http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3152515&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1
Actually the most interesting thing about the article is not the thuggery itself, but the posters reaction to it. The whole debate immediately centered around whether the state should impose harsher prison terms or should focus on rehabilition; the massive surveillance/police state the UK seems to be developing, including the state’s refusal to allow private citizens to carry means of defense (mace, knives, guns, etc) merited barely a squeak.
]]>I’m excited about a Homage to Catalonia film. That book was an early indicator to me that coolness could found on the left. A good yard sale pick. Too bad the post you linked to gets the history totally wrong. Orwell went to Spain to report on the war, then signed up with the Party of Marxist Unification militia to fight the fascists and ended up narrowly escaping the Soviet betrayal of the revolution.
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