Longrider, discussing the career of an unsuccessful guerilla leader from the mid-20th century, and recent press comments upon it.
I strongly suspect that the only reason why this abstruse bit of modern history has come up is because some philistinic greedhead from Hollywood has recently made a film about it.
Since there is no such thing as bad publicity, and I am with John Lydon ["Burn, Hollywood! Burn!"] on this one, I am not going to mention the name of the guerilla leader nor that of the film, and I am rather surprised at Longrider for doing either. There’s such a thing as the genre of silence, y’know….:-)
Possibly because apologists for evil should be called such?
They certainly should, but the wretched fellow had been almost completely forgotten before Hollywood stuck its oar in; now everybody’s mentioning his name. The ancient Egyptians believed that mentioning the name of the deceased preserved the departed soul…
Indeed so. That he were forgotten would be no bad thing. The problem with silence in the face of such egregious apologia, is that it may be misconstrued as affirmation.
There is that, of course.