IV Meanwhile back at WAMBAM'S offices

[Joseph Tracy]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> They seem to be taking Manson's fear-inducing rep straight, yes?
> T-shirts with the Manson family in afros an shit??
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> Waiting for the deal to do down..........
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> The we learn who the friends of Glen, of the small arms deal, were:
> bunch of honky dentists working out of a 'big tooth"
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> "Questions arose, like wtf was going on here, basically", thinks  
> Doc (again).
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> Uh, anyone care to expound on the novel's attitude--if you think  
> one can be spoken of---toward WAMBAM?
I think the connection to the G Fang is showing that a certain kind  
of militance forces its proponents into the same methods and sources  
of supply both literally and metaphorically as the Vigilants, Heroin  
dealers, CIA  and war profiteers. If Khalil is sincere he is  at best  
motivated by self defense and the knowledge of the violence of the  
system he opposes, but his plans are as stupid and doomed to failure  
as any of the violent revolutionaries that appear in Pynchon's  
books.  Pynchon  acknowledges their justification and their romantic  
appeal but dismisses them as juvenile fantasists, or opportunistic  
killers.  So what we have is  either a  planted provocateur or a  
deluded violent revolutionary who has already gotten one of his  
friends killed.  He could easily represent the beginnings  of the  
Symbionese liberation Army, or the beginning of Al Qaeda, or John  
Hari the FBI plant in the Nation of Islam.

Malcom X became most powerful and most threatening to the powers  as  
he freed himself from the Nation of Islam, sought to reconcile with  
civil rights leaders and his speeches reached a wider audience. His  
black separatist  militancy was never a real threat.

Often the strongest advocates of violence in resistance organizations  
has turned out to be an FBI plant.

I'm going to repost this with some further thoughts on T K's name.
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> author's attitude?---if you think one is manifested. But in another  
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