From: T Wake on

"John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:46:43 +0100, Eeyore
> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>John Fields wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:28:57 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
>>> >John Larkin wrote:
>>> >> On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:55:57 +0100, Eeyore wrote:
>>> >> >John Larkin wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >It [WW2] simply has zero relevance to the issue at hand. Mind you,
>>> >> >just to put your fevered >> >> >American
>>> minds at rest, should European Islam be stupid enough to get 'nasty'
>>> expect another >> >> >Kristallnacht' with
>>> Muslims being progromised.
>>> >>
>>> >> I bet you're looking forward to that, boxcars and death camps. Does
>>> >> "get nasty" include acquiring political power?
>>> >
>>> >If it ever came to it, I'd expect it would be the public reacting, not
>>> >the politicians.
>>>
>>> ---
>>> So then you're saying that you're all racists just waiting for
>>> something to happen so you can let it out?
>>
>>No.
>>
>>I'm saying that if someone threatens their fundamental freedoms,
>the British public will defend them. You should approve of that.
>
> ---
> Yes, I would, but I think if they're sufficiently demonized what's
> more likely is that if your government decides that it's boxcars and
> death camps for them, then you'll watch 'em get loaded up just like
> the good non-Jewish citizens of Germany did about 60 years ago.
> ---
>
> It won't happen anyway, it's purely hypothetical.
>
> ---
> I'm sure the Jews in Germany thought the same thing until the
> reality of it was forced on them.

Are you now advocating a more reasonable treatment of Muslims? Excellent.

If the government should decide sufficiently demonise [insert religion] then
I fully intend to convert to said religion and do what I can to fight back.
(Albeit probably not much. I can write some sarcastic letters though).


From: Eeyore on


John Fields wrote:

> On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0100, Eeyore
> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> the State of Israel was founded on terrorism
> >itself. That's historical fact.
>
> ---
> It's not a truth,

It's a fact.

Jewish terrorists even kidnapped and killed British servicemen in the same way
we're supposed to censure Hezbollah.

Graham

From: John Larkin on
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:03:17 GMT, <lucasea(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Which one would that be, the dangers of driving on the nation's highways?
>That's at least 3 orders of magnitude greater of a real threat to every
>person in the country than is terrorism.

3000 people died at the WTC. Three orders of magnitude from that is 3
million. We kill about 40K people a year in car accidents.

John


From: T Wake on

"Ken Smith" <kensmith(a)green.rahul.net> wrote in message
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> In article <7qCdnW1uWfo2B7_YRVny3w(a)pipex.net>,
> T Wake <usenet.es7at(a)gishpuppy.com> wrote:
> [....]
>>A surprisingly small number of Islamic extremists are actually willing to
>>die for their cause you know?
>
> Their belief system encourages it with promices of virgins etc.

Yet all the nasty old men who encourage the bombers refuse to do it
themselves.

> They
> would be far less willing to spend the rest of their lives in jail than to
> die as a result. Dieing of old age doesn't get you the free ticket to
> heaven.

I agree, life in Jail would be a better option. They are, after all,
criminals and killing them just gives them status amongst others.


From: John Fields on
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:16:49 +0100, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>Keith wrote:
>
>> rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com says...
>> > Keith wrote:
>>
>> > > Meanwhile, the stuffed donkey will watch the documentary about the
>> > > wild west, "Blazing Saddles".
>> >
>> > I've never watched it. It's far too tedious.
>> ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
>>
>> Of course! You know everything, even what's tedious without having
>> watched.
>
>The first few minutes are enough to put me off. I've even accidentally come
>across bits in the middle and it's not better. It's typical American
>brain-dead slime designed to appeal to the mentally feeble.

---
Ah, you watched it from level 1...

Figures.


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John Fields
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