SJP at Berkeley

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Thu Apr 25 12:34:23 PDT 2002


. . . Back in the day when
> I used to getting arrested was central to my political practice
> (WRL trained me as an organizer - it's not their fault I was bad
> at it), the "Gandhi and King took what was coming to them" line
> came out of the mouth of absolutely every half-witted prosecutor.
> Cummins has picked it right up, but there's no reason for us to
> follow him. > Michael McIntyre

Everything I know about Gandhi I learned at the movies, but I would guess that the Mahatma would never go for the line about 'do what I demand or these other dudes will shoot you' either, assuming you are being fair to MLK in this regard.

mbs



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