XPost: uk.politics.misc, alt.politics.british   
   From: banana@REMOVE_THIS.borve.demon.co.uk   
      
   In article <4376726a$0$26062$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>, Hognoxious   
    writes   
      
   > wrote in message   
   >news:1131824597.598160.181330@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   >>I haven't read much of what the left (whether Stalinist or 'extreme   
   >> left' Trot/anarchist) says about May 1968, and don't intend to. One of   
   >> the signs of the movement's strength was that it got completely out of   
   >> their control.>   
   >>   
   >> De Gaulle fled to Gerrmany in a chopper at one point.   
   >   
   >Now there's irony!   
      
   And there's more! De Gaulle had to be nicy to leaders of the terrorist   
   OAS (Bidault amnestied, Salan released) in order to keep the army   
   sufficiently loyal to allow him to order a military repression!   
      
   >And there's more.  One definition of a liberal is someone who won't even   
   >take his own side in a quarrrel - Glybb being a perfect example.  I don't   
   >know what that makes banana - someone so laughably bent leftwards that even   
   >Mr Anecdote disagrees with him.   
      
   Who's Mr Anecdote?   
      
   --   
   banana     "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you   
               give Coca-Cola to your scum, and your best teddy-bear to   
               Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the   
               rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)