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From: brandon_freels@aaahawk.com (Brandon Freels)
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Subject: Re: OUT WITH THEM ALL! - The Portland Surrealists' A21 Statement
Date: 22 Aug 2003 12:36:12 -0700
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> Would you cats be willing to vote strategically against Bush... opting
> for the lesser evil? Or will y'all be boycotting on principle?
I can't see myself voting, even "strategically" for a lesser evil.
Doing so would only dissolve any revolutionary momentum. I tend to
feel that for there to be any radical change there must be some kind
of visible political nemesis -- like Bush. Republicans fit this role
well. Democrats tend to become invisible or illusionary, even though
there is little difference between the two parties and their
intentions.
At the rally yesterday, I got into an argument with a Howard Dean
supporter who was enraged by several anarchists burning a flag. His
flimsy argument was that by burning the flag the anarchists were only
making Bush-supporters out of Patriotic Democrats, and that the flag
DOESN'T symbolize Bush. But, I tried to explain to him, Bush DOES
represent the worst of what that flag has to offer. Bush is a product
of what that flag symbolizes, and is just one glaring reason why that
system needs to be eliminated. Unfortunately, once I started
criticizing the system he got irate and we had to be separated by some
masked anarchists. Later I saw the same yahoo trying to physically
stop someone from burning another flag.
For more info on yesterday in Portland:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/action/a22round2/
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