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Thread #157811   Message #3729082
Posted By: GUEST,Fred McCormick
09-Aug-15 - 07:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Politics: UK Labour leadership election
Subject: RE: BS: Politics: UK Labour leadership election
The questions of when, if ever, it is right to support terrorism, and the form which that support should take are extremely complex.

It is made all the more so by a lack of anything approaching a workable definition of what exactly terrorism is.

EG., if it is right to condemn the brutal tactics of Islamic State, as it once called itself, is it not equally right to condemn the state terrorism of the West in starting the Iraq war and which was fundamental to the founding of IS? If it is right to celebrate movements of national liberation, and the European resistance movements of the 2nd world war, then how about we hear it for the IRA who, believe it or not, were merely trying to drive a foreign oppressor from their soil?

In any event, it says a lot that that this is about the nearest which Corbyn's enemies have come to digging any "dirt" up on the man. And that after 32 continuous years as an MP.

Oh, sorry, I nearly forgot. There are several closet Tory Labour donors saying they'll withdraw their support for Labour if Corbyn reinstates Clause Four.

Oh hell, the cheek of it. A "socialist" party which wants to reestablish one of its founding socialist principles. Good God. The membership will be demanding a fair and equal voting system next.