He's out and touring again.

I can't say I blamed him btw
I probably wouldn't have done any different.

Vivec wrote:
> You know..this was the motivation for a real crime.
> 
> Slick Rick The Ruler, the Rapper.
> 
> When Slick Rick came before the judge he said that the reason he
> killed the man, was because he knew that the guy was coming to kill
> him.
> 
> So he went out and offed him first.
> 
> There was some discussion at the time as to whether any of us would
> have done any different...if we 'knew' that someone was coming to kill
> us, and that the Police would only act AFTER the crime.
> 
> On 04/03/2008, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ahhhhhhhhhrggg. Accidentally deleted the attribution. This was written
>>  by a mamber of Monty Python, printed in the OBserver about the time of
>>  the Iraq invasion.
>>
>>
>>  On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>  > > What I knew then was that he was acting like someone with something to
>>  > > hide, and was violating the cease fire left and right.  Willy nilly
>>  > > even. haha
>>  >
>>  > I'm losing patience with my neighbours, Mr Bush
>>  > Terry Jones
>>  >
>>  > I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq:
>>  > he's running out of patience. And so am I!
>>  >
>>  > For some time now I've been really pissed off with Mr Johnson, who
>>  > lives a couple of doors down the street. Well, him and Mr Patel, who
>>  > runs the health food shop. They both give me queer looks, and I'm sure
>>  > Mr Johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far I haven't
>>  > been able to discover what. I've been round to his place a few times
>>  > to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden. That's
>>  > how devious he is.
>>  >
>>  > As for Mr Patel, don't ask me how I know, I just know - from very good
>>  > sources - that he is, in reality, a Mass Murderer. I have leafleted
>>  > the street telling them that if we don't act first, he'll pick us off
>>  > one by one.
>>  >
>>  > Some of my neighbours say, if I've got proof, why don't I go to the
>>  > police? But that's simply ridiculous. The police will say that they
>>  > need evidence of a crime with which to charge my neighbours.
>>  >
>>  > They'll come up with endless red tape and quibbling about the rights
>>  > and wrongs of a pre-emptive strike and all the while Mr Johnson will
>>  > be finalising his plans to do terrible things to me, while Mr Patel
>>  > will be secretly murdering people. Since I'm the only one in the
>>  > street with a decent range of automatic firearms, I reckon it's up to
>>  > me to keep the peace. But until recently that's been a little
>>  > difficult. Now, however, George W. Bush has made it clear that all I
>>  > need to do is run out of patience, and then I can wade in and do
>>  > whatever I want!
>>  >
>>  > And let's face it, Mr Bush's carefully thought-out policy towards Iraq
>>  > is the only way to bring about international peace and security. The
>>  > one certain way to stop Muslim fundamentalist suicide bombers
>>  > targeting the US or the UK is to bomb a few Muslim countries that have
>>  > never threatened us.
>>  >
>>  > That's why I want to blow up Mr Johnson's garage and kill his wife and
>>  > children. Strike first! That'll teach him a lesson. Then he'll leave
>>  > us in peace and stop peering at me in that totally unacceptable way.
>>  >
>>  > Mr Bush makes it clear that all he needs to know before bombing Iraq
>>  > is that Saddam is a really nasty man and that he has weapons of mass
>>  > destruction - even if no one can find them. I'm certain I've just as
>>  > much justification for killing Mr Johnson's wife and children as Mr
>>  > Bush has for bombing Iraq.
>>  >
>>  > Mr Bush's long-term aim is to make the world a safer place by
>>  > eliminating 'rogue states' and 'terrorism'. It's such a clever
>>  > long-term aim because how can you ever know when you've achieved it?
>>  > How will Mr Bush know when he's wiped out all terrorists? When every
>>  > single terrorist is dead? But then a terrorist is only a terrorist
>>  > once he's committed an act of terror. What about would-be terrorists?
>>  > These are the ones you really want to eliminate, since most of the
>>  > known terrorists, being suicide bombers, have already eliminated
>>  > themselves.
>>  >
>>  > Perhaps Mr Bush needs to wipe out everyone who could possibly be a
>>  > future terrorist? Maybe he can't be sure he's achieved his objective
>>  > until every Muslim fundamentalist is dead? But then some moderate
>>  > Muslims might convert to fundamentalism. Maybe the only really safe
>>  > thing to do would be for Mr Bush to eliminate all Muslims?
>>  >
>>  > It's the same in my street. Mr Johnson and Mr Patel are just the tip
>>  > of the iceberg. There are dozens of other people in the street who I
>>  > don't like and who - quite frankly - look at me in odd ways. No one
>>  > will be really safe until I've wiped them all out.
>>  >
>>  > My wife says I might be going too far but I tell her I'm simply using
>>  > the same logic as the President of the United States. That shuts her
>>  > up.
>>  >
>>  > Like Mr Bush, I've run out of patience, and if that's a good enough
>>  > reason for the President, it's good enough for me. I'm going to give
>>  > the whole street two weeks - no, 10 days - to come out in the open and
>>  > hand over all aliens and interplanetary hijackers, galactic outlaws
>>  > and interstellar terrorist masterminds, and if they don't hand them
>>  > over nicely and say 'Thank you', I'm going to bomb the entire street
>>  > to kingdom come.
>>  >
>>  > It's just as sane as what George W. Bush is proposing - and, in
>>  > contrast to what he's intending, my policy will destroy only one
>>  > street.
>>  >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>  Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices
>>  calling for change - Barack Obama
>>
>>
>>  
> 
> 

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