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Old 07-27-2005, 06:43 PM   #49 (permalink)
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I think all the discussion of comparison to drugs, or whatever...is all a smokescreen. Either you think this is wrong, or you think it's right. You can make excuses for the state, or you can stand with the victims. Abdicating the idea of justice to whoever holds enough guns to call themselves a government is not a stand of moral responsbility. And Cyn...your comparisons are getting even worse. First Nambla, now drug kingpins? I'm sorry, but your choices in metaphors are really out of order.

Not making human rights violation reports? That's not an issue? I'm going to ask you to explain before i respond. I'm reading this in a very, very negative light, and i'd like to see if i'm wrong to be perceiving it this way. All i'll say is that the US records human rights violations around the world so that in our dialouge with those nations, we can show concern, and attempt to lobby those governments to change. Significant trade pressure, military assistance, diplomatic attention have brought significant results in many parts of the world. Attention to the treatment of Christians in China is a good example. If they are not recorded by the State Dept. they will not be addressed. This is why i think it's critical. It also affirms to people here that the Gov. takes the situation seriously. Why do you think it's not important?

i think it does matter that it's against queers. picking on anyone is wrong. picking on the one who has no one to defend them is all the more terrible in that they never had a chance, and suffer not just the consequence of oppression but do so believing that they have no allies, no person to stand for them against the force of the state.
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