bill cobbett wrote:Boys... please be realistic about these "protests"
... they are all about self-interest
... by promoting a Right To Exist On Stolen Lands, an Apartheid Self-Governing, Sod the Rums As Long As they Pay Our Pensions and 13th Salaries, Northern State free of Run Out Of Money Turkey,
... we heard as much from Halil this morning.
Bugger all to do with any notion of Re-unification that most of the Good People of the Free Areas would be comfortable with.
Wish the protests had nobler, more altruistic aims... but they haven't.
billy boy. i'm the first to acknowledge the protests are nothing but self-interest. people don't pour out on the street in a military-controlled regime for a jamboree. the people of libya are revolting for reasons of self-interest.
a sophisticated politician in the roc would give the protests the necessary spin - to the world, as well as to progressive forces in the north to build on...
ie. it's in the roc's self-interest to capitalise on this. agitate, encourage, support. not remain on the sidelines.
develop common self-interest is what i'm saying. not pretend it isn't happening.