Re: Red Ken outrage

["Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 11:03:59 -0400
> From: "Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Red Ken outrage
>
> >>> "Einde O'Callaghan" <einde.ocallaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 05/12/00 > 
> >>> 05:08PM
> >>>
> > Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:01:56 +0100
> > From: "M A Jones" <jones118@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Red Ken outrage
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > Ken is a populist, not a revolutionary. A Father Gapon, not a > Stalin.
>
> We should remember that Father Gapon was eventually executed by the
> Social Revolutionaries for being a provocateur and police spy. Whatever
> else Ken Livingstone is he isn't a provocateur and police spy. Please
> try to be a bit more precise in your historical analogies.
>
> __________
>
> CB: Wasn't it a Socialist Revolutionary that shot Lenin ? Fanny > somebody ?
>
> CB

Yes, Fanny (Fania) Kaplan in 1918. But Gapon was executed in 1907, long
before the Revolution, and he really was a police spy and provocateur.

Einde O'callaghan