“On March 30, a Bolivian miner who was denied a state pension blew himself up in the Bolivian Congress building, leading to the granting of pensions two days later for tens of thousands of Bolivian miners. Why are America's poor so passive?”
-Mark Ames, apparently calling for Americans to become suicide bombers, while reviewing the new David Shipler book in New York Press.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 9, 2004 06:10 PM