Sunday 3 July 2005

A meeting

Walking back from photographing yesterday's march in Edinburgh I was approached by an elderly gentleman wearing a Scottish Socialist Party badge. He asked if I would like to purchase a postcard of Che. I asked him why on earth would I want to buy a photo of a mass murderer who shot small boys. I enjoyed this confrontation so much that I had to go and celebrate with a beer.

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6 July 2005, 15:55:48 GMT+01:00
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Title: Anti-capitalism in Edinburgh 
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5 July 2005, 17:12:51 GMT+01:00
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Della
[Che] was the living embodiment of the principle of Revolution 
 
What about Lenin or Mao? They were the biggest symbols of revolution in the 20th century I think, they certainly were far, far more influential than Che.  
 
I think they ignore the other two because Che could merely bath in the blood of his victims, whereas Lenin could fill several olympic swimming pools with the blood of his victims, and Mao could create a small lake with the blood of his victims.

5 July 2005, 00:22:20 GMT+01:00
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Calatrian
I see they only managed to scrabble together about 1,000 for the anti-war march on Sunday...your robust treatment of the old Trot may have had a wider impact and they were feart to come out!

4 July 2005, 14:05:39 GMT+01:00
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Paul Coulam
Libertarians haven't always been so down on Che.... 
 
"What made Che such a heroic figure for our time is that he, more than any man of our epoch or even of our century, was the living embodiment of the principle of Revolution. More than any man since the loveable but entirely ineffectual nineteenth-century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, Che earned the title of "professional revolutionary" And furthermore... we all knew that his enemy was our enemy - that great colossus that oppresses and threatens all the peoples of the world, U.S. imperialism."  
 
Murray Rothbard writing in the libertarain journal 'Left and Right' in 1967.

4 July 2005, 11:02:43 GMT+01:00
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Phil
Nice work, David, it's always fun to see a Lefty forced to confront reality. One of my pastimes is to tell the Amnesty "chuggers" on Princes Street precisely what I think of their organisation. Sets me up for the day!

4 July 2005, 11:01:44 GMT+01:00
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Bill (Scotland)
Right on! 
 
The price of freedom really is eternal vigilance. Immediate rebuttal of socialist nonsense like this is so good for the soul!

4 July 2005, 00:03:49 GMT+01:00
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Andrew Ian Dodge
Giving ageing socialist idjits fits is one of my fave passtimes.

3 July 2005, 21:23:12 GMT+01:00
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David Farrer
Andy, 
 
He started to vibrate so much I though his head was going to explode! As he marched off he turned and shouted: "The capitalists executed him, you know."

3 July 2005, 19:56:35 GMT+01:00
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Max
I had a similar run in with a middle aged woman who bore an uncanny resemblence to an elderly Elvis Pressley and looked like a refuge from Greenham Common. 
 
She had a banner with 'Make Poverty History in Palestine'. I pointed out that there is also poverty in Israel. Apparently this makes me a 'Nazi'. What a wonderful bunch these protesters are.

3 July 2005, 19:26:06 GMT+01:00
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Andy Wood
Good work David. 
 
How did the elderly socialist react?

3 July 2005, 18:56:10 GMT+01:00
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Calatrian
He was probably taking advantage of crowds of leftie fashionistas to raise money for the Fatuous Four who were rightly suspended for their puerile disruption of parliament last week. Keep up the good work.

3 July 2005, 18:45:45 GMT+01:00
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Excerpt: This prestigious award goes to the blog Freedom and Whisky for this (even though it displays rather oddly in my browser): 
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3 July 2005, 18:44:27 GMT+01:00
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Sandy P
Purchase??? 
 
Purchase? 
 
Should have been free in keeping w/his belief system. 
 
Good luck and keep your head down.

3 July 2005, 17:18:48 GMT+01:00