Re: RAT Scabs and other wounds in need of healing

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

Right again, Jonathan (Dammit!)

And pooh on Mathyou for suggesting that "being right"
creates license for immoral tactics.  A) Jonoh's
tactics are not immoral; not McCarthyistic.  He has
clearly explained that point in earlier posts.  B)
"being right" is the sorriest excuse for the sorriest
behavior human beings have ever perpetrated.

You're wrong, Mathyou.  This is NOT war, it is action.
 There's no need, and every need NOT to, engage in the
tactics of the opponent Establishment.  SAG will win
this one on the merits of their argument and the
justice of their tactics.  And-- most importantly-- by
hanging together and being smart. 

BTW: calling someone a scab is not name-calling.  You
earn the title "scab" with your actions, like
"jay-walker" or "traitor".  You either are one or
you're not.  I've scabbed Equity on occasions where I
thought Equity was unjust.  I never shrank from the
term though.  I scabbed, and I was a scab.  No
argument.  Perhaps this fellow who's scabbing SAG
feels a moral indignation of his own.  Fine.  But he's
still a scab.




--- jonoh1@juno.com wrote:
> Good points as usual, Matt. And, as you say,  the
> distinction between
> McCarthy and myself, the moral one to which you
> refer, makes all the
> difference in the world. But, McCarthy didn't invent
> media manipulation
> and keeping names and the like. He simply used it
> for his own political
> gain while furthering a cause he, most assuredly,
> also believed to be
> "right." So, while  I may use some of  the same
> tactics used by a
> McCarthy, tactics as old as mankind, no doubt, and
> ones used efficiently
> by most effective leaders in the past, from Hitler
> to the Christ, I hold
> that labeling the bahaviour "McCarthyism" gives the
> man a little bit too
> much credit. But thanks for your support. Would love
> to see any of you
> out on the pickets soon. You can get a daily update
> by calling the SAG
> hotline @ 323-460-6124 or logging on to www.sag.org.
>   Also, a big thanks to Amy Raasch for sending that
> information out. I
> really needed to hear that stuff about the U.S.
> Cellular action. It's
> nice to know we weren't as easily ignored as they
> pretended.
>   In solidarity,
>   Jonathan
> 

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