Agree. It was more like Chicago 1968.
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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: Re Krystallnacht in Seattle(?)
Date: Monday, December 13, 1999 7:52PM
Replying to no particular posting on this thread:
Is "Krystallnacht" really an appropriate wor
Intratextual comments by Bruce Leier
I'm not sure whether people are misreading this
by taking it out of
context--I was responding to Ed Weick's concern
that very ordinary, humble
people could get targeted as "capitalists",
certainly not to argue that Bill
Gates is just doing the same kind
Victor Milne:
No question about it--the Nazis had a lot of popular support. (So does Mike
Harris in Ontario.) However, any history and culture is made up of a lot of
conflicting traditions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's biographer relates that the
morning after Krystallnacht, Bonhoeffer's grandmother,
Ed,
In a parallel posting directed at Tim Rourke I've indicated that I agree
with your main point about the dangers of ideological labeling of groups of
people, but I don't quite agree with your comparison of the vandalism in
Seattle to Krystallnacht on a smaller scale.
The important difference
Ed,
The notion that the meshing of economies through trade and business would
ensure peace was prevalent in the 1920s. It was an argument used by people
opposed to the League of Nations. It didn't work very well then and I
doubt that it will work very well now. Competition for resources is a
Mike Hollinshead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think I am a conspiracy theorist, but I know enough about the role
of agents provocateurs in history to wonder if the vandals in Seattle were
all that people assume them to be.
So does that make me paranoid when that was my first thought about
sniped from V. Milne: 12/11/99 post:
I do think your point about the dangers of
demonizing capitalists is very
well taken. I can't think of any definition of
capitalism that will send
Bill Gates to the guillotine while sparing the
independent plumber with a
battered old van.
no need to
Replying to no particular posting on this thread:
Is "Krystallnacht" really an appropriate word to apply
to what happened in Seattle? Of course I wasn't
there, so maybe it *is* entirely apposite. But
my guess, so far, is it isn't.
http://remember.org/
"Never again!"
\brad mccormick
Is "Krystallnacht" really an appropriate word to apply
to what happened in Seattle? Of course I wasn't
there, so maybe it *is* entirely apposite. But
my guess, so far, is it isn't.
No, not particularly, as far as I know. Ed Weick said the broken windows
made him think of Krystallnacht,
- Original Message -
From: Bruce Leier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Victor Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 13, 1999 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Krystallnacht in Seattle
sniped from V. Milne: 12/11/99 post:
I do think your point about the dangers of
demonizing
- Original Message -
From: Ed Weick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Victor Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 13, 1999 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: Krystallnacht in Seattle
Ed,
In a parallel posting directed at Tim Rourke I've indicated that I agree
with your main point about
You are not paranoid, those people really are out to get you :-)
But seriously, who can forget that during the FLQ crisis, the RCMP were
planting bombs and burning down barns in order to establish their bona
fides with the revolutionaries and to influence public opinion against them
? They have
I don't think I am a conspiracy theorist, but I know enough about the role
of agents provocateurs in history to wonder if the vandals in Seattle were
all that people assume them to be.
Mike
Ed,
In a parallel posting directed at Tim Rourke I've indicated that I agree
with your main point about
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