In a message dated 03/03/2001 11:52:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << HOWEVER it must be said that if Jared is a revolutionary and not merely a cheerleader for the Serbian Socialist Party, then it is time to move on. >> (i.e., from Yugoslavia) Why the casual bait? A) I have never been a cheerleader of anything. This sentence is a perfect illustration of precisely the technique of lying which I analyzed in the article about which Mark is "commenting." Using this "if-Jared-is-a-man-he-will-stop-beating-his-wife" method, one takes a lie - in this case, that I cheerlead for the Serbian socialist party - and states it in such a way that it seems like an established fact. Thus "if Jared is NOT MERELY a cheerleader" assumes that I am AT LEAST IN PART a cheerleader. The article Mark is criticizing, which I will repost in case people missed it, deals with the current attempt to resurrect the slanders against the Serbian people. This is being done because NATO is engaged in new slaughter - that point is stated in the first sentence. In this context, the attempt to slander Miloshevich as a racist is most important. Miloshevich is significant not MAINLY as an SPS leader but as one who resisted US domination of the strategic Balkans, whose conquest is necessary for the next stage of the US agenda: the former Soviet Union. B) The choices in life are NOT between being "a revolutionary and a cheerleader for the SPS." At least, not for me. "Revolutionary" is a much abused term; mostly, it is prattle used by people with no connection to ordinary people. At its worst it is a stick with which to beat those who are actually trying to change people's thinking. Shame on mark to stoop to this trivial shit. My pride is this: I expose lies of Empire and I regularly reach huge numbers of people . Second, I am not or sale. Other than that, I have no pretensions of being a big revolutionary. B) We write about many issues other than the slander of Yugoslavia on Emperor's Clothes; suggested reading list below. That being the case, what is the meaning of Mark's admonition except that we DROP the issue of Yugoslavia? If we did that now that the Serbian people are in their darkest hour what would it show? That we are wretched opportunists, who only care to persevere when those we write about have some power. THAT would make me a cheerleader, wouldn't it. Indeed, that is precisely what I was accused of in the last phase - it was said I was a creature of - the Yugoslav Foreign Office. Should I desert the Serbian people now that they are paying for having resisted the British and US empires. Below are some articles from Emperor's Clothes. Though I am NOT a "revolutionary" I am proud that these articles reach literally hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of people (not just the about 100,000 regular readers of Empeor's Clothes). This broad reach means a little more of the truth on various subjects gets out. It is odd that mark attempts to mock this effort. 1) My critiqwue of the Kosovo peace agreement in 1999 - This agreement was accepted by the SPS http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/PeaceWar.html 2) My article on racism and the sinking of the Japanese trawler http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/cowards.htm 3) Chossudvsky on the suppression of black people during the recent US presidential election http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/chuss/excerpts.htm 4) Interview on Congo http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/congo.htm 5) Article on newspaper lies about Iraq, reprinted from FAIR http://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/fairiraq.htm _______________________________________________ CrashList website: http://website.lineone.net/~resource_base
