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To: Lane3 who wrote (31462)	2/26/2004 4:14:06 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793708

Karen, In another genetic study of East European Jewry, ala "Fiddler on the Roof", suggests that these people who were not Semitic at all but rather Eurasian converts to Judaism. It isn't clear when this happened, but maybe during the 4th to 5th century AD. People are so funny. Persecution is persecution, and, to me, it really doesn't matter why people choose to persecute but that they persecute at all. The spousal unit and I were discussing this last night. I said there seems to be a "melanin correlation coefficient" about how upset people get when there is persecution. In the Democratic Republic of Nigeria, it appears that 4 of the 5 groups of "rebels" are now joining the new government. The 5th, lead by one "Chinja Chinja" (translation: "the Ripper") is a voodoo warrior, draining his victims blood and consuming their genitals. Thousands (many more thousands than 9/11) are dying there yet there is not a word about us ridding the world of this "evil dictator", which for his dominion, he certainly is. Chinja Chinja is certainly as evil as Saddam Hussein, and probably more so than Idi Amin, whom we also left alone while he clogged the Aswan Dam with the bodies of his victims. The cry for establishing democracy in unstable regions, vis-a-vis Iraq, for example, seems intimately tied to the resources and the skin color they have and not in any way the cruelty of the leader. To say otherwise is to be disingenuous. But that never stopped anyone from holding an asinine or ill-informed opinion. Whether Israel bulldozes Palestinian grannies or Chinja Chinja eats the genitalia of his victims, the result is the same. People die a gruesome and slow death and the world stands by and does nothing. I'm not sure we can do much but we certainly have influence with Israel (or we used to) and maybe they can start acting like the "only democracy in the Middle East" as they have been called. I think they are no more or less a democracy than is Turkey. That doesn't stop the civil rights violations though. There is considerable evidence that U.S. companies out of Florida were shipping cyanide precursors to Iraq with the government and Rumsfeld's blessing through the late 1980's. We don't hear much about that now, do we? CF