I would taken the point, without the need to offer, about the delete button if it were relevant. It has become relevant with an answer like this and its "this particular polemical situation shows promise"
What fun we all shall have
You probably think the news is about you
My question was trying to understand your coyness, while I tried to suppress my revulsion at seemed self-satisfaction
These matters are far more serious than a game and it isn't just Galloway's moral credentials that are bogus; as it isnt just Hitchens who begs questions
I recall the chaplain in Catch 22 identifying the real problem as the _immoral logic_ of those whose self-regard was leading to pointless death
Personal objections aside, I think what you are doing is cynically dangerous
Having said which I shall filter you out
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, May 23, 2005 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Galloway Hatchet Job No. 1
> 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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