"I got into a discussion with one of the Tar Sands Action [McKibben's meaningless, cowardly 3 week media event in Aug-Sept in DC] organizers - and he was literally steering people away from Start Loving, recommending that everyone avoid him entirely (although, of course, he had never spoken to him)."
From the following site:
http://whoami-whoareyou.blogspot.com/2011/09/keystone-xl-pipline-protest-washington.html
'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.' Gandhi
Also from the site -
"But the videos and the news reports are just nothing like the man I met in front of the White House. Nothing like him. Not at all. I do not (for instance) happen to believe that Jesus has got anything to do with it - but that neither impeded our conversation nor lessened the effect of what he said to me...
I have been struggling with despair - and he could see that, and agreed with me that despair won't kill you, so ... Get on with it then. We don't have much time.
As for the top-down bureaucratic approaches like the one I was contributing to there in Washington at the time - I know they won't work, they are the merest setting out and their constant & pervasive correctitude, their hewing to the party line and no further makes them go off in wrong directions at times (if not most of the time, if not all of the time) - he called that kind of thing 'Henny-Penny' which hit the nail on the head for me."
'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.' Gandhi
ps: Jesus got just about the same reception, and the McKibbens of the world marginalized him successfully enough that yup, what Jesus died to Save everyone from, Israel's destruction, well, the McKibbens prevailed. Good (God) help us. We don't learn.
