Churchill endorsed terrorism and says he refuses to retreat "an inch" from his position, which he has not altered.
If somebody attacked Chip Berlet, that would be a witch-hunt.
Personally, I don't see the witch-hunt in the Churchill case, and I don't see the outrage in the Lynn Stewart affair. I may be wrong, but I also think it is in fact very important for us to not crawl into Chicken Little's skin. That would be adding insult to injury.
As to Mr. Cox: I would love to see he diagram of "the left" as it exists in his mind! How many saints can you fit on the head of a pin?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of snit snat
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 9:41 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Terrain of Struggle was O'Reilly vs Churchill
>
> At 09:12 AM 2/18/2005, Chip Berlet wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I really agree with Carrol Cox on this. The lessons of Witch Hunts is
> >that it is crucial not to start cutting off your political colleagues one
> >by one, no matter how much it seems politically expedient to do
> >so. Making clear your own views and disagreements with others is one
> >thing, but if we let the political right determine the boundaries of our
> >movement, we are cutting holes in our own liferaft. We are in this
> >together. Carrol Cox makes me crazy sometimes, but if he was targetted by
> >a smear campaign I would expect all of us to rise up in his defense as a
> >matter of principle. Ward is not the first to be targeted and he will not
> >be the last. We are entering an ugly period in political life here in
> the
> >U.S. Ask yourself what a progressive historian will say in fifty years
> >about how we stood together or fell one by one.
> >
> >No More Witch Hunts!
> >
>
>
> Chip, exactly HOW was MY post an effort to start a witch hunt. That's the
> problem. And what about the way Carrol categorized Newman, Pug, and others
> as embarassing leftists who are best put in along with provacateurs?
>
>
> Kelley
>
>
> "We live under the Confederacy.
> We're a podunk bunch of swaggering
> pious hicks."
>
> --Bruce Sterling
>
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