ex-radical

[rhisiart at mail.earthlink.net]

At 04:05 PM 2/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Reed Tryte wrote:
>
>>The same strange vagueness seems to afflict most
>>people making this case. Unless I've missed something,
>>Peter K. still hasn't, despite being asked by several
>>people (including me), explained who the "leftist
>>flacks for Saddam and Osama" are. I guess it's enough
>>just to assert they exist, rather than going to the
>>trouble of naming them and quoting what they've said.
>
>Hey, it's just like calling someone a comsymp during the Cold War. Very 
>effective, even if you've got no evidence.

right.   the same big lie technique was used at the UN by C Powell today.


>Except that the Commies were worthy of more sympathy than ObL.
>
>Doug

yes and no, doug.   true believers of any stripe are capable to doing great 
violence and harm.   not all "commies" are alike.

stalin wasn't worth very much sympathy, if one considers him a 
communist.    psychopathic dictators, and their minions, calling themselves 
communists murdered a lot more people that ObL ever will.   as has the 
other side.

R