Re: Let.s Go Hillary

[Charles Brown <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But you are not tired of being offensive ?

>>> Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx> 02/07/2008 4:47 PM >>>
I'm tired of this defensiveness.

On Feb 7, 2008 1:16 PM, Charles Brown <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >>> Jim Devine
>
> Charles:
> > Did you do a poll of the members or did you get this info from the
> > FBI ?  Most party members are not public because there is not
freedom
> of
> > political association for Communists in the US.
>
> no, I didn't do a poll. But that was the "word on the street" and my
> friends in the CP didn't deny it.
>
> ^^^^^
> CB: "word on the street" from anti-CPers ?  My friends in the CP did
> deny it.
>
> ^^^
>
> Me:
> >  and the USSR, its patron, supported Nixon.
>
>
>
> and Nixon was an ally of J. Edgar Hoover, who was busy denying
freedom
> of
> political association to the CP. Yes, Hoover shuffled off to that
big
> dress shop in the sky that year, but his "truth" went marching on...
>
> ^^^^^
>  CB:  Wow. That's a stretch, but such stretches are not uncommon in
the
> mental gymnastics of anti-Communism and anti-Sovietism.
>
> So, the Soviet Union was not the "patron" of the CPUSA ?
>
> (Michael will step in now,  because straightening out old
anti-Soviet
> thinking is too pro-Soviet. One wonders why since the SU is a ghost.
> What to fear  from discussing the defunct SU ?)
>



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