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Evil Empire – Innocent Citizens

Maruthaiyan | 23.09.2001 15:59

Author is the Editor of Puthiya Kalacharam – a Marxist-Leninist cultural magazine published in the language Tamil, from Tamil Nadu, South India, India

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Evil Empire - Implicated Citizens

24.09.2001 14:06


That 'illiterate peasanrs' are more politically savy than educated American citizens says a lot about American 'civilisation' especially when you take into account the technology they have available to spread information. The current technology is a tool the control of which is held by a few. we in the UK were shown images of Yasser Arrafat giving blood in solidarity with the suffering of innocents but this image was not broadcast by any American network. I live in a culture where 1 in 10 young men kill themselves. They don't do this because they don't get the women or because they don't fit in they do it because they are continually made to feel bad about both those facts. As a 'drug using hippy scumbag' I am proud not to be a part of the culture where this happens and only too happy to pass along the title of public enemy number one onto this years winner. Thank you terrorists everywhere, maybe now I can smoke a spliff in peace. Evil empire - implicated citizen

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25.09.2001 10:09

Just ignoring the main article for a moment, I must correct a major mistake in hairyscotsman's comment. Assuming that you are from Scotland, the last available figures show that 500 young Scots men (aged 16 to 45) committted suicide in 1999 - a rate of 34 per 100,000, which is a fraction of the 1-in-10 rate that you quote. Admittedly, this is more than double the English rate of 16 per 100,000.

Paul Edwards