"I'm shocked he was dumb enough to publish them. We usually keep these things to ourselves here on the Left."

Deploying the old "taken out of context" defense. If that doesn't work, the next step is the old "passive voice" trick: Mistakes were made. Words were published. Shots were fired. The object of the sentence was used as its subject.

"At least until it all blows over, or something comes along to distract--Oh! Look! It's Anna Nicole and Paris, naked!"

"Not that we don't agree with him, mind you, we just need to find someone, you know, a little quieter, more discreet . . . .

We share common cause with the Islamist terrorists

Far from being unreasonable fanatics, the terrorists fight for the same things we do. We have a common enemy.

by Kevin Potvin (kpotvin@republic-news.org)
The Republic No. 118 - July 21 to August 1, 2005

. . . Our government leaders would like us to believe that unreasonable terrorists are trying to kill us because they hate us, and our leaders would like us to think that terrorist attacks have nothing to do with our governments’ policies. But the true picture is quite different. Our government leaders, currently in thrall to an enemy common to members of our society as well as Islamic societies—irresponsible global corporations—is lying about the terrorists. It is our own government leaders who are unwilling to negotiate with the reasonable Islamists, and it is our own corporations that are in the business of killing both our societies. The Islamists are fighting back for a cause that we endorse. We can help them, and ourselves, by telling our governments and our companies to back off from both our endangered societies.