Re: MD DQ people

From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 15:22:11 GMT

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    > John, Platt and everyone with feet:
    >
    > Platt said:
    > I have no problem with your chosen worldview. Using government
    > jackboots to impose that view on others is the problem.
    >
    > John said:
    > Where did you ever get that idea? Collective improvement does not
    > require jackbooting of any kind, the type of things I look for are
    > Intellectual DQ solutions to the problems we all have in common, they're
    > already happening, I reckon we should expand these occurrence and that we
    > could come up with a template that would give us some thing to work with.
    >
    > John said:
    > I thought your jackboot metaphor was interesting because I think of anyone
    > with strong rightwing views is only a short trip to the shoe shop from being
    > a Fascist, only I wasn't going to let that out, I was going to keep it to
    > myself.
    >
    > DMB says:
    > Perhaps Platt doesn't know that in the Western world, big black boots,
    > preferably Doc Martians, are part of the unoffical neo-Nazi uniform. So I
    > think you're quite right, John. "Jackboots" are certainly associated with
    > right-wingers. There's no doubt. Platt uses the phrase, I suspect, because
    > he listens to G. Gordon Liddy, a fascists talk radio host who told his right
    > wing listeners that the police were nothing but "jackbooted thugs" and
    > instructed his fans to shoot them in the head should they ever dare to enter
    > thier homes. This notion was widely circulated around the time of the
    > Oaklahoma City Bombing by all kinds of right-wing extremists.
    >
    > Further, I agree with you about DQ people too. Pirsig's prime examples are
    > Lincoln and Ghandi. Both of them did things to make millions more free. If
    > that's not helpful, then nothing is.
    >
    > Say hello to the rock for me,
    > DMB

    Steve: So do we all agree then that "Using government
    jackboots to impose [a] view on others is [a] problem"?

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