Re: [CTRL] [[CTRL] A Modest Proposal]

1999-05-05 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- >Other arguments involve the use of personal firearms to ward off >domestic tyranny. But if a tyrant controls the most powerful >military force on Earth, will personal firearms matter? Really? >Again, the 2nd Amendment makes no provision for fighting tyranny, >so such arguments

Re: [CTRL] A Modest Proposal

1999-05-05 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- >At the risk of being massively flamed, I am compelled by a sense of >intellectual honesty to propose that the time has come to repeal the Second >Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. risk of being massively flamed? don't you mean an ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY? i'm sure there's a lot o

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Food Supply Update: April 24, 1999

1999-04-25 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- > >How many farmers kept their land during the depression? >Which meat packer will by your animals? why would i want to sell them to meat-packers? >Which grain towers will be open to buy your grain? i'd prefer to use my grain myself, and sell the surplus >Which bank will be r

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Food Supply Update: April 24, 1999

1999-04-24 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- like my mother said once when we were talking about the possibilities of food shortage: "the most basic means of survival you can have is owning your own land" which is true, after all, a stockpile of food will only last so long, and when it runs out, what do you do? resort to

Re: [CTRL] The Interview

1999-04-17 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- a weapon is what you make it. i do think it's very irresponsible to teach children to kill though. violent society we live in. At 13:26 17/04/99 -0400, you wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > >This is an extract of an National Public Radio (NPR) interview >between a female broadcas

Re: [CTRL] Can Media Make a Killer?

1999-04-14 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- >Can Media Make a Killer? >by Declan McCullagh > >3:00 a.m. 13.Apr.99.PDT > >Everyone in the fly-spit town of Paducah, Kentucky, knows of Michael >Carneal, a computer geek convicted of gunning down eight of his >high-school classmates. Everyone knows the gory details of the crim

Re: [CTRL] Draft dodging, War monger Liberals

1999-04-14 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- can you please stop defining a political belief by it's poltician's? i really hate it when people do this. because Clinton (who i have absolutely no respect for, incidentally) calls himself a liberal does not necessarily mean he is one, it is merely another lie. i would've though

[CTRL] Situation Vacant

1999-04-10 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- taken from the Electronic Telegraph Feedback section. (www.telegraph.co.uk) Andrew I Busigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Help Wanted: Military Governor (temporary) Date: 9 April 1999 A Balkan state on the Adriatic is about to be occupied, and will temporarily require the services of

Re: [CTRL] The bombing of Yugoslavia

1999-04-10 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- how could anyone be stupid enough not to figure out that this would kill people? what the hell do they think these bombs are for? you're right about the media sanitising war though, or at least the institution. i saw a documentary on modern weaponry, stuff that was used in the gu

Re: [CTRL] The U.S. -- Violator of Human Rights

1999-04-08 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- > >I don't believe that Amnesty International is a part of the UN. Am I >incorrect? It may perhaps be considered by the UN to be an NGO which may >have more power within the UN than other groups, but I don't know about >that. Anyone know? i'm pretty sure that Amnesty Internation

Re: [CTRL] Kosovo, evolution in action.

1999-04-03 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- what can i say? i'm sure you'll shout at me for calling you a fascist, so i won't. ever heard of darwin's theory? ie. that strength comes from diversity, those that lock themselves in and try to kill off all who are different are the weakest of all. would you be saying this if

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Parade of Refugees

1999-04-01 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- seems you haven't seen the same pictures as me Kris, most of the refugees i've seen look tired, depressed and like they haven't washed in weeks. y'know, maybe their clothes could be explained by the fact that they probably used to have the same living standards as us, certainly n

Re: [CTRL] Is Melissa a government contrivance?

1999-03-31 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- as far as i'm aware, you only need to fear it if you use MS outlook. i don't use MS Outlook, i use eudora, no need for me to worry. the most rebellious anti-authoritarian part of internet users (hackers and other techies) then to use linux, so they don't need to fear either. so

Re: [CTRL] the meaning of the word socialist

1999-03-30 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- >socialism (so´she-lîz´em) noun > 1. a. A social system in which the means of producing and >distributing goods are owned collectively and >political power is exercised by the whole community. > b. The theory or practice of those who support such a >s

Re: [CTRL] Take the "World's Smallest Political Quiz"

1999-03-28 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- At 22:21 27/03/99 -0800, you wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > >Find out where you stand politically at: > >http://www.self-gov.org/index.html all i can say is that the only thing that surprised me about this quiz was it's accuracy. considering the fact that it's only got four categori

[CTRL] the meaning of the word socialist

1999-03-28 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- i have a question for the list, especially those who have been calling clinton a socialist. how the hell do you define a socialist??!! definitely not the same way i do. i think of myself as a socialist, but i've always considered the american government to be a prevailingly ver

Re: [CTRL] Kosovo Drugs Target "Christian Infidels" (fwd)

1999-03-26 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- At 11:11 26/03/99 +, you wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > >On 25 Mar 99, , Brian wrote: > >> -Caveat Lector- >> >> KOSOVO DRUGS TARGET "CHRISTIAN INFIDELS" >> >> >> "U.S. soldiers called upon to enforce a 'peace' accord that >> turns Ko

Re: [CTRL] UK-TV Watch tonight

1999-03-11 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- > UK-TV Watch tonight. > === > Thursday March 11th 1999 > UK - TV tonight on Channel 5 at 20:30hrs. GMT > > "Stranger than Fiction" > Allegated CIA involvement with mind-control drugs. > === well, i'd watch it, exce

Re: [CTRL] Big Bad Socialism

1999-03-10 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- > The title of this post says it all. Yes Socialism/ > Fascism and all forms of Statism > are not only "bad" but murderous. Socialist > Statism is a pact with the devil. The sheep > are led by duplicitous sociopaths who are obsessed > with power. The countless millions who were >

Re: [CTRL] China, the USSR, and Germany

1999-03-10 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- > > As a footnote, I would like to add that I am in no way denying the > horror of The Holocaust or inferring that it should not be widely > talked about and remembered. My point is merely that it is more > well known by the general public than the abuses of Mao, but > Stalin's c

Re: [CTRL] Russia and China Prepare for War by Chris Ruddy

1999-03-10 Thread Andrew Kieran
-Caveat Lector- there are many things i have a problem with in this article. for starters, you have implied (maybe accidentally) that russia was a communist country. this isn't true, as you might have noticed. Also, you have called china and russia the worst mass murderers of all time. Anybody