I wasn't suggesting that we hold to it. I was simply stating it as a fact.
Incidentally, there is an article in today's Globe and Mail on what
capitalism has done for upper middle class Americans living in Scottsdale,
Arizona, during the past ten years. Hot tubs inside and out, 3,000 sq.ft.
Tim,
You most certainly did NOT understand the piece correctly the first time.
You treated it as an anti-semitic comment, and then later admitted that you
had missed the phrase "trumped up" in reference to the protocols of Zion.
In now calling it the "poor little persecuted billionaires"
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
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
I'm sending an Attachment which contains our response to the WTO-Seattle
events. If anyone wants a text-form statement please let us know.
Warm Greetings,
Al Andersen, co-director
Tom Paine Institute
committed to truly just economic and political structures
Hi All:
I always scrored badly in deductive logic. My forte is more in the inductive.
Can someone tell me if this works?
Capitalism cannot work without money.
Money is an abstract measure of value.
A human face is not abstract, but real.
Consequently,
Capitalism's human face is an oxymoron.
C.C. and B.C.C. To other interested partys.
Letter To the Editor:
"The Shame of the Budget Surplus"
Some consumers of propaganda who have followed the Federal Budget deficit
demon of the 80s, through the slashing of the transfer payments to the
provinces, and the subsequent demolition and
I might not have understood the original piece. I am not sure I even got
the e-mail that started the whole thing, and I don't know if I can find
the "Protocols of Zion" passage again but I definately did read it and
understand it. That part is exactly what makes the thing so offensive.
There is
[snip]
P.S. Aren't you the guy about six months ago who was ranting to have
Serbia
invaded, razed to the ground, plowed with salt, and its population
deported
to the four corners of the earth, in order to bring peace to the Balkans?
Tim,
No, your memory is not very good. I was one of
