You are raising two issues, Jerry: (1) the death threats on M1 before the split of the lists. They mainly emanated from Adolfo Oleachea. Oleachea was underlining his arguments with a steady stream of obscure hints at extra-list action. He was escalating this when he felt more secure, and toning it down when he was argumentationally in trouble. It was very eerie. I saw this clearly because I was following his arguments closely, being, of course, one of the main proponents who wanted Adolfo on the list. Not because of free speech motives, but because Adolfo is a beautiful specimen of a Stalinist, and I wanted to drag him under the miscroscope of the list and study him, so that we will better be able to free the working class from the scourge of Stalinism. This was one of my motives, the other was that Adolfo's revolutionary commitment, which cannot be doubted, brought sensibilities to the list which were not there before. Now the PCP clearly does not have the resource to send or even hire a hit man, and the list members were clearly not important enough to merit killing. Furthermore, Adolfo's threats were very damaging to the reputation of the PCP. Why then was Adolfo doing this stuff? Some time in April I dared a psychological explanation. I wrote: there is only one person on this list who has reson to be afraid of the PCP. And this is Adolfo. His threats stem from his unconscious desire to communicate his fears to others. Adolfo gave me a lame rebuttal that he was too old to be afraid. He did *not* say that he was not in danger. And then his flow of sublimial threats stopped! I have not yet gotten around to challenging Adolfo's Stalinism, but I have announced publicly that this was the next thing I was planning to do. Until now, the main contradiction bogging down the list was the fact that Quispe was a cop, and attacking his rival Adolfo, who is not a cop, would have muddied the issue. But Chris B. did some excellent work exposing Adolfo's sadism. Soft-spoken Chris can be really brilliant if he gets angry, and Adolfo did make him angry, questioning his masculinity. Adolfo, on the other hand, who was so lucid when he had to fight for entrance into the list, turned into a conceited bore after he was in it, always trying to look beautiful, and trying to sneak into the circle of supporters which Louis P. was assembling around himself in order to re-gain leadership of the list. (2) What is the evidence that Quispe is a cop? Of course, a list can never have evidence that is beyond reasonable doubt, but Quispe's behavior cannot be reasonably explained otherwise. On occasion when he got angry he lashed out against those activists who denounced him which revealed his deep hatred for the culture of political activism he was working in. Fooled by the heat of the argument between comrades he thought everything goes and did not notice the fine lines which the other comrades never cross. He also tries, in subtle ways, to discredit the PCP by publishing the PCP material in a way which must turn people off, or by publicizing private email. The list of suspicious acts is very long, and people have been publishing such lists on M1. Most of the evidence is much harder than what I just wrote, but the points I just gave are those most convincing to me personally. Hans Ehrbar.
