[Peace-discuss] Peace-discuss Digest, Vol 95, Issue 20

Tue Dec 13 21:39:15 CST 2011

cute.

Though a few of the jokes I kind of missed. Like:
kedesophobes? My dictionary fails me on this one

Riding down birches, as in Robert Frost's poem?

-karen medina

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:
> I am not in favour of such senseless acts of violence.
> (I am not sure that I am totally against "sensible" acts of violence...,
> such as riding down birches, or tearing down walls.)
>
> Xenophobia is not necessarily a mental illness but it is irrational.
> All phobias are irrational.
> (There might, paradoxically, be a place for Zeno-phobia if one is so moved.)
>
> For every one that "goes postal" and acts on impulses there are likely
> hundreds who do
> not spring into action.
>
> The tendency for people to form tribes, ethnic groups, cliques, and sects
> (sectarian and non-sectarian)
> seems to be common/natural/comfortable.  I don't believe that such behaviour
> is
> going to be stopped by passing a law against it or calling it a "hate
> crime".
>
> There are lots of people in the usa who dont like "furners".
> Rural America is practically characterized by such thinking but not such
> action.
> Are they criminals?  Are they not accomplices to "hate crimes"?
>
> Is it a hate crime to hate those who commit hate crimes?
> Is it a hate crime to incarcerate "hate criminals"?
> Just because they're "different"?
>
> Should diversity extend to xenophobes the same as it does to the
> kedesophobes?
>
> *
> ... love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
> gentleness, and self–control. There is no law against these things!
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 12/13/2011 10:59 PM, Karen Medina wrote:
>
> Hi Jesse,
>
> A vigil against hate crimes would be a good thing.
>
> This particular incident is more likely a case of severe mental
> illness. I'd be happy to support campaigns to deal with mental
> illnesses and for Illinois to raise taxes for this issue.
>
> We do need to awaken campaigns of cross-cultural education, against
> xenophobia, and joint programs with other groups. But not in
> particular to take on this case.
>
> -karen medina
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Jesse Phillippe <japhillippe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> What about doing an action targeting this hate crime? Is anyone interested
> in doing that or have any ideas about what to do?  We could contact student
> groups, CAIR, the Indian Student Association (I'm presuming he was Indian.),
> the Occupy group, etc...
>
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>   1. I looked up the stabbing victim's faculty bio (Karen Medina)
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> Subject: [Peace-discuss] I looked up the stabbing victim's faculty bio
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> [ I looked up the recent alleged hate-crime/stabbing victim's faculty
> bio and thought I would share, simply because the news stories are all
> saying the victim was non-white. I've included a history of his
> education (Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley and M.Ec.
> University of Western Australia), recent work (2009 to present at the
> U of I; University of Connecticut before that), and a photo. On a
> separate line of thought, I am wondering if the alleged attacker has a
> history of mental illness. -karen medina ]
>
> === a re-ordering of the news stories so that they make more sense to
> me at least ===
> A witness told police that the men (the attacker and the victim) were
> both seated in the waiting area for the train in the Champaign
> transportation terminal second floor when one man, a 23-year-old from
> Fithian Illinois -- Joshua Scaggs, suddenly jumped up and shouted that
> this was his country and he attacked the other man, Anurudha Udeni
> Dhammika Dharmapala -- a 41-year-old law professor at the University
> of Illinois who was waiting for the train to Chicago.
>
> Scaggs appeared to be choking Dharmapala as he then forced the victim
> to the floor. But as the witness pulled them apart, the witness
> noticed that the attacker was holding a utility knife and the victim
> was bleeding. Dharmapala sustained about a six-inch cut on his throat
> which bled profusely. Police also found another folding knife in
> Scaggs' pocket.
>
> Although police arrested Scaggs for the offense of hate crime,
> Assistant State's Attorney Steve Ziegler opted not to file it because
> the other charges carry heavier penalties and he's confident he can
> prove the aggravated battery based on the information he has. The
> Champaign County state's attorney's office has filed three felony
> charges against Scaggs. Evidently the charges are two charges of
> aggravated battery and an attempted murder charge. The attempted
> murder charge is a Class X felony carrying a mandatory prison sentence
> of between 6 and 30 years.
> ====== bio =====
> Dhammika Dharmapala
> Professor
>
> Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley
> M.Ec. University of Western Australia
>
>
> Dhammika Dharmapala joined the Illinois faculty in the fall of 2009
> from the University of Connecticut Department of Economics. Professor
> Dharmapala is an authority in tax policy, public economics, law and
> economics, and political economics. He recently co-authored the
> article, "Taxing the Bandit Kings" in the Yale Law Journal Pocket
> Part. He was recently named to the National Tax Association board of
> directors.
>
> Professor Dharmapala earned his master's degree in economics from the
> University of Western Australia and his Ph.D. in economics from the
> University of California-Berkeley. He served as an international
> research fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
> and a visiting professor of business economics and public policy at
> the University of Michigan.
>
> Prior to arriving at Connecticut in 2002, Professor Dharmapala was a
> postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a John M. Olin Visiting
> Fellow in Law and Economics at Georgetown University Law School. He
> serves on the editorial board of the Review of Law and Economics.
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