From: "Charles Finocchiaro" <cf-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Yahoo! Cancels Banner Ads Placed By SEIU Labor Union 
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:00:01 -0500


I find it ironic that the parallels between your own anti-fascist effort in
coordination with Yahoo! and Yahoo!'s quashing of a, in their view,
controversial labor campaign have escaped you.  However, perhaps we should
expect it from one of you ilk, after your statement that you are out to get
fascists, not because they have done anything, but because of "who they
are", and your coinciding unawareness of the fascist tendencies inherent in
that statement.  If one is to place limits on what speech is "acceptable",
one has taken the first step down the road to absolute dictatorship,
particularly when one places such power in as biased an arbiter as a
corporation.  If one is to forbid the espousement of admittedly noxious
fascist ideas, couldn't one just as easily ban "disruptive" and embarrassing
announcements from labor, no matter how justified?  Before one who calls
himself an "anti-fascist" begins to collaborate with corporations, he would
be well advised to remember that Hitler was originally funded and supported
by German corporations, and that he presided over the fastest economic
expansion in the history of civilization, supported by slave labor and blood
money.  After all, as Ron Leven of J.P. Morgan told the Chicago Tribune,
"Democracy may be a desirable form of government, but it's not necessarily
the most efficient form of government."

-Charles Finocchiaro

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Kneisel <tallpaul-AT-nyct.net>
To: <anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Cc: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Yahoo! Cancels Banner Ads Placed By SEIU Labor Union


> Interesting data that Chuck O published. What was the purpose?
>