Assumptions and Contradictions

Robert Johnson (johnsorl@COLORADO.EDU)
Sat, 11 Mar 1995 05:08:07 -0700

On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, mike salovesh wrote:

> Did you ever
> know anybody personally who was killed by (choose one) guardias
> blancas, government assassins, the Mexican army, PRI-oriented Indians
> or anti-Pri Indians, Ladino ranchers, local caciques and their
> pistoleros, drunken government officials, or Indians dealing with
> other Indians accused of witchcraft?

Mike also wrote

> I am an anthropologist. I worked in Chiapas for years, and stopped
> only when it became too dangerous for me personally to continue.


Seems like a direct contradiction by someone with
so many assumptions.