Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
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Do you realize how few Texans would ever have bothered with any of the stuff Horkheimer and Adorno cranked out? Much less internalized it for motivation/life goal purposes?

Louis is asserting that the intellectual zeitgeist that made such movements possible is so far from the US experience -- especially as crystalized in that little slice of Heaven between the Rio Grande and the Red River -- that it would be unthinkable for it to have occurred there. Remember, about the best we managed on those lines was the Simbionese Liberation Army, and they were little more than bank robbers with a Che Guevera sense of fashion.

By the way, I thought Texas was averaging 8-10 years from sentencing to execution, whereas your post implied about 3-4 years.
I understand that a leftist revo group would never take root here. I was just trying to highlight the criminal justice system not so much his revo tendencies. Nine innocents is nine innocents.

I also agree that Europe has followed a very different path. I have no idea what the Simbionese liberation Army is. Im from a different generation!

Now I'm simply trying to find out what this RAF really was.


The TDCJ is a clusterintercourse. The average is ten years however we have a system that speeds you up the more heinous your crime (ever hear the Ron White quote?) So I'd imagine a communist who killed nine people in the public eye may break the record (8 months)