Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:19:50 -0800
From: Joshua Houk <jlhouk-AT-mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: Agent Zero, Tad Kepley, and nominative prefixes




Jamal Hannah x342446 wrote:

> The problem, Joshua, is not that people are pointing out Bob Black and Tad
> Kepley's crimes, which we should never forget... but that you seem to have
> psychicaly linked your belief in certain ideas to these people.  Look.. if
> you believe in something, it doesnt matter if these people are not
> respected anymore.  What important is that YOU give people a good
> impression of yourself and your ideas.  You dont need these fools.

Cripes, it's not like their actions are comparable to the Holocaust. Sheesh...

Anyhoo, the problem is that people are condemning *my* ideas because of the
terrible two's actions. Take, for example, Chaz Bufe's "Listen Anarchist!"
which attempts to shoot down ideas by listing untoward actions, both real and
imagined, of a handful of people who hold those ideas. There's no discussion
of the ideas - just of perceived malfeasance of some people who propose those
ideas.

Janet Biehl does the same in her new introduction to Bufe's pamphlet - she
mentions Black's run in with Hogshire, and posits therefore that all
zeroworkers are scum. It's one thing to preach rational thought, it's another
to be a hypocrite.

You should know this well, since you posted "Listen Anarchist" on the
anarchist newsgroups just a month ago.

> I do not think people should stop mentioning what Tad and Bob are guilty
> of.. UNLESS they apologize.  I have not heard them honestly apologize to
> anyone, or seen any evidence that their behavior will change.

It's one thing to keep it in mind. It's quite another to respond to every
mention of Kepley or Black with a post crying "herion addict" or "police
snitch".

However, to accomodate your personal wishes, I'll make a special exception for
you. Until I see your behavior change, I'll always bring up the fact that
you're a sectarian hypocrite.

> The fact that people keep mentioning what Bob and Tad did means that they
> care about the victems.. but it also means they dont want to see it happen
> to themselves, or anyone else.

What a bunch of crap. You don't care about the victims, no more than Biehl or
Bufe do. You all just care about scoring points for your branch of
anarchism(tm), and wait for any juicy details about someone from another
anarchist milieu who fucks up. Y'all just use people, and that makes you no
better, in *your* estimation, than either Kepley or Black.

Joshua H