Smart Mobbing the War

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bruce Campbell <bc () clicknation com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 00:48:58 -0500
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Smart Mobbing the War

Dave, First Time emailer to you after months of reading your IP list

fascinating mailings. Agree sometimes, disagree sometimes. Always
something of note.



I don't know if you saw the big NYTimes Magazine piece on the
Internet-driven mobilization for the (least-objectionable) branch of
the antiwar campaign. It is particularly insightful on some of the new
organizing techniques. Thank God Lenin didn't have these techniques in
1917!

The piece is pretty objective given that the author is critical of the
naivete of these people. But the money quote comes near the end as the
author characterizes the principal organizer's world view:

> War is evil, therefore prevention of war must be good. The wars fought
> for human rights in our own time -- in Bosnia and Kosovo -- have not
> registered with Pariser's generation. When I asked Pariser whether the
> views of Iraqis themselves should be taken into account, he said, ''I
> don't think that first and foremost this is about them as much as it's
> about us and how we act in the world.


The Snoofmadrune weblog:
http://www.clicknation.com/snoof/



Bruce Campbell

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