> -----Original Message----- > From: David Silberstein [mailto:davids at kithrup.com] > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 5:50 PM > To: Dragaera List > Subject: Re: Kelly's Movement > > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > > >By the way, it's Martin Luther King Day, and we should note that he > >and the other leaders of the civil rights movement got a lot of > >people killed. Himself, and hundreds who don't have days in their > >memory. > > > > That's an excellent point. > > The assertions that Kelly is somehow a mass-murderer of all of the > "innocent" Easterners and Teckla ignores the facts that (a) Kelly is > not some cynical manipulator; as best we can tell, he's an ideologue > who truly believes his own propaganda, and (b) the Easterners and > Teckla were not coerced into his movement; they joined because they > believed in his ideas. > > They might be deluded, and it may turn out that Kelly is eventually > going to become so insane that he creates a totalitarian personality > cult, but right now, they are a *movement*, and they *all* believe > that through cooperative effort, they can change things to better > their lives. > This also summarizes religion quite nicely. W