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

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OK. Can someone else get in touch? I'm somewhat busy and out of the country so 
only able to check email now and again.
Ken

> 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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