FYI: Blockwart in Nazi Germany

[David Morris]

>From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
>fqmorris at hotmail.com:
>
> > I can see how YOU might have misinterpreted a "neighborhood watch" to be 
>an "American Blockwart,"  but you were dead wrong (this does display 
>something about your prejudices).  You know what they say about assuming 
>things...
>
>Well, David, I think, fascism isn't a "privilege" of one or two counties 
>(Germany and  Italy, f. e.).,

No, I wasn't suggesting that.  Only that your sensitivity to the issue of 
fascism led you to a very wrong assumption about what a US "neighborhood 
watch" truly is.  It really is only a group of neighbors getting to know who 
is in their neighborhood, learning to be aware of who doesn't belong there, 
and keeping a diligent eye out to prevent crime.  It is a very grass-roots 
thing.  It has NOTHING to do with what you described a "Blockwart in Nazi 
Germany" to have been.

>and I'm speaking about STRUCTURES not about persons or "national 
>characters" or something like that... I really don't care from where 
>someone is or might be... scheißegal.

I don't know this last word, but I'm trying to tell you that the structure 
of these two entities is not at all the same.

>The main point is there are a lot of people who BELIEVE in all that
>bullshit... and that's exactly what is Pynchon talking about.

I'm not sure which bullshit you are referring to.  I do agree that the US's 
war on terrorism is a potentially big threat to the civil liberties of its 
citizens.  A threat that we truly patriotic citizens need to guard against.

David Morris

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