Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 11:17:13 +1000 (EST)
From: billbartlett-AT-vision.net.au (Bill Bartlett)
Subject: Re: AUT: GA shit


Rob Brown wrote:

>        you're right i don't trust anyone who has so little understanding
>of fascism . "my nazi friends", you so snidely refer to, tried to kill my
>grandfather with a lead pipe in a ny subway in the 30's because he was an
>antifascist journalist and labor organizer.  bob brown

That's all well and good Bob, but we're not talking about what the fascists
did. At least I'm not, I can see you are desperate to change the subject
but I can't let you off the hook.

If you want to suppress them (Luther at least only wanted to turn a blind
eye to someone else suppressing them, although I sense that makes him an
accomplice) you create a couple of very awkward dilemmas for yourself.

Firstly, where do you draw the line? If Nazis deserve to be suppressed what
about those who give aid and comfort to them - like bourgoise civil
libertarians, or left wingers? Am I not just as dangerous?

But the big question for you, the one you studiously avoided by going into
a long rant about the holocaust, is exactly WHO will decide where to draw
the line? And I don't mean in some future socialist utopia, but in the here
and now. Anyone with an ounce of brain can see that the only ones equipped
for the task are the present ruling class, do you trust THEM with the job
of deciding whose ideology can be safely espoused Bob?

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.




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