On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:22:51PM -0800, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> I don't recall ever seeing him when things got rough.
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> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
>
> You don't remember the Seattle 8 case , eh?
> Some way over the top, as usual, Horowitz on Lerner,
> http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/taemj97s.htm
> >..."Fascism is coming," Hayden announced on a visit to our Ramparts offices.
> "By the end of the year they’re going to put us all in jail." About this
> time, Michael Lerner suggested I should buy a gun. "Michael," I said in
> disbelief, "The people aren’t with us. You couldn’t even describe a scenario
> in which there was a shoot-out with the police that we could win." Hardly
> pausing, he said, "Then you have to buy a hand gun and give it to someone
> else for use in assassinations."
>
> On election eve the year before, the Peace and Freedom Party had nominated
> Eldridge Cleaver and Jerry Rubin for its presidential ticket. They held a
> "Pre-Erection Day" (sic) celebration in the Berkeley Community Theater, and
> Rubin came on stage wheeling a live pig in a shopping cart. This was
> "Pigasus," the Yippie mascot, he informed the crowd. Then he announced he was
> turning over his vice- presidential spot on the ticket to the pig, and lit up
> a joint. Eldridge took the microphone and began a rant in which he said the
> Left had to unite with the Machine Gun Kellys and John Dillingers of the
> world. He talked about "p*ssy power" and said that he would kill San
> Francisco Mayor Alioto and his children and grandchildren...
>
> Like David Hilliard ranting about killing Nixon at a rally in Golden Gate
> Park. eh?
>
> Michael Pugliese
> http://www.ellsberg.net/audiovideo.htm
>
> Berman quotes Nixon: 'I'm not worried about bombing
> pauses. I'm we're gonna take out...the power plants, we're gonna take out
> Haiphong, we're gonna...level that goddamn country!"
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-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu