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31 [lbo-talk] F.B.I. ...Step AWAY from the tree! -- rank: 414

RollingStone: What do you call animal-rights activists who free caged minks, or tree huggers who disrupt logging? If you're the FBI, you call them "terrorists." Testifying before Congress in May, Deputy Assistant Director John Lewis said that some of the "most serious domestic terrorist threats" today come from the ...

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Author:	Leigh Meyers
Date:	Mon Jun 6 21:18:34 PDT 2005

32 Free Speech -- rank: 414

I take your point, but somehow, my faith in the libertarian instincts of the British judiciary have been undermined by their ... very existence. As to whether the anti-terrorism law could be used against the Communist Party in the UK. Well it could except that the Communist Party of Great Britain ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 20 09:14:29 PST 2001

33 Free Speech -- rank: 414

That's unhappy, but loophole is as loophole does. I mean, the courts have to interpret the law. There are various potential loopholes in the First Amendment that are huge, but the courts are unlikey to let anyone drive through them. For example, the Dennis case, upholding the conviction of the ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Tue Mar 20 07:51:11 PST 2001

34 Free Speech -- rank: 414

In message <F148MIOGCvqQ7SzE2NS000030ca at hotmail.com>, Justin Schwartz <jkschw at hotmail.com> writes >Jim, > >The state of free speech in England is becoming alarming. First, the new >terrorism law, now this harassment theory. Probably I could be liable in >England for something for saying this. For all the manifold defects of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 20 00:31:23 PST 2001

35 [lbo-talk] zimmerman not guilty -- rank: 414

... self-defense. Based on facts, Z started the confrontation by stalking M (his reasons are irrelevant since he was no

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Tue Jul 16 04:10:02 PDT 2013

36 [lbo-talk] Some background to the Anglo-Irish Peace Process -- rank: 262

Some background to the Anglo-Irish Peace Process Sinn Fein's giving up of the revolutionary claim that the IRA was the designated inheritor of the second Dail (1920s insurrectionary all Ireland Parliament), and therefore the legitimate government of Ireland, and its acceptance that its only mandate was electoral, led, firstly ...

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Author:	james daly
Date:	Sun Feb 11 04:23:35 PST 2007

37 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 262

On 2/9/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > I would make that argument rest on a different Hofstadter's notion - > > "anti-intellectualism." > > That's a not-unrelated affair. According to Hof (and I'm totally > persuaded), much of American anti-intellectualism can be traced to > the Protestant valorization ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Feb 9 16:18:07 PST 2007

38 [lbo-talk] Mike Davis on the "colonization" of Baja California -- rank: 262

... websites ooze almost as much hyperbole as those devoted to stalking the phantom menace of illegal immigrants -- just in a far ...

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Author:	Colin Brace
Date:	Wed Sep 20 01:01:06 PDT 2006

39 [Fwd: Re: Wenn ich Kultur hoere (was Re: Invention of the white race // Rakeshon eugenics)] -- rank: 262

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > Personally, I would not mind Left organizing under whatever ideological > auspices - anything that appeals to the people. Ideology changes as a > result of movement participation - social movement research tells us - what > matters is mobilization for action. I would like to see the folks who now > stalk the FBI ...

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Author:	Katha Pollitt
Date:	Mon Jun 1 14:57:47 PDT 1998

40 [lbo-talk] Re: Islamophobogenic NY Times coverage -- rank: 262

On 10/11/06, BklynMagus <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Dear List: > > Yoshie writes: > > > At a certain age, yes, in a conventional sense. > > In what (unconventional) sense is religion not a > choice? Certainly, it is not a choice for those > who never achieve self-consciousness, but to me > failure in ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Oct 11 15:59:47 PDT 2006

41 [lbo-talk] Re: Islamophobogenic NY Times coverage -- rank: 262

... often use legitimate issues with regard to Islam as a stalking horse for anti-immigrant sentiments. Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Wed Oct 11 09:15:38 PDT 2006

42 [lbo-talk] Social Movements -- rank: 262

--- Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote: > and other issues. The problem, Woj, is that you > share Mencken's sour view of > America as one big collective "booboisie", but > Mencken's stereotype was > wrong then and you're wrong now. Not exactly "one big" - just big enough to get the ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Sat Mar 4 09:43:05 PST 2006

43 [lbo-talk] Animal rights activists convicted of terrorism -- rank: 262

... six of its members were convicted of terrorism and Internet stalking yesterday by a federal jury that found them guilty of ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Sat Mar 4 07:03:58 PST 2006

44 [lbo-talk] Re: WSJ editpage: "fair share" a flop -- rank: 262

... multiple > payers, not a single payer. "Single-payer is a stalking horse for I'm > not sure what," he said. Well ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 10 11:41:51 PDT 2006

45 [lbo-talk] Re: WSJ editpage: "fair share" a flop -- rank: 262

On 7/6/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > But what do you make of the argument that Stern is angling not for > national health insurance, but some national version of the dreadful > Massachusetts plan? Daily Labor Report June 19, 2006 Stern Says Employer-Based Coverage Dead; Others Call ...

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Author:	Mark Rickling
Date:	Mon Jul 10 10:37:41 PDT 2006