Post by flyby on Nov 30, 2004 20:02:11 GMT -5
hehehehe.
Sonofrage: I never intended to read your mind. And certainly not to distort what you said or meant.
I want to point out some examples:
This website (http://www.freefarouk.org/) does not mention his Socialist Party membership either. And (in fact) mainly mentions the ISO.
What should we draw from that?
Similarly on this page (http://www.freefarouk.org/r20040713.html) there was an event to free Farouk. The organizational membership of several people is mentioned (including a speaker from the Socialist Party) but it is not mentioned whether or not Farouk himself belonged to any group. (It lists him as "Palestinian activist, former immigration detainee."
Should we draw some sinister conclusion from that? No, I don't think so. Instead it suggests that he did not generally run around and portray hmself as a Socialist party member. Or perhaps there is another explanation.
However here is what matters in this thread: Farouk (a precious fighter and brother) died. The RW wrote a wonderful obit, that did not mention any party membership either.
Perhaps they did not know he was a member of a party.
Perhaps they chose not to mention it for some reason.
Perhaps he himself would not have wanted to be viewed that way.
I don't know, and we can only speculate.
But it doesn't seem like a big point -- and surely it would be distorting things to portray it as some "example" of the RCP's desire to misrepresent.
I'm not sure what this thread is about, and why it has a strange hostile air of suspicion and distrust about it. (Why assume the worst possible motives over minor matters?!)
Sonofrage: I never intended to read your mind. And certainly not to distort what you said or meant.
I want to point out some examples:
This website (http://www.freefarouk.org/) does not mention his Socialist Party membership either. And (in fact) mainly mentions the ISO.
What should we draw from that?
Similarly on this page (http://www.freefarouk.org/r20040713.html) there was an event to free Farouk. The organizational membership of several people is mentioned (including a speaker from the Socialist Party) but it is not mentioned whether or not Farouk himself belonged to any group. (It lists him as "Palestinian activist, former immigration detainee."
Should we draw some sinister conclusion from that? No, I don't think so. Instead it suggests that he did not generally run around and portray hmself as a Socialist party member. Or perhaps there is another explanation.
However here is what matters in this thread: Farouk (a precious fighter and brother) died. The RW wrote a wonderful obit, that did not mention any party membership either.
Perhaps they did not know he was a member of a party.
Perhaps they chose not to mention it for some reason.
Perhaps he himself would not have wanted to be viewed that way.
I don't know, and we can only speculate.
But it doesn't seem like a big point -- and surely it would be distorting things to portray it as some "example" of the RCP's desire to misrepresent.
I'm not sure what this thread is about, and why it has a strange hostile air of suspicion and distrust about it. (Why assume the worst possible motives over minor matters?!)