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OPEN LETTER TO DAVID HARRIS, PROFESSIONAL PEACE EXPERT
Open letter to David Harris, interviewed this past week for his opinions concerning anarchist anti-war protesters.
OPEN LETTER TO DAVID HARRIS, PROFESSIONAL PEACE EXPERT
Dear Mister Harris,
It was with great disgust that we saw your ugly mug on the Channel Two news the other night. The interview was typically stupid. Who knows why or how you have become an official spokesman for the new anti-war current—perhaps it’s just another example of lazy journalism, since you seem to have contributed virtually nothing since you went to prison for resisting the Vietnam-era draft. All dissidents are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
Your so-called criticisms of us and our friends are obviously based on the fact that our tactics are doing much more to bring public awareness to the brutality of the military and lack of response to polite protest from those who rule. You are annoyed that people are now talking more about anarchists than about David Harris.
By attacking us as “idiots” and calling for our friends and us to be “banned” you have shown that you are more interested in social control than in active, effective dissent. And that you are quite willing to use the police (and other institutions of oppression) to promote your own agenda (whatever that is, besides being a loudmouth). Your lack of daring objection to the prosecution of this latest American military adventure makes your loyalty to the current regime even more craven than that of the Democrats.
If this generation is lucky enough to live to see a radical transformation of American society, we and our friends will know which side of the metaphorical barricades you’ll be on. See you there, chump.
Sincerely,
Some black-clad (masked and unmasked) anarchists
Dear Mister Harris,
It was with great disgust that we saw your ugly mug on the Channel Two news the other night. The interview was typically stupid. Who knows why or how you have become an official spokesman for the new anti-war current—perhaps it’s just another example of lazy journalism, since you seem to have contributed virtually nothing since you went to prison for resisting the Vietnam-era draft. All dissidents are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
Your so-called criticisms of us and our friends are obviously based on the fact that our tactics are doing much more to bring public awareness to the brutality of the military and lack of response to polite protest from those who rule. You are annoyed that people are now talking more about anarchists than about David Harris.
By attacking us as “idiots” and calling for our friends and us to be “banned” you have shown that you are more interested in social control than in active, effective dissent. And that you are quite willing to use the police (and other institutions of oppression) to promote your own agenda (whatever that is, besides being a loudmouth). Your lack of daring objection to the prosecution of this latest American military adventure makes your loyalty to the current regime even more craven than that of the Democrats.
If this generation is lucky enough to live to see a radical transformation of American society, we and our friends will know which side of the metaphorical barricades you’ll be on. See you there, chump.
Sincerely,
Some black-clad (masked and unmasked) anarchists
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Oh dear, a smashed window! That's <I>violence</I> against property, we can't have that! We can't have <I>violence</I> against windows! The poor defenseless windows! Some poor worker receiving the same amount of pay as those rowdy anarchists will have to <I>clean up glass</I> rather than <I>clean a bathroom</I> or <I>wash dishes</I>, that's horrid! That's terrible, it's discrediting the entire movement!
We must remember those folks back home watching CNN who may have been undecided about the war but who will readily support Bush's invasion of Iraq when they learn of the <I>violence against windows</I>! Those rowdy anarchists and their <I>anti-window terrorism</I> will completely justify the war in Iraq in the minds of undecided Americans!
End the war on windows!
We must remember those folks back home watching CNN who may have been undecided about the war but who will readily support Bush's invasion of Iraq when they learn of the <I>violence against windows</I>! Those rowdy anarchists and their <I>anti-window terrorism</I> will completely justify the war in Iraq in the minds of undecided Americans!
End the war on windows!
Oh dear, a smashed window! That's violence against property, we can't have that! We can't have violence against windows! The poor defenseless windows! Some poor worker receiving the same amount of pay as those rowdy anarchists will have to clean up glass rather than clean a bathroom or wash dishes, that's horrid! That's terrible, it's discrediting the entire movement!
We must remember those folks back home watching CNN who may have been undecided about the war but who will readily support Bush's invasion of Iraq when they learn of the violence against windows! Those rowdy anarchists and their anti-window terrorism will completely justify the war in Iraq in the minds of undecided Americans!
End the war on windows!
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