Meatspace,

[jamesd at echeque.com]

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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.

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