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2566 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9904232304260.24733-100000 at panix7.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes >And, just for argument's sake: if you have such solidarity, you can always >get weapons. Britain's stringent gun laws never stopped the IRA from >arming. They just stop kids in Glasgow from shooting each other over >soccer games. Whoa, hold on just a minute there... don't go along with the football hooligan panic. 'Kids in Glasgow' do not shoot each o ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 25 11:30:23 PDT 1999

2567 race & murder -- rank: 1000

Rakesh is mistaken if he thinks that I have any sympathy with the Narcissistic iconoclasm of teenagers wearing swastikas. In my opinion there's nothing worse than people who want to be controversial but are not willing to do the work of developing a real critique of existing conditions. Like Charles, Rakesh seems to want to fit this contemporary event into a template derived from past political activity. The two boys killed on Hitler's birthday, so they must be acting according to some recognisa ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 23 00:04:43 PDT 1999

2568 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

A lot of quibbling about Locke that borders on the formalistic. The question is not whether we should fit him into this or that pigeon hole; still less whether he is in tune with our times; but whether he took society forwards or backwards. Clearly the former. The essential point is that in his writings on the Original Contract, Locke conceives of a state that owes its legitimacy to the will of the people. Anyone who cannot see the spectacular advance that constitutes is just taking for granted ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Apr 22 17:24:29 PDT 1999

2569 Charles' knee-jerk demand for censorhip -- rank: 1000

In message <s71df7ba.040 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >>Outlaw the KKK and Nazis ! As usual Charles does not let the facts interfere with his belief in censorship. It emerges that the two killers were not Nazis or KKK members at all, but Goths. Their message of hate was not derived from the websites of the far right, but the heavy metal lyrics of Marilyn Manson, their inspiration was not fascism, but Natural Born Killers an ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Apr 22 14:43:43 PDT 1999

2570 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

In message <B03898593BC0D011A5B50060973D0F5CD6BF24 at rlm- exch1.rlmnet.com>, Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> writes > Whatever the initial moral worthiness of one's >aims, violence corrupts and absolute violence -- war -- corrupts >absolutely (Clinton and Blair: Please copy). I would have said that it was the initial worthiness of the aims that was really destructive in Kosovo. When you presume that you know so much better than other people how their lives should be le ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 21 11:59:09 PDT 1999

2571 Charles' support for the authorities -- rank: 1000

In this characteristic broadside, Charles demands more powers for the very state that is at the moment bombing Yugoslavia (which he rightly condemns). If the American state apparatus is given control over free speech, how will it use this right? To defend working people, and minorities? Or to suppress its own critics. Charles seems to be unaware that it is precisely in terms of suppressing 'hate speech' that the US military is bombing Yugoslav television stations. It is in the name of suppressin ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 21 11:41:35 PDT 1999

2572 The People's Right to Bear Arms -- rank: 1000

In message <14109.62414.46297.589951 at lisa.zopyra.com>, William S. Lear <rael at zopyra.com> writes >It's hard to see how a document prepared by slave-owners, merchants, >bankers, lawyers and the like could be "revolutionary bourgeois". Reading it, it's hard to imagine that it is anything other than revolutionary, and popular in character. It's major literary influence, I think, was John Locke, that theorist of the English revolution. A fine document it is too. Part ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 21 11:27:46 PDT 1999

2573 Hitchens profile -- rank: 1000

In message <v0401172ab3427efbd31c@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >New York magazine's profile of Christopher Hitchens - a promo tie-in for >his new book on Clinton, No One Left To Lie To - is at ><http://www.newyorkmag.com/This_Week/view.asp?id=2302>. A friend of mine boasts that he would often run into Christopher Hitchens climbing out of the window of the all-women's college in Oxford (St Catharine's, I think) early in the morning so as ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 20 12:49:26 PDT 1999

2574 neither/nor -- rank: 1000

I read this report by Cynthia Cockburn, and was struck at how her blanket denunciation of violence ended up being a polemic not so much against war, as against anti-war protesters. It is an interesting lesson in how universal standards tend to ignore, and eventually re-inforce inequalities that pre-exist such standards. Because her group has direct contact with the opposition movement, but only indirect contact with the war-mongers, Cockburn's universal denunciation of 'violence' is directed pri ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Apr 20 12:28:41 PDT 1999

2575 New Issue of _Cultural Logic_ (Fall, 1998) -- rank: 1000

In message <v0401172ab340183f51b5@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Their Donald Morton, editor of The Material Queer, blurbed James >Heartfield's recent pamphlet (Need & Desire in the Post-Material Economy), >which makes me scratch my head a bit. The Zavarzadeh/Ebert/Morton group might have a bad press with contributors here, but I found that their critique of post-modernism, (and especially their critique of the concept of the 'ludic' in po ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 19 01:50:03 PDT 1999

2576 Marx and the American Civil War (was Re: Realism in Eastern Europe) -- rank: 1000

In message <19990418.062731.3486.1.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes >Karl Marx was a stauch supporter of the Union or Federal side in >the American Civil War. Agreed, and rightly so. But this premise does not support this conclusion: >This should BTW call into question Chris' contention that Marxism >invariably defends the right to national self-determination. The >Confederates invoked consitutional arguments in favor of the rig ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 18 16:33:24 PDT 1999

2577 determination ,chris? -- rank: 1000

The logic of national self-determination was well examined by liberal and socialist thinkers. Any nation has a right to self-determination. But it does not follow that any group in society that fancies can declare itself a nation. Nationhood is an objective condition, not wish- fulfilment. Speaking as one born in Yorkshire, I can affirm that _regional_ sentiment is strong there, but Yorkshire _nationalism_ is non-existent. Yorkshire men and women express in their subjective lack of interest in n ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Apr 18 10:43:58 PDT 1999

2578 Any old Irony -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19990416211611.013467b0 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >>>I am indeed on this planet, Doug. >> To which I said, rudely >>With all four feet planted firmly on the ground. And Chris complained, understandably >But this suggestion above is strangely ineligant for Jim Heartfield. >Or is Jim, despite his English sounding name and English address, unable to >handle a little irony? But Chris, you should kn ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Apr 17 09:29:13 PDT 1999

2579 The enemy is at home -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.19990416112632.00939a70 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >War is not necessarily an "un-progressive" thing. It surely demonizes and >kills the enemy, but it also requires a mass mobilisation at home, and more >importanly, demands substantial sacrifices from the working classes who do >the fighting. That, in turn, means that the ruling elites must make some >social and economic concessions at home to &q ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 16 11:03:30 PDT 1999

2580 The Nation on Kosovo - Pro-intervention -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011700b33c43e4c78b@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >when did Kinnock >die? Reports of Neil Kinnock's death are greatly exaggerated. He was recently one of the European Commissioners who were forced to resign en masse on corruption charges. But as his feisty wife Glenys insisted on BBC's Quetion Time last night, he had done no wrong himself, but was only accepting collective responsibility. In Britain he was known as the Welsh Windbag ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 16 01:24:42 PDT 1999