Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 09:47:35 -0400
From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <bradmcc-AT-cloud9.net>
Subject: Re: Fw: [COMMUNISM LIST]Fwd: Who is Ousmane Bin Laden?


Karl Carlile wrote:
> 
> hi list members...
> 
> the following paper may provide leads for anyone
> seeking to find out who is really behind the Sept. 11.
> attacks.
> pls circulate it widely, also to all govt officials in
> US/EU and elsewhere...
> 
> regards
> 
> ryan
> 
> Regards
> Karl Carlile
> Be free to join our communism mailing list
> at http://homepage.eircom.net/~kampf/
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> WHO IS OUSMANE BIN LADEN?
> 
> by Michel Chossudovsky
> 
> Professor of Economics,
> University of Ottawa
> 
> Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) at
> http:/globalresearch.ca.
> The  url of this article is
> http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
> Posted 12 September 2001
> 
> A few hours after the terrorist attacks on the World
> Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Bush administration
> concluded without supporting evidence, that "Ousmane
> bin Laden and his al-Qaeda organisation were prime
> suspects".
[snip]

I am always amazed at the infinite love the poor can
have for the rich.  Bin Laden, like Mother Theresa in
a different ideological direction (or John F Kennedy or Gandhi
in yet other directions...), is ontologically
incapable of being poor, like the planets in
Aristelean cosmology are incapable of
corruption.  These people have the
ontological potential to participate in a mode of being the poor
can never experience: "voluntary poverty" (i.e., owning nothing
but having other persons' limousines at one's disposal).

It is obviously not my place to try to deprive the
wretched of the earth of their possible
messiahs.  If I was a dispossessed [fill in the blank],
I might indeed be overjoyed at Mr. Bin Laden
funding some of my fellows to kill themselves in
in blowing up the nerve center of global
capitalism instead of rotting in the gutter. 

But I also think that Western
intellectuals should have some interest
in deconstructing these rich people who
find personal satisfaction in vicarious good deeds --
or even, like Socrates or St. Augustine, subjecting
themselves to real suffering *after* having their fill
the goods of this world.

+\brad mccormick

-- 
  Let your light so shine before men, 
              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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