From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 00:00:05 +0800
To: Rich Graves <lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
Subject: Re: Tim's paranoid rant about Declan appearing on "Europe's Most Wanted"
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On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
> > Rich, by now I suspect you've seen this joke, but what the hell:
> > 
> >    Q: What's a left-wing firing squad?
> > 
> >    A: Everyone stands in a circle and shoots at each other

At 06:11 PM 2/1/96 -0800, Rich Graves wrote:
> I guess this is supposed to be something clever about how the vanguard is
> supposed to discard their personal interests for the common good. 

Actually it refers to the famous factionalism of the left:  Similar
to the parody in Monty Python's "Life of Brian"
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