From: "George The Giver" <g_petros-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: a review of mike moore's _Fahrenheit 9/11_
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:49:50 +0000



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>I think it is fair to assume that in the charged post-9/11 atmosphere in 
>the US, anyone with the family name Bin Laden, or a spelling variation 
>thereof, would have been fair game for a lynchmob. Did theUS 
>Administration, in that case, act wisely, in allowing bin Laden's estranged 
>kith and kin to leave the US as soon as practical, so that they wouldn't be 
>subject ot vigilante violence? Surely it is not Moore's contention that 
>anyone with the name bin Laden, or a variation thereof, should be beaten up 
>by mobs, merely because they share the same name as Osama's?
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Surely you're not implying that the US administration did what it did for 
humanitarian reasons? Would the Bin Laden's had gotten the special treatment 
if the they didn't have the special connections? There were many poor folks 
who were lynched, imprisoned and killed without even having a similar name 
but merely because they looked "different." I think that is Moore's point.

george

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