QUEBEC CRACKPOTS

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net>
>. . .
>In retrospect, it's an interesting thought exercise to figure out what
>would have happened if the current crop of anti-capitalists activists
>had planned the resistance. Perhaps a clash with the cops at Andrews Air
>Force base several weeks after the war started? Sabotage of military
>hardware? Destruction of recruiting offices?
>
>For an anti-war movement with veterans from the 1960s, they sure forgot
>what happened back then.
><< Chuck0 >>
>
>Hey Chuckles, I haven't forgotten, and the fact is none
>of that shit mattered....  What mattered was SDS (and later
>YSA, CP-USA, etc.) mobilizing
>college students, SNCC/SCLC mobilizing African-Americans,
>The best example of what
>you're fantasizing about was the Days of Rage/Weatherpeople
>thang in Chicago, and that probably hurt more than helped.
>
>max

Whoa there, MBS.  Let's go to the videotape:  "This is John Chancellor 
reporting, somewhere in custody." ... Footage of Dan Rather getting decked 
by one of Mayor Daley's henchmen. ... Daley on-camera saying, "The police 
are not here to create disorder. The police are here to preserve disorder." 
... and of course:  "The whole world is watching."

And, yes, the whole world *was* watching.  For one stroboscopically 
illuminated moment in 1968, in those and many other scenes the City of Broad 
Shoulders and Peanut-sized Brains showed the entire globe what a crock of 
crap U.S. democracy basically is.  That's worth something.

Carl
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