[Buddha-l] Re: Buddhism and blasphemy

[Jim Peavler]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 8:25 AM, Benito Carral wrote:
>
>    It  all  depends  on  the kind of joke. But when the
> laugh   is   always   at   the   expense  of  the  same
> underrepresented  group,  I  don't  tend  to  join  the
> chorus.

Underrepresented? You are talking about the most powerful political  
organization (or any other kind of organization) in the world, fer  
crissake!!

They completely control the government of the US of A -- Congress,  
the Senate, the Executive Branch, the Justice Department, the  
Department of Energy, the euphemistically named Department of  
Defense, the Supreme Court, the oil industry, and on and on. They  
have defied every international organization  or movement from the  
Kyoto Accord to the Geneva Convention. They have told Europe, the  
Middle East, the United Nations, Africa, etc. etc. to go to hell and  
bombed the hell out of a couple of sovereign nations unprovoked and  
killed tens of thousands of people who couldn't have hurt this  
country seriously if they really wanted to (excepting the handful of  
criminals who HAVE hurt the US, but we aren't doing very well at  
rounding them up. Even the 11 we managed to catch and put in jail in  
Yemen escaped last week and are at large again.)

But, all humankind deserves our compassion, and it is exemplary that  
you have compassion (as do I) for the poor miserable Republicans who  
have been so seriously wounded by some few miscreants on Buddha-l!

Ah, but, I blaspheme!