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JohnGilbert - 18 Oct 2006
THE STRATEGY: Some successful radical movements are growing their membership by goosing their own people, waking these sleepers up with short term pain for long term gain, say Gwynne Dyer and Ralph Nader.
Gwynne Dyer said "Al-Qaida will do Whatever it Takes to Assure Bush is Re-elected" - January 22, 2004 by the Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Al-Qaida+will+do+Whatever+it+Takes+to+Assure+Bush+is+Re-elected&meta=
Nader said the same thing ...
From: core-xxx
To: John Gilbert
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Do Whatever it Takes to Assure Harper is Elected.
"ok I see but it's a pretty abstract point.
Nader said something similar (to Dyer's point) about the radicals "going to sleep" if Gore was elected; while nothing would change; he favoured Bush since all the radicals were wide awake and working for change locally for four years"... ^C (Craig H.)
Are we in a war, or just an action without sustainable commitment,
where we later go home and resume a comfortable life (Ward Churchill)
We usually "think with our mind but act with our heart" ...as in 'Violence is baa-a-d':
http://www.google.ca/search?q=The+Parable+of+the+Sheep+By+Charles+Riggs&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&meta=.
When sheep don't listen, we are pressured to compromise with "variety of tactics".
Authoritarian governments have restored some equality while
our failed Western democracy has never cured child poverty.
We think with our minds but act with our hearts, emotion rules logic. -
http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/AnarchistPriorities