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To: Neocon who wrote (126252)	3/15/2004 2:18:46 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Because "its all in the editing", as Arundhati Roy says so well in her essay, The New American Century. When you criticize China for their executions, while ignoring America's enthusiasm for executions, you are selectively choosing which government-organized killing to focus on, and which to ignore. And you do this, very consistently. It is what allows you to think of yourself and your tribe/nation as Good, while supporting the exact same things you criticize Others for doing. Its all in the editing. Oh, I noticed that weasel-word you used, "excessive" (as in, "excessive executions"). Do you know how many Americans have recently been released from death row, because new technologies (especially DNA "finger-printing") proved their innocence?

To: Neocon who wrote (126252)	3/15/2004 4:50:30 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<<I am trying to get my mind around how deploring excessive executions represents hatred for the Other. I would have thought it represented a sympathy for the Chinese people......>> A couple of years ago there were some articles about the executions in China and how they were timed. People who are executed in China become organ donors, the surgical operating/harvesting vans show up for the mass executions. Pistol bullet in the head doesn't always kill them and some are still alert when they start harvesting the organs.