tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post2504706948663937892..comments2009-01-12T09:02:08.564-05:00Ben Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740ben@eagle.caBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-38287771430282526222009-01-12T09:02:00.000-05:002009-01-12T09:02:00.000-05:00Glad to see you back in the public domain MerklinBen Burdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372169478978720740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-86397383121840575722009-01-12T08:36:00.000-05:002009-01-12T08:36:00.000-05:00Ben Burd asserts: "But back to the argument that only the sufferers, the Jews, can use Holocaust and Hitler, iand then in the defensive form. I think that is wrong. Words are for all and cannot be appropriated by any group for their own purposes."<BR/><BR/>Why should niggers be the only ones who can use the word nigger? Ain't that right Ben?Wally Keelerhttp://poetency.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-40177462307353320962009-01-11T23:40:00.000-05:002009-01-11T23:40:00.000-05:00From Through The Looking Glass:<BR/><BR/>"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."<BR/><BR/>"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."<BR/><BR/>"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."Wally Keelerhttp://poetency.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-2652365956407507672009-01-11T23:34:00.000-05:002009-01-11T23:34:00.000-05:00Propaganda is textual assaultWally Keelerhttp://poetency.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23948057.post-68238136776628144862009-01-11T17:29:00.000-05:002009-01-11T17:29:00.000-05:00Speaking of comments, Ben, or nomenclature in the case I'm refering to, how is it that the phrase 'right to exist' is simply accepted when Israel chooses to defend itself? Yes, I can understand that a modern United Nations charter legitimized the creation of the State Of Israel. No problem. But where did The United Nations get its legitimacy? Did the people of Palestine sign on to that? And if so when? Before they were displaced by the creation of Israel -or after?<BR/><BR/>To exist as a human is one thing. To exist as a geographical creation is quite another. The right of human beings to collectivly exist without fear of massive air strikes and ground assaults on their refugee camps should certainly be a right that trumps drawn-up maps -maps that put them in those refugee camps in the first place.Merklin Muffleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05850284624604652178noreply@blogger.com