From: Champ on
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?"
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From: Scraggy on
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...
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From: Simon S-B on


"Champ" <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in message
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> 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
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
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.

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Hog