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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of snit snat
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 3:55 AM
> To: Lame Brained Onanists
> Subject: [lbo-talk] class warfare
>
> on another list, someone's been using a line from Al Franken for her sig:
>
>
> "In her book *A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century*,
> Barbara
> Tuchman writes about a peasant revolt in 1358 that began in the village of
> St. Leu and spread throughout the Oise valley. At one estate, the serfs
> sacked the manor house, killed the knight, and
> roasted him on a spit in front of his wife and kids. Then, after ten or
> twelve peasants violated the lady, with the children still watching, they
> forced her to eat the roasted flesh of her husband and then killed her.
>
> *That* is class warfare.
>
> Arguing over the optimum marginal tax rate for the top one percent is
> not."
>
>
>
> "We live under the Confederacy.
> We're a podunk bunch of swaggering
> pious hicks."
>
> --Bruce Sterling
>
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