> Chip Berlet,
> A friend passed on your nasty e-mail attacking me.
> I really don't appreciate having people smear my name.
> Nothing Janet Biehl has to say about me means anything
> except that she has taken quotes out of context and put her
> own meaning to them--as you should well know since you
> have spoken to me in the past.
> You can't "verify" her creatively Stalinist interpretations
> of my perspectives because I don't hold them. There is nothing
> at all in my APR editorial (taken in its entire context rather than
> creatively reinterpreting isolated phrases as Biehl is wont to do)
> that "promotes left/right convergence and conspiracy theories."
> This is a slander when it is quite clear that I am extremely
> critical of both left and right. As I explain in the editorial it is
> important to encourage the QUESTIONING of both those on the
> left and the right. NOWHERE in anything I have written in the last
> fifty years will you see anything indicating in any way that I
> support either the left or the right or their convergence.
> I am not in favor of, nor sympathetic with Holocaust
> Revisionism, as any honest person will know by reading what
> I have written on that pathetic subject. This is a pure invention of
> Biehl's based on her own extremely dishonest wish to find
> anything at all she possibly can to smear me with. Nor have I
> ever "minimized" the number of people murdered by the Germans
> --another creatively Stalinist Biehl invention.
> Next time you say something, how about quoting something
> I have actually said in a reasonable context instead of citing an
> editorial that no one on the list will have likely read--and thus
> will not realize does not support in any way your ridiculous
> contentions.
> If you want to say something truthful, you can accuse me of
> writing and printing the stuff I have written and printed (though
> not of agreeing with everything that I have printed, since I don't).
> Yes, I am critical of leftism (as well as the right). Yes, I am an
> anti-capitalist radical (and not a social-democrat or anything else).
> Yes, I am interested in getting radicals to address people
> who identify with the right as well as people who identify with
> the left--because I want both to become familiar with anti-
> capitalist, anarchist alternatives. Yes, I criticize the multitude
> of crimes of the settler state of Israel since its birth (just as I
> criticize the many crimes of the US and all other mass-
> murdering states).
> If you want to be honest with yourself you should figure
> out what it is IN REALITY that I have said that you oppose
> and criticize that, rather than trying to resurrect Biehl's
> long-ago failed smear campaign.
> The only people who will ever believe these smears are
> those are either completely ignorant of who I am and what
> Anarchy magazine and APR stand for, or those who already
> hate me for deflating their favorite ideological balloons--and
> who are so pathetic that they'll readily gobble up lies to help
> them feel better about their own failures.
> Take care,
> Jason McQuinn