Dear Peter Coyote

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

As the driving force behind an open letter in support of the Cobb-Kerry
campaign, I am a little perplexed over whence you derive your authority.

Is it the fact that you star in the cable tv series "4400", about people
who were abducted by space aliens? Frankly, I would be far more
impressed if Fox Mulder had been heading up such an effort since the
X-Files was far less talky and far more entertaining than the show you
are presently involved with. Just a suggestion. The ratio between dialog
and action on such shows should be approximately 50-50. In "4400," it is
about 90-10. Underbudgeted for special effects, are we?

Perhaps you are resting on your laurels as a 1960s hippie radical. Your
website informs us that:

>>From 1967 to 1975, Peter took off to "do the Sixties" where he became
a prominent member of the San Francisco counter-culture community and
founding member of the Diggers, an anarchistic group who supplied free
food, free housing and free medical aid to the hordes of runaways who
appeared during the Summer of Love.<<

Not that I would gainsay the importance of helping somebody come down
from a bummer acid trip (isn't that what they called it?), but I have a
feeling that it was far more important to organize protests against the
war in Vietnam.

You also inform visitors to your website that you were a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention which you also covered for Mother Jones
Magazine and consider your completely re-built 1964 Dodge 4x4 Town Wagon
that you have owned since 1969 your "longest-lasting addiction." If I
were you, I'd ixnay the references to the Democratic Party and play up
the Town Wagon stuff. After all, the Town Wagon was never used to drop
napalm on Vietnamese peasants.

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