I sympathize with folks who think the Kennedys are wicked capitalists. But rejoicing over their deaths? This kind of thing depresses me. Its a tragedy that they died. Its stupid that the media gives them so much attention and adoration. Its a crime that they are allowed to have so much wealth. But their death is just as tragic as if some average Joe gets run over by a car. I want to expropriate the capitalists and all, but I don't have any desire to see them killed.
Brett
At 10:54 AM 7/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>JFK DEATH A "TRAGIC WASTE" SAY ANARCHIST DISSENTERS
>
>"MUNIR HUSSAIN SOCIETY" FOUNDED IN CRASH AFTERMATH
>
>"NO COMMENT" SAYS JELLO BIAFRA
>
>
>NEW YORK, July 20, 1999 (CP) - An unorthodox controversy is currently
>raging in anarchist and radical circles about the recent plane crash and
>deaths of John Kennedy Jr, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette.
>
>Not suprisingly, many in the radical milieu have mocked the mainstream
>media's "fawning" coverage of the affair. "Get a life!" was the response
>of one leftist caller to the distraught listeners of a popular New York
>City talk-radio show.
>
>A Washington-based anarchist media source announced the missing JFK
>plane story with a headline reading, "Worthless rich person pilots plane
>into
>ocean."
>
>Many self-described "class struggle" anarchists have expressed morbid
>satisfaction in the occupations of the crash victims. They worked,
>respectively, as a former New York City prosecutor, a Calvin Klein PR
>executive and, most appropriately, a Wall Street investment banker and
>venture capitalist.
>
>Other extremists criticized John Kennedy Jr's widely-reported charity
>efforts as the "cleansing of liberal guilt" and "poverty pimping." "If
>you provoke us with yuppie hagiography, we're going to continue to take
>wicked glee in this so-called tragedy," threatened Chicago-based
>radical, Lucy
>Parsons.
>
>The anarchists are blaming "inane commentaries" for their hardline and
>seemingly heartless stance in the face of national and international
>mourning for America's "crown prince". One man keeping vigil at JFK's
>apartment in New York City described John Kennedy Jr as "just a normal
>guy" as he laid flowers at an ad hoc memorial.
>
>This prompted one anonymous bystander to yell, "Ya, a fucking normal guy
>who owns a $300,000 plane and has multi-million dollar trust funds set
>up by his anti-Semitic bootlegging granddaddy and Greek fascist
>capitalist
>pig shipowning stepfather." The heckler was promptly arrested by the
>NYPD, and criticized by some Greenwich Village Ralph Nader-supporters
>for
>"divisive, ideological rhetoric."
>
>North of the border, Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail,
>ran a front-page column which uncritically quotes from Kennedy
>biographer,
>John Collier. He writes of the Kennedys, "There is something riveting
>about people who live and die more dramatically than we do."
>
>The quote caused one Montreal activist to unceremoniously vomit his
>eclectic breakfast of soy milk, bananas, croissants and fresh raspberry
>jam.
>
>Dissenting anarchist opinions, however, are being heard above the
>predictable radical din. Michael Eikhenbaum, a Long Island
>anti-authoritarian, described the crash as a "tragic waste." He
>explains:
>
>"From what I can gather, the plane was six-seater, so the crash was
>really 50% effective from my point-of-view. Using a simple math formula,
>I've
>determined that at least three others could have fit into the plane
>comfortably."
>
>His colleague, Mollie Steimer, agrees: "Too bad they couldn't have flown
>at least a few more annoying Kennedys, or at least one of those pasty
>white Gore kids."
>
>Eikhenbaum and Steimer's sentiments were countered by Paul Bousse,
>another anarchist agitator, "It's all relative really," he said. "I'm an
>optimist, so I like to think the plane was half-full rather than
>half-empty."
>
>Oddly, some Buffalo-based activists have announced the formation of a
>"Munir Hussain Society" in the aftermath of the crash. The society is
>loosely modeled on the secretive "Henri Paul Memorial Society" formed in
>the immediate aftermath of Princess Diana's 1997 death.
>
>Henri Paul was the driver of Diana's limousine, which helps explain the
>society's motto: "Every royal parasite deserves a drunk French
>chauffeur!" Munir Hussain is believed to be the man who sold John
>Kennedy Jr his
>ill-fated plane three months ago. He is not known to be an anarchist.
>
>Meanwhile, Quebec media sources are reporting that the statue bust of
>John F. Kennedy Sr in downtown Montreal has again been defaced with
>graffiti
>reading "Ho, Ho, Ho ... Ho Chi Minh!" It was apparently written by a
>local anti-imperialist with a black marker, an irrational grudge and a
>long memory.
>
>
>Copyright CANADUH PRESS 1999
>
>--
>Chuck0
>
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>Free Leonard Peltier!
>
>"A society is a healthy society only to the degree
>that it exhibits anarchistic traits."
> - Jens Bjørneboe
>
>