Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 00:21, ScruLoose wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 02:49:28PM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> > > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 04:51, csj wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have never owned a gun and I haven't shot anyone either.
> > > > Cultural differences I guess. In most other countries, only war,
> > > > crime and drug lords are allowed to own guns. It keeps the world
> > > > a much simpler place, rather than having potentially 200M average
> > > > Joes and Janes with the potential to do you in.
> > >
> > > And that, in a nutshell, is the difference between the US and all(?)
> > > the rest of the world.
> >
> > The reason the 2nd is there is so that King xyz or our own goverment will
> > never take our freedom. With a few exceptions the rest of the world is not
> > "free" and that is the =*Difference*=.
>
> Great theory. Shame it's such a dismal failure in practice.
> People have been getting "disappeared" lately in The States. Somebody
> whispers "terrorist" and you get the midnight arrest, conviction in a
> completely secret tribunal, family and friends don't even know what
> you're _charged_ with...
> But of course, nobody's gonna take your freedom, nossir! 'Cause you've
> got a gun, and it at least makes you _feel_ powerful and safe.
"disappeared"?
Do you have any evidence of this? A URL from a semi-respectable
organization will do.
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Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Jefferson, LA USA
An ad run by the NEA (the US's biggest public school TEACHERS
UNION) in the Spring and Summer of 2003 asks a teenager if he can
find sodium and *chloride* in the periodic table of the elements.
And they wonder why people think public schools suck...
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