Re: Ted Rall Subscription Service (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 17:05:30 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > at Wilbur I read the book about Red Army Faction in W Germany in the 
 > 1970s by Margrit Schiller who became a political prisoner and they 
 > thought killing government officials and industrialists was a good 
 > thing, however, the State cracked down on them even more and used 
 > psychological methods on the political prisoners to break up the 
 > radical groups. well we did see a couple of films about this group 
 > already(documentaries and docudramas?)
 > the armed resistance against the Staat ultimately failed

Do you mean?

 https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Black-Book/70061859

In any case, I don't think Ted (nor I) are advocating killing people.
Just not respecting or even destroying property.  But, again, without the
backing of a convincing ideological basis, wanton destruction won't sway
anybody.

 >  On Sat, 8 May 2021, robert wrote:
 >  > Really good points.  If property rights is part and parcel of the system
 >  > being attacked by the left, then why respect property rights?  On the
 >  > other hand, I'm not sure that destroying property without an ideological
 >  > base will be unlikely to win any followers.
 >  > 
 >  > I agree with the bigger point that attacking the person or attacking the
 >  > property without also reforming the system that both produced the person
 >  > and the property is a vacuous act.