HISTORIC ANTIWAR DEMONSTRATION

Chuck Munson chuck at tao.ca
Thu May 2 09:03:17 PDT 2002


jacdon at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> I would like to thank list member Chuck Munson for his intemperate
> diatribe May 1 in opposition my article about the April 20 antiwar
> protest posted earlier in the day and titled Historic Antiwar
> Demonstraton. As with all complex political articles containing many
> facets, including internal movement contradictions, a writer always
> fears that he or she may have gotten some major facts wrong, or
> misinterpreted something important. Munson’s take-no-prisoners attack
> has eased this writer’s mind considerably. I consider his polemic to be
> empty of substance, and delivered in a style amounting to
> self-refutation. Thus, my only reply to his fulmination is to encourage
> him to keep up the good work.

An intemperate piece is much more entertaining than anything the IAC has ever organized. The tone of the piece was justified given the cheerleading for the IAC and ANSWER that permeated your otherwise good report.

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