Note to the "ladder of force left"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 22 07:16:58 PDT 2001


ravi wrote:


>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>>Lou Paulsen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On this list there seems to be a relatively high proportion of people whom,
>>>>in relation to this war, I would classify as belonging to the "ladder of
>>>>force left".
>>>
>>>
>>>A bunch of people that have demonstrated themselves capable of
>>>stunning acts of violence have resolved to kill lots of Americans.
>>>That would include you, Yoshie, Carrol, even Lou Proyect. There's
>>>no class warrior exemption (actually they don't like Communists
>>>very much, so American Communists are doubly doomed). Does this
>>>bother you at all? Or are you willing to take a spore for the
>>>anti-empire?
>>
>>I've been mugged by a black man, but I'm against the "war on
>>crimes," racial profiling, etc.

That's not a very good analogy. Street crimes have social causes, but they're individual acts. There's no organized group of muggers issuing threats of mass murder.


>i think that may be the point that doug or others
>raise. there are some people who are going to target you (and
>doug, i am not american, so how do i apply to be excluded? ;-))

If you're here, there's no exemption. Some 2000 of the WTC dead weren't Americans.

Doug



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