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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (76738)	2/23/2003 8:12:18 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 281500

Therefore, you now think you have grounds to dismiss the purposes of the demonstrations. If you don't wish to call this kind of an attack McCarthyism, then you better find another term for the kind of labeling you are doing. First, you argue ANSWER is one of the groups that organizes the marches; second, ANSWER is Stalinist (geez and I thought that charge was completely out of date, so we still have to worry about Stalin) and communist (got to watch out for those armies of commies under the beds); third and thus, all demonstrators are naive dupes (whew, that logic does take me back to the 50s). Well, if that's not McCarthyism in full form, please find another term for it. As for blackballing speakers, we have heard about the Lerner bit but haven't heard about other such. And we don't know the full story on the Lerner bit yet. Whatever that story turns out to be, it's not good. I read his remarks. But you get true believers in these kinds of demonstrations, always. Folk who think they are the only holders of the truth and everyone else is wrong. Some organizers didn't do a good enough job keeping the true believers at bay. Not good. But does that mean that the demonstrations are not major political events. Of course, not. In fact, the harder folk thrash around to use this kind of subterfurge to defame the demonstrations, the more effective they look. Perhaps we get too heated over this, Nadine. You care a lot; I care a lot. But we seem to be typing the same thing over and over and over.