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To: Byron_the_Aussie
I've read through this whole thread and there is some terribly loose thinking and name-calling.

There is much talk about those who "advocate the desecration of the dead". I'm not one of them. There is, however, a middle category. Those who don't advocate it but understand it, or the emotions that can lead to it. I'm one of those. Many of those who are arguing Perry's corner are being categorized as "advocates". They're not, although some are.

Let me give you an example. Jihad Johnny turns up in your neighborhood. He rapes, mutilates and slaughters your own wife and children and those of your next door neighbor and leaves your respective houses a river of blood. Not the Americans' on the other side of the Pacific. Yours. Your neighbor arrives home and shoots him dead.

You, being respectful of the dead, refrain from touching the lifeless corpse. Your neighbor, on the other hand, takes an axe and lops off the head of the dead Jihadi.

You, while not advocating defilement of the dead, will, fully understand your neighbor's action, I think. Will you condemn it in the same self-righteous tones you reserve for Perry, even as you survey the remains of your family?

This was the action of a solitary man from all accounts, if indeed it did occur. It does mean that western civilization is approaching the inhuman nadir of the Islamic terrorists. A sense of proportion is lacking in this debate.

385 posted on 02/11/2003 3:05:03 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow; Luis Gonzalez; Byron_the_Aussie
There is much talk about those who "advocate the desecration of the dead". I'm not one of them. There is, however, a middle category. Those who don't advocate it but understand it, or the emotions that can lead to it.

Please replace "desecration of the dead" with "Islamofascist terrorism" and see if you can still utter those two sentences with a straight face.

386 posted on 02/11/2003 3:07:23 PM PST by Poohbah (Beware the fury of a patient man -- John Dryden)
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To: marshmallow
...let me give you an example....

Your example is contrived, so tortuous, so irrelevant, that all it shows is what contortions the pro-Perry camp have to put themselves through, in their attempt to justify his actions.

What is really happening on this thread is that people with no morality and no honour think what Perry did is OK.

387 posted on 02/11/2003 3:14:31 PM PST by Byron_the_Aussie
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