Peltier question

[Carrol Cox]

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote:

> Granted this is not an extremely powerful argument, but I would appreciate it
> if someone more into the case than myself could respond to these arguments
> from the "no parole for peltier" website.

Look, the problem is *how* the left defends its own. (And if the
question is whether, the questioner is not at this time of the left,
and need not be consulted.) The answer to that how is that it
mobilizes as many as possible of those who will answer more
or less spontaneously, Yes, Free him. As the number who say
that increases you will have a larger constituency within which
to discuss details of agitation (for the question you ask is an
agitational question, not a legal question). In the case of criminal
defenses that can always be done on the basis of the general
proclivities of law enforcement groups to more than justify such
labels as Pigs.

That means we do not have to discuss endlessly the kind of
issues that can only properly be judged (if at all) within a
trial that meets 8th-grade civics class descriptions of how
a fair trial proceeds.

Is there a left or isn't there? And if there is a left, why do we
spend so much time answering the qeustions of those who
won't accept our answers in any case -- no matter how
good those answers are.

Carrol