Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Busted with my M2, now NO POLITICS PLEASE
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:54:59 -0800
References: <B65FACA6.C64B%jbcollier@home.com> <3A3A9B9C.3623F95C@rabiner.cncoffice.com> <3A3AC93E.A821A9DB@earthlink.net>

S Dimitrov wrote:
> 
> I don't know, I feel that ever since leica ran the shot of Che on their product
> brochure, and Mercedes-Bens had a Janis Joplin song in one of their ads, we are
> treading a new path to an eschatological fruition of the perfect world. Ever
> since Guernica the leica has been the peoples camera imbued with an ethical
> responsibility to reddress the structural inconsistency of the elites' rule.
> Every leica should have an endless tape that plays the International whenever
> it is pointed at an injustice. Maybe that the leica surprise at Koln, 2 years
> hence.
> 
> Slobodan Dimitrov
> 
Politics is life so you hate to kiss it off except on a list such as this you
might as well forget it if things get at all political.
I may join a history list and wonder if they allow politics on those? I'd think
not. I'd think politics needs to stick on political lists.

mark rabiner

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