Those who harbor terrorists "will share in their fate."

[WriterDom]

Never again will the free world stand idly by while the cancer of terror is allowed to fester. Osama bin Laden, you may have outlasted the Taliban, but your days are numbered.

 

[Marxist]

Taking time away from your armband collection to grace us with a few uplifting words? Muy generous....

 

[miles]

I was wondering what happened to him!

 

[WriterDom]

Taking time away from your armband collection to grace us with a few uplifting words? Muy generous....

That wasn't very nice. But, coming from you, would we expect any less?

 

[miles]

WD

Does this mean you aren't a jack booted, goose stepping, extreme right-wing Nazi fascist klansman skinhead whte male responsible for racism, inequality, intolerance, global warming, homophobia, world hunger, anti-semitism and the unemployment of a repulsive Lit poser?

Lair, liar, pants on fire.

 

[WriterDom]

Re: WD

Does this mean you aren't a jack booted, goose stepping, extreme right-wing Nazi fascist klansman skinhead whte male responsible for racism, inequality, intolerance, global warming, homophobia, world hunger, anti-semitism and the unemployment of a repulsive Lit poser?

Lair, liar, pants on fire.

Nope, but I think Marxist is seeing the light. Isn't that JC Watts on his av?

 

[gbd]

Oh no!!

Oh Christ, the mamby pamby liberals are out.

 

[Marxist]

Re: Re: WD

Nope, but I think Marxist is seeing the light. Isn't that JC Watts on his av?

No but cl...no, not even.

Frantz Fanon: an Introduction
Benjamin Graves '98, Brown University
His revolutionary ambitions cut short by leukemia in 1961, psychoanalyst and philosopher Frantz Fanon had by the time of his death amassed a body of critical work that today establishes his position as a leading theoretician of (among other issues) black consciousness and identity, nationalism and its failings, colonial rule and the inherently "violent" task of decolonization, language as an index of power, miscegenation, and the objectification of the performative black body. Fanon's burgeoning popularity and influence on more recent post-colonial readings of black liberation and nationalism perhaps serve as an index of his centrality to the movement for Algierian self-determination in the 1950's that shaped (and, in turn, was shaped by) his diverse career as a political activist and critic. Born on the island of Martinique in 1925, Fanon fought with the allied forces against Nazi Germany in Europe during the second World War and afterwards studied psychiatry in France, where he published his first book, Peau noire, masques blancs (Black Skin, White Masks). While practicing medicine in Antilles in northern Africa during the French-Algerian war, Fanon actively supported and organized a resistance to French colonialism by authoring two books outlining an insurgent Third World uprising: L'An V de la revolution algerienne (A Dying colonialism or Year Five of the Algerian Revolution), and Les Damnes de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth).

As Lewis R. Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, and Renee T. White suggest in their introduction to Fanon: a Critical Reader, Fanon's critical trajectory spans across the political and academic disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, social science, and literature. Rather like the writings of C.L.R. James -- a Trinidadian Marxist whose critical scope ranged from cultural critiques of cricket and Shakespeare to political polemics engaging Lenin and Trotsky -- Frantz Fanon's contributions must be contextualized historically; unlike many of today's postcolonial critics, in other words, Fanon's contribution to current understandings of nationalism and decolonization emerged during and not after the exegencies of colonial rule. In other words, it's important to contextualize Fanon's vehement (and perhaps both ethnocentric and reductive) advocacy of anticolonialism against his participation in the Algierian struggle for self-determination -- a moment of social transformation that preceded the emergence of the poststructuralist lessons of the 1960s and 1970s that underwrite the projects of so many postcolonial critics today.

That's your lesson for the day boys. You may now resume congratulating yourselves for your circumstance of birth and commence rubbing each others cockheads.

 

[PHANTOM5875]

Was that the class bell?........

*Snort!....Wuh....* Was that the class bell? I dozed off....Hey! It's not that I mind having my johnson massaged but DO I KNOW YOU ??????!!!!!!!!!!

Phantom

 

[registered "^^"]

Getting my rowboat out, pulling a log boom across my harbor. HEY, anyone have a spare submarine net!.......underwater mines??

 

[miles]

WD

Nope, but I think Marxist is seeing the light. Isn't that JC Watts on his av?


Stupid.

Everyone knows that's Tiger Woods.

 

[Marxist]

You have a lot in common with your av. as well, Miles. I mean a lot of straight guys like to take it in the ass, just ask CG.

 

[miles]

I guess not.

