Dragaera

Kelly's Movement

Tue Jan 20 16:48:04 PST 2004


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 Gaertk at aol.com wrote:

> David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> writes:
>
> > What Kelly is doing, for now, is offering Teckla and
> > Easterners a different way to live.  Things like classes in
> > reading are part of it,
>
> With propaganda as the primary reading material.

From the KG-approved Primer:

See Miklos.  See Miklos bow to his master.  Bow, Miklos, bow!

See Morrolan.  See skinny Morrolan.  Miklos's master thinks Morrolan
is a bad man.  See Miklos's master say, "Charge, Miklos!"  Brave Miklos!




> > And he's teaching them that they *can* organize, and
> > *how* to organize.
>
> And setting up pseudo-assembly lines to make lots of weapons,
> so they can violently oppose the Empire.

I take it you advocate concerned inhabitants of the Eastern ghetto
work to make their people an illiterate, disorganized, Gandhian rabble?


> Note that his followers are always armed during their protests.

Is this correct?  Weren't there some peaceful marches before the Jhereg
set up the confrontation with the Empire and before conscription?