> >in fairness, what set me off on the lambastment trail was the suggestion that
> >Giuliani was the author of his own misfortunes.
> >
> >Separately, the "not radicalised" are often quite a bit more radicalised than
> >one might think, and in my experience of Italians, surprisingly few
> >of them who
> >are not actually Fascists are prepared to give the carabinieri the benefit of
> >the doubt. Their unpopularity is significantly greater than that of the
> >Guardia Civil or CRS, and only just less than the RUC.
> >
> >d^2
Yoshie Furuhashi:
> It sure ain't politically smart for _leftists_ to let the police &
> the state in general off the hook for the murder of Giuliani &
> repression of other protestors by mainly blaming anarchists or
> stone-throwing youths in general for what happened.
On the other hand, we (the leftists) operate in an open society, and it's necessary to discuss the political function of Giuliani's activities openly even if it's apparently not clever team play against the Other Side.