[Peace-discuss] tea parties miss the boat

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Well, Ricky missed an opportunity to come out and join us in opposing 
empire-building
and instead chose to attack the event in an unfounded and uninformed way.

It's fairly likely that this group will be having another rally sometime 
or the other and I will make sure that they get
it on Peace-announce.

John W. wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:03 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag 
> <mailto:ewj at pigs.ag>> wrote:
>
>     /"A lot of coded racism plays into this nowadays, too:
>     anti-welfare "queen" ideology a la Ronnie "Rayguns" Reagan, etc.
>     On a very important institutional level this is a familiar "divide
>     and conquer" politics of the sort that allowed the English to
>     conquer the Native Americans, India, and so on, and still keeps
>     the American people under the thumb of its wealthy. It distracts
>     our righteous popular anger over the repeated bail-outs of the
>     rich and deepening neglect of most of us - away from the authentic
>     popular pressure that is striving heroically in the opposite
>     direction: toward a "people's bailout" and what some are calling
>     equity <http://www.equityblog.org/>. "/
>
>
>     Ricky---
>
>     You weren't even present at the tea party rally and you are saying
>     all this about what was said? 
>
>     And accusations of "coded racism"?
>
>     I must say that it doesn't advance things much when folks write
>     statements like this based on no knowledge of the actual situation.
>
>     Wayne
>
>
> By the same token, Wayne, you're quoting only Ricky's last paragraph 
> and ignoring all the rest of it.
>
> My understanding is that Ricky's essay isn't based on what 
> specifically was said in West Side Park this afternoon, but on the 
> information that is generally available about the purpose of the "tea 
> parties" nationwide, and about what libertarians stand for.  And of 
> course he's right.
>
> John Wason
>
>
>  
>
>     Ricky Baldwin wrote:
>>     My 2c...
>>
>>     http://theclayeater.blogspot.com/2009/04/missing-boat.html
>>      
>>     Ricky
>>
>>     "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>
>

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