> Do you endorse it or not?
I think it's interesting, and worth directing the attention of others
towards. Endorse it? Well, it does rather serve the purposes, and
employ the tactics, of the witch-hunters. Perhaps Hitchens'
partisanship blinds him to such things, or perhaps it doesn't and he
simply doesn't care. I care enough to append caveats, an admittedly
bloodless exercise.
I think the article is a move in a game: you would have expected a
reaction to G's actions, and here it is, or part of it at least.
Where'd he get the innuendo about the Spanish villa, or whatever it
was? Investigative journalism? I imagine someone fed him that, amongst
other things. Interesting to know who. But if one is interested in
polemics - and I am, and think some others here are also, use your
flipping delete button, ect. - then this particular polemical
situation shows promise.
It's true that I'm not a detached observer - I have a fairly
strongly-felt animus against some of the players. Decent people of my
acquaintance think that Galloway's RESPECT party is a cause worthy of
their support; I think they are either being duped, or are less decent
than I had supposed, neither of which conjectures is comfortable to
entertain. So I should like him to be exposed. But I should not like
him to fall victim to a witch-hunt based on unproven allegations of
misconduct, both because such things are bad in themselves and because
victimhood of that kind will not harm - and might even enhance -
Galloway's bogus moral credentials.
Dominic
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