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U.S. purposefully kills journalists, U.K. approves; Anonymous update; anarchist-friendly music

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Charles12/13/2010 8:06:48 pm PST

re: #23 Barrett Brown

I agree that this man should not have been given a celebratory welcoming by al-Jazeera. I also disagree that G. Gordon Liddy, who proposed the firebombing of a civilian institution, is worthy of having a syndicated talkshow. But I would never blow up the company that gives Liddy his talk show, even if certain other people would had Liddy been an Arab. Likewise, I don’t think that the U.S. has the right to kill a great number of men and women who work for a media company because it happens to have a bias towards the murderers of its society rather than the murderers of our society.

You’re kind of missing the point. Gordon Liddy may have proposed firebombing a civilian institution, but Samir Kuntar, who was celebrated and praised as a hero by Al Jazeera, bashed a little girl’s brains out after shooting her father in front of her.

One of these things is not like the other.