[Peace-discuss] whoa.

[David Green via Peace-discuss]

What's going on now on campus gives the students their only genuine opportunity to learn anything politically meaningful.
 
DG 


On Monday, September 8, 2014 10:29 AM, E. W. Johnson via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
  

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>Sometimes I am really glad that what I call home is not Urbana
>and not even the US of A.
>
>I am glad that I wasn't around for the rise and demise of the Occupy! 
>movement since
>my expression of opinion about what the usa did to Occupy! might have 
>surely landed me behind bars similar to Kokesh and others, although I am 
>not into guns and drugs,
>individually or collectively mixed.
>
>I'd probably be on the Quad, where I have no business, raising a ruckus 
>and maybe
>even inciting incivilities of various sorts.  Not a good idea at all.
>
>I have come up with several placard slogans for the anti-Phyllis Wise camp.
>None of which I will use or share with others.
>
>I have been quite aware for quite-a-long-time that my opinions are 
>rather far from
>"mainstream" and it has been so long since I dismissed the "mainstream 
>of American life"
>as "a stinking open sewage ditch" that I often forget how little I have 
>in common
>with the mass of Amerikans.  Some of that is because my relatively few 
>associations with
>other human beings is with those who have notions similar to mine.
>
>Even so, I find this note from the DI so nauseatingly fluffy and 
>disturbing that I am really taken
>aback by it.  If this is really a representation of the opinion of the 
>student body, then
>there really is not anything much to fight for or against any more. If 
>this is all that there
>is then just let them keep dancing, if that's all there is.
>
>http://www.dailyillini.com/opinion/article_8de6e5c0-36dc-11e4-8e0c-001a4bcf6878.html
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