From: Champ on 1 Jul 2010 09:09 On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:47:51 GMT, ensmjc(a)bath.ac.uk (M J Carley) wrote: >Nothing far left about the Provos, but if you want some analysis of >the far left with guns, try: > >http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/lets-stick-together/ I got about 6 or 7 paragraphs into that, and then my head exploded. "Whatever happened to the Popular Front?" -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Scraggy on 1 Jul 2010 09:10 On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:47:51 GMT, ensmjc(a)bath.ac.uk (M J Carley) wrote: >In the referenced article, "Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> writes: >>M J Carley <ensmjc(a)bath.ac.uk> wrote: > >>> Not fair: the Provos had split because they objected to Sticky >>> Marxism. The (pseudo-) Marxists mostly shot each other. > >>Bejeesus I wouldn't presume to analyze the intricacies of the far >>left mind set, one would leave that up to you. > >Nothing far left about the Provos, but if you want some analysis of >the far left with guns, try: > >http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/lets-stick-together/ I note, with some amusement, that someone using the handle "paraffinalia" has commented there. Surely not, no, couldn't be... -- I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx
From: Simon S-B on 1 Jul 2010 09:10 "Champ" <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in message news:jo4p265o96iq79vh50lbr481jmo0lqukkv(a)4ax.com... > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:47:51 GMT, ensmjc(a)bath.ac.uk (M J Carley) wrote: > >>Nothing far left about the Provos, but if you want some analysis of >>the far left with guns, try: >> >>http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/lets-stick-together/ > > I got about 6 or 7 paragraphs into that, and then my head exploded. > > "Whatever happened to the Popular Front?" > -- Altogether now 'He's over there'
From: Two Dogs on 1 Jul 2010 12:58 On Jul 1, 6:12 am, "Simon S-B" <baitt...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "Dave Larrington" <n...(a)legslarry.org.uk> wrote in message > > news:893544F4neU1(a)mid.individual.net... > > > > > Innews:4c2ba2c0$0$28010$db0fefd9(a)news.zen.co.uk, > > Hog <sm911S...(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > > >> <very deep sigh> > > >> The comments were about whether the US considered it to be a war, not > >> what I think. > > >> Johnson certainly insisted America was not at war with NV for the > >> period up to the Tet offensive. Indeed looking it up since Congress > >> never declared a state of war. It was a "Police Action". > > > Johnson was, however, this: wrong. The sure-fire way to tell the > > difference between a "war" and a "police action" is to find out whether > > Bob Hope ever entertained the armed forces during said encounter. > > > Bob Hope did not play police actions, but he *did* play Vietnam, ergo it > > was a war. > > > Anyone who says otherwise is a thick-o. > > > -- > > Love it! The only problem is now who has taken his role as the war-o-meter? Pamela Anderson.... Two Dogs
From: Hog on 1 Jul 2010 13:01
Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 12:47:51 GMT, ensmjc(a)bath.ac.uk (M J Carley) wrote: > >> Nothing far left about the Provos, but if you want some analysis of >> the far left with guns, try: >> >> http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/lets-stick-together/ > > I got about 6 or 7 paragraphs into that, and then my head exploded. > > "Whatever happened to the Popular Front?" It's incredible. The naural evolution of the left would appear to be every individual in a splinter party of one, with a political entity and an armed faction! I really think it would be kinder to proscribe communism as we do national socialism. -- Hog |