[Imc-aotearoa-ed] I hate the WTO!

[kieran monaghan]

I agree with finn on this one,
Ive read a lot of dsartens post, and for the most part have been fairly
reliable.
I dont know the story behind this posting of his, about this guys operation,
I support the idea that maybe someone would like to get in touch with him
and get some more info.'its contentious, but I think finn makes a good
point.
kieran
----- Original Message -----
From: "finn c." <finn@animal-liberation.org.nz>
To: <imc-aotearoa-ed@lists.indymedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: [Imc-aotearoa-ed] I hate the WTO!


> I hate the WTO!
> by finn
>
> The WTO is really evil, especially the (ex) Director Mike Moore.   He is
responsible for further developing and implementing neo-liberal economic
policy, which is seen by leftists around the world as a naaaaaaaasty way of
making the rich richer, and screwing everybody else.
>
> I can't believe that NZer's are letting him get a hip replacement in this
country, after the way his right-wing buddies have screwed our health
system. They must be stupid or something.
>
> --
>
> Now we wouldn't hide that would we? I hope not anyway ;-)
>
> > I felt it should be hidden because:
> >
> > *    it openly identifies a person (Arnost Wratislaw) and then suggests
> > he should not receive a hip replacement operation.
>
> I see no problem with this. I would see a problem if the story is bs - but
I haven't seen any evidence of that. It doesn't send a good message to our
publishers if we assume that they are lying by default eh?
>
> > *    It accuses the person of developing agent orange (generally
> > accepted as a naaaaaaasty chemical agent) used horribly by the `Allies'
> > against the Vietnamese, and it associates him with the Nazi's
> > (indirectly - through the grammar ``this is a disaster because this man
> > came here after wwii and developed the crap hitler was using on the jews
> > into agent orange'')
>
> Maybe he did . . . I don't know. See above ;-)
>
> > *    it contains several generic insults to NZers for no particular
> > reason, ``new zealanders dont give a damn'', ``would in fact much
rather have
> > nazi war criminals being operated on than a sick nz kid'',
> > ``as disgustingly greedy as kiwis are'', etc.
>
> Yeah, but thats an opinion. Maybe if it was a whole article about how
nzer's suck it would be different. I hardly feel insulted by the comment,
but maybe thats cause I'm half-british :-)
>
> > Sorry for the misleading reason given before - `violence' is not really
> > the issue here, rather , it is unjustified slander of a person and
> > people (Kiwi's). Depends on what standard we set for the site I guess, I
> > seem to be more conservative than others on this score in that I feel
> > our readers will turn off the site if we let it descend into posts with
> > personal abuse too much.
>
> Yup, my concern is that if we take this off then we should be taking
articles like my luverly piece off too. That would suck.
>
> finn
>
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