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Skriven 2005-09-21 23:29:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
Ärende: looters in NO
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-=> Quoting Michiel Van Der Vlist to Frank Scheidt <=-

NOTE:  Can't you add the initials to the person you're quoting.  
Many of your quotations here were *not* from me but you are 
responding as though I *did* say them ... I've deleted most of 
them.

 MVDV>> And of course the looters respected the locks and made no attempt to
 MVDV>> forcibly enter....
 
 > It would be a violation to steal guns ...

 MVDV> It would appear the people who took the guns did not care about that
 MVDV> aspect. 
 MvdV>>> An armed society is a polite society? Didn't look that way...
 
 >> It's true in Texas. Very friendly people here.

[not my quote] ...

 MVDV>> The people in Belgium are friendlt too. And they are not armed.
 
 > I'll bet the Belgians would be even *more* friendly if they
 > were permitted concealed carry of guns as our law permits.

 MVDV> Pity I can't take hat bet as it is a hypothetical, it isn't going to
 MVDV> happen. But if it did you'd lose.
 
 > We are very, very friendly ...

 MVDV> In your own perception perhaps...
 
As any observant person would note ...
 > OK ... one nice thing of being in America is that one can
 > think whatever one wishes ...

 MVDV> Tell that to Menno Blom, he has a different opnion on that.

I have never before even *seen* the name, "Menno Blom".

 MVDV>> So no causal relationship bewteen politeness and being armed.
 
 > Concealed carry *does* help ...

 MVDV> So you say, you are unconvincing.
 
That may be, but it doesn't really matter since you don't live 
here anyway ...

 > some people, of course, are *naturally* friendly (me, for example)

 MVDV> Measured by your own yard.
 
Measured by *any* standard you wish to use ...

 > while others' friendliness is based on fear of being shot.

 MVDV> You confuse friendliness with caution.

OK, you've got a point there ...
 
 >> But, you don't see many altercations on the freeways
 >> like I've seen in California,

 MVDV>> I have never ever seen a freeway altercation in my life. Of course I
 MVDV>> never was in the USA...
 
 > More's the pity ... as they used to say ... [sigh] ...

 MVDV> So I thought  some 15 years ago. I would have loved to be able to
 MVDV> visit the US. 
 MVDV> I changed my mind after Bush II came into office.

Why?
 
 >> What we have in NO are people who havn't seen any LEOs for
 >> quite a few days and who knows what they were thinking when
 >> they shot at authoritys.

 MVDV>> Whatever the reasons, those pictures do not make a good
 MVDV>> impression on the rest off the world.
 
 > Doesn't matter since the rest of the world seems to hate us *anyway* ...

 MVDV> It's people like you that are feeding it...

I don't think so ...

... Each Paramecium is a real busy little guy ÄÄ and a good swimmer.

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