The crisis-mongers
AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo
12/15/08
It seems the clock is always ticking. We live in a state of perpetual ‘emergency,’ and every day we’re faced with fresh ultimatums. I’ve had boyfriends like that. ‘If you don’t do such-and-such immediately, I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue — and then you’ll be sorry.’ The first few times I fell for it; after all, I didn’t want a medical emergency on my hands. Now that I’m wiser, though not all that old yet, my response is more measured: ‘Blue really isn’t your color, you know.’ The Dershowitz Principle is that morality and truth bend under extreme conditions, like even the strongest steel — if it’s hot enough. The idea, then, is to raise the temperature and create a crisis, or at least convince enough people to panic...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13904
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dershowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
by Justin Raimondo
12/15/08
It seems the clock is always ticking. We live in a state of perpetual ‘emergency,’ and every day we’re faced with fresh ultimatums. I’ve had boyfriends like that. ‘If you don’t do such-and-such immediately, I’m going to hold my breath until I turn blue — and then you’ll be sorry.’ The first few times I fell for it; after all, I didn’t want a medical emergency on my hands. Now that I’m wiser, though not all that old yet, my response is more measured: ‘Blue really isn’t your color, you know.’ The Dershowitz Principle is that morality and truth bend under extreme conditions, like even the strongest steel — if it’s hot enough. The idea, then, is to raise the temperature and create a crisis, or at least convince enough people to panic...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13904
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dershowitz
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/justin
rudkla - 15. Dez, 11:18
