“ Cheerleaders, chants, and beach balls are barbaric responses to the announcement of a political assassination. Political assassination is not an act of justice. It does not bring about justice in some kind of cosmic tit for tat. It is not the doing of justice. Justice is not done when another is killed in retaliation. Retaliation, retribution, revenge—are these now the common terms through which justice is understood in the US? Do we think that victims are avenged when their assailant is killed? The victims are still dead, still gone, still mourned. Are they brought back in the acts of terror, torture, and imprisonment enacted in their name? Are they memorialized daily in airports as we take off our belts and shoes, as we put our hand behind are heads, spread-eagled, and searched, as we are x-rayed and scanned?
The moment ruiner
Lucy
Jack of all trades
Reside in Brooklyn
I am here to burst your bubble.
lucyappleschen[at]gmail[dot]com
Jack of all trades
Reside in Brooklyn
I am here to burst your bubble.
lucyappleschen[at]gmail[dot]com
May 2, 2011 | 1:33