--- Harriet wrote:
I can understand if no one feels like having the Blake-at-Star-One thing just now, but it did make me pause to think about why McVeigh feels wrong and Blake mostly right. Real dead people instead of fictional ones? The photo of the small child being carried out of the building? The fact that, even at my most jaundiced, I don't quite put any part of American government on a par with the Federation? Or just that McVeigh is at the furthest part of the political spectrum from me? --
Your last two sentences pretty much answer the question for me. The USA is a democracy, therefore constitutional mechanisms exist to change things without recourse to violence. This is not the case where the Federation is concerned. McVeigh's political loyalties lie with the authoritarian right which is different to Blake's belief that each planet should have self-government.
I realise that Blake's actions in Star One are controversial. However, whatever one's views on Star One, I think it is clear that Blake and McVeigh are politically, and therefore morally quite different.
All of the above is just my opinion and no offence is intended.
Stephen.
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