tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post7221116063469874699..comments2023-12-31T13:47:05.758+00:00Comments on Fat Man on a Keyboard: Friend or foe?The Plumphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09244528534476387323noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-88826956919974833242007-09-01T21:45:00.000+01:002007-09-01T21:45:00.000+01:00Thank you for the links – I particularly recommend...Thank you for the links – I particularly recommend the video links.<BR/><BR/>Pilger is a vain man whose past record contains a truth: After a while you begin to believe your own legend. Somehow, since at least the end of the eighteenth century, in the west to be 'any good' you have had to be a contrarian, especially one opposed to the society which produced you. It never crosses the minds of such people what their prospects would be under the kind of government they wish to impose upon everyone else. Tom Paine got locked up by the revolting French and chased out of revolutionary America; no matter, still a great survivor under the hated autocracies. Latterly, Stalin enjoyed pin up boy status among a million fellow travellers languishing in the gulags of western Universities.<BR/><BR/>Such people as Tom Wolfe said so cruelly, " ... are not soldiers. They are actors." Personally, I should not like my own prospects determined by the self-love of poseurs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-50389267150854342232007-09-01T16:25:00.000+01:002007-09-01T16:25:00.000+01:00An excellent post.The “Pro-Palestinian left” could...An excellent post.<BR/><BR/>The “Pro-Palestinian left” could be better described as the "Anti-Israeli" left, since the bulk of their activity is geared toward punishing Israel, not supporting Palestine.<BR/><BR/>Careful though: <A HREF="http://www.newstatesman.com/200510100023" REL="nofollow">Nick Cohen</A> found out the hard way that while not all Anti-Zionists are Anti-Semites, all Anti-Semites are Anti-Zionists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36841665.post-47243360103240885242007-08-30T23:14:00.000+01:002007-08-30T23:14:00.000+01:00This post is really marvelous stuff.Anyone who isn...This post is really marvelous stuff.<BR/><BR/>Anyone who isn't a 'two stater' is a fucking mental heed-the-ball.<BR/><BR/>Keep on keeping on Peter!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com