Political metaphors (was Re: on ann coulter

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In a message dated 07/14/2002 4:27:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jbor at bigpond.com writes:


> And Joe Stalin, Pol Pot and the perpetrators of the Tianamen Square massacre
> are just misunderstood. While Castro's and other "Left" regimes allow a
> healthy discourse of dissent in their countries' literature and media.
> 
> Give us a break.
> 
> All that the "Left" seems capable of nowadays, if its advocates here are
> anything to go by, is weaving together ad hominem attacks on anyone who
> "dissents" with some of the stupidest conspiracy theories I've seen. It's
> just empty posturing. History (and Orwell) have demonstrated the truth in
> the metaphor which Otto used.
> 
> best
> 
> p.s. Wasn't Jim Hightower the guy in the 'Police Academy' movies? Like those
> movies, the ideology-as-road metaphor sucks rocks.
> 

Wrong!

You bastard!

Don't you dare lay Joe Stalin & Pol Pot on me.  I'm proud to state that I 
have Marxist leanings, never denied it.  There has never been a true Marxist 
state.  I would have ended up in the Gulag.  Many Marxists in the USSR went 
to the firing squad singing the Intenationale.  
The USA has been happy to play with the Beijing regime for many years.  Plus 
Castro is no worse & a lot better than the murderous fascists (Yes, I'll use 
the f-word here) that the "conservatives" of the right-wing Bush-Reagan 
regimes supported.  Your hero Orwell would have been murdered by the death 
squads in Argentina.

And, no, Jim Hightower was not the guy in Police Academy.  He's not an actor. 
 Never seen the movie. I don't like to watch escapist bourgeoise crap like 
that.  


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