First of all, John sounds like a fink, and I would like to hear the fink's rationale for this action.
Second of all, the National Lawyers Guild President sounds like a real totalitarian.
Third of all, is this typical of the National Lawyers Guild and if it is, why do you want to be part of such a group?
-Thomas --- Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:
> But you went and sent this one message (without the
> context of the many
> other messages I've posted) to the NYC Guild
> President to try to get me in
> trouble. Talk about suppression of dissent. I am
> now being told that I
> should appear before the NYC Exec Committee to
> justify my views and post
> before them.
>
> This is what the WWP and their sectarian allies are
> all about-- suppressing
> dissenting views wherever they can. It's not the
> so-called "redbaiters"
> who endanger free speech; it's rats like you
> monitoring and reporting
> people to the ideological purists in the movement.
> I've already been cited
> at the national NLG for postings to my personal
> blog.
>
> You all really are a bunch of secret police
> reporting back to authorities
> for proper reeducation of those violating official
> ideology.
>
> Nathan Newman
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Mage" <jmage at panix.com>
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:11 PM
> Subject: Re:The thread previously known as 'Lerner
> presumably'
>
>
> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
> [some crude redbaiting, ending as follows]
>
> > That too many progressive groups wait for
> pressure from more
> > moderate forces to exclude the WWP is to their
> discredit. The WWP
> > should be excluded from rallies not because they
> attack other
> > groups politics but because their own politics
> are so henious. I
> > wouldn't care if the KKK was against the war on
> Iraq; I'd want them
> > excluded from the platform as well.
> >
> > Nathan Newman Vice President, NYC National
> Lawyers Guild Former
> > National Vice President (Note my views do not
> reflect those of the
> > NLG national leadership)
>
> To clear up the implication (by what we lawyers call
> "negativa
> pregnans") that these views DO reflect those of the
> NYC NLG leadership, the
> President of the NYC Guild chapter has asked me to
> post here the following:
> ---------
> The New York City chapter of the National Lawyers
> Guild wishes to assure
> the
> readers of this email list that the comments posted
> earlier by Nathan
> Newman
> in no way reflect the political position of the NLG,
> NYC chapter. Nathan's
> comments are entirely his own. The NLG, NYC
> chapter is an endorser of the
> United for Peace and Justice coalition.
> Dana Biberman, president of the NYC NLG chapter
> ---------
> john mage
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===== <<Be like me! The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
-Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"
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