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Thread #125426   Message #2821390
Posted By: Lox
25-Jan-10 - 05:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
I seee you have found an article by Brendan O'Neill.

Who he?

The Guardians own Devils Advocate.

click here for a list of his other articles.


Among them some wild claims about Tienanmen Square in 1989, and a lot of "global warming is a myth" stuff.


I am not prepared to go into some of the issues he has ranted about, but one I remember as if it was yesterday was the Tienanmen Square Massacre.

I was in Hong Kong throughout the whole period, and myself and my Dad, who was a senior civil servant in the HK government, paid very close attention to the whole thing as it unfolded from the moment that the students started to pitch their tents, right through seeing Wu Er Kai Shi's unrestrained public admonitions of Deng and Li Peng, and finally the live news describing the carnage being inflicted.


Brendan O'Neills agenda is simple. Find an issue and slag off the "trendy" stereotyped romantic politics associated with it.


I suspect that such an approach is not that far from yours Keith ...