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Caligula and the Vortex
The Blog from the Core has been noticed twice lately at Catholic and Enjoying It!
I'm sticking by my original blog on Gerry Powers' remarks. Except that I should make it more tentative, since I notice that the "Caligula" reference is not a quotation. And, as I have already said, we only have very brief quotations from a speech, and they may not accurately convey Powers' ideas — though I still fear the news article does convey them accurately. And I think "Let them hate us if they will" is not a characterization but a misrepresentation.
I don't know about any of the other bloggers, but I have no quarrel with Powers' calling this a strategy of fear. I have a problem with him objecting to it because it's a strategy of fear. And that does seem to be what he was doing.
Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 05/09/03 04:01:08 PM
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