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Monday, February 21, 2005

No wonder the right hates him

If you want to be secure, if you want to be able to live a human life, in all of its full dimension, if you want to have the security of that to pass along to your children, if you want to be valued, in other words, as a human being, I don't want to get Biblical here, but do unto others as you would expect to have done unto yourself. That's my first proposition. If you want to be secure from that natural and inevitable response to what it is America's putting out on the world, start with stopping the killing of their babies. Afford them the fundamental dignity of being human, not 'collateral damage.' And America's been able to provide the world with an endless stream of glowing rhetoric, but how, on that basis ­ since they've violated all of it, since they've always said one thing but acted precisely the opposite ­ is anyone out there going to believe anyone here if those insurances are made? Here's my real, crushing blow. Here's the real radical finale of the whole thing: let's just try pretending for a moment that the United States of America, like every other entity on the planet, is bound to obey the law.
-- Ward Churchill