[lbo-talk] Police brutality

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Mon Apr 16 13:27:19 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:


>>Doug:
>>
>>I can't imagine anyone objecting to cops shooting a guy who'd killed
>>21 people and would probably have killed some more. Could you
>>actually name someone who might?
>>
>>[WS:] I do not know most people on this list personally, so it is
>>hard to
>>tell, but judging from the internet vitriol I can think of a few -
>>Carrol
>>Cox, Louis Proyect (ok, he is an ex member,) Travis Fast, Yoshie
>>Furuhashi,
>>"Bitch," maybe Dennis Claxton. Or to be more precise, I think
>>these people
>>would NOT object to it if it were happening in some distant foreign
>>land of
>>which they have no priors, but they would object to it in this country
>>because of their ideological perspective on social relations and
>>causes of
>>criminal behavior.
>>
>>Again, this is just my impression based on the tone of their
>>posting. I
>>have no way of knowing how indicative that is.
>>
>>
>
>Well, they can all speak for themselves. Anyone?
>
>Doug
>
>
I am sure glad to see that when encouraged Woj can deliver a list with such speed based on his impression of posters "tone" towards him. And at least now I know who here would name names if asked. As my pappy said: "scratch an American liberal, get a fascist 95% of the time."

Travis



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