Strangely enough I couldn't sleep last night and woke up about 3 a.m.
Guitar obviously, coffee obviously, and tv as background to drown out the bum notes.

Anyway there was this FBI files programme on. And it was all about Raymond Luc LeVasseur and Tom Manning. They were all socialist revolutionaries in America and eventually they were caught by the clever old FBI.

Their case was interesting. from a number of points of view. Which of us through those years and were involved in student politics and remembers how confused and silly our thinking was, can honestly not say - there but for the grace of god....

Their big mistake of course (apart from getting caught) was to commit their crimes in a place where there was no hope of grass roots support. Far worse terrorist acts than theirs, have been absolved in Norhern Ireland under the Good Friday Agreement - that your presidents did so much to achieve, and which for many has been such a boon.

I would be interested to hear waht they made of teh case stateside. To be quite frank, I'd never heard of these people before last night.

Theres a load about them on the internet if your memory has deserted you on the subject.