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To: Illbay
Some of you need to go read the poem about the blind men and the elephant.

So, which part of this story (not the poem, the news story) do you, Illbay, think us smokers are not seeing?

From what I see, a kid kicked another kid to death because he thought his brother was given a cigarette. There are only two ways you can view this story:-

(a) The kid is telling the truth about why he did this, in which case anti-smoking adults share a large part of the blame for the inordinate amount of time and money they have spent brain-washing him and all other children; or

(b) The kid is lying about why he did this, in which case anti-smoking adults should hang their heads in shame that the best excuse this little punk could come up with for kicking another kid to death is that he gave his brother a cigarette.

Either way, anti-smokers cannot shirk their share of the blame for inspiring such a vast level of hatred, fear and intolerance amongst children towards smokers that one vicious little criminal thought either:-

1. Cigarettes are a motive to kill; or

2. Having killed, cigarettes are a valid excuse/explanation for such a crime.

If you want to read some material which might give you some insight into this type of behaviour beyond Indian moral poetry, I suggest you think about why blacks were lynched on a regular basis until the last 40 years.

The moral of those stories is that, if you deliberately and systematically breed fear and hatred of one group of people into the rest of the population, eventually the frightened, hateful majority start killing the persecuted minority.

So, don't give me this crap about not seeing the full elephant when you can't even see a flea on it's butt!

46 posted on 09/23/2002 8:47:54 PM PDT by I'm_With_Orwell
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To: I'm_With_Orwell
No, what I'm saying is that a single incident doesn't mark a trend.
47 posted on 09/24/2002 4:01:00 AM PDT by Illbay
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