Crinoid

Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:47:20 -0800
To: "MHOCCA List" <mhocca@egroups.com>
From: "Andrew Phelps" <starfish@northcoast.com>
Subject: Re: [MHOCCA] “Waiting for Danger”
Sylvia Caras wrote:
E. FULLER TORREY, MARY T. ZDANOWICZ
This reads like hate speech!
Xxx wrote:
Did you think he doesn’t hate us?
Xxx, this is not an adequate response. The issue is not hate/or not, it’s the political effort to maintain a hate campaign.

You can hate someone and do something to them and it’s not necessarily a hate crime.

But if one uses the tools of bigotry, the Klan hood or the anti-gay abuse, then there is also the makings of a ‘hate crime’. That’s what Sylvia means I think by ‘hate speech’.

In this case, the issue is what kind of campaign NAMI is planning for the California legislature this coming year. Just as I recently posted on MHOCCA a Bay Area NAMI working document. I think that when we get Torrey into his ‘hate speech’ routine, it is an agitational piece rather than a propaganda piece.

Do you remember last year’s “Ventura kickoff?”

We should consider the clues presented as to their intentions.

Respectfully

Andrew Phelps