Eddie Murphy?

 

[miles]

AHA!

JOHNNY MATHIS!

Yess!!!

 

[PHANTOM5875]

You guys crack me up!......

Thanks guys! I'm laughing my ass off here. Thanks for filling my Sunday morning with a little humor.

Phantom

 

[miles]

I don't believe in coincidences.

The resemblance is striking.

 

[WriterDom]

JC definitely

 

[miles]

No way.

JC was a college QB. Way too butch. Ever see Johnny Mathis take the snap?

 

[Marxist]

No way.

JC was a college QB. Way too butch. Ever see Johnny Mathis take the snap?

It's this side of you Miles that the boys at the piano bar love.

 

[WriterDom]

Hard to tell, but it could be a negative of Michael Jackson

 

[miles]

WD

Again, too butch

 

[pdx39]

US Harbors International Fugitive.

Remember Warren Anderson?

Around midnight on the night of 2-3 December 1984, two tanks of
chemicals at a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India
ruptured, releasing 40-45 tons of poison gases over the next hour.

In accordance with company policy ("to avoid causing panic"), no
alarm was sounded and no evacuation was ordered, although the
factory was surrounded by residential areas of the city of more
than a million people. Although the gas cloud lingered and continued
to cause permanent injuries for days, Union Carbide told neighbors
of the factory that the danger was past.

Between 3,000 and 6,000 people died within days, and perhaps
another
10,000 have died since from the effects of the poison gas. Between
100,000 and 500,000 people suffered permanent injuries.

Evidence was presented to the Indian courts -- which operate under
procedures largely inherited from the British, and which are
generally considered fair and independent -- sufficient to warrant
charges of criminal negligence against Union Carbide and its
corporate officers.

When Warren Anderson, president of Union Carbide, arrived in
Bhopal
to express his condolences to those who had "accidentally" been
killed and crippled, he was duly arrested on charges of culpable
homicide.

He posted bail, and promised to appear in court for trial. He
jumped bail, and snuck out of India (and back to the USA). When
representatives of the victims sued for damages in the USA,
Anderson
and Union Carbide got the lawsuits dismissed by arguing that the
proper venue for lawsuits was in India. They (again) promised --
this time to courts in the USA -- that they would appear in court
to face charges in India. But they didn't.

The Indian courts ordered Anderson's bail forfeited, declared him
a fugitive, and sent a warrant for his arrest to the USA through
Interpol.

Anderson -- now a fugitive from international justice, wanted for
mass murder and under indictment by the courts of a friendly country
with which the USA maintains diplomatic relations - - has since
retired as CEO of Union Carbide, and has never returned to India.

When attorneys for the Bhopal victims attempted to serve Union
Carbide with a summons for Anderson, Union Carbide claimed they
didn't know where he is (although they continue to pay him his
pension).

The USA has, of course, neither arrested nor extradited Anderson
on the basis of the Interpol warrants.

Union Carbide has since been acquired by Dow Chemical as a
wholly-owned
subsidiary of Dow.

But Union Carbide's headquarters remains in the same place: an
isolated complex outside Danbury, Connecticut, in the middle of
over 100 acres of company-owned private forest. No trace of the
outside world or human presence (not even the entrance road itself)
can be seen from the office windows, and no trace of the building
-- nothing but the guardhouse on the road -- can be seen from any
publicly-accessible land.

So what if a team of Indian commandos were to descend on
Anderson's
last reported address in Florida, kidnap him, and take him back to
India to stand trial?

Or what if India's aircraft carrier (yes, they have one) were to
be positioned in Long Island Sound, and some Indian bombers
were
sent to suitable locations in neighboring countries:

Toronto and the Bahamas, say. And what if an ultimatum were to be
given: "You are harboring a criminal, and you know where he is.

No innocent people will be harmed if we destroy your Union Carbide
compound -- no one but your employees and contractors is allowed
within sight. Hand him over in three days, or else."

Of course, these are purely hypothetical questions. Nothing like
that would ever happen, would it?

 

[PHANTOM5875]

pdx39, I'd probably hold the door for the Indian commandos.

I'm ashamed to admist I had forgotten about that incident and didn't realize or had forgotten that deal about Anderson.

Interesting.

Phantom

 

[Marxist]

I think yayati would make an excellent Indian commando leader.

Seriously, Bhopal is one of those tragedies that only gets replayed by 60 Minutes and dies as a story. Truly awful, but a good example....



How does Anderson sleep at night? What do you tell your kids?