<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>What's going on now on campus gives the students their only genuine opportunity to learn anything politically meaningful.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span></span> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18.66px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>DG</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday,
September 8, 2014 10:29 AM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">Sometimes I am really glad that what I call home is not Urbana<br>and not even the US of A.<br><br>I am glad that I wasn't around for the rise and demise of the Occupy! <br>movement since<br>my expression of opinion about what the usa did to Occupy! might have <br>surely landed me behind bars similar to Kokesh and others, although I am <br>not into guns and drugs,<br>individually or collectively mixed.<br><br>I'd probably be on the Quad, where I have no business, raising a ruckus <br>and maybe<br>even inciting incivilities of various sorts. Not a good idea at all.<br><br>I have come up with several placard slogans for the
anti-Phyllis Wise camp.<br>None of which I will use or share with others.<br><br>I have been quite aware for quite-a-long-time that my opinions are <br>rather far from<br>"mainstream" and it has been so long since I dismissed the "mainstream <br>of American life"<br>as "a stinking open sewage ditch" that I often forget how little I have <br>in common<br>with the mass of Amerikans. Some of that is because my relatively few <br>associations with<br>other human beings is with those who have notions similar to mine.<br><br>Even so, I find this note from the DI so nauseatingly fluffy and <br>disturbing that I am really taken<br>aback by it. If this is really a representation of the opinion of the <br>student body, then<br>there really is not anything much to fight for or against any more. If <br>this is all that there<br>is then just let them keep dancing, if that's all there is.<br><br><a
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