Do Everythinger

[Gordon Fitch]

kelley at pulpculture.org:
> oh, no no no. you have forgotten all the claims made about how we can't 
> influence the administration, we can't stop a war. were these claims not 
> made repeatedly in criticism of doug? but, doug, why bother? we can't 
> change what the administration does. we can't influece it. doug, you should 
> be out beating the streets.
> 
> my question in return was, "so why join up with peace activists, most of 
> whom think that they can influence the administration". in other words, why 
> do you want to lie to others just to massage and prepare them for 
> revolution? that is a leninist tactic that is frequently uphold on this 
> list. i think it has definite drawbacks.
> 
> their point is to organize, organize, organize, using _other people's_ hard 
> work and effort and the end result of this disingenuousness was the 
> problems we saw recently in D.C.

It's all that simple, is it?  They're _lying_?  Why don't
they go to work for the government, then, if that's their
métier?

-- Gordon