From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:
> >> >> >> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote:
> >> >> >> > <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >>Even a representative democracy needs to have some way to deal
> >> >> >> >>with the people who go after little kids, and make other kinds
> >> >> >> >>of messes. A democracy does not, and never has, meant that
> >> >> >> >>all people can do anything they want without punishment.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >Democracies create laws and enforce them to deal with such issues.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Those laws apply to the citizens of that country during peace time.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >And in wartime too.
> >> >>
> >> >> No. You need to learn about your country's war powers and how
> >> >> much of your peacetime freedoms were suspended during WWII.
> >> >
> >> >Nonsense.
> >> >
> >> >How about an example ?
> >>
> >> Food coupons.
> >
> >In exactly what meaningful way is that a loss of 'freedom' ?
>
> You could not buy what you wanted nor what you needed without
> government permission.

Permission ? The coupons could be used for many different foods btw.


> >Rationing continued after the war btw.
>
> I know. That is another point of evidence that England couldn't
> shake the socialist type of governing.

It has zilch to do with socialism and everything to do with a shortage of food
you nitwit.

Did you know that health actually improved during the period of rationing btw ?

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> wrote:
> >
> >We provided lots of Care Packages to "starving Europe."
> >
> That is how people got meat.

You think the only meat in Europe came from the USA ?

Your fantasies are getting ever wider and more nonsensical. Rabbit is very tasty
lean meat btw.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
> ><jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote in message
> >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>How about an example ?
> >>
> >> Food coupons.
> >
> >I think you misread. You were talking about freedoms. Do you mean the
> >freedom from Food coupons was suspended?
>
> I consider being told what I can buy and when I can buy it
> a loss of choice. Freedom involves each individual making choices
> and coping with the consequences of those choices.

I think you should read up about rationing during WW2. You have some daft
fanciful ideas about it it seems.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> "T Wake" <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
> >
> >Can I ask a simple question?
> >
> >What is your "endstate?"
> >
> >By this, I mean at what point will you decide the mission is achieved and
> >the war is over?
>
> There won't be any.

Won't be any what ? Any point to it ? I can agree with that !


> It will be a gradual change of mindset over the years. To achieve this, those
> who have the goal to destroy Western civilization have to be kept from
> achieving it.

You haven't even shown that anyone seeks to "destroy Western civilization" yet !
It's still just your assertion.


> I suggest that you listen to Bush's speech. He explained all of this but
> nobody seems to have heard it in their zeal to "defeat" Bush by ceding to the
> Islamic terrorists.

Bush couldn't explain his way out of a wet paper bag.

And no-one is "ceding" anything either.

Graham

From: Eeyore on


jmfbahciv(a)aol.com wrote:

> Pay attention to what happened in Boston yesterday; especially
> follow what happens after this and what the critics are saying
> and what these critics don't say. One thing you need to know
> is that the mayor of Boston is the only politician here who
> is taking the warnings of 9/11 seriously.

Would you care to explain for us who don't live there what it is that happened
in Boston ?

Graham