I was secretly thrilled when the Trotskyist 'Newsline' in excellent bad
> taste condemned John Lennon in an editorial when he died, saying he had
> investments in South Africa (which I am sure was made up).
>
In fairness to the Trotskyists, nearly all of us with any kind of private investments or retirement accounts have vested interests in the nastiest of places. The old-school industrial unionists with their defined-benefit plans are theoretically spared the burden of worrying about the profits the murder machine churns out for them (although they probably still should), but that doesn't mean they aren't still profiting from it. Really, the only way to eliminate moral culpability in the awfullest things in the world is to resign oneself to being old and poor, which is more of a sacrifice than most of us will be willing to make.
Of course, it occurs to me that this may be different for those of you in ye olde welfare state. Is it possible to eke out a decent existence on a public pension alone over there?
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."