-- James A. Donald:
We know the spooks do bad things. They have done bad things to people who post on this list. We also know commies do bad things.
The argument I object to is that all the bad behavior, the authoritarianism, the crimes, the repression, that we saw from the new left during the seventies is somehow the fault of the spooks, and somehow not the fault of the people who were doing it.
Faustine:
Point well taken. But the same could be said of the "crimes and bad behavior" at Waco and Ruby Ridge; it might have been their fault, but they sure as hell didn't deserve what ultimately happened to them any more than the commies did.
Aryan nation was destroyed by the feds. Black panthers were destroyed by the black panthers. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG S0OsOWCmZlXsQxA3vOqVNy48twxfCqAtk3mQhxxw 4qP/2jAlvTkWMWpRDxAvRHTx4bzkM/LViaYeM56b8