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From: mikey4 on 30 Sep 2009 19:16 "tony cooper" <tony_cooper213(a)earthlink.net> wrote in message news:7uo7c5l0ibdjce58lrvgo0n77co57nk54f(a)4ax.com... > On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:17:40 +0100, Chris H <chris(a)phaedsys.org> > wrote: > >>and I have >>debriefed people in the middle east. > > > Translation: I have shared a pint with some low-level returnees from > the Middle East. > -- Or he ripped their underwear off :)
From: Bill Graham on 30 Sep 2009 19:33 "Chris H" <chris(a)phaedsys.org> wrote in message news:2SeryiCsfwwKFAFF(a)phaedsys.demon.co.uk... > In message <6c-dnXas5sKjMF_XnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, Bill Graham > <weg9(a)comcast.net> writes >> >>"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:h9tef91qgs@n >>ews6.newsguy.com... >>> tony cooper wrote: >>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:44:17 -0700, "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Be sure to write the first time you encounter a CHP officer with your >>>>> idea that you have an inherent right to carry a concealed weapon >>>>> without a permit. I'd be interested to see how that plays out. >>>>> >>>>> I have spent many happy hours arguing exactly that with California >>>>> Police officers......My wife's grandson-in-law happens to be one. In >>>>> many cases they agree with my position on the matter. >>>> >>>> This is the ChrisH School of Reasoning. If you know one person who >>>> shares your opinion, that means "everyone" agrees with you. >>> >>> I had a police officer explain matters to me this way: >>> >>> "If you shoot me when I come to enforce a gun ban, I won't hold it >>> against >>> you." >>> >>> Many police disagree with some of the laws that they are required to >>> enforce, but they do their jobs anyway. >>> >>They shouldn't. "It is the responsibility, not the right, of good men >>to disobey bad laws." - Spencer Tracy, in "Judgment at Nuremberg." > > So how come the US military is still using torture and the excuse is > they were just following orders? > Because they either didn't see, "Judgment at Nuremberg", or they saw it and disagree with its premise.
From: Bill Graham on 30 Sep 2009 19:46 "Savageduck" <savageduck@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message news:2009093010380591745-savageduck(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... > I was always understood, that a dinner date with Anne Coulter was an > accurate description of torture, or cruel and unusual punishment. > > -- > Regards, > > Savageduck > You should be so lucky.....A dinner date with Rosy O'Donnell is more your speed.....
From: Savageduck on 30 Sep 2009 20:09 On 2009-09-30 16:46:14 -0700, "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> said: > > "Savageduck" <savageduck@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message > news:2009093010380591745-savageduck(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... >> I was always understood, that a dinner date with Anne Coulter was an >> accurate description of torture, or cruel and unusual punishment. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Savageduck >> > > You should be so lucky.....A dinner date with Rosy O'Donnell is more > your speed..... Aah! You jest. I don't go on dinner dates to arm wrestle, or to listen to venomous diatribes. -- Regards, Savageduck
From: Ray Fischer on 1 Oct 2009 00:50
Neil Harrington <secret(a)illumnati.net> wrote: > >"Chris H" <chris(a)phaedsys.org> wrote in message >news:2SeryiCsfwwKFAFF(a)phaedsys.demon.co.uk... >> In message <6c-dnXas5sKjMF_XnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d(a)giganews.com>, Bill Graham >> <weg9(a)comcast.net> writes >>> >>>"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:h9tef91qgs@n >>>ews6.newsguy.com... >>>> tony cooper wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:44:17 -0700, "Bill Graham" <weg9(a)comcast.net> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Be sure to write the first time you encounter a CHP officer with your >>>>>> idea that you have an inherent right to carry a concealed weapon >>>>>> without a permit. I'd be interested to see how that plays out. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have spent many happy hours arguing exactly that with California >>>>>> Police officers......My wife's grandson-in-law happens to be one. In >>>>>> many cases they agree with my position on the matter. >>>>> >>>>> This is the ChrisH School of Reasoning. If you know one person who >>>>> shares your opinion, that means "everyone" agrees with you. >>>> >>>> I had a police officer explain matters to me this way: >>>> >>>> "If you shoot me when I come to enforce a gun ban, I won't hold it >>>> against >>>> you." >>>> >>>> Many police disagree with some of the laws that they are required to >>>> enforce, but they do their jobs anyway. >>>> >>>They shouldn't. "It is the responsibility, not the right, of good men >>>to disobey bad laws." - Spencer Tracy, in "Judgment at Nuremberg." >> >> So how come the US military is still using torture and the excuse is >> they were just following orders? > >No discussion of U.S. military "torture" can be complete without a reading >of Ann Coulter's column on the subject, which puts it somewhat in >perspective: Anything that comes from a screeching neonazi lunatic that hates America and thinks that dissent is treason is worthless trash. -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net |