Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 23:19:56 -0500
Subject: Re: yippi yi eh (New Yorker Article)


At 06:58 PM 5/4/2004, Ali Kazmi wrote:
>--- dan combs <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us> wrote:
>
> >
> > Maybe the military made this distinction, but not
> > me.  I just don't get
> > why it is worse because of the religious aspect.
> >
>It's simple, by stating it over and over, the media
>tryed to create three impressions:


I am getting lost in this.   Because the media said something doesn't make 
it worse in the reality.   These guys were tortured and brutalized.   I 
don't give a hoot if they're islamic, xtian or druid.  The baseline of 
suffering physical or mental pain doesn't change because one wears, or 
believes in a label.   Because these guys were moslem doesn't make their 
suffering anymore brutal than that poor Jamaican bastard in New York City 
who was sodomized by the broomstick.   If it does then this is an unequal 
wirld.


carp