[Am-info] Re: Global Resistance at home

[Eric M. Hopper]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:55:29PM -0800, Steve Cohen wrote:
> 
> None of these may legitimately be laid at the feet of Ralph Nader.  If
> the Democrats are that dissatisfied with the Bush administration, why
> don't they try LEADING a fight against it, instead of blaming their
> continuing inaction on Ralph Nader??  (which incidentally, only
> splinters the feeble forces they might possibly bring to bear on these
> matters?)
> 
> So, you're not in power anymore.  Quit whining about it.  Enough
> excuses already.  Time to DO SOMETHING!

	One of the only intelligent comments I've seen on this thread.
The answer of course, is that to the democrats the issues they claim to
be about are just a tool which they wield for power, much like many of
the control freak hippies who started a lot of communes out west in the
60s.

	NOW (National Organization of Women) was nowhere to be seen when
Clinton clearly had conduct problems relating to women.  Given how they
treated Clarence Thomas over just _one_ incident, one might find this
surprising.  Of course if NOW just wants political power and doesn't
actually care about women's issues, it makes perfect sense.  Clinton is
their buddy and part of their powerbase, of course they aren't going to
attack him.

	I won't vote for either of the two major parties.  Both are
controlled by interests that do not care about me in the least.  Both
have an extremely unhealthy amount of corporate backing.

	Just watch the difference in our news media coverage of the
terrorist attack, it's consequences and our actions compared to foreign
media.  Our media and our politicians are clearly just pawns for some
deeper system over which we have little control.

	Jesse Ventura may stay stupid things sometimes, and he may be a
media hungry grandstander, but at least I don't feel like he's bought.
To me, that's worth a lot of minor annoyances over his behavior.

*sigh*,
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It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."  --- Thomas Jefferson
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."  -- Mark Twain
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