TO THE EDITOR
quagmire. Invasion plus occupation plus sand-
storm plus rainstorm equals bloody muddy civil
war. The thief who stole the last election now de-
liberately commits actions that guarantee this ad-
ministration’s loss of the 2004 presidential elec-
tion, should an honest election be held.
Bernard Nickerson
Eugene
CONFORMIST CONFUSION
In the mid-1960s the model of anti-war
protest was established: No matter how big the
demo, no disorder. By the end of the decade
huge peace parades prevailed but Nixon said
they didn’t influence U.S. war policy. This col-
lapsed the protest scene from the early ’70s to
the end of the war in 1975. Millions of Asians
were killed during that decade of war.
Now it is even clearer how much contempt
Empire has for popular opinion anywhere. But
still we have those who demand only a passive,
obedient form of “opposition” to war. They even
employ a Police Commission, the volunteer
“peacekeepers,” to enforce conformist protest.
Robert Bolman (3/13) exults in how “effec-
tive” the 2/15 demo was. “Effective?” What a
preposterously self-satisfied misuse of a word.
Bolman further claims, in his liberal narcissism,
to “impress” the “average folks.” But who re-
spects feeble, self-policed gestures? Polite obe-
dience and collaboration with the cops cannot
be confused with resistance.
John Zerzan
Eugene
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