Thursday, October 4, 2007
German's make another big stink
A German politician, whos name I can't remember now, is making a large stink about the need to amend the constitution to allow the military to shoot down a passenger plane were one to be used in a terrorist attack. This seems pretty speculative, but it's causing quite a furor, as german policy prevents the government from killing some in a utilitarian attempt to save others. The german politician is a guy in a wheelchair who survived an assasination attempt. Germany and Japan both seem to be chafing from the post WWII restraints still in place.
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Where did you read about this? I commented on your Tom comment…
I think it was in the most recent economist. I saw your comment on my comment, and I knew it was a bit of foolishness to refer to the third reich as an embarrassing stage from high school. There is a kid in my sociology class from Sierra Leone who made a comment about how he was surprised Germany had a low rate of incarceration, with the insinuation being that Germans(read: Nazis)are dangerous and should be more likely to be jailed. You would have been pleased. And this coming from the dude from sierra leone.
Yes, by his logic his moral fiber should be even weaker. I hope you tore him a new one, then inevitably were judged a racist by the rest of the class. Not that i hope you were judged a racist, but that's what happens all too easily at this school. I recently had to hold my tongue when a classmate claimed that a poem, written by an African-born slave, was actually a wry commentary in which she promotes racial equality and cultural diversity, insinuating that, as an african, it was not possible for her to be racially insensitive of other africans. here's the short poem itself. I don't know, to me it's pretty apparent what the poem is saying, and while it might suggest equality, to a degree, it isn't cultural diversity.
'TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither fought now knew,
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic die."
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.
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