--- loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:
>
> WHY are people talking about the Lerner business as
> an example of
> ANSWER "controlling the anti-war movement" when [A]
> ANSWER is one of four
> coalitions staging the Feb. 16 event in San
> Francisco,
Lou, I dont know what other people think, but I am not directing my criticism exclusively at ANSWER in this case. My criticism is of all four groups, if they agreed to a policy of barring any speaker who criticized any of the 4. So, yes, I am criticizing ANSWER, but I am also criticizing UFP, NION, and BAUAW.
-Thomas
[B] ANSWER has
> presumably not somehow staged some kind of coup
> d'etat within NION, UFPJ, or
> the Bay Area Coalition, [C] so far as I can tell
> ANSWER had no direct
> involvement with the Lerner business at all (the
> 'joint statement' says that
> it was a UFPJ representative who informed Lerner
> that he would not be
> invited), and [D] the joint statement by the four
> coalitions explicitly states
> that no organization has a 'veto' over the speakers?
>
> This whole thing is quite analogous to what happened
> yesterday with that
> Holland Tunnel thread. People have canned responses
> and they bring them out
> and use them on ANSWER regardless of the facts of
> the particular case. I
> wrote that 'direct action is good' and Chuck0, who,
> to be fair, was writing
> early in the morning (although it's an hour earlier
> HERE), said 'see, Paulsen
> says direct action is bad.' In similar fashion,
> Corn and Berubé write that
> ANSWER vetoed Lerner; the other three sponsoring
> coalitions join in a
> statement saying that this is false; and people come
> along and say "Yes, but
> it's still a bad thing that ANSWER vetoed Lerner."
> For heaven's sake, who is
> more credible? UFPJ in San Francisco? Or Corn and
> Berubé? I know that Corn
> is a professional journalist and works for Fox News,
> and Berubé is a
> university professor and is therefore is presumed to
> be objective, but let's
> not let ourselves get overly impressed by
> credentials!
>
> LP
>
>
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