghanistan.  
The blood of innocents drips from our hands.  Don't feel so magnanimous in your 
new-found liberalism.

Mike Geary
Memphis
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lawrence Helm 
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:47 PM
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Defending Offense.


  Being Western rather than Muslim, Mike, I have no need to behead you.  



  Lawrence




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  From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of Mike Geary
  Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:38 PM
  To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [lit-ideas] Defending Offense.



  I like very much and have great respect for Judy Evans and David Savory, but 
I insist on my right to be offensive.  



  I agree with much that they argue, but I agree more that I have the right as 
an individual human being to speak my mind whether it offends others or not.  
Or even to speak my mind hoping to offend others.  I know of no right not to be 
offended.  This rightwing, militaristic, devil-take-the-hindmost, coin-op 
culture offends me from dawn to dusk.  I accept that and go about my business.  
Every word out of George Bush's mouth is an offensive insult to any intelligent 
human being.  And I promise you, if this war against the Muslims being waged by 
Bush were not ongoing, none of this cartoon business would be happening.  Not 
one Muslim would be in the streets were we not in Iraq.  So this too can be 
laid at the foot of our beloved Security Hero George "Stasi" Bush.  



  Mike Geary

  Memphis

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