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To: Eleutheria5
"There you had a saturation campaign by the media of a fraudulent video...."

And this is different how? You do realize those that are doing the "clamoring" have their minds made up. They seek only CONFIRMATION not INFORMATION. No amount of retraction or clarification will get through to their closed minds. There is only one suitable result. Even then, there's no guarantee there wont be any celebratory looting.

180 posted on 04/10/2012 3:10:22 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: moehoward

The clamorers are not the ones you need to focus on. They’ll never go away, never change their minds. I met a bunch of them once in Crown Heights, and am happy to still be alive. But they can’t act all by themselves. The majority of any riot, pogrom or lynch mob is always made up of ordinary people who are angered at some alleged heinous act, and the clamorers are always there to push them a little further and a little further, until finally they become an angry, faceless mass with no conscience. If you detach them from the clamorers, have them sit down and watch the progress of the court proceedings, weigh the evidence themselves, they just might decide to stay home, to go home, to calm down and think.

An old friend and employer of mine, a female lawyer of the Chassidic persuasion, once was part of a press conference shortly after the events in Crown Heights. It was made up exclusively of Chassidic Crown Heights residents whose loved ones had been killed in car accidents, as her own father was.

She was speaking of that event when a large band of people, freshly egged on by the clamorers after the grand jury refused to indict Joseph Lifsh. They were all hot to confront her, and she managed to talk them down and disperse them with nothing but words and a bit of courage. I wasn’t there, but she told me about it later.


181 posted on 04/10/2012 4:01:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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