shot him in the head after taking him captive; his relatives were mocked on the floor of the Senate and many soi-disant liberal gatekeepers like TNR denounced him as aiding totalitarianism: he'd been working on vaccines and small dams

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Linder

I didn't know about that ....... how sad for him and his family. He sounds like he was a truly good man.

and we'll bomb your palace/send a bodybuilder who sounds like Kissinger" movies, nor did the 1988 Honduran Embassy fire spark any "we HAD to open fire because even the 9-year-olds want us dead for no reason other than being inscrutable Mahometans" movies

The "combat activities exception", eh?

Incidentally, the court upheld the appeal by the corries against the removal of her organs by the Israeli chief pathologist. That will go back to the lower courts for determination.

I appreciate learning more about all of this. I wasn't even aware Hiss had actually kept some of her organs. Horrible!

apparently:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Hiss

I actually had a thread on DU about Hiss memory-holed (not just locked, but deleted, vamooshed, all gone). It was to do with Hiss and the fact that he may have taken bits of Corrie. Apparently calling an Israeli a body snatcher gave them a touch of the vapours, even if it happened to be true.

But sure .......... it must be just all rumour.

removal of pituitary glands, for instance, was once very commonplace:-

http://www.oocities.org/newcannibals/Ch19TrustingYourHospital.html

I suppose the thing that annoyed me was that the theft of organs was an outrageous accusation, a blood libel, a despicable and perfidious deed, right up until the point that it was proven true. Then the same people who had shrilled about how bad it was suddenly about-faced and said it was no big deal, other people do it, etc...

It would be good to refer back to the thread in question, but as I mentioned, it was memory-holed.

disgusting. Sorry about your thread, I would have loved to have seen it.