> >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > > >Dear Friends, > >A word from the [usually silent] peanut gallery at >NY Transfer. > >The Militant is irrelevant. Most of the so-called organized >US "left," quite frankly, is irrelevant, in the larger scheme >of things. > >In terms of Elian Gonzalez and the US covert war against Cuba, >the Militant is completely meaningless. The issue of what they >say, print, or believe has utterly no importance. There are >much more serious opponents to struggle against. > >Individual leftists' and progressives' politics, like their >use of the Internet, are much more powerful and relevant than >any splinter group of fringe parties who would claim to represent >us.. The "organized left" in the US is more than just a >contradiction in terms -- it's a bad joke. > >The Militant and its lunatic fringe position on the Reno raid >has only one potentially important impact -- it is the same >thing desired by the CIA and FBI and other police agencies we >know so well.... to divide the opposition. The Militant took >a similarly absurd position last year on the Sea Shepherd's >direct action to save marine life! The Militant claimed the >Sea Shepherd is "racist" to oppose native people's alleged >"indigenous right" to engage in the completely unnecessary >slaughter of other species. We say it is racist to believe >that indigenous human groups cannot adapt to the changing >ecology of the earth that requires an end to practices that >may once have sustained their lives, but are now merely an >exercise of arrogant power by one species against another, >cloaked in the false legitimacy of religious ritual. > >The Militant can say whatever it likes. No one is listening >except for a handful of progressives who should not be wasting >their time playing ideological wargames with what has clearly >become a bunch of provocateurs. Don't fall the old game again. > >Ignore the Militant -- the rest of the world already does. Let's >concentrate our efforts on getting the rotten US Government -- >the REAL enemy, with the REAL power -- to FREE THE CUBAN HOSTAGES >TO GO HOME NOW. Wake up! Grow up! There is NO TIME for the >self-indulgence of these tiresome, anachronistic doctrinal disputes. > >The Militant is playing a Lyndon LaRouche role here. Can't we >just recognize a provocateur organization when we see it, ignore >it, offer our compassion to any honest activists who have fallen >under its sway, and then move on to more productive activities? > > >Kathleen Kelly >NY Transfer News > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Double your manufacturer's warranty on all computers, >home appliances, and electronics AND win up to $500 >towards your purchase! >http://click.egroups.com/1/3749/0/_/30563/_/958023410/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Cuba SI - Imperialism NO! >Information and discussion about Cuba. >Socialism or death! Patria o muerte! Venceremos! >http://www.egroups.com/group/cubasi > >Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
