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The Algebra Of Infinite Justice

Author: Faf
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2001
Date/Time: 15:17 GMT
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Here's some suggested reading from Arundhati Roy by Emerald [link[1]]. It's one of those numerous articles concerning the suicide attacks on the WTC and American foreign policy and Infinite Justice coming back to avenge itself. It's quite a good read but it woulda made a real impact on people if it had been written [or read] a few days after the crash than two months after. It doesnt say much that hasnt been said already.

Anyway here's some stuff that caught my eye:

The US government, and no doubt governments all over the world, will use the climate of war as an excuse to curtail civil liberties, deny free speech, lay off workers, harass ethnic and religious minorities, cut back on public spending and divert huge amounts of money to the defence industry. To what purpose? President Bush can no more "rid the world of evil-doers" than he can stock it with saints. It's absurd for the US government to even toy with the notion that it can stamp out terrorism with more violence and oppression. Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease. Terrorism has no country. It's transnational, as global an enterprise as Coke or Pepsi or Nike. At the first sign of trouble, terrorists can pull up stakes and move their "factories" from country to country in search of a better deal. Just like the multi-nationals.
-- Arundhati Roy; The Algebra of Infinite Justice

...the first step is for America to at least acknowledge that it shares the planet with other nations, with other human beings who, even if they are not on TV, have loves and griefs and stories and songs and sorrows and, for heaven's sake, rights.
-- Arundhati Roy; The Algebra of Infinite Justice

NOTE: There's quite a lot to read so I suggest you copy it to notepad and lose all the formatting. Then copy it to Word and use the following formatting: Font = Verdana; Size 8; Margins= 1cm for left, right, top and bottom. This shd make it fit on 3 pages and shd be legible for anyone with eyes as good as mine. I none of these makes any sens to you. Just print it off the web... [you really dont want to]. Of course I'm assuming you'll wanna read the article.

Comments on this entry:

Author: Slew
Date/Time: May 3, 2002 4:50 AM

B-o-o-o-ri-i-i-i-g

Author: Faf
Date/Time: May 3, 2002 4:51 AM

lol... i knew it was

Author: Emerald
Date/Time: May 3, 2002 4:51 AM

Well, maybe should have started at the end and worked my way forward. Maybe I could have saved my comments and boring referrals. Anyway, I think different opinions make life interesting. I won't apologize. Thanks for including,faf. Still love your site, no " ".

Author: Tiffany
Date/Time: July 27, 2006 7:08 AM

Bah, it's been years now. I wish Bush would learn his lesson already..TIME magazine did an issue last month called "The end of cowboy politics." Allegedly he's no longer using his black and white, dead or alive approach that has made America the beloved gal she is today. He still annoys me though.
Arundhati Roy is on my Amazon.com reading list. I think I'm becoming an activist of some sort. I hope it's not just a phase.

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1) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4266289,00.html