Mark M. ztech.com> wrote:

No, but as Aristotle said, an educated man can entertain an idea without
believeing in it; the same goes for the "commong good" as it goes for
Snoopy and The Buddy Birds.

The problem with this mythological concept is that its proponents never
bother to accurately define it, delineate it, enumerate how good the
common good is, and who it is good for, etc. When challenged to
specificy what this "common good" exactly is, it usually goes straight
from appearently reasoned debate to screaming and mudslinging, and lots
of accusations of egoism, anti-social mindset, indifference to suffering
of others, etc and blah-blah-blah ad nauseam of the poor fool who had
the indecency to challenge this exalted idea.

Furthermore, it is used to excuse senseless expansion of scope and
powers of government, even for things that only a madman would claim to
be "good", much less a "common good".

Madness and Shame

By BOB HERBERT

Published: July 22, 2008

You want a scary thought? Imagine a fanatic in the mold of Dick Cheney
but without the vice president’s sense of humor.

In her important new book, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the
War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” Jane Mayer of The
New Yorker devotes a great deal of space to David Addington, Dick
Cheney’s main man and the lead architect of the Bush administration’s
legal strategy for the so-called war on terror.

She quotes a colleague as saying of Mr. Addington: “No one stood to
his right.” Colin Powell, a veteran of many bruising battles with Mr.
Cheney, was reported to have summed up Mr. Addington as follows: “He
doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”

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Spied on by the Maryland police
Mike Stark, a national board member of the Campaign to End the Death
Penalty (CEDP), was one of many targets of a Maryland State Police
investigation into anti-death penalty and antiwar activism.
July 21, 2008

WHEN I received a voice mail last Wednesday from the Maryland ACLU, I
assumed it was about the fight against Maryland's death penalty.
Executions in Maryland have been shut down since 2006, and the state's
General Assembly has authorized a commission to make recommendations on
the future of capital punishment. The commission's plans are the topic
of constant conversation among abolitionists.

It turns out the ACLU call was about the death penalty, but not exactly
in the form I was expecting.

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When COINTELPRO comes calling
"Homeland Security" picked on the wrong group of activists, because we
will not be silenced.
by Dave Zirin
July 21, 2008

FINALLY, AT long last, I have something in common with Muhammad Ali. No,
I'm not the heavyweight champion of the world, and I haven't been named
spokesperson for Raid bug spray. Like "the Greatest"--not to mention far
too many others--I have been a target of state police surveillance for
activities--in my case, being against the death penalty--that were
legal, nonviolent and, so we assumed, constitutionally protected.

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Catholic Workers celebrate 75 years
Created 07/21/2008 - 16:27
By EILEEN MARKEY, Worcester, Mass.
Published:
July 21, 2008

More than 500 current and former Catholic Workers, adherents of a
radical fealty to the beatitudes who have taken their Catholicism all
the way to the margins of society, gathered in Worcester, Mass., July
9-12, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the movement.

They came from throughout the United States and from Europe to share
stories, pray, discuss the nitty-gritty of life in Catholic Worker
houses of hospitality, hash out philosophy and dance. They produced a
statement urging the church to reject war and speak loudly for justice.

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Mon, Jul. 21, 2008
Anarchists' gathering surprisingly organized
By ERICA PEREZ
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Some 150 anarchists from throughout the United States and Canada
descended on a strip of private land last week in this Sheboygan County,
Wis., village for four days of workshops, including some focused on
strategizing for demonstrations at the upcoming Democratic and
Republican national conventions.

The 2008 CrimethInc. Convergence was the sixth annual communal campout
organized by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, an international
underground network that since the mid-1990s has published widely read
anarchist texts such as "Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook."

Theophilia and Race Crime
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Theophiles as lovers of gods do an awful lot of hating- largely
through mass ignorance of evolutionary reality and bucket loads of
monotheistic prejudice against any worldview other than their own.

Plutocrats as lovers of wealth are the chief peddlers and consumers of
theophilia but of late have found a much more useful ally in feminism

If the masses cannot think other than in the theophile terms given to
them by pretentious masters, they are effective isolated from secular
reality- the real world that exists.

Political power doesn't materialize in a vacuum. It must be gained by
a force of will that overcomes any opposition based on past myth.
Reactionaries naturally seek to maintain and renew these myths and
build new ones when the opportunities arise.

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Stephen Whittle - AKA Luke O'Farrell - is the most important writer in
Britain. He is being persecuted solely because the powers that be fear
his words. When our posterity looks back on this Dark Age, they will
shake their heads in amazement at what Whites were willing to
tolerate.

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Stephen Whittle

Published Date: 19 July 2008
By Jenny Simpson

A racist Preston writer who fled to the apparent safe haven of Los
Angeles could be set for a hairy few months - after being banged up in
prison.

Whittle, 41, of Avenham Lane, was convicted of penning anti-Jewish
articles on a website, but he failed to turn up at Leeds Crown Court
on Monday for a hearing.

US immigration officials detained unemployed Whittle when he arrived
at Los Angeles airport on Tuesday to claim political asylum.

Whittle is being held in Santa Ana City jail, near LA, while he awaits
an asylum hearing.