Re: FW: Re Krystallnacht in Seattle(?)
Agree. It was more like Chicago 1968. -- 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 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 pete wrote: 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 it? I guess it's a result of hearing in passing somewhere that almost all `revolutionary' political groups in north america in the sixties were penetrated by agents provocateur in the pay of one or another US govt agency, even the goofball Vancouver Maoist faction. -Pete Vincent -- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA --- ![%THINK;[XML]] Visit my website: http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
Re: FW: Re Krystallnacht in Seattle(?)
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 pete wrote: 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 it? I guess it's a result of hearing in passing somewhere that almost all `revolutionary' political groups in north america in the sixties were penetrated by agents provocateur in the pay of one or another US govt agency, even the goofball Vancouver Maoist faction. -Pete Vincent -- Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA --- ![%THINK;[XML]] Visit my website: http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
Re: FW: Re Krystallnacht in Seattle(?)
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, and I picked it up as an image of what could happen if revolutionary fervour went astray as has been known to happen in the past. Victor
Re: FW: Re Krystallnacht in Seattle
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 been at it again in their work against enivironmentalists who have been blowing up oil company property to protest their complete disregard for human and environmental health. The RCMP blew things up too, to establish their bona fides and stir up public opinion. It worked in Quebec, why not in Alberta ? Mike 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 it? I guess it's a result of hearing in passing somewhere that almost all `revolutionary' political groups in north america in the sixties were penetrated by agents provocateur in the pay of one or another US govt agency, even the goofball Vancouver Maoist faction. -Pete Vincent
