Reply #153: Interesting [View All]

[Tinoire]

Look I am sick and tired of the smear job against ANSWER and all the right wing talking points I am seeing at DU these days and the many posts these last two days about what will swing-voters think or people's Republican friends think! The terminology you're using in your posts denouncing ANSWER is interesting and I find it quite suspect. You have a problem with Ramsey Clark? I don't. And I'll support him and his organization until the bitter end over someone who uses words such as "red-baiting" to scare people off from it or say something this bizarre:

They behave like cult members when they attend meetings and such. They're very unpleasant to deal with.

If I mistook your point, I am sorry for mistaking it but I won't stand by quietly as people attack the main group that has had any voice and any real success at organizing against this war!

Now to accuse me of outright lying as opposed to misunderstanding how on earth a progressive would start attacking a worthwhile organization like "Not In My Name", that I DO take offense to!

The last thing I want is to see ANSWER and NION marginalized by the anti-war movement because they ARE the anti-war movement in the US right now!

I also note with interest that, per your admission here, you weren't even old enough to vote for Reagan so just how many groups have you started that were upset by these radical ideologues? How can someone who wasn't even born in the 60s come tell those of us who did what we did that these groups were the death of us and will be the death of this? Just how old are you and how much experience do you have to be preaching so mightily against these groups that some of us have worked with and followed for decades?

People can't afford to shrink from the charge of "red-baiting". These groups did a lot of damage in the sixties, and they need to be cut off now.

Just how much damage did they do in the 60s? Are you sure it wasn't the CIA infiltrating these groups and then convincing Middle America that it was the communists doing all the damage?

Have no fears about charges of red-baiting! This time the charges will be that Al-Queda is somehow involved and that has already started with the beginning, insidious posts that ANSWER supports suicide bombers. They will find a reason no matter what they have to use.

Also, btw, please spare me your disappointment- I'm not here to entertain you or anyone else.