Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 00:24:25 -0500 (EST)
From: Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart-AT-mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: Re: M-G: Re: Rolf's foolish and ill-advised remarks



Dear Louis,

On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Louis R Godena wrote:

> 
> Rolf is right about one thing;  the message that was forward to me had the
> words  "anti-imperialist" rather than "anti-subversive" contained therein.
> This changes the letter,  but not the spirit,  of Rolf's asinine statement.
> In a sense,  though,  he has already revised it,  and has at least
> acknowledged (by damning with faint praise) his earlier gaffe.    So,  to
> quote Sir Nigel: "Fuck him and the horse he rode in on."
> 
> Sid,  I'm a little surprised you'd stoop to defend this maggot; his is the
> same ideology that led to the herding of thousands of homosexuals into the
> death camps in 1938-45.    Only today,  we regard him only as a dotty old
> eccentric,  more to be ignored or pitied than feared.     If only one could
> say the same of our dear Vladimir.    "Professor" Bilenken is that
> depressingly common phenomenon,  a foreign "revolutionary" swilling
> generously the milk and honey of a system he affects to despise.    Let him
> slurp his way into the hearts of the American taxpayers whom he so
> ungraciously burdens.
> 
> And a Sir Nigel to him,  as well.
> 
> Louis Godena
> 

So Rolf's original message to you had the word "anti-imperialist" which
he subsequently changed to "anti-subversive" which he then posted to
M-G. So Rolf, what is going on here? I am even more confused now.

Sid  




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