verhave! please don't send 1.2 mb files to my hotmail! i get bill g personally writing me bullockings etc..

well, its been a great evening at that jazz bar and i'd just like to share the results. after years of barely speaking to each other, and years of taking the piss out of his half-baked leftism, [and having become a progressive proper myself], tonight, following some positive input from moi and a rather charming rendition of oleo, the male parental unit suddenly revealed it all: having stood for the euro-elections to raise money for anti-nuclear campaign "Friedensliste" by drawing on the KPD (german socialist party), as well as Christian pacifist and green vote, in the late 70s, "I threw this half-baked study regarding the escalating nuclear threat I had produced earlier that day onto Schmidt's [then-chancellor] table at the SPD annual conference; a project Oskar [Lafontaine] and I had been planning for a while.. The next day, I was escorted to Hardthöhe (German military HQ Bonn) to 'discuss my thesis'".. The jist of the whole discussion being "at least I never sold my ass", i.e.: "I'm a Socialist".

Apparently amongst the comrades involved in the thesis project were ex-General Bastian, who had quit the mil nonsense 1980 to join "Friedensliste", and his wife Petra Kelly, who were both amongst the "first five" founding members of the green party. they were sidelined by Joschka Fischer from 1985, who was driving the party from APO (Ausserparliamentarische Opposition, i.e. idealist beyond the party-political system) towards participating in government "one way or another" no matter what the price (aka selling soul). Kelly legendarily remarked "Ist Fischer überhaupt schon Mitglied bei uns?" i.e. to we even know this guy, which renders the current situation w Fischer now spearheading the ex-movement even sadder [foreign policy]. Obv any meaningful sustainability movement has to be socialist/primitivist or whatever, so Bastian quit the party in 1984 (she did later) and legendarily committed collective suicide in 1990, isolated politically, cut off from their own movement and left with nothing but love for each other.. no-nonsense romance amongst idealists hey- imagine!

Its obv great news finding out there's a comrade in the family.. viva etc!