Bin Laden is human, too (Ithaca mega-hurl alert)

Ithaca Journal ^ | 4/27/02 | Bruce Tyler

[Behind Liberal Lines]

This cartoon is inappropriate and offensive. Too many times have certain groups declared their enemies to be non-human. This serves no cause but that of barbarism. We cannot ignore the real social processes behind our enemies' actions, as well as our own. Any activities carried out by bin Laden are those of a human being, acting in a world created by humans, including us.

[gaspar]

After 17 years in college this boob is still working on a Ph.D??? He has just got to be the product of a sixties red.

[timestax]

Perhaps the scientist should compare the Bin Laden DNA to the DNA of Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Speck. 5 posted on 4/27/02 5:46 AM Pacific by syriacus [

Yeah, and compare it to James Carville, and Waxman too!!

[germanicus]

Wow! This guy has an over abundance of neurons that aren't connecting properly. These people worry me more than our clear enemy.

[mountaineer]

acting in a world created by humans, including us.

Now this guy is taking credit for having created the world?

[varon]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

Our new battle plan: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Ithaca.....

[general_re]

Oddly, you're probably pretty close. A lot of instructors for such classes reserve a fudge factor for themselves, usually under the guise of "participation". In reality, what this boils down to is a means to reward students who display the proper attitude - i.e., mouth the correct platitudes. And it cuts both ways, of course - it's also a way of insuring that students with retrograde attitudes can never get an "A", no matter what. They just label you as "disruptive" and yank away that participation grade.

And this is spoken as someone who failed to get an "A" in a few courses for precisely that reason ;)

[Right_in_Virginia]

"I'm sure the author of this article feels morally superior to us lesser mortals now, having written the above. This is how these folks feel good about themsleves."

Couldn't agree with you more.

[Frances_Marion]

Boohooohoooo...sniffsniff....and Hitler LOVED PUPPIES and didn't eat meat! WAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

[NYC GOP Chick]

These people worry me more than our clear enemy.

I've long thought that they'll do us in -- that they'll be the ones to hand us, as a nation, over to the evil ones.

[Silverdrake]

what we need is peaceful justice and understanding for all members of the human race.

No problem. We'll peacefully find him guilty of instigating mass murder, understand that he's a power-crazed sociopath who is only genetically a member of the human race, and peacefully hang him from the flagpole in front of the Pentagon. Thus will justice be served, and the majority of the human race protected from his predation.

[lafayette76]

Political Correctness, in its extreme, is nothing more than mental illness.

[FreedomAvatar]

High above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell
Some say it's Cayuga's waters
Most say it's Cornell

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Our new battle plan: Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Ithaca.....

Being the self sacrificing guy that I am, I keep trying to talk my wife into letting me paint a big target on the roof and the words "USAF: Nuke Here," but she won't go for it. Something about "property values."

[general_re]

Maybe she'll go for christmas-type lights arranged in the proper pattern on your roof - that way, you can leave them off until the appropriate time. And when the time comes, they won't be able to miss it ;)

[Rainbow Rising]

While the tragedies of Sept. 11 quite justifiably cause us -- and many people around the world -- great pain, we cannot forget that they were carried out by human beings

Tragedies? Hey, Bruce, how about "atrocities" or "terrorist attacks" or "mass murders"? Good grief. This self-righteous little prig can't even bring himself to use the proper words to describe what happened on that awful day. He pays lip service to our pain by using a word that doesn't illustrate the evil that took so many lives. "Tragedies" has a nice, non-judgmental ring to it. Heaven forbid we should pass judgment on Bin Laden and his cohorts.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Tragedies? Hey, Bruce, how about "atrocities" or "terrorist attacks" or "mass murders"?

Let's face it: this scum bag probably had to force himself to even use the word "tragedies." It is fairly clear he viewed the attacks as justifiable. It wouldn't surprise me if he wasn't secretly a little HAPPY they happened, in a "See, I told you so" sort of way.

[Rainbow Rising]

I think you may be right. I'll bet this little puke was one of those morally superior types who went around saying, "Oh, we mustn't retaliate -- if we do we'll be no better than they are, and then they'll win!"

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I'll bet this little puke was one of the morally superior types saying "we musn't retaliate..."

Or, worse yet, saying that "America was finally paying the price for being a rouge state."

[Atticus]

Here is a letter you won't see in the Ithaca Journal:

[The Ithaca Journal] published a political cartoon on April 12 depicting a scientist in a "military lab" examining a test tube saying, "There's no sign of human DNA in this sample," and next to him an officer on the phone declaring, "We may have found Newt Gingrich."

This cartoon is inappropriate and offensive. Too many times have certain groups declared their enemies to be non-human. This serves no cause but that of barbarism. We cannot ignore the real social processes behind our enemies' actions, as well as our own. Any activities carried out by Republicans are those of a human being, acting in a world created by humans, including us.

While the tragedies of global warming and racial profiling quite justifiably cause us -- and many people around the world -- great pain, we cannot forget that they were carried out by human beings, and as such we cannot distance ourselves from them as much as we might like, since we are also human. Cartoons such as this serve only to create a climate of misunderstanding and hate; what we need is peaceful justice and understanding for all members of the human race.