Hey, Tom, did you read the replies to your post on their BBS? I was particularly bemused by this:

Imagine the scenario:



A young high school student hates his hidebound curriculum. But then he attends a teach-in and learns to question the War Party's propaganda. He runs to the library, reads everything he can by Fanon, Chomsky, and Dr. King, and applies himself to his schooling. He wins a scholarship to Berkeley or Wesleyan, becomes a leading international lawyer, and helps negotiate the human rights treaties that finally reign in U.S. imperialism and enshrine a just world order.

Flush with success, he heads back to Oakland in time to fend off a right wing assault on public education masquerading as a "school reform" movement. He helps students and teachers learn that unions are not the enemy of public education, and that people who throw the word "entrepreneur" around are often just parasites living off the labor power of poor people. Inspired by his example, the parents and students start a mass based democratic movement to wrest power away from the oligarchies that control the State. Our hero is elected President and helps institute socialized medicine and child care, more progressive income and inheritance taxes, vastly expanded civil liberties, and all sorts of other cool stuff. Milk and honey flow, and the world becomes a better place.

But unfortunately, our story has a bittersweet ending. Tom Brosz and other embittered fanatics affiliated with an ultra-right wing hate group called the Pacific Research Institute assassinate our great leader. For a bunch of people who talk about the importance of learning, it appears they have never read the U.S. Constitution. They are of course captured and strung up from a lamppost as befits such counter-revolutionary scum. Despite the loss of their leader, the people realize they are now an empowered democratic majority and can take care of themselves. The revolution is saved, and everyone lives happily ever after.



Tom, Tom, Tom...my advice: Stay outta Oakland, 'lessen ya want to find yourself strung up from a lamppost.

Ya counterrevolutionary scum, you...

--Robert