Wen Ho Lee Support

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Dec 20 13:31:31 PST 1999


Jeffrey St. Clair wrote:


>But, Doug, you said in a excited post shortly after returning from Seattle
>that you had nothing but unequivocal praise for Dolan and the other
>Naderites' performance in Seattle.

Here's what I said:


>Despite my various ideological criticisms of Ralph Nader, I've got
>to say that his people - notably his chief organizer on the scene,
>Mike Dolan, and the person who sent him there, Citizens Trade Watch
>director Lori Wallach - were absolutely crucial to making the Battle
>in Seattle possible. For that, they deserve vast heaps of admiration
>and gratitude.

I still have plenty of criticisms of Nader & Co. I thought that since I'd been hard on him/them <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Nader.html>, I should give credit where it's due.


>If you don't see
>the connection between the WTO issue, Wen Ho Lee and the campaign
>finance"scandal", you haven't spent enough time listening to the Naderites
>on talk radio shows such as Chuck Harder.

No, you're right, I don't listen to those shows. Your co-author is a regular on them, though, isn't he?

I think it's ugly shit. I want no part of it. Can I be any more unequivocal?

Doug



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