Robert Higgs
Imagine for a moment the tables are turned
Thu Jul 3 23:22:51 2003
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What would you do if Iraqi soldiers "liberated" the United States?

Defense Of Your Home Is Not Terrorism, Even In Iraq
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030702Higgs.html


"Americans puzzled by why conditions won't settle down in Iraq seem mesmerized by official U.S. propaganda depicting the conquest and occupation of the country as a “liberation.” To solve this puzzle, we need only to turn the situation around in our own minds. Imagine that the Iraqi army now controls your town. Imagine that from time to time for no apparent reason, they burst into homes, kicking, clubbing, and shooting the occupants and hauling some off as captives to unknown destinations for unknown reasons. Imagine that the Iraqis passing by your home train their tank cannons on it, that the Iraqis on the streets aim their automatic rifles at you and your children as you go about your shopping. Imagine that from time to time they shoot a 12-year-old child foolish enough to peer at them at the wrong time in the wrong place. Imagine that when you and your neighbors peacefully protest their actions, they sometimes fire wildly into the crowd of demonstrators and the adjacent buildings. Think about all these sorts of horrors, which now compose day-to-day life for the Iraqi people, and put yourself in their place.

Then ask yourself: when you choose to fight back against the foreigners' brutal occupation of your country, your city, and your neighborhood, to resist the desecration of your place of worship, to seek revenge for the arbitrary slaughter of your loved ones, does anyone have the right to call you a terrorist?"


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The Bible says: If it be possible, as much as it lieth in you, live peacably with all men.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengence is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.

Therfore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him a drink: for in doing so thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:18-21


Phony Christian Bush says: "bring em' on".

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