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Subject: Human Rights Watch
Original Message Date: 01-Nov-02 @ 06:54 PM - Human Rights Watch
We're starting to get somewhere now...let justice be served on those knots in societies bowels.
Message 41/79 05-Nov-02 @ 03:24 PM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Message 42/79 05-Nov-02 @ 05:37 PM - RE: Human Rights Watch
anyways... all I'm trying to do is bring a bit of sanity to the procedings before it gets out of hand... and at least it seems to have brought out some better responses and everyone is a bit clearer about peoples position. So that is cool
carry on...
Message 44/79 06-Nov-02 @ 12:00 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Human "rights" are whatever those in power decide. They're not universl truths. I DO get tired of hearing people that keep "the fires burning" about things that happened a good ways in the past. I DO NOT have a problem with people speaking out about current injustices (just dunna go dragging history into it, cos history is just that - someone's STORY of how something went down - while sometimes accurate, it can sometimes be found to be woefully inaccurate...). If you have to justify your soapboxing by filling in with past injustices, no one will ever move forward... NO ONE.
I've had the shit kicked out of me on more than one occasion because of "who I am." That doesn't suddenly make it okay for me to bash a whole ethnic group because the folk that trashed me happened to follow something of the same creed/culture.... Sure I can if I want to, but to what end? I hate all rednecks cos they dunna like gypsies? I hate all blacks cos they dunna like whites? I hate all Italians cos they dunna like yokels? I hate all Texans cos they dunna like NAs? I hate all etc., etc. Ya see where that can go?
Race, creed, ethnicty... They're all "touchy" subjects... Why? I dunno really, but maybe it's because folks (on both sides) just won't let it go. I mean afterall, most of you fuckers ancestors spent a good deal of time chasing my folks off your land and calling us thieves and worse. So maybe I should hunt down all of you, eh?
Peace - and I do mean that.
Message 45/79 06-Nov-02 @ 01:24 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
or....youre talking about different ancestors and thieves and land stealing?
Message 46/79 06-Nov-02 @ 02:33 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
I'm from gypsy stock, for what it's worth... an' that ain't much...=) Tinkers to be exact....
Message 47/79 06-Nov-02 @ 04:21 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Those guys were tough as nails...
Message 48/79 06-Nov-02 @ 06:05 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
Message 49/79 06-Nov-02 @ 06:13 AM - RE: Human Rights Watch
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