From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: Reply to Catkawin
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:16:47 -0000



I wrote


>> In your case, Catkawin, I happened to think there
>> might be good reason for your alias. I remembered
>> that a few years ago you were being violently harrassed
>> by some alleged "anarchists" in Germany who had decided
>> (on the flimsiest of evidence) that you were a "traitor".


and Catkawin replies


> your version is not in accordance with the facts


Well, of course, for you, these events will always remain
fresh in your mind; but, for me, it was a long and complicated 
story which I had read quite a few years ago now, about 
something which happened far away, and I didn't keep any 
of the e-mails relating to it, and my memory, which was 
never exactly of a photographic nature, has got a lot
worse with advancing age. So I would say that it is 
highly probable I have got things a bit muddled up. 
The only reason I mentioned this story is that you 
wondered why I hadn't criticised you for having
a pseudonym, and, however muddled I may have been
about the details, this story was in fact the explanation.


> Of course I felt grateful for any support in a situation 
> like that. Especially since the situation wasn't 
> taken serious at all by certain comrades who said 
> I was only trying to raise attention. 


You were accused of trying to attract attention?


> Quite incidentially, these were persons who had 
> been threatened themselves some years earlier


And yet they couldn't see the parallels?


> Apparently the damage done was that I now do draw 
> a very definite line between comrades and friends
> Contrary to earlier, there are no comrades 
> I consider friends any longer


I have a  _few_  anarchist comrades who are also friends, 
but I also have plenty of friends who are not anarchists.
Neighbours, or former workmates, or folk I go swimming with, 
or hillwalking with, or play pool with, and just accept that 
we don't agree about everything politically, but we're still 
friends.


Dave