Re: [pf] The Politics of a Perpetrator Population

At 13:28 18/10/2001 -0400, Tom Wheeler sent to PF {at:
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pfvs/2001IV/msg00455.html } :-

>The Politics of a Perpetrator Population
>
>Ward Churchill
>
>.. There were, after all, far more pressing things than the unrelenting
misery/death of a few hundred thousand Iraqi tikes to be concerned with.
Getting "Jeremy" and "Ellington" to their weekly soccer game, for instance,
or seeing to it that little "Tiffany" an "Ashley" had just the right
roll-neck sweaters to go with their new cords. 
> ... there was an infinitesimally small segment of the body politic who
expressed opposition to what was/is being done to the children of Iraq. It
must also be conceded, however, that those involved by-and-large contented
themselves with signing petitions and conducting candle-lit prayer vigils ...
>
>.. the crux of it, that the "resistance" expended the bulk of its time and
energy ... trying to ensure ... that nobody went further than waving signs
as a means of "challenging" the patently exterminatory pursuit of Pax
Americana. So pure of principle were these "dissidents," in fact, that they
began literally to supplant the police in protecting corporations profiting
by the carnage against suffering such retaliatory "violence" as having
their windows broken by persons less "enlightened" - or perhaps more
outraged - than the self-anointed "peacekeepers."
>
>Property before people, it seems - or at least the equation of property to
people - is a value by no means restricted to America's boardrooms.
>

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http://adamjones.freeservers.com/gwcw.html
  has:

Biographical Note:
 Ward Churchill is Professor of American Indian Studies in the Department
of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder.

 He is the author, among other books, of
- Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and
Expropriation in Contemporary North America (Common Courage Press 1994) and
- A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492
to the Present (City Lights Books, 1998).

E-mail: Ward.Churchill@Colorado.EDU
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· Thanks for this, Tom.
  Though I couldn't find a webpage source for it, on Google or on
http://www.infoshop.org/inews

David.
David MacClement [davd @ ihug.co.nz] (remove spaces)
http://davd.tripod.com/GrRR-011012_titles.html#top
http://www.geocities.com/davd.geo/index.html#top
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