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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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5.7.02

BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Jenin deaths video implicates army{ I guess we all wonder at times. how things that seem so obvious are ignored and overlooked. or run from. the doubt being that it's not that clear and what we see is incomplete or unimportant. but. I keep wanting to say this over and over. there is no monolithic Jewish thing. that is an illusion fostered by something else, that hides behind the history of persecution that is the history of the Jews. and thus claims its immunity from accusation. to accuse that thing is to accuse the victims of pogrom and Holocaust. but it is not true. it is a lie. just as the swine that dominate American politics at the moment don't speak for America, as a country and an experiment in democracy, or for the American people whose history is over 200 years old. but they are wrapped in the flag, and hiding behind it. so that to attack them to accuse them, especially in this dark hour, is to accuse and attack America itself. bullshit. it is to defend America that these men must be accused, separated from the people of this country and shown for what they are, parasites with no allegiance but to themselves. and it is the same with the Jews. though fear and commonality force the issue into the false divisions, it makes it that much more urgent to distinguish, we need names for these creatures that fit, that accurately describe what they are and do. just as many in the rest of the world now spit when they speak of Americans and never think of the thousands, the millions of us who have been persecuted and misused here in our own country, so many do likewise with the Jews. and here is why}

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