tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post115308683597198587..comments2024-03-11T16:52:26.540-07:00Comments on Can it happen here?: Of progressive U.S. activists and our futilityjaninsanfranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07548452260456734928noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11093162.post-1153271926338923782006-07-18T18:18:00.000-07:002006-07-18T18:18:00.000-07:00Yikes, I see you have a "no islamic fascism" sympa...Yikes, I see you have a "no islamic fascism" sympathizer lurking about your site.<BR/><BR/>That was a good "taking apart" of my rather melodramatic post about being "arrested" or "murdered" if we were actually effective at changing things, and I agree with all of your points, especially enjoying the phrase "So we blither -- and endlessly inform ourselves."<BR/><BR/>Tina's post from Lebanon reminded me of a time in the early 1970s when Kissinger and his cronies in the United States government had just finished helping to murder Allende and his supporters in Chile. I was 20 years old, traveling with a young French-Polish friend, which was how I ended up hanging out in a wildly interesting old Jewish communist household. (Note to FBI: They're all dead now.)<BR/><BR/>The household was helping out various refugees who had made their way north from Chile, and one young Chilean violently attacked me for being an American and being complicit in the murder and torture of her countrymen. The rest of the household defended me, saying it wasn't my fault as a "kid" for any of this, but in truth Tina's remark was very similar, and made me feel equally awful.<BR/><BR/>Your musings on "power," and how we need to get dirty and "replace them with our own bums" leaves me very ambivalent, but I'm pretty sure you're right.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.com