[lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks

[Michael Dawson]

There's a rather gaping canyon, isn't there, between kicking Biafra for his
non-virtuosity and asking Churchill to take back his defense of Al Qaeda and
Stewart to display a hair of humility for having dictated a fatwa to a
newspaper for a fascist thug.


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> On Behalf Of John Adams
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 4:13 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Lynne Stewart speaks
> 
> On Feb 21, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> > Michael Dawson wrote:
> >
> >> 4. Like Churchill, she has nothing to apologize to the left for.
> >
> > Not right now, no. Why is this so hard to understand? They're the
> > leading edge of an intensified crackdown, and respectability is no
> > defense.
> 
> You know, what this reminds me of is when Jello Biafra got popped for
> obscenity in the mid-eighties. There was a big tendency for people to
> start off their "defense" of Jello by saying, "Okay, his music sucks,
> but..." It was just a way of attacking him, kicking him while he was
> down, and it really, really pissed me off.
> 
> Aid and comfort indeed,
> 
> 	John A
> 
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