Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 16:54:26 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: Organised anarchist mailing list


Jamal Hannah wrote:

> "spent too much time on fascist lists"? What kind of bullshit slur is
> that? You know better than that, Chuck.  The problem back in 1995 is that
> the regular anarchists (anti-capitalist, etc) were not very open or vocal
> on the internet.. people who were openly calling themselves anarchist or
> libertarian were the kind of people who had internet access back in the
> early days.. college students or people at high-tech firms. A lot of them
> had pretty bourgeois ideas.  It's taken some time and organizing to change
> things (as well as the natural demographic shift of people on the
> Internet).

It wasn't a slur, Jamal, it was a friendly flame. I respect your work against
the "national anarchists" and others and will go on public record about that.

> The Organise list was never elite.. there's nothing wrong with having a
> list statement of principles.  Why do you trash everything that isnt
> exactly the way you want it to be?  Even the Anarchy-List has a sort of
> unwritten statement of principles.  Jerks like Bill White are out of place
> there.

I didn't trash the Organise list, I was correcting your statement that it was
open like the anarchy-list. That statement is inaccurate. Organise has an
entrance requirement whereas the anarchy-list does not.

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An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was
told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to
shout ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ If he shoots, he’s unfriendly. So I saw this
dude and yelled ‘To hell with Ho Chi Minh!’ and he yelled back, ‘To hell with
President Johnson!’ We were shaking hands when a truck hit us." 

(from 1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft, by Tuli Kupferburg).