Re: Forwarded from Anthony (Bush victory)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Wouldn't it be lovely if all the work, personnel, energy, resources that
>might be put into actual organizing and struggle could be drained off
>into endless court suits. On the basis of all the flutter on this and other
>lists about the election, it seems to me that a really brilliant stroke
>by the ruling class would be to stage elections for the presidencies
>of the World Bank and the IMF. Opposition to those two institutions
>would evaporate almost magically, drained off into hassle about
>whether the elections were fair or whether X or Y would be most
>friendly to poor nations if he/she were World Bank President.
>
>Based on post-Seattle police tactics, the movement is going to
>be spending more than enough time in court without leftists rushing
>on their own initiative to grab that tar baby.
>
>Carrol

I agree with Carrol on the absence of any split in the ruling class;
elections & lawsuits as diversions; etc.

That said, a big protest -- with a focus on *the disenfranchisement
of African Americans caused by the War on Drugs & Crimes* -- at the
inauguration will still be a good thing, regardless of the
non-existence of a legitimation crisis.  All power to Lou Paulsen.
The seed for "J20" is being planted among anarchists, too, from what
I hear from them.  Don't expect the mass media to cover the protests,
however.

Yoshie