Thursday, March 03, 2005
Capturer of Eichmann has died
The man who captured Adolf Eichmann in 1960 has died, according to an obit in today's NYT. The paragraph that really struck me as being relevant to those "little Eichmanns" of 9-11 is this:
"On May 11, Eichmann alighted from the bus and walked toward his house on Garibaldi Street. Mr. Malkin [Peter Zvi Malkin, the man who just passed away] approached him and uttered the only words of Spanish he knew, 'Un momentito, Senor.' He grabbed Eichmann's arm. As he told the New York Times in 2003, he wore gloves so he would not have to touch the man." Emphasis mine.
By Ward Churchill's reasoning, then, I would need to don a pair of gloves when touching one of the bond traders in the Towers or--since his original essay made absolutely no distinction whatsoever--one of the waiters at Windows on the World, in order to insulate myself from their insidious evil.
"On May 11, Eichmann alighted from the bus and walked toward his house on Garibaldi Street. Mr. Malkin [Peter Zvi Malkin, the man who just passed away] approached him and uttered the only words of Spanish he knew, 'Un momentito, Senor.' He grabbed Eichmann's arm. As he told the New York Times in 2003, he wore gloves so he would not have to touch the man." Emphasis mine.
By Ward Churchill's reasoning, then, I would need to don a pair of gloves when touching one of the bond traders in the Towers or--since his original essay made absolutely no distinction whatsoever--one of the waiters at Windows on the World, in order to insulate myself from their insidious evil.
