Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 13:38:59 -0000
Subject: Re: Sto P MaKIng Sense and Stop Wasting Time


To claim that nothing can be done about the impending war is 
dishonest. 

Academics and intellectuals are invested with a kind of cultural 
authority and this authority can be used for good, particularly if 
many of the widely-respected figures in our profession raise their 
heads above the parapet and start voicing dissent in the popular 
media at the glaring non-sequiturs in the case that's being made for 
war at present, and while they're at it, dissent at Bush's ludicrous 
claim to be doing good for all of humanity regardless of any 
contrary opinions all of humanity might hold.

An intellectual debate is one that Bush is constitutionally unable to 
win. The war against error should be taken to him on a global scale.


On 9 Dec 2002, at 4:51, Maldoror wrote:

> > The war in Iraq is terrible., Stop feeling bad and
> > do something
> > all of you whiners.
> 
> and what are you going to do? go to a protest that
> won't do any good? write an article for a
> dissident/academic journal that no one (1 in a 1000)
> in the masses will read?
> 
> you know it's funny i was at this bookstore and the
> owner wastellingme how my wife and i needed to go to
> this protest to stop the war in iraq and howbush
> needed to hear our collective voices. i just looked at
> her and said, 'do u think bush actually cares an ounce
> for what the public says? he's going to bomb whether 2
> ppl protest or 2 million protest.' she just looked at
> me and said 'well if we don't do anything then he's
> won.' so i replied 'he won when he got elected. he's
> there to serve his own ends while the ppl are just
> there to foot his bill.'
> 
> my point is that while it's nice to disseminate
> articles so we know of current events, it's pointless
> to think there's anything anyone can do that will
> realistically cange the course of events already set
> in motion years ago. unless of course everyone were to
> stop paying their taxes which would put a dent in his
> war budget but ppl aretoo scaredto go againsttheir
> gov't to do anything like that on a mass level which
> is the only way it might work. 10 ppl in omaha won't
> really have an effect except to get them sent to
> prison.
> 
> gr3g
> 
> ====> 
> 'every government is a dictatorship. every leader, a tyrant.'   -anonymous 
> 
> 
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Dr Brendon Nicholls
Lecturer, School of English, 
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
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