Operation Enduring Protest

[Liza Featherstone]

I agree. But for a revolutionary idea to take hold even among a committed
minority, it has to have some visceral appeal. The rightness of the
abolitionist stance was obvious at least to some people at the time, and
they risked and sacrificed their lives for it.  The "Don't Even Bother to
Fight Terrorists, We're All Fucked" program lacks that sort of resonance.

Liza 


> From: Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:52:45 -0700 (PDT)
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: Re: Operation Enduring Protest
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
>> Carrol Cox wrote:
>> 
>>> Sigh!
>>> 
>>> And Featherstone avoids the thorny question of _Is it possible to fight
>>> terrorism?_
>>> 
>>> The question is wrong and an evasion of reality.
>> 
>> And which reality is that? Since about 95% of the U.S. public would
>> ask the same question (how to fight terrorism?), aren't you the one
>> who's evading reality?
> 
> Note: by Doug's logic here, an Abolitionist living in the South in
> the early 1800s would be "evading reality".  We can't judge the
> ultimate success of a political viewpoint or strategy by how
> popular it is today.
> 
> Miles
>