CHILDREN, STOP IT! | 2007-09-24
Someone just wrote me that if Pain didn't stop being mean to them, they would stop posting "YOUR Mantra."
Look, gang, you're all [not] kids and I don't [shield] you or me. The letter said Pain was "my lapdog."
How Pain regards me is not my responsibility, and I am NOT your Mommy Professor.
I will do anything for the cause. But I have learned that when somebody starts shedding tears and threatening to stop working for the cause unless I do something, if they MEAN it they're not much good anyway. Back in the early sixties I was picketing against integration at drugstore counters. One guy would show up, demand something, and then cry. The guy was a college senior!
Then he would go away. Over and over.
Crying.
Such people are dangerous, as I have written before. When THE CAUSE needs them most, they will desert it.
I depend on people here. If you are going to go away, please don't ask me to trust you. I end up depending on you, and suddenly I'm left hanging in the air. That's the nastiest kind of betrayal, and I've had too much of it in my long, long fight.