a kvetch

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu May 2 15:55:05 PDT 2002



>michael pugliese forwarded:
>
>>suggest his
>>past reveals a dangerous right-winger with supporters linked
>to a
>>number of
>>shadowy extremist groups - including Le Pen's National Front,
>pro-
>>apartheid
>>South Africans and the Ku Klux Klan.
>>In October 1995, Duncan Smith was one of several Tories who
>met
>>senior
>>figures in the French National Front and later drank with them
>in a
>>bar at
>>Westminster. Bruno Gollnisch MEP, Le Pen's deputy, was at the
>
>>meeting,
>>which was said to be about the European Union.
>>
>>People at the meeting say the NF veteran and the Tory MPs -
>including
>>their
>>future leader - found common ground in their hostility to the
>EU.
>>Gollnisch
>>recalled: 'I came to meet members of the Conservative Party
>
>>sympathetic to
>>our views... I met Duncan Smith and others in their offices
>and later
>>we
>>got together for less formal talks in a bar somewhere in the
>
>>Parliament
>>building.
>
>Could people who forward stuff to the list try to format it
>decently? There are two Macintosh utilities that do this nicely -
>ungarble it! and TextSpresso. I'm sure there are even more Windows
>programs that do (though given how aesthetically challenged the
>Windows environment is, maybe not).
>
>Doug

You could require that people demonstrate proficiency in PERL before allowing them to join the mailing list...



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