Thomas Seay wrote:
> Well, I would prefer that the movement have no leaders
> and no central groups, whether that be ANSWER, NION,
> United For Peace. I also do not want Lerner to be the
>
> High Lama of the anti-war movement. I predict, and I
> might be completely off, that that will happen. He's
> going to get pushed to the front now, because of this
> incident.
>
> In my opinion, you can give in and let him speak,
> which he, Lerner, does not want you to do
> because he is getting a lot of mileage out of his
> victimhood, and he will continue to accumulate more OR
> you can stop his momentum right now by allowing him to
> speak. Let him have a pyrrhic victory. That's the
> best thing the San Fran folks could do.
>
> Who cares about the damn speeches anyway? Nobody
> listens to them. They're all a bunch of cliches, and
> if there are any good ones, they get lost in the noise
> of the bad ones. Even if there are a lot of good
> ones, people are too busy running their own mouths,
> resting or checking out the babes. Letting him speak
> would cost nothing. Not letting him speak is going to
> cost a lot. If he's as big an opportunist as I am
> hearing from folks, this little coup of his will be
> the first step.
>
> Right now, Lerner is licking his paws. If the
> organizers were smart, they'd call him up, invite him
> and announce it to the entire world. Ha, I would love
> to be a fly on the wall if you did that...He'd shit on
> himself.
>
> But it would appear that the organizers are more
> worried about "losing face", if Lou's position is
> representative (which it may or may not be).
>
> -Thomas
I guess I was a bit hasty in signing on to that statement. Oh well, I'm entitled to one big mistake each week.
In other news, since I'm not going to NYC until next weekend (after the Reb Law conference), I've decided to run a special newswire on Infoshop for the weekend protests.
Bookmark it now: http://www.infoshop.org/inews/f15antiwar_news.html
Looks like the protests are going to be massive this weekend. The following website claims that over 480 cities are having protests:
http://www.complacent.org/feb15/
Chuck0
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