Rabbi Lerner strikes me as a man who has never recovered from having been Hillary Clinton's flavor of the month, back when she was First Lady. No doubt it would be better to give the good rabbi his five minutes to speak, rather than to have the rest of the world put up with a debate over the infringement of his alleged "free speech rights."
Jim F.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:10:48 -0800 joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at sun.com>
writes:
> At 09:05 AM 02/13/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Joanna>...Pure red-baiting...
> >
> > WWP supported killing reform communists like Imre Nagy (would
> Marcy have
> >called for Lukacs to be hauled out of the foreign embassy that
> harbored him
> >after the tanks rolled and shot too?), tanks in Hungary shooting
> communist
> >workers in '56 and Prague in '68, killing reformist students and
> working
> >class communists in Beijing in '91. Sure if you dig in WW one could
> find
> >blasts at Eurocommunist PCI.
>
> I'm not a member of WWP and know little about them. On the other
> hand, I
> have met Lerner, heard him speak for well over three hours on the
> situation
> in the Middle East and left with my blood pressure in dangerous
> territory.
>
> I don't think he gives a rat's ass about WWP's anti-democratic
> practices. I
> think he's a megalomaniac who has managed, once again, to get a lot
> of
> airtime...at a crucial moment when forces were coalescing for the
> most
> major anti-war protest to date. I'm not whining/complaining about
> redbaiting, I'm just describing what I see Lerner as doing and I
> find it
> revolting.
>
> Joanna
>
>
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