aw. RE: Why did Elser plant the bomb?

[Michael Bailey]

Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

> This was, obviously, an answer to the Stauffenberg thread.
> That you compare fictional Vond to all-too-real Hitler, is scary.
>

That part of my comment is overstated, true.

> And: Do you really think that Elser's attempt was morally wrong?!?

I'm a pacifist, as far as I have thought it through.
I wouldn't plan a similar deed, just from a distaste for violence.

 History also tells us that successful assassinations bring on
horrible retribution and do little to change policy.

Also, he killed people he did not target.  And didn't get his target.

Further, whatever non-violent resistance he might have done instead,
was left undone.

Nonetheless, on a human level, he has my full sympathy and some admiration.
(which also goes out to DL in her activities, though she's fictional)


>
> B-but I forgot:
>
> "Jesse brought home as an assignment from school 'write an essay on
> What It Means To Be An American.'
> 'Oboy, oboy,' Reef had this look on his face, the same look his own father
> used to get before heading off for some dynamite-related activities.
> 'Let's see that pencil a minute.'
> 'Already done.' What Jesse had ended up writing was,
> IT MEANS TO DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU AND TAKE WHAT THEY GIVE YOU AND DON'T GO
> ON STRIKE OR THEIR SOLDIERS WILL SHOOT YOU DOWN.
> 'That's what they call the 'topic sentence'?'
> 'That's the whole thing.'
> 'oh.'
> It came back with a big A+ on it." (Against the Day, p. 1076)
>
>
> kfl
>
>
> "Each bird has his branch now, and each one is the Zone." (GR, p. 519)
>
>
>
>
> Michi schrieb:
>
>
>>
>> Kai Frederik Lorentzen :
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Elser
>>>
>>> kfl
>>>
>>
>> timely for the Vineland read, in that there's a plaque commemorating Elser.
>> Like having a plaque for DL trying to do in Vond.
>>
>> Maybe someday there will be plaques for those who resisted US
>> involvement in Vietnam (et al)...
>> I understand there's a plaque for US draft resisters somewhere in
>> Canada, or used to be.
>>
>> another bomber of tangential interest (Abbie Hoffman mentioned him
>> often, in his dadaistic revolutionary screeds - his _Fuck the System_,
>> later expanded to _Steal This Book_, laid out some thoughts not too
>> far from TAZ...) though not political...
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Metesky
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> "Frenesi's eyes, even on the aging ECO stock, took over the frame, a
>> defiance of blue unfadable."
>



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"Frenesi's eyes, even on the aging ECO stock, took over the frame, a
defiance of blue unfadable."