Posted by DM on 09/30/05 14:38

"Johannes" <johs@smash-spam-sizefitter.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> Chris Rockcliffe wrote:
> >
> > Johannes30/9/05 11:44 AM
> >
> > > Honest Aryan wrote:
> > >>
> > >> williemeikle wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Dylan had a motorbike crash in '66 and was an invalid or near
invalid
> > >>> for most of the vietnam years, but hey, never let the facts get in
the
> > >>> way of a story, right?
> > >>
> > >> More enlightenment!
> > >> Amazingly, I'd never connected
> > >> those two things.
> > >> Note to self: I *MUST* be more cynical.
> > >
> > > Your obsession with this old musician is amazing.
> >
> > Amazing?... not really. The *Honest Aryan* says to me he is likely a
nasty
> > hateful fascist, racist, anti-semitic, anti liberal boor - hardly likely
to
> > admire Mr Zimmerman, his politics or his songs. Such people have a
> > deliberate agenda to try and discredit the objects of their hate.
> >
> > CR
>
> But I don't see Dylan as an obvious target for his hate. As I understand
it,
> Dylan was clever enough to keep out of associations that might try to
exploit
> him. He wrote with a free spirit without thinking of fear or favours,
usually
> on the side of the underdog, this was quite a nice trait.

"... with a free spirit " - unfortuneatly thats all it takes to become the
target of fascists.

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