[Gllug] OT: conspiracy re. US Gov. and 911

[Sean Burlington]

Vincent AE Scott wrote:
> David Damerell(damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk)@Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:37:44PM +0100:
> 
>>On Wednesday, 4 Sep 2002, Vincent AE Scott wrote:
>>
>>>a few thousand people slaughtered in a sky scraper is a bad thing, but
>>>thousands of people die every day in the third world.
>>
>>Ah, but they're not American. That's different. No-one cares about a
>>few million dead Vietnamese civilians, either...
> 
> 
> crickey.  is that why?  really?  Surely not.
> 
> so whats the going exchange rate then?  One citizen 'A' for ten thousand
> refugee 'B's ?
> 


a friend of mine is planning to write a paper showing the column inches 
per death realted to the GDP of the dead persons nation

but the results are so obvious it is hardly worth doing the research

Sean


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