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At 6:15 PM +1000 10/11/01, Spectro wrote:
>Dennis Gunn <mightyjohn@...> wrote:
>
>>At 10:55 PM -0400 10/10/01, Teddy Kumpel wrote:
>>>
>>>I think my judgement is pretty good. I can always do more to protect the
>>>environment, but unfortunately the corporations can make more money if they
>>>don't think that way...
>>
>>Yes environmental consiousness is good but I hope you not implying
>>that you have become afflicted with the virulent form of insanity
>>that is leading some of the inmates here into the delusion that this
>>is a war about environmental issues?  I find it truly ghoulish that
>>some people around here most notably Sascha and Spectro seem so eager
>>to twist and coopt the nature of the tragedy to serve their own
>>personal cause.
>
>Get it straight.  I am completely aware that 'environmentalism' is not
>one of the primary motivations behind recent events.

All right lets get it straight.  "not one of the *primary* 
motivations"   ?  To a native speaker of English this seems to be 
implying that you think it may be a secondary motivation.  Is that 
what you are meaning to say or am I misunderstanding?

Also get it straight that comments such as those of  Vincent Kenis 
when he said:

At 11:29 AM +0200 10/9/01, Vincent Kenis wrote:
>Maybe these fairytales
>are necessary in a country born on genocide and slavery, where a good
>part of the slaves' grandchildren still live in subhuman conditions,
>and which sucks the planet dry in a criminal way. I don't know. But I
>wish you looked around and realized that the world isn't based on
>fair trade or equal chances.

<snip>

>When it comes to international terrorism Ben Laden
>is just a schoolboy, America and Europe have been exporting war and
>desolation for decades.

Are not only very unfair but would very certainly be taken by the 
terrorists, and for that matter, the fundamentalist mobs rioting  in 
Pakistan and Indonesia, as sympathy for their actions.  That is why 
they are not well received by Americans.



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