Re: [ProgSoc] question

[alister air <baitoven@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, jedd wrote:

>  Firstly, go to Brixton before you assume it's innocent until proven guilty.
> 
>  Whilst Maggie was doubtlessly evil (she should be shot if for no other
>  reason than encouraging Elvis Costello to write lots of whiny songs
>  for the best part of two decades) it's fair to say that Enoch Powell was
>  right.  We're seeing similar phenomenon here -- but Australia's typically
>  15 years behind the rest of the world.  Hold onto something.

This is so out of line and so untrue.  Off topic too.  Enoch
Powell?  "Rivers of blood"?  When did that happen?  He was as close to
being a fucking Nazi as any knuckledragging drooling moron, even though he
wasn't stupid himself.  

Try

http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/powell.htm
 
for a more critical appraisal of Powell's life.  The best thing he ever
did was die, and even then it took him 80 years too long.

A simple explanation of Powell's policies blends the worst
anti-immigration and racist policies of the One Nation/League of Rights
types with the worst economic policies of the Abbott and Costello
ultra-dry Liberals.  I could go on (and on) but I'll leave it there.

Alister


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