LETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor Our Parasites Ithought your article called "Militia Nation" (Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons, June issue) was brilliant. I was especially interested in your remarks about...
...To be sure, Israel has had challenges doing so...
...As the State of Israel takes significant risks in pursuit of peace with its Arab neighbors, it is unfortunate that its efforts are overlooked by your July 1995 editorial, "Allowance for Murder...
...Early opposition to the project melted away and the town rallied behind the project...
...People in Honea Path are talking for the first time in sixty years about this tragedy...
...Jonathan A. Larson Faribault, Minnesota Israel, Right or Wrong...
...support for Israel's peace efforts at this time is so critical...
...As a lifelong pacifist/leftist, I am saddened to see this great analytical idea appropriated by the violent far right...
...Kathy Lamb Honea Path Workers' Memorial Belton, South Carolina...
...Foreign aid to Israel has served U.S...
...Our local newspaper, the Bel-ton-Honea Path News Chronicle, and the editor, Elaine Ellison-Rider, supported us unconditionally throughout the project from the planning stages through completion...
...Nichols's word for it because he mentions Alabama only once more in his piece, to cite the percentage of African-American voters there...
...I was especially interested in your remarks about the "old tenet of conspiracy theories: that the country is composed of two types of persons—producers and parasites...
...Thanks again for a wonderful article...
...The fact is that Veblen, the intellectual father of insti-tutionalism (the only true leftist economic analysis left in the United States), was the absolute antithesis of a conspiracy freak...
...That's why I found it unfortunate that Nichols came up short on facts when he turned his attention to the South, specifically Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama...
...John C. Copes Mandeville, Louisiana Amazing Turnaround Iwould like to thank you and Holly Metz for the wonderful article about the Honea Path Workers' Memorial, and the history of the involvement of Honea Path in the General Textile Strike of 1934 ("Labor History Rocks Small Town," June issue...
...Katie Friedman Orinda, California Iam a daughter of two parents who were in the concentration camps, and when I see how shamelessly the Israeli government has used the Holocaust for propaganda purposes, i.e., that they should always be seen in the eyes of the world as victims as opposed to oppressors, I find that repugnant and offensive, to say the least...
...I thought I should update you with the significant developments that have occurred since the article ran...
...Alabama, according to Nichols, is the third state where "party leaders are already making disastrous missteps...
...Again, that may well be the case...
...The reason I was so struck by this analysis is that it was originally formed by the progressive left...
...In my opinion that is why they are so eager to have politicians visit Yad Vashem, so that they can shed the "obligatory tears" and say the obligatory words "never again...
...Furthermore, Thorstein Veblen, the brilliant leftist Midwest political economist, made this idea the heart and soul of his economic analysis...
...Also, in Louisiana the state party apparatus is so weak that it has little impact on which Democrats run for office and which don't...
...In Louisiana, "the push" from state Democrats certainly has not been to recruit Congressman Billy Tauzin...
...It already has strong bipartisan support in both houses of Congress...
...Yet Israel, perhaps even more than other democracies that have faced violent insurrections, has succeeded in controlling the violence with great sensitivity to human rights...
...This film and the dedication of the monument have ended all those years of silence...
...Only his theories of status emulation rival this notion in importance...
...Springs Industries said they had no problem with us showing the film, nor did the city...
...We appealed to the local school superintendent and the board of trustees to use the facilities...
...I urge you, therefore, to encourage your reading audience to write letters to Rabin and Clinton stating that we taxpayers, whether Jews or non-Jews, will no longer remain apathetic and have our tax dollars tunneled to Israel to be used to increase the settlements, confiscate more Arab land, etc...
...The radio station also did a live remote broadcast of the dedication ceremony and interviewed some of the people...
...It merits our continued support...
...WRIX-FM, our local radio station, had the producers and Frank Beacham on the radio to discuss the film...
...Local businesses came through and donated time and services to make our project a success...
...Shifra Eva Stern Riverdale, New York Go to the Source The premise of John Nichols's cover story, "So Long, Senators" (July issue), certainly is one with which I agree: Democrats in the U.S...
...Your cooperation in this matter would be greatly appreciated...
...How the producer/parasite dichotomy so loved by La Follette and Veblen got so twisted is a bizarre and ugly tale...
...national interests and has been vital in sustaining stability in an often turbulent region...
...In reality, state Democrats expect Tauzin to switch to the GOP this year or next (they already consider it a done deal), then run for the seat Bennett Johnston is vacating...
...As a state threatened by belligerent nations in the region and terrorism from neighbors opposed to its existence, Israel has remained committed to finding the most humane means to control the violence it often faces...
...Over 400 townspeople saw the film on Memorial Day...
...Springs Industries generously provided food for the reception after the dedication ceremony...
...In his three paragraphs on the maneuvering to succeed David Pry or, Nichols may well have accurately summarized the situation in Arkansas, but he cites no sources...
...Surely your publication can do better than that...
...In fact, Robert La Follette, the founder of The Progressive, often used it himself...
...We were able to show the film at the Honea Path Middle School...
...Congratulations on a truly insightful bit of writing...
...That is why U.S...
...At the same time, it has taken bold steps for peace, relinquishing strategic territory in the hopes of finding a lasting peace...
...But we can only take Mr...
...You should be very proud of it...
...We were unanimously approved...
...It is truly an amazing turnaround...
...How is it that a four-page story, featured on the cover, names only five sources, and one of those five only fleet-ingly...
...Senate are an endangered species...
...It is unfortunate your editorial missed the mark...
...With an independent judiciary, a free press, and guaranteed civil liberties to all citizens, Israel stands today as the only democracy in a turbulent Middle East...
Vol. 59 • September 1995 • No. 9
