Afghan detainees: Human rights activist revealed as NDP flack

Prof. Michael Byers gets a very well researched fisking by Damian Brooks at The Torch. My earlier fisking of the good professor is here.

Mark C.

Update: Terry Glavin describes his encounter with Prof. Byers at last week's meeting in Vancouver on Afghanistan.

...Ian King has written about the Tyee panel debate on Afghanistan last Thursday...

". . .The most intense moment of the night was a standoff between Glavin and Byers, ending with Byers telling Glavin that he’s no longer a socialist and that he’s left the left. 'You used to be cool' was the message from Byers to Glavin."

That's certainly what it must have sounded like, but what Ian didn't hear is that Byers wasn't telling me I was no longer a socialist. He was telling me I had gone "over to the dark side" because I have written critically about the New Democratic Party's incoherence on the question of Afghanistan...

Posted by markc at May 2, 2007 03:34 PM