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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76733)	2/23/2003 11:40:31 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Your bit about ANSWER is the same ol' thing, Nadine. You have found a small bit of the anti-war movement that you can use to paint the entire movement. Thankfully, that kind of McCarthyism, yes, that's what it is, is not working.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76733)	2/23/2003 11:42:39 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

You seem to be painting all peacemarchers with one brush dipped in black, when there's a rainbow of reasons for people's beliefs Here's a perspective from a foreigner who joined in last week's march in SF...(from the craigslist blog): Peace March (An alien's perspective) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: anon-8742136@craigslist.org Date: Mon Feb 17 10:22:25 2003 I'm not an American. I come from a country exactly halfway across the world. I've been here for over six years. Lived in four cities, worked in three companies, been in one relationship. Yet, I never really understood America until today. Today made me happy. Today I felt like a kid who finally figures out that swimming is not about fighting the water but being comfortable in it. Allow me to explain: There are very few places in the world where citizens have the right to speak against their government, and do; where so many people from so many walks of life look beyond the rhetoric propagated by their leaders; where citizens think that they, by themselves, can make a difference; where protestors carry some really funny posters, and their babies too. America is one such place. (If not the only one.) Some of my friends think America is great because it can give any country in the world a major "whoop ass." I think America is great because Americans know they have the right to give their government one. As I said before, I'm an 'alien,' but today I was not a spectator, I was a participant. Thank you. Peace craigslist.org

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76733)	2/23/2003 1:33:22 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

A simple litmus test: if ANSWER were treating blacks the way they treat Jews, could they get away with it? Obviously, my answer is "no."

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76733)	2/24/2003 11:10:24 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

RE ANSWER and anti-Semitism I was at the march in DC a month ago. I do not live there, and stayed with friends, some of whom also went to the march. However, there was a great deal of discussion about whether or not to attend because of the sponsors, and some of my friends as well as their friends didn't go for that reason. The march might well have been much larger if the sponsor had been different. As it was, it was only maybe 250,000 people. In a pluralist democracy like ours, sometimes unholy alliances are necessary. BTW, I am Jewish and zionist. Although Sharon makes me nauseous, he does not make me as nauseous as Arafat does.