[Peace-discuss] [Announce] [Peace] WCIA has posted a petitionre resignation of Mayor Schweighart

[C. G. Estabrook]

Admirably succinct & accurate.

For more of David Green's analysis, see "News from Neptune" on Urbana Public 
Television, cable channel 6, this coming Friday at 7pm.  --CGE


On 4/18/10 11:42 AM, David Green wrote:
> Dave, They're people who waste time and analytical energy on non-existent
> conspiracies. Meanwhile, they ignore the relatively "open" conspiracies that
> do exist. These include the financialization of the economy, and the attack
> on Social Security, for example. Not to mention the invasion of Iraq--which
> by some is blamed on the Israel Lobby (wrongly). In the 1980s, there were
> genuine conspiracies to convince the broad American public that satanic
> rituals were being conducted in day care centers, and that the Vietnamese
> were still holding POWs. These conspiracies were wildly successful, in that
> most people still probably believe the conspirators claims to be true. No
> ritual abuse ever happened, and no POW other than Robert Garwood (who chose
> to stay for a while) was ever held in Vietnam after 1973. Now people
> apparently believe that SS is in trouble, when in its not, just like the
> believe that American POWs languish in Vietnam. So the tea partiers and
> militias are recognized by Chomsky as having genuine grievances, which if not
> taken seriously could result in a genuine fascist movement. And the liberals
> are claiming that a conspiracy is already afoot, regardless of their
> grievances. But the (open) conspiracy is at the highest levels of society,
> and accusations of against the Tea Partiers nicely distracts us from the real
> threat. So whom do the Dems work for? A nice local example is Education prof.
> Nicholas Burbules, who does a blog that "obsesses" about people like Michael
> Steele, the head of the Republican Committee. There's an article on the front
> page of the Local NG section today about some rather silly research. It all
> fits quite nicely, in my mind. DG
>
>
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> *From:* unionyes <unionyes at ameritech.net> *To:* David Green
> <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> *Sent:* Sat, April 17, 2010 10:42:09 PM *Subject:*
> Re: [Peace-discuss] [Announce] [Peace] WCIA has posted a petitionre
> resignation of Mayor Schweighart
>
>  "just like the birthers and the truthers." Who are the " Truthers " David
> and how do they relate to the " Birthers " ? David J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- *From:* David Green
> <mailto:davegreen84 at yahoo.com> *To:* John W. <mailto:jbw292002 at gmail.com> ;
> Durango Mendoza <mailto:durangom at hotmail.com> *Cc:* Peace Discuss List
> <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> ;
> announce at lists.communitycourtwatch.org
> <mailto:announce at lists.communitycourtwatch.org> *Sent:* Saturday, April 17,
> 2010 8:46 PM *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] [Announce] [Peace] WCIA has
> posted a petitionre resignation of Mayor Schweighart
>
> I just don't follow Durango's analogy. Democrats trying to use this incident
> to gain political capital for Obama (and his ugly policies) are hardly to be
> compared to Rosa Parks. It was Carl who brought up the relevance of the
> murder of Kiwane Carrington. Schweiggart and the Democrats deserve each
> other, just like the birthers and the truthers. The exploitation of this
> silly and basically irrrelevant comment has nothing to do with advocating for
> substantive change on a local or national level. We already know what
> Schwiggart is about--this incident doesn't tell us anything new. DG

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