Nathan Newman wrote:
> The problem is that you see no hatefulness in telling families that they
> have no right to justice because their dead loves ones -- many of them
> working class, many lower-level administrativestaff - were
> "imperialists."
> This indifference to suffering of those families by that sector of the
> left
> was what alientated lot of people from the antiwar movement.
-Nathan, can you back up your claim that any of this has "alienated" -people from the anti-war movement? I suspect that you have no evidence, -because your arguments are the same old liberal attempt to control the -free speech of radicals.
How about the pathetic number of people at antiwar marches in New York City for the two years that ANSWER was leading the rallies. As soon as groups like United for Peace & Justice took over organizing them, they ballooned to hundreds of thousands of marchers. The contrast was dramatic. So those are the numbers. My experience -- and remember I was going to almost every antiwar march in NYC from 911 on as a legal observer -- was that large chunks of my left friends and family were refusing to go to the marches because they so hated the rhetoric and flyers being distributed. These were folks who had marched in all sorts of left and antiwar marches in the past but didn't want to go near them during 2001 and 2002.
-- Nathan Newman