[Peace-discuss] Guess the author (no googling)

[John W.]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:28 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:



> You're wrong to be so censorious, John: I think Stuart has already
> occasionally
> said actually sensible things...
>


Indeed, he always does.  That of course was the point.



> And your low opinion of your fellow citizens in this case betrays you:
> almost
> half of Americans believe that "From each according to his ability, to each
> according to his need" is enshrined in that Sacred Document, the
> Constitution.
>

Your source of that information?



> We don't have to make them interested in the "communist creed" because they
> already are; they see it as an American (and hence universal) ideal - at
> least until it can adequately besmirched as "Communist" by a Good
> Education...
>

And your point is....?  Did you answer my question?  Do you feel that you
did?




> On 5/8/10 4:46 AM, John W. wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:22 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu
>> <mailto:galliher at illinois.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> ... the remarkable unwillingness of supporters of the administration even
>> to
>>
>> hear the complaints of people like Stack is the real problem.  The
>> willingness of the bien-pensant simply to dismiss them is outrageous and
>> even
>> dangerous.
>>
>> Stack wrote, "The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to
>> each according to his need. / The capitalist creed: From each according to
>> his gullibility, to each according to his greed."
>>
>> We don't make progress toward the former by acquiescing in the latter.
>>
>> So what do you propose, Carl?  The bien pensant, as you call them, are not
>> INTERESTED in the communist creed, either in theory or in practice.
>> They're
>> INTERESTED in the capitalist creed as articulated by Joe Stack. All of our
>> laws and our customs and our culture and our social policies support the
>> capitalist creed.  Short of flying an airplane into a building (which is
>> ineffective anyway), how do you propose that we MAKE them interested in
>> the
>> communist creed?  How do you propose that we move America in the direction
>> of the communist creed? Wayne, why don't you weigh in, too?  Quote some
>> Chinese, make some esoteric puns. And then maybe Stuart will have
>> something
>> to say that is actually sensible.
>>
>

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