Joe W.
>From: Etienne <tim_boetie at fastmail.fm>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] WBAI scores with holocaust denalist's premium
>Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 21:19:26 +0100
>
>On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:16 -0700, Joseph Wanzala wrote:
> > Alex Jones is not a 'racist'. His position on immigration is a policy
>
>Not racist? Why does he publish anti-semitic shit like
>http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_fortman.html (check the last couple
>of paragraphs)? Or, on the immigration issue, stuff like
>http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_newsom.html and
>http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_hall_030503_immigration.html (the
>second of which quotes, at length, racist British tabloid The Sun),
>about how immigrants pose a danger
>
>[snip]
> > shows that the host of that site supports free speech. You are entitled
>to
> > your view of Webster Tarpley and Alex Jones as 'unsavory characters' it
>is
> > not a view that many share. Issues of 'credibilty' within the 9-11
>universe'
>
>Well, that's doubtless true, but only because very few people know who
>Alex Jones is. I hope, at least, that if he were better known, most
>people would be able to spot him for what he is: a fascist. I'm not
>using that term as a mindless insult - the combination of nationalism,
>populism and conspiracy theory that you find at infowars.org and
>prisonplanet.com has a great deal in common with traditional fascism.
>The invocation of cosmopolitan elites against whom the plain people of
>the nation must defend themselves is a very unpleasant pattern of
>argument.
>
>--
>"The first procedure of a philosophy ought to be | Tim
> to expel things from consciousness and to | http://huh.34sp.com/
> reestablish its true connection with the world." |
> -- Sartre |
>
>
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