Lets bring back the Weathermen. They were so effective. Lets blow up a couple of things. That will show our power and force the government and people to recognize our superior position.
It didn't work well last time either. It won't work well now. New ideas?
Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck0" <chuck at mutualaid.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. Antiwar Movementfor UnitedDemonstrations in the Fall
> Nathan Newman wrote:
>
>> The idiotic belief that message is irrelevant is exactly why the antiwar
>> movement is irrelevant.
>
> Every message has been conveyed, discussed, argued, and so on. What we
> haven't seen is much action. Marches, rallies and voting haven't
> accomplished anything.
>
> Time to raise the stakes, do some more direct action and fuck shit up.
>
>> One-- the ineffectiveness of the antiwar movement means you don't have
>> the
>> numbers to significantly effect the war supply chain. Two, if you did,
>> you'd go to jail in enough numbers that the effect will be quickly
>> erased.
>> And three, even a hint that the antiwar movement is denying soldiers in
>> danger the help they need will quickly move the middle of the population
>> over to the pro-Bush camp.
>
> We know there are millions of Americans who oppose this war, many of them
> quite strongly. People are ready to fuck shit up. The leadership of the
> antiwar and peace movements have utterly failed, just like I've been
> saying they would for years.
>
> Fuck the troops and the liberals who pander to that "support the troops"
> nonsense. The troops are volunteer murderers who don't deserve our support
> until they throw down their arms or refuse their orders.
>
>> If you actually had the numbers to be effective, it might be an
>> interesting
>> debate on tactics, but since you don't, it's all symbolic acts. Talking
>> about "disrupting the war supply chain" is complete fantasy and is just
>> an
>> evasion of discussing tactics and strategy that might actually have any
>> effect on government policy.
>
> You are just another privileged liberal hypocrite who claims to be
> concerned about something, but won't do what's necessary to make changes.
>
> We have the numbers to completely fuck up the war supply chain. We can
> monkeywrench the war effort in our communities. This is possible and it's
> an outrage that the anti-war liberal hypocrites aren't trying it.
>
> By the way, what's up with the anti-war movement's sudden shift to
> counter-recruiting? WTF is that about? Could it be about fucking up the
> military's supply chain?
>
> Chuck
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