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Thoughts from the mind of GAmoore@..., 9/24/01:

>Hendrik wrote L
>>I have the impression attitude one is rather common, and is (imo)
>>extremely naive. Give me one good reason to have *blind* faith in
>>whichever government.  "Blaming someone after the crime has occured"
>>makes less sense to me than warning for a "possible crimne about to
>>occur".
>
>It wasn't a 'warning'. A warning is fine. It was statement of disgust
>about something that never happened as though it were fact.

If we start nitpicking...  the 'disgust' as you call it (although I 
think it was 'annoyance') was directed to the _fact_ that Bush's 
threats to an as yet not-proven guilty party and in particular his 
supposed 'hosts' have led to massive streams of refugees leaving 
their homes.

>Lets turn this around Hendrik. Why is it that you feel YOU are the only
>one with principles and morals?

If I watch TV (Dutch, Belgian, German, and English) to follow 
discussions related to the WTC attack, or if I read my daily incoming 
private mail, or if I read the OT list... then I don't see why I 
should feel I'm the _only_ one with principles and morals.  For some 
odd reason, my view seems to be the view of many, many people on the 
planet.
Maybe I'm an uneducated, illiterate, ignorant, room-temperature-IQ 
s.o.b., fine, but you can't seriously claim the same status for _all_ 
the others sharing my viewpoint.  Fortunately, as I _would_ like to 
feel unique in _that_ respect...

>  >... which would almost get me started on the fact that the US is the
>>only western civilisation that's still thinking the death penalty is
>>a reasonable punishment...  But I won't, I won't...
>
>We would gladly lock all of them up in jail for life, if they will kindly
>surrender... or if they promise to never do any more mass murders.

No you don't.  You lock them up, and then kill them.  But once more, 
let's not get side-tracked too much.  This entire thread already is 
covering all of recent history, which, I think, I silly enough.


HJ


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