"I" "know" it's for "real"
I think they were really were real protesters, you know. That you and I
would probably agree that they are, shall I say, wrong-headed, does not mean
that they weren't protesting
The "insurgents" *are resistance. One may have no sympathy with them; but
they are resistance and what they are resisting is murderous, hypocritical
and larcenous... as well as stupid and incompetent
Urging all "right-thinking" people to support someone or other or somethuing
or other is done by all sides
It was the selectivity with which you satirised which so disturbed me
I would stress the word _simplistic_
As for shooting the messenger, possibly preferable (if done well) to any
serious maiming - all too common - whether that maiming is done by an
insurgent or a freedom loving invader
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: Freedom at gunpoint
> Hey, don't shoot the messenger. You go to the right places, you'll
> hear all those things being said. Hizb-ut-Tahrir are for real. The
> "protesters" taking photographs of voters in Manchester and Melbourne
> were for real. George Galloway, MP, was talking about "quislings" not
> so long ago. You hear people talk about the insurgents as a
> "resistance" all the time, usually going on to suggest that it's the
> duty of all right-thinking people to support them. Oh, and the sneer
> against "exiles" as somehow not proper, authentic Iraqis, has being
> doing the rounds ever since they started asking exiles what they
> thought of the invasion and some of them started saying they supported
> it.
>
> Dominic
>
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