Didn’t he become a yank at a time when they insisted on abjuration of previous allegiances, and we insisted on people giving away their Ozziness if they acquired anything else?

Hence, Rupert “$20 a barrel” Murdoch is actually 100% foreign now.

This is something you would expect from an O’Reilly or a Hannitty…bide my words people, Sky News will transform soon into something similar…or there will be an offshoot. I’m positive the dual citizen Mr. Murdoch & his Enablers have plans for this Country, we’re partially the way there.

A badly divided, angry, argumentaive, hyped, fearful Nation makes for great Corporate TV…heaps of profits for moguls & advertisers, a boon for lawyers…& ruination of personal lives & reputations to capture LIVE…& if they pull this sh*t off, they’ll throw any kind of social & community harmony & future political co-operation out the backdoor.

The wonder years…sigh.

GregM
were you thinking of that UK political academic, strong supporter of far left Asian communist parties, who went on a fact-finding tour in Kampuchea, met Pol Pot for discussions, and was shot dead in Phnomh Penh?

No, I was thinking of Ben Kiernan who now holds a professorship at Yale.

Pablo may have confused him with the Pol Pot apologist Malcolm Caldwell, who was murdered in Phnom Penh on the eve of the Vietnamese invasion. I must say that having read that foul creature’s writings, especially his simpering pandering to the Khmer Rouge, when I read an account of his death at their hands I thought to myself that among the million or more murders they perpetrated this was one that no decent person should be concerned about in the slightest. At least he got off more lightly than those condemned to Toul Sleng. More’s the pity.

Since this is a thread about matters of ancient history and history wars here is an article by Robert Manne on Caldwell’s death and, incidentally Keith Windshuttle’s Pol Potist sympathies- with a Windshuttle rebuttal.

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:QvXUzqqxoJQJ:www.sydneyline.com/Manne%2520Windschuttle%2520Quadrant%25206%252006.pdf+khmer+rouge+murder+british+academic&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au

Manne gives him a thorough booting. Enjoy.
Mann

Manne is playing along, to an extent, by keeping to the proposed terrain of personal history. He should have gone straight to the question of sedition, which Katz correctly identifies as the underlying issue here, and tackled it head on. It may be too much to expect, but an interpretive leap like that could turn an exchange like this into a genuine debate, or force the Hendersons of the world to retreat into explicit judgement instead of sowing these stereotypes.

Does that mean that Manne should simply ignore him when Hendo accuses him of seditious acts?

And if not, what is the best non-boring, non-self-indulgent response?

Some American conservatives insist that the history of dissent in the 1960s should not be taught. It is interesting that there are two contradictory positions on this question. The first is that it is trivial. The second is that is too dangerous.

Just like Uncle Joe’s position on the unions. They are both irrelevant and dangerous.