On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:15:00 +0000 James Heartfield
<Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> writes:
> The WEEK
> Ending 30 December 2001
>
> GOING NATIVE
>
>
> Since the eclipse of the Soviet Union as an alternative faith for
> the
> disillusioned sons and daughters of the ruling elites, eastern
> mysticism
> has re-emerged - along with green anti-capitalism. To their
> disappointed
> elders it appears that 'fanaticism' has some special hold, but it is
> the
> yearning for belief in the West rather than any special qualities of
>
> Islam - or Bhuddism, or any other - that drives the converts.
>
What would Jim Heartfield make of the FBI agent Robert Hannsen, who was convicted of espionage for Russia and the former USSR? By all accounts, Hannsen was an extremely devout conservative Catholic, who belonged to Opu Dei, who was presumably against everything that the Soviet Union stood for.
Jim F.
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