http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote/ Comments on MetaFilter post Debs Quixote Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:51:01 -0800 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:51:01 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote <a href="http://www.thememoryhole.org/war/debs-speech.htm">The anti-war speech</a> that earned <a href=http://www.eugenevdebs.com/>Eugene</a> <a href=http://library.pittstate.edu/spcoll/ndxevdebs.html>V.</a> <a href=http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/>Debs</a> a <a href=http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/341/Debs1918.html>prison sentence</a> in 1918 for opposing the draft. Debs was prosecuted under the <a href=http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/341/sedition1918.html>Sedition Act</a>, and he received almost a million votes behind bars as the <a href=http://www.sp-usa.org/about/history/early-years.html>American Socialist Party</a> candidate for president. He's much admired by <a href=http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/kurt_vonnegut_vs_the/>Kurt</a> <a href=http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/cold_turkey/>Vonnegut</a>. <small>[Via <a href=http://www.ncf.ca/~ek867/wood_s_lot.html>wood s lot</a>.]</small> post:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.36807 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:48:37 -0800 homunculus Anti-war EugeneDebs SeditionAct AmericanSocialistParty KurtVonnegut http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote#765233 <a href=http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/32408>Emma Goldman</a> was also <a href=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldman/timeline/timeline2.html>imprisoned</a> for opposing the draft, and was later <a href=http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/goldman/deport.html>deported</a>. comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.36807-765233 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 09:51:01 -0800 homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote#765264 What exactly is quixotic about this? I don't see any windmills. comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.36807-765264 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:30:55 -0800 srboisvert http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote#765270 Excellent. Thank you, you damned seditious traitor! :) comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.36807-765270 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 10:44:28 -0800 nofundy http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote#765310 *arrests homunculus* no, seriously, thanks: great link comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.36807-765310 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 11:49:37 -0800 matteo http://www.metafilter.com/36807/Debs-Quixote#765326 Free <strike>goatse</strike> <strike>quonsar</strike> me! comment:www.metafilter.com,2004:site.36807-765326 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 13:13:45 -0800 homunculus