Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 13:18:27 -0400
Subject: RE: AUT: PENTAGON CONTACTS NEW YORK UNIVERSITY RE ECD PAGE


Paul Bowman wrote:

>Doug, your argument seems to me to be a re-working of the familiar "If
>you fight them it'll only provoke them, therefore you are helping the
>cause of repression" argument that the likes of the CP always used to
>use against the active left.

Not at all. Civil disobedience makes lots of sense when you're violating an
outrageous law. On something like this, though, it's politics by gesture,
revolution by simulacrum. You're not going to draw much public attention to
your cause, and you'll probably alienate more people than you win over. The
governments involved can easily take the "high road" of defending the free
flow of information against a bunch of troublemakers. That, plus the
inevitable tightening of "security," makes it a net loser. Does anyone
really think the Mexican government will go any easier on the Zaps because
a website was jammed?

Doug





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