michael yates <[email protected]> writes:

> Newman says, "How much time have Maoists, Trotskyists, Greens,
> anarchists, and the rest of the thumb-sucking ultra-left wasted? I was
> at a meeting of peace activists in Los Angeles recently and was forced
> to patiently endure while a woman gave a long rant about how important
> it was for us to introduce Americans to the writings of Bob
> Avakian. Why is the ultra-left so tolerant of ultra-left drivel, if it
> is so concerned about wasting people's time?"
>
> Well, there you have it. Newman represents the respectable left, while
> the rest of us misguided souls are the thumbsucking ultra
> left. Christ, with that level of sophistication in argument, it must
> be true that a certain Ivy League school has gone downhill since
> comrade Henwood attended.
>
> Carrol is correct that there are petitions and then there are
> petitions.

Actually, I think Carrol meant there are petition gathering methods, and
there are petition gathering methods.  These online things are the
alcohol free beer of the activist world.

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