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Joe wrote: >I'm aware of the distance, and for that reason didn't venture an opinion until one was asked of me. My response was to a factual claim: "It's also illegal in NZ. So?" No question was asked of you Joe. The question was asked of Amith. For some reason known only to yourself, you decided to chip in to try to belittle the seriousness and risks of the fundraising campaign in NZ. As John E said, one might have thought that mention of this campaign would raise curiosity rather than hackles. If I learned some people in some small imperialist country at the arse end of the world had raised funds for the PFLP my response would have been something like, "Hey, great work, well done, how did you do it, what impact did it have, how did the state respond". It wouldn't have been some scholastic, pedantic, google searches to try to show this was some kind of faux radical campaign that the NZ state saw as no qualitatively different from silent, candle-lit vigils or handholding singing 'Cumbaya'. You now claim that fundraising for the PFLP in NZ looks like faux radicalism. What a miserabilist you are. (And heaven forbid that anyone like you, sitting in the mighty USA, might have anything to learn from any wee campaign in a little place like NZ!) Meanwhile all your googling 'proved' was that there's a certain scholastic pedantry to your approach - and a serious lack of understanding of how a capitalist state like the NZ state operates and what laws they have on hand to take action against people doing stuff like fundraising for the PFLP. Anyway, your special combination of miserabilism, pedantry, naivete about how capitalist states work, and egotism (a few seconds googling and you're an expert on how the NZ state works, in particular in relation to fundraising for movements involved in armed struggle) have certainly bored me, so I'm at, to paraphrase your response to someone else on a different issue, the point at which the signal has inevitably failed. You really haven't a clue about the NZ state, so there's simply no point in continuing. Phil _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
