Defacing Websites, "Stealing" Free Papers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>>>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Why, then, scold Brown students of color
>>>>  for taking & destroying *free* student papers,
>>>
>>>Because it's bad strategy. Where is it written that revolutionaries never
>>>make mistakes and don't need to learn? Do we somehow have a monopoly on
>>>perfection or something?
>>>
>>>-- Dennis [R.]
>>
>>That's what some LBO-talkers say.  Why should their opinion matter 
>>more than those of the Brown student activists of color? 
>>Especially given that some here think that students of color who 
>>object to the _Daily Herald_ taking racist dollars should just 
>>"quit school" & "get a working-class job"?  Why should the students 
>>of color listen to you, Dennis P., etc.?  I
>
>Because he is intelligent and has good judgment? Because in America 
>the side that is successfully caricatured as being against "free 
>speech" loses the argument? And unless the "students of color" 
>listen to Dennis P., they are going to spend a lot of time running 
>around kicking the ball into their own goal?
>
>Brad DeLong

By one of your standards, fundamentalists should be shrinking in the 
absolute number & proportion, and free-thinkers should be growing 
rapidly.  Perhaps you are right after all, though.  Maybe Gore & Co. 
lost because he didn't respect free speech of Nader, Greens, and 
their supporters, & the Democrats' lack of respect for political free 
speech was obvious to too many.  Or perhaps Bush won on the strength 
of his immunity from caricatures.  :-)

Yoshie