--On Friday, February 21, 2003 9:05 PM -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: BrennerL21 at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 20:48:41 EST
> Subject: Reply from Lenni Brenner
>
> 2 21 03
> Doug,
>
> Thanks for sending me Max Sawicky's rant. Frankly its hard to follow,
> especially when he attributes something to Lerner that I said:
>
> "[Later in his post, Lerner makes fun of the kabbalah, itself an intrinsic
> part of NK religious faith.]"
>
> Like Lerner, the NK believes in Kabbala. But Lerner wasn't excluded from
> speaking because he believes in it, but because he called WWP
> anti-Semitic.
>
> As to the NK being like Pat Robertson and or Oral Roberts, that's
> singularly mad, given that Robertson is pro-Zionist. What he means to
> say, in his dull-witted, inept way, is that they are fundamentalists.
>
> So what? Forty-seven percent of Americans believe God created the world in
> the last ten thousand years. Should we exclude them from the peace
> movement?
>
> At the end of the day, Sawicky says that he still thinks "Lerner's stink
> bomb is a useful corrective." Disruptive stink bomb it was, which is why
> he excludes himself from any serious coalition.
>
> Our genius is correct on one thing:
Boy, this guy does his very best to sound like an asshole...
-- Luke