From: gracchus <tiberiusgracchus-AT-home.com> Subject: Re: Shadow list? Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:41:22 -0700 Chuck0 said: > > I think that this response has been effective, so much so that USA Today > ran a front page article on Friday titled, "U.S. takes on war-hardened > Taliban is helped create." The Left's response has been a bit > inconsistent, but I think that its approach--focusing on how U.S. > foreign policy has come home--was the message that the public needs to > hear. I think this information is the kind that gets through the > patriotic barriers that have been put up in many minds. > > Chuck0 maybe, but i'm not buying it. things have changed. look at it this way: we're dedicated to the proposition that individuals acting without coercion and in autonomous and self-regulationg groups, can be as productive and creative as the wage-slave-based engine of capitalism, ne pas? well, we've just seen a demonstration that the same un-coerced, autonomous groups can be just about as DESTRUCTIVE as the nation-state itself. you can try to change the subject by saying: well, the western states helped foster and create these groups. true, but irrelevant. concentrating on the evils of the state (while loads of fun, and even warranted given the current situation) doesn't change the fact that there is an elephant in the room. roger
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