> Chuck0 wrote:
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>> I suggest that you read Churchill's excellent book. He makes the
>> convincing argument that all of us Americans are complicit in the
>> crimes of the United States. Even those of us who work 24/7 in
>> opposition to U.S. imperialism and genocide.
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> So let's all just kill ourselves, and spare our victims the time and
> effort. Will you & Churchill lead the way?
No, the point of all this is that we American dissenters could be doing more and taking more risks. We need to keep dissenting, but we have to understand that most forms of American dissent are just too tame to stop the American "system." Too many American leftists seem to think that merely opposing this regime or that war is enough to absolve us of our responsibilities. We are privileged Americans who enjoy freedom of speech and very little political repression. Instead of engaging in tactics that seriously confront and undermine say, AMerican imperialism and Empire, we go along with disempowering tactics of boring protest spectacle, i.e. ANSWER protests. And Doug argues that dissent was silenced in the wake of 9-11. I don't recall much actual political repression, other than that directed at Arab Americans, so we're talking about people who stopped dissenting out of unjustified fear.
Chuck0