Response to Christian Pecaut’s Candidate Statement
Read John Parman’s Letter to the Editor responding to Christian’s statement in the 10.20.06 Planet.
Read John Parman’s Letter to the Editor responding to Christian’s statement in the 10.20.06 Planet.
The Planet refused to publish my response to a published letter denouncing a mayoral candidate as a Maoist, Stalinst, Nazi, and Anti-Semite. I understand why. Do you?
Editors, Daily Planet:
It’s no surprise that once you even suggest adding up the total number of dollars extorted by landlords every month, year, and decade — these parasites start having nightmares of communist revolution.
While campaigning, I once expressed my astonishment at the injustice of the renter’s plight to a landlord, who then exclaimed, “but that’s my income!” No, it’s not. That’s someone else’s income stolen for you by the landlord establishment’s thugs. But without the lawyers and cops prepared to throw a poor renter and her belongings onto the street, how would our dear landlords “survive”!? They would not, and that is my purpose.
Search hard, ye defenders of landlordism, for the reason hundreds of apartments and storefronts sit empty while those sleeping on the street are kicked to death and jailed. You will find no human cause. Only bacterial lust for cash. And for those who retain principle and intelligence, search even harder for a leftist group that dares point the finger at these twenty-first century lords. There are none!
Without the landlord’s police whip, no renter would hand over the bulk of their earnings to a lazy punishing leech. And with all that extra money, she sure could work less and care for her children better. “As a property owner”, John Parman and his larcenist lord-buddies all over Berkeley sure wouldn’t take kindly to their “property” keeping the money she earns each month. And they will spend every dollar they’ve stolen making sure that never happens. By any means necessary.
Oh yes, and these politics are founded in principle, mathematics, and common sense justice. Not belief. What’s backing up your landlord racket? Violence, of course.
Christian Pecaut