Re: Animal Liberation Torpedoes Cormo Cooks Tour Mk2

"LDL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > "Rent-a-crowd?" Do you have a copy of the Daily Telegraph Monster Book
> > of Cliches handy? So who is paying them? I thought they were
> > volunteers.
> >
> > And vandalism refers to the destruction of worthy things. This is
> > well-conceived non-violent political activism. It looks, at a minimum,
> > to have saved these sheep from a grisly month or two at the mercy of
> > Live Corp -- and that's just for starters.
> >
> > The fact that the corporate torturers and their intellectual arsewipes
> > like you are also in a flap is just a bonus.
> >
> > Berko
> 
> Here is a classic example of rent a crowd.
> 
> http://www.socialist-alliance.org/local.shtml
> 
> Just scroll down to Melbourne West and you could see that there is a piece
> where they are protesting against police racism at a Footscray Mall and then
> taking the mob to the Footscray Police station.  Take a goo look of who is
> involved?
> 
Yes ... people who don't like racism and police violence apparently.


> The CFMEU has never been connected with the Somalians at all neither has the
> socialist group. 

That's where you're wrong. The CFMEU and its predecessor organisations
(BWIU, Miners' Federation etc) have endorsed many activities aimed at
alleviating suffering in Somalia. So too have most of the members of
the socialist organisations named.

 All they are interested in being a "rent a crowd" while
> they are causing trouble cramming their views upon people in a undemocratic
> way.
> 

No, you just have a very limited view of what democracy includes. The
term "rent-a-crowd" is intended to suggest that the attachment of
those so included to the causes in question is frivolous, or cynical.
Actually, though,  that some people are active in a range of causes
rather suggests that they believe that specific problems in the world
are part of a larger set of flaws in human social organisation, and
that their concern is general rather than driven by some more narrow
issue. In short, their objections to issues are more likely to be
authentic and well-considered. Far from being "paid" as is implied by
the use of the word "rent", they are there out of firm political
conviction.

Such thinking and activism is at the very heart of democracy.

> That is not what I call democracy.

You can call it what you like. But I'm guessing that your notion of
democracy would be hard to distinguish from most people's notions of
social conformity.

BTW -- why would you want to name yourself after a set of fats
associated with hardening of the arteries? (Low density
lipoproteins-LDL)

Berko