You are way out of line calling people Stalinists. You may not do that
here. Last warning.
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:44:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems that some people think that the only way a thread ends here is when
> they get to finish it with an unanswered ad hominem attack. Maybe they get
> that idea because Michael sits by quietly while they do it, even though he
> had said that the thread had ended. And maybe they get that idea because when
> they are rude, obnoxious and unprincipled enough, having the equivalent of a
> listserv temper tantrum, Michael will give them have their way by stopping
> threads they don't like.
>
> But since I am not in the mood at this moment to have my name further
> assaulted by authoritarians of the "left" without reply...
>
> 1. It is a matter of pride to me that I am on the filter list of self-avowed
> Stalinists like Carrol Cox. I would be disappointed if I were not.
>
> 2. Self-avowed Stalinists like Charles Brown wouldn't know what free speech
> was if it ran them over.
>
> 3. The accusation of "red-baiting," as it has been employed here, is the last
> refuge of those who can't and won't engage in open and honest debate.
>
> Charles Brown wrote:
> << As I see it on this thread, you started out trying to discredit Greg
> Tarpinian's report on the Teamster's convention by redbaiting and guilt by
> association, and now I come back a little while later and you are claiming
> your freedom of speech is being harmed But what was your original redbaiting
> but cutting off discourse ? So, it is difficult to be sympathetic to your
> complaints below.The simple question ( or one of them) is did Tarpinian
> accurately report that the Teamsters changed their constitution to provide
> for direct election of officers ? If so , that is a democratic advance worthy
> of the history of TDU, and your speculations about Tarpianian being
> opportunist or motivated by anti-Trotskyism ( not to mention part of a
> Communist Party front) is the original discouse-dampening move on this
> thread. Charles Brown >>
>
> Leo Casey
> United Federation of Teachers
> 260 Park Avenue South
> New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
>
> Power concedes nothing without a demand.
> It never has, and it never will.
> If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
> Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
> want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
> lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
> -- Frederick Douglass --
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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