"Everyone on the left knew they had turned pure criminal." This is typical
mindless leftism. The posts to this list alone show how false Albert's statement
is (and it is not the first time he has used it, nor is he the only one to have
done so). Does Jeffrey Blankfort think the Panthers were "pure criminal?" What is
the argument on this thread about if not this issue? Hasn't everybody who has
written to criticize me done so on this point, claiming that the Panthers were
not criminals? And the only reason there is even any concession to some criminal
acts on their part is because of a 20 year effort by myself and a handful of
other individuals who defied the pc attitudes of the left and people like Stew
Albert to bring the facts to light. I will pay $100 to anyone on this thread who
can turn up a single article by a leftist in 1973, which is when I got involved
with the Panthers that describes them as criminals. (Excluded from this offer are
the attacks of the Cleaver faction of the Party. Of course, when leftists attack
each other in a power struggle they always smear the other side as police agents,
criminals and the like). Stew Albert was a frequent writer for the Berkeley Barb
in the Sixties. I recall an article by him declaring Machine Gun Kelly and John
Dillinger to be revolutionary heroes. Perhaps Stew would do us the favor of
posting a published comment of his from those years about the Panthers turning
"pure criminal."
StewA@aol.com wrote:
> Country Joe makes a good point re-Horowitz. His, is a tired and repetitive
> game. I guess he is operating out some sense of responsibility for his
> mistakes - especially recruiting a politically inexperienced bookkeeper into
> the Panther crowd at a time when everyone on the left knew they had turned
> pure criminal. (I'm not talking here of using illegal tactics to serve
> political purposes which they did in their earlier 60's period.) She wound up
> being murdered and this is David's burden. But let us not let his problems
> disrupt our street corner. In the last analysis what other reason would he
> have for being here?
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