[Am-info] Re: Global Resistance at home

[Hans Reiser]

I think you cannot accuse him of lacking integrity because he ran for 
president.  Poor judgement in that instance, perhaps, integrity, no, he 
has quite a lot of it.

Hans

Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D. wrote:

>>From: John Poltorak <jp@eyup.org> Subject: Global Resistance
>>Isn't Ralph Nader some big shot consumer group leader? I thought he 
>>was at the forefront of anti-MS activity among conumer groups some 
>>time ago. John
>>
>
>It was indeed Ralph Nader who began this list by organizing a public
>debate of Microsoft's business practices. I signed on for information
>regarding that 3 day forum and remained on what became the AM-INFO
>(Appraising Microsoft-Information) list. We owe a great debt to his
>organization for raising this debate to a level where the DOJ could
>no longer ignore their duty. Unfortunately, the same Ralph Nader
>chose to stick to his own political campaign, draining votes in an
>election he knew he could not have a snow ball's chance in hell of
>winning, and thus contributed to the selection of George Bush. Now he
>denies any responsibility for George's rapid reversal of all past and 
>present efforts to do the right thing with regard to consumers, the 
>environment, the economy, war and peace, foreign and domestic affairs 
>of any kind, you name it - George the Destroyer has undone peace and 
>prosperity to maximise his handlers profits. And the DOJ/Microsoft 
>'settlement' is just another example of the "integrity" these bastards
>have "returned to the WhiteHouse". I still don't know why anyone not
>directly benefitting from his Reverse-Robinhood policies (and that is
>a MAXIMUM of 5% of the populace) would ever support George Bush, 
>directly or indirectly.
> 
>I don't know if Mr. Nader has enough of his own integrity left to do
>something positive in this case. But it sure wouldn't hurt for him to
>try.
>
>Glenn
>