Chip Berlet is a spook, which makes Sean McBride another name for a
spook.
Peace,
Kris Millegan
On Aug 28, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Sean McBride wrote:
For the record: it's still the case that I've never met with or
communicated with Chip Berlet, nor have I barely thought of him
since the last time this subject came up. I just did a quick
search on Berlet and discovered that he now has a blog here:
http://chipberlet.blogspot.com/
Frankly, to indulge in a bit of braggadocio, I think political-
research and my Google Reader Shared Items page cover a much wider
range of interesting topics than Berlet's blog. He seems to be
mostly focused on Dominionism these days, and not much else. I
must admit that I do agree with his views on that subject, as no
doubt do most of the readers of this list. I favor the term
"Christian Armageddonists" to describe the phenomenon.
RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chip, you really are quite the "gag"-puller.
Peace,
Kris Millegan
On Aug 28, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Sean McBride wrote:
I'm not sure this post contributes to inter-ethnic amity, but
Eastman has rather invited it. Generally, if you kick other
ethnic or religious groups hard in sensitive areas, they will kick
back. It's all purely Pavlovian.
By the way, I've never allowed Dick Eastman to post here because
of this problem he has. I think he's a sincere truth seeker with
some original insights about deep politics, but injecting any form
of bigotry into these discussions makes it impossible to proceed
rationally. He needs to rework his world model from the ground up.
tigerbengalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
He's still an asshat, no doubt still an anti-Semitic moron, and
probably has a closet full of porn.
Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My comment:
Dick Eastman deserves some credit for acknowledging and
apologizing for the antisemitism which disfigures quite a few of
his posts. (And Mark Bilk and I deserve some credit for
confronting him about this antisemitism.) No one is beyond
redemption -- perhaps Eastman will begin to think more clearly
about these issues in the future.
A basic rule of thumb: judge people as individuals, not as members
of ethnic, religious or national groups. Don't attack entire
groups of people on the basis of ethnic, religious or national
stereotypes. It's the American Way.
All forms of obsessive ethnic and religious bigotry are much like
alcoholism -- the victims of this disease need help. Deep inside
all bigots know that they have a psychological problem and that
this is no way to live.
Dick Eastman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: "Dick Eastman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: When I attacked Jewish culture in my last post -- I
crossed over into Hitlerland.
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:55:48 -0700
I have let myself become unjustly critical of Jews as a group --
greatly harming the effort of bringing to justice individual
(Jewish) perpetrators of specific monstrous crimes and social
problems
Mark Bilk warned me this would happen.
As some find it hard not to blame the "white man" in general --
so this white man has gone and slandered innocent Jews (by
bunching them with the guilty ones.)
Guilt belongs only to individuals. Collective guilt is unjust.
And to attack a people and their entire culture is to engage in
collective guilt.
I probably won't quit posting -- never seem to be able to do that
for long. But you and I know that I have a problem.
It doesn't matter how right I am on some things -- better to let
the guilty go free than to condemn the innocent.
Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
p.s. in case you are confused -- I am referring to my post:
Re: Weaponized Porn -- letters and responses -- oi vey!
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