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First Against The Wall
Here's "writer and lunatic" Arundhati Roy in an interview in Haaretz:
"All the battles that we fight, if the people that we are supporting end up winning, we will be the first ones to be hanged from the nearest tree. The Maoists, the Islamic movement in Kashmir. Sometimes you are fighting on the side of people who have no space for you in their imagination. But that's okay."
DavidT comments on Harry's Place,
"Roy is partly right. She would be hanged from the nearest tree, if the people she supports wins. Except, in reality, she wouldn't: because she is an affluent writer with an international reputation, who has the resources which would allow her to run away if needs be (...)
"Usually, those on the Silly Left prefer to believe that the groups they support are motivated by the same sort of things that enrage members of the Silly Left (unnecessarily large cars, fat cat pay rises, ID cards) rather than, say, a desire to impose brutal and repressive theocratic regime with no respect for equality, democracy or fundamental human rights."
