Reply #80: Everybody I know of, and know, has something "shady" that if people want

[JanMichael]

...to make a big deal of they probably could.

Sort of a "house of glass/throw stones" issue in my opinion.

He's taken a lot of shit and pressure from both mainstream Labor and the "far" Left over the years, I know of no other public figure that holds radically different ideas about the status quo that hasn't had the same treatment.

It happens here too. Chomsky gets picked apart relentlessly by Liberals, not Conservatives (I doubt many know his works, neither the linguistic pieces or the political), but Liberals. Same with Zinn and Albert and the whole lot of the Lefties left in this country.

Either way I think I'm just tired of the personal attacks on a fellow traveller of mine, perhapsnot yours, that's Ok, but it gets so damned old hearing the same stuff over and over.

I suppose when one has a background with a certain issue that one may tend to just respond with posts that just might not seem in proportion to what others see.

With that I'll agree to you first two points:-)

Actually I'll agree on the 3rd but I'm not sure which "on the left" folks you're refering to, there isn't much consensus on the "left" here or there at this time.