Theos-Talk Archives (August 2004 Message tt00164)

It doesn't make any difference at this point whether or not I am a 
Muslim or not, or a Sufi or not. Under Mr. Bush we are all under 
suspicion--or am I too paranoid? There are a million "Andrew Smiths"-
-it's the 4th most popular name in Scotland, and there are at least 
40 around here. I'm probably still on the FBI list for being in the 
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS "Weathermen") and the 
Progressive Labor Party (PLP) and other Marxist groups when I was 
young, and also when I was in college getting my Master's Degree. 
Radical Islam took the place of Radical Communism, unfortunately, and 
I either make all the wrong choices or all the right ones, whichever 
way you look at it. Anyway, I'm too damned old to be radical about 
much of anything, so let the "Man" do his damndest. "Any day is a 
good day to die," as the Roman Gladiators said.