[lbo-talk] No Evidence ...

[Carrol Cox]

Sergio -- Please post in plain text. I couldn't quote your post within a
reply so I had to do the sloppy pasting below. There is no real
contradiction between your post and "pepor's" post. An antiwar
"atmosphere" is merely the _potential_ for protest, not itself protest.
Oxygen in the atmosphere is a potential for fire, but to say there is
oxygen around does not mean that there is a fire.

Or as Mao said (at a more general level), If You Don't Hit It, It Won't
Fall. If no one organizes protests, anti-war feelings remain invisible.

Carrol

SergioL652 wrote:

In a message dated 9/19/2003 8:22:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
pepor at caribe.net writes:

     Here in Puerto Rico -- as you mention Yoshie -- the atmosphere is
*quite*

     different. It is an anti-war atmosphere in general -- 

I'm kind of surprised.  My family in Puerto Rico has not mentioned
anything (they are anti war, but then they are
pro-independence), except for a couple of smal protest here and there,
not to the level of Vietnam.  In that case
the problem was compulsory service by Puerto Ricans who have no say
about the decision of going to war.  We
are not a violent people, no matter what TV and Movies show, so a vague
anti-war feeling is probably a natural
thing for us.  But there has not been a widespread protest movement,
AFAIK.

 
Sergio