From: "danceswithcarp" <dcombs-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Re: Resolutions for radicals
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:09:37 -0500



On Sunday, January 30  Ed did Stammer:

> Sounds like you've given up the rational debate and begun the
> personal attacks.

Ed, my man.  Good to hear from you.  I hope all is well.  Chuck0's been on
my case a lot lately, especially when I try to remind him what an upright
citizen you are with your only interest being the attempt to make anarchist
politics acceptable to liberals.   How is that attempt going, young man?

> Why is there so much damn conformity in the anarchist movement?

I wear plaid underwear.  What's your sign?  Surely we all don't conform.

> If I don't think the party line and pay dues to the party, and
> and keep my mouth shut, I'm an enemy of the people!  When did
> this turn into a Maoist organization?

Which organization are you talking about?   The Anarchist Organization?   Or
the "Ed Stamm Is A Liberal Organization?"    Oh, well, Mao power to you.

> As far as wearing a tie at work, I haven't worked there in about
> 4 years Chuck, and you know that!  That was when I was a payroll
> clerk at the University of Kansas.

Yes, we remember.  That's when you refused to help the Graduate Assistant
Instructors get some public information because it was your job to do it.

> Now I'm an offset press operator.

Well, get centered, lad.   Nothing like being out of kilter.

> I get 2 weeks of vacation a year, no health insurance, no sick
> leave, and probably make 1/3 of what you do!

So?  Quit.  Being a bum is much more respectable than a scab.

> So who's the
> privileged, middle class anarchist?

Chuck0 is, of course, silly boy.   Why, when he bends over that silver spoon
head comes peeping out of his arse like a wee turtle head.

> There's nothing wrong
> with having a decent job,

Oh.  When I read your description of your scab job I thought it was hardly
"decent."  Did you get another already?

> just don't accuse me of being some
> kind of bourgeois fat cat.

BOURGEOIS FATTY CAT!  BOURGEOIS FATTY CAT!

> Oh, I have to drive 35 miles each
> way to work, and be there at 5:30 a.m. - real cushy.

Times are bad all over.

> Is blockading an abortion clinic free speech?  What if they want
> to blockade a university to keep out black students?

To compare racial segregation to stopping the WTO from meeting is really
quite asinine.   And who in the wirld ever called the WTO anarchist actions,
or the civilly disobedient liberal actions "free speech" anyways.   No one
ever called blockading Womyn's Health Clinics "free speech" either.
"Speech" has to do with wirds and messages, Ed.  "Civil disobedience" means
being civil when you break the law.  I fing that rather amusing.   I got to
go with the newspaper box through the window, meself.

> It's bad when Nazis smash shop windows, but it's ok for anarchists?

It's bad that Nazis use air I may need some day.  But if they want to smash
a few windows and bear the burden of their actions, fine.  Especially if
they want to smash windows of people who don't take that kind of shit off of
anybody.

> As far as not doing anything radical in 10 years, if you mean
> I haven't made us look like hooligans or mailed a bomb to anyone,
> I guess I'm guilty as charged.

Jeez.  I thought you were feeling guilty for that uncontrollable propensity
towards self-abuse and attracting others to abuse you.

> So if I want to make 10,000 copies of a Chumbawamba tape and
> sell them for $2 each, that's ok?  Cool.  I need the money more
> than they do anyway.

Have at it.  I think we would all support pirating Chumby's stuff.  I have a
cd burner and I pirated it, so if you want to make some coin off of them, go
for it.

And by the way, some rag in bonnie old England pirated your screeching about
how anarchists have a public relations porblem.  Perhaps you could demand
payment.

> Please don't take away my Party card, comrade!

Everything I ever heard about you is you aren't the kind of person to party.

> Submissively,

Now THAT turns my crank.   Man, ed, I'd been in lerk too long.  Glad to have
you back.


carp