http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/2007/07/28/thurston-letter/ Reporting on "Eco-Terrorism" Witch Hunts, Blacklists and the Green Scare Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:55:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/2007/07/28/thurston-letter/#comment-88959 Cuica2 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:11:57 +0000 http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/2007/07/28/thurston-letter/#comment-88959 It seems pretty clear to me that this is an attempt to whitewash a very simple, obvious betrayal - of principles and of friends. On a personal level, I can have pity for a person who betrays his friends, but I think the calls that Darren's support committee have put out for us to just forget that he snitched and allow him back into activist circles are ridiculous. If his friends wish to continue their friendship, fine. If they want to ask that others consider how difficult his situation has been and to act with kindness, well, you could convince me that that is reasonable. To completely forget this massive betrayal, to welcome someone back into the community he just so blatantly betrayed, without *any* kind of reckoning - that is out of the question. It seems pretty clear to me that this is an attempt to whitewash a very simple, obvious betrayal - of principles and of friends. On a personal level, I can have pity for a person who betrays his friends, but I think the calls that Darren’s support committee have put out for us to just forget that he snitched and allow him back into activist circles are ridiculous. If his friends wish to continue their friendship, fine. If they want to ask that others consider how difficult his situation has been and to act with kindness, well, you could convince me that that is reasonable. To completely forget this massive betrayal, to welcome someone back into the community he just so blatantly betrayed, without *any* kind of reckoning - that is out of the question.

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