ATTN: Don Laird

[meadow]

Well, Mike, technically I wasn't around 'til '67, so most of you ghetto
guys were way hungover, gone, or on to better vices before I was here
myself.   Others?
Always a newcomer, damn,
Dian

Michael Eisenstadt wrote:

> Chomsky in a spoken address given at a
> conference circuit explained that the
> 1954 Guatemala intervention was sold to
> the American people using Madison Ave
> techniques. To entertain the audience he
> brought up alter cocker Bernays as the
> paradigm of amoral Madison Ave.
> advertisers selling something. Bernays
> orchestrated the Chesterfield campaign
> to make cigarette smoking by women
> acceptable in the 1920s.
>
> Bernays as Mary Ann Wilson reports was
> active on the conference circuit in the
> mid 1980s. To read this talk on a Web
> page and infer that Bernays was billing
> the CIA $1000 a day in 1954 in aid of
> selling the Guatemala intervention to
> the American people is to read it WRONG.
> Chomsky is not making such an inference.
>
> http://www.lol.shareworld.com/zmag/articles/chomoct97.htm
>
> You sent a 27k letter to austin-ghetto-list
> about this -- that is ONE long letter,
> easily beating out Roger in his earlier days.
>
> your presence on our list is not to be utilized for
> ranting because you are not ONE OF US. this
> is clearly spelled out in Rule 22.
>
> Roger up to now our chief ranter, who IS
> one of us, has learnt to paste in URLs
> when he wants to make a point. Please do
> the same.
>
> ONE OF US by the way refers to people who
> knew one another in Ghetto Daze