>-Wait a minute. A legally elected government doesn't have the right to
>-jail people conspiring to overthrow it?
>
>Not really, especially when their actions are such things as general strikes
>and calling for a legal referendum.
And meeting with Admirals who were involved in an actual coup? Are you serious?
> The Workers World Party openly calls
>for overthrowing the US system and the left here has lots of slogans like
>"regime change begins at home." Does this mean the US government is within
>its rights to jail all WWP members and all those who have associated with
>them in rallies?
Of course not. But if they were actually crazy enough to take up arms against the USG, then the legal case would be different.
>By yours and Yoshie's logic, most of Cointelpro was completely justified and
>probably too few Panthers were jailed, since from every account I have from
>friends of the era, a lot of folks fully intended to support overthrow of
>the Nixon and capitalist regime.
So now reactionary union officials and their military allies are the equivalent of the Panthers? Really, Hathan, you should drop the propagandist role now and then just for the sake of intellectual coherence.
Doug