Comments on: Blankfort’s response to Avnery on boycott issue

By: VR

VR — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:55:01 +0000

Sergeiy, all right, lets not leave Avnery behind, it does not matter – he left himself behind. You go ahead and get him to move, see if it works.

By: Colin Murray

Colin Murray — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:23:31 +0000

I’ve had my computer attacked, too. It was a wretched, wretched experience. My incident was surely a random opportunity attack, but I now diligently maintain maximum security.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:11:03 +0000

Because when I did my computer was hacked. It was a lot of trouble, believe me.
I like your name; you give new meaning to the adjective witty.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:08:11 +0000

Avnery’s argument would have stopped the collapse of apartheid S Africa.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:05:11 +0000

Re Witty:
“So, what convinced you to join the boycott of South Africa.”
What convinced me was that when I was a teen soldier my bunk mates, my tent mates, my trench mates, and my off barracks running mates were often African Americans. I got to know them as individuals. That put real meat on the justice plate, a plate I always search for.

“It was pretty easy to. The only thing that I ever bought that originated in South Africa was raisins.” Well, obviously you never worked in the steel mills of South Chicago, and you never were a US Army grunt.

“Maybe I blew it and bought a gold ring with gold from South Africa. I’ve never bought diamonds.”

I never bought a ring in my life, oh yeah–I did get a few when I was a kid, the plastic ones in the gum ball machine.

“I’m sure that you are using a computer that has chips made in Israel, and likely recently. You certainly use something made by Cisco, maybe your wireless router, or the switch that linked your web access to your ISP.”

Why do you bring this subject up in this thread context? There’s plenty of information available on how Israel ignores foreign patent laws and reverse-engineers dupes.

“How serious are you? Are you willing to sacrifice for your message?”

What do you sacrifice for your message, Witty? I’ve sacrificed years of my life
for my message. I know what it’s like to try to get your own books published “over the transom” before the age of the internet. I have personal experience with the
politics of fiction products, but in terms of networks and content. I learned the hard way. And I paid for my own education all the way. And you?

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:44:02 +0000

Citizen,
I’ve got to tell you that I’m a bit angry at you for expropriating the name “citizen”.

I wrote a blogpost today on my own blog on the theme of “Libraries and citizens”.

Its a tragedy when names or brands or web identities expropriate meaning. Why not just use your name?

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:41:40 +0000

Go ahead and puke. Get it out of your system.

Why not address Avnery’s points, rather than dismiss his views.

It seems that you are indulging in the “I hate Bennie Morris dance” all over again.

“I thought that he was a hero, but he’s a shlump like all the rest of them.”

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:36:54 +0000

So, what convinced you to join the boycott of South Africa.

It was pretty easy to. The only thing that I ever bought that originated in South Africa was raisins.

Maybe I blew it and bought a gold ring with gold from South Africa. I’ve never bought diamonds.

I’m sure that you are using a computer that has chips made in Israel, and likely recently. You certainly use something made by Cisco, maybe your wireless router, or the switch that linked your web access to your ISP.

How serious are you? Are you willing to sacrifice for your message?

By: Citizen

Citizen — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:33:39 +0000

The Masters Of War; something’s blowin’ in the wind–Ike sniffed it way back when and it’s only gotten worse. Too bad Ike’s not around now to take a tour of Gaza and make
the Israelis bury the Palestinian dead and take photo ops for the world to see–Never Again, Again, Again…. I wanna puke.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:24:02 +0000

You supported the boycott of S Africa but you do not support the boycott of Israel.
Gee, what a surprise. And you hold the civil rights folks who went down to old Dixie in high regard. What’s wrong with this picture of righteousness? No proponents of a boycott
of Israel culture and products are worthy of equal respect, none fully respect and humanize their opponents? That’s your line on this blog. How convenient a belief you beat out in your brain out of nothing to justify your moral and ethical inconsistency.

I supported BDS against apartheid S Africa; and I supported the civil rights workers
back in the day–and I did both while working and living in white blue collar areas.