[lbo-talk] "antidemocratic"

[Joseph Wanzala]

www.peoplesradio.net is a coalition, you take us to task for a mispelling 
while you make the more substantive error of not researching the actual 
positions of this group of people before making a judgement about them. 
There is absolutely no basis for your statement that "Your gang wants to see 
more lunacy from Mike Ruppert." First of all, the word 'gang' is a slur, and 
Mike Ruppert is not a lunatic. The fact is, Ruppert's name does not even 
appear on our website and other than myself, the other people in the 
peoplesradio coalition are barely familiar with Rupperts work. Indeed, I 
actually have the same kind of arguments about 9-11 with them as I do with 
most people on this list. However, they are sophisticated enough to know 
that we can have different points of views on particular issues but still 
agree on the most important issue - that there should be democratic 
governance at Pacifica. One of the main reasons to have democratic 
governance is to accomodate all the different definitions of 'intelligent 
programming' rather than only the one imposed by the current nomenklatura at 
KPFA. When you say insulting the 'intelligence of listeners is the real anti 
democratic position' I presume you are saying that having the likes of Mike 
Ruppert on KPFA is an insult to people's intelligence - I say not having 
anybody on KPFA because you disgree with them is an insult to people's 
intelligence - i.e. their ability to think for themselves. You are also 
manipulating the meaning of democracy. Sasha Lilley as well as yourself are 
on record saying that you do not support democractic governance in Pacifica. 
But at the same time you try to imply that your self-styled 'intelligent 
programming" is in itself somehow 'democracy in action' but you do not 
support the actual participation of listeners in that process.

Joe W.

Doug wrote: Aside from misspelling her name, which says something about 
editorial standards, the "anti-democratic" description is a slur. Sasha 
supports - and so do I - intelligent programming. Your gang wants to see 
more lunacy from Mike Ruppert. Insulting the intelligence of listeners is 
the real anti-democratic position.

Doug