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Sarah Towle's avatar

The lines crossed really do delineate "the distance between Washington’s abstractions and the human wreckage they permit," Pablo. Well stated! What the public really doesn't understand, however, is that those lines have been crossed for years and under all administrations. ICE has been crossing the line since its inception, which is why I entitled my book Crossing the Line. I'm out on tour with the book now and coming to DC in early November. I'd love to meet you and gift you a copy. Meantime, if anyone reading this wishes to purchase a copy, be sure to ask your bookseller for the second or "revised" edition. We gotta grow this movement!

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Pablo Manríquez's avatar

Thanks, Sarah!

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Sean Griobhtha's avatar

"Various contemporary philosophers, including Peter French, Larry May, and Marion Smiley, have extensively mapped the terrain of collective responsibility... In summary, while collective moral responsibility is deeply contested, there is robust philosophical precedent for holding collectives—especially those structured as voluntary political communities like democracies—jointly accountable for consequences of collective action.

"2.2. The Revisionist Critique and Griobhtha’s Alignment

"However, this clear dichotomy has increasingly been challenged. Revisionist philosophers, notably Jeff McMahan, argue that noncompliance, complicity, and support for unjust wars makes populations—particularly democratically-empowered citizens—at least partially responsible for their governments’ crimes.

"As articulated in major philosophical literature:

“In modern industrialized countries, as much as 25 percent of the population works in war-related industries... we support and sustain the soldiers who do the fighting; we pay our taxes and in democracies we vote, providing the economic and political resources without which war would be impossible. Noncombatants’ contributions to the state’s capacity over time give it the strength and support to concentrate on war. If the state’s war is unjust, then many noncombatants are responsible for contributing to wrongful threats. They are therefore permissible targets.”

"Griobhtha’s work forcefully echoes and radicalizes this revisionist line. His argument, rendered through both philosophical analysis and searing personal narrative, asserts that by “accepting propaganda, failing to dissent, and by enjoying the fruits of militarist foreign policy”—from security to economic prosperity—citizens construct the moral architecture that enables atrocity. This is especially damning in systems where deliberative democracy is presumed. Griobhtha insists that citizen actions, such as Israelis shouting and holding up signs stating “Kill them all!”, and proclamations for genocide by politicians (whatever their country), destroys the JWT premise of “non-combatant immunity” for those persons."

https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/complicit-across-the-rubicon-the

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Christie's avatar

"The most threatening thing I've seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland." How is he saying this with a straight face?

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Pablo Manríquez's avatar

fr, couldn't agree more

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Terry Baucom's avatar

The GOP LIVES IN A FAIRY LAND FOR THE BLIND! They are in touch with reality!

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Ms.JP's avatar

He is a profascist oath betraying, pedophile enabler,who is scared of people who love America. He is also a weasel.

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