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Quite a collection of nut jobs. (Plus at least one serious person, Glen Ford, who is far too intelligent to still be spouting the "anti-imperialist" line. His friends in Socialist Action unfortunately just encourage his political ignorance on this front.) But notice the threat of legal action at the bottom; since when do movement coalition names fall under copyright law? And as for "illegal activities..." On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > (Just received from someone who does not want to be named. The subject > heading is his.) > > As their website http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/ clearly shows, > the pro-Assad, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah American wing of the Syrian > Solidarity Movement do not spend all their time attacking or threatening > their UK wing. They are also very busy trying to secure donations, $20,000 > this time, to visit their hero, the war criminal Bashar al Assad. Over 22 > of them, male and female, are looking for gullible sponsors to pay their > air fares to Syria to attend a December 5, 2015 meeting of the Arab Women’s > Progressive League (AWPL), an obscure bunch of female Assadist supporters, > who seem more than happy to give Chileans, Australians and Americans free > holidays to Assadstan, even thoigh the $20,000 they are trying to raise > would be much better spent on feeding and clothing Syrian women and > children rather than giving serial freeloaders another freebie. > > Although these pompous nonentities are claiming that they and they alone > can establish a “back channel” between “Russia and Iran” on the one hand > and the Western democratic powers on the other, they seem to have missed > the point that these parties are currently meeting in Vienna and, as they > all have a considerable diplomatic corps, that they do not need paupers > like them to establish any lines of communication for them or between them. > > Although many of these 22 freeloaders would be well-known to those who > follow the microbes of the international terror industry, Issa Chaer, Sami > Ramadani and Fr. Dave Smith bear closer scrutiny. Why is an Australian > priest soliciting money to go to Syria on a freebie and why are two male > London professors, with very senior positions in the pro-Assad Stop the War > Movement going to an all-female conference in Syria, without using the > facilities and channels their universities have for such jaunts? > > If the peaceful transition we all wish for Syria is to happen, it will not > be achieved by giving the gadflies of international terrorism free holidays > with Assad. Far from donating to this unworthy cause, readers should > contact the universities that employ Profs Chaer (London South Bank > University) and Ramadani (London Metropolitan University) and ask them to > explain why they are allowing these two reprobates bring such disrepute > upon them. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ 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
