Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[J Rivas-Pita <juliorivas AT gmail.com>]

Dear Aaron,

Kindly have a look at the following and then decide who might be kidding:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez.1534/index.html

plus

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1531742,00.html?gusrc=rss

My very personal view is that we are rushing into chaos with
fundamentalists of all sorts ruling this poor planet. Somehow I'm
reminded of Orwell's "1984" and Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", not to
mention Doris Lessing's "Shikasta" -all of which bear a re-reading in
the light of what's going on everywhere...

Best wishes,

Julio

PS. Again, as some of you very well know, I'm not precisely a fan of
Mr. Chávez -but that doesn't mean I'm very tranquil or happy with the
likes of Mr. Bush, Mr. Rumsfeld or the pious Mr. Robertson.

On 8/24/05, Aaron Keith Harris <bluegrassboy913 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> You're kidding, right?
> 
> --- J Rivas-Pita <juliorivas AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > In a quite Percy-vein, let me ask those of you
> > (the majority, I
> > suppose) who live in the U.S.: Do you realize
> > that you may be living
> > in a terrorist superpower, by now?
> >
> > Not only in the sense that Mr. Bush, à la
> > Hitler, invades countries
> > using fake arguments, but also in that people
> > like this
> > "televangelist" Pat Robertson -who clearly
> > belongs into some nuts
> > asylum- can get away with TV appeals to
> > assassinate Venezuela's
> > President without even blushing, saying that
> > Venezuelans supossedly
> > are within U.S.'s "sphere of influence"?
> >
> > And all Mr. Rumsfeld and the State Department
> > can say is that
> > Robertson is "a private citizen" entitled to
> > his views... Owning a
> > large fundamentalist "Christian" TV network
> > that reaches a vast
> > audience, by the way (which both Rumsfeld and
> > the State Department
> > conveniently forgot).
> >
> > What would you say, for instance, if someone
> > here in Caracas ventured
> > a similar proposal to "take out" Mr. Bush
> > -assuredly a far greater
> > risk for all of us than President Chávez, if
> > only because he has
> > control over thousands of nuclear warheads?
> >
> > With all best wishes,
> >
> > Julio
> >
> > PS. Not a Chávez fan, by the way...
> >
> > --
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> >
> 
> 
> Aaron Harris
> 
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