leoj,

You left out in your accusation the fact that I quite
clearly stated that being assaulted for your
opinion is WRONG no matter who you are -whether
you're John Howard, Andrew Bolt, et cetera.

But never mind. As ttbn pointed out people will
selectively choose out of someone's posts what they
want to believe about that particular poster. I have
no control over what you think, or say or your
interpretation of things. It's funny nobody else picks
up the things that you do. Is it any wonder that most
of the time I don't bother to read what you post - as soon
as I see your name - I simply scroll past.

It's rather odd as well that you did not point out what
I wrote in my posts that followed after that one -
where once again - violence was condemned. But I guess
that doesn't suit your purpose of personal attacks.

Keep up the good - work. I'm surprised you didn't bring in
your usual rants of "Progressives," Emily-listers,
the Greens, et al.

Joe,

You are only encouraging Paul and Steelwhatsit. They are too thick to know when they are having the Mickey taken out of them.

Hi Paul 2,

I'm not sure what my former links to communism have to do with a couple of thugs trying to beat up Andrew Bolt, perhaps you can join the dots.

But since you make an assertion, let me point out that my communist parents had broken with the CPA while I was still a mid-teen, on the grounds that it was too soft. I can't recall attending any Communist Party meetings, but my mum might have taken me to some meetings, from the time when I was a newborn. The CPA Chairman, J. B. Miles, dandled me and, my mum said, I peed on him. She used to live with his son before she got married.

I do recall attending a Christmas Party, I think in about 1954, and I think in St Mary's, run by the Eureka Youth League.

So my Road to Damascus has been a very long journey, perhaps sixty years. Ah yes, and I was on the back of a EYL truck (I think it was the EYL) during a World Peace Convention (I think at Milperra) in about late 1952. I remember talking there to an elderly British Somaliland delegate, nice old bloke.

That's about it, really.

Does National Action still exist ? You seem to know, and also where the two of them meet. Ah, you're one of them, working under-cover ?

Anyhow, BTT: Foxy made some vapid statement about 'all violence is bad'. No, violence, of the most extreme form, can be justified depending on the threat to innocent people. For example, I would advocate that police should be equipped with rapid-fire machine guns when confronting Islamist terrorists.

I know that might upset the Opportunist 'Left' but I suppose they can always get back at me when I'm alone and hobbling down the street for the paper, and try to shove shaving cream into my face: hopefully, then, they will experience violence, as much as I can muster. Bring your nut-protectors, Paul 2.

Joe

Dear Paul,

Thanks for your advice concerning leoj.

I've been through it all before when he went
under the name of "on the beach." It's old
tactics of his. I've been advised by my doctor
to totally ignore him - not read what he posts
and simply scroll past when I see his name.
I've done that most of the time. I'm still
working on not responding to him AT ALL.
Still not perfect - but I'm working on it.
He's a master of the irrelevant monologue as we know.

Bolt has a reasonable photograph on his blog today of one of the thugs who attacked him.

Hi Ttbn,

Yes, it's at:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/one-of-the-thugs-who-attacked-me-police-release-photo/news-story/77ccc65f68e4eb962aa9d0300131948a

Anybody who knows this bloke even slightly would recognise him pretty easily. Puzzle: does he look like a National Action supporter or a Left-Opportunist supporter ? Perhaps a Trot or an Anarchist ? i.e. a fascist thug ?

For anybody trying to make sense of how the Left has moved Right, try this, on 'postmodernism' and violence at university campuses in the US and Canada:

http://quillette.com/2017/06/14/whos-afraid-jordan-peterson/

Fascinating, if a big heavy :) As far as I could follow the author's arguments, I don't agree with all of them.

Joe