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| Topic Started: Thursday, 10. September 2009, 09:52 (134 Views) | |
| CARLO | Friday, 11. September 2009, 20:18 Post #31 |
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Absolutely right John.  Pax CARLO Edited by CARLO, Friday, 11. September 2009, 20:19.
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| CARLO | Friday, 11. September 2009, 20:35 Post #32 |
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Indeed it is not!Good man! Veritas Truth CARLO |
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| william of bow | Saturday, 12. September 2009, 08:34 Post #33 |
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Me thinks I smell the fear of parent with birthday party imminent! I do a very good "In the footsteps of Marx through SOHO and Bloomsbury" tour. A few pubs in that one. Any good? Or "Smithfield and the Catholic Martyrs"? William |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 12. September 2009, 20:56 Post #34 |
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I lived and worked in a country where criticism such as yours, Anne-Marie, was not wise; it was certainly not wise to agree with any local who did criticise. Mum was the word. A visitor once embarrassed me by asking in a very loud voice in a Cafe what the people thought of the President. There was a pause at a nearby table. I quietly gave a careful reply after a colleague spoke very quietly suggesting that it was unwise to discuss such matters. In a lighter mood, not long after I arrived, I was watching a cinema newsreel showing the return of the President from the USA. The background music was a British military march to which my comrades would have sung: "He'd (or you'd) be far better off in a home" (a lunatic asylum). I had an awful job controlling myself - wondering whether the choice was deliberate. For a while individual owned businesses were often sequestrated by the government. Some mornings on the way to the office I would see a policeman standing outside a shop the door of which had been sealed. If a saw a policeman standing near our office, perhaps just chatting with someone, my heart would drop.
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| Mrs.Pogle | Saturday, 12. September 2009, 23:06 Post #35 |
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One of my enduring interests (apart from the Home Front!) is life in the former DDR (East Germany), particularly what little was written by Christians under persecution there. As a result I am grateful for the liberty I have in the UK, to voice my opinions, to choose my religion, to vote for whatever party I choose, to study (or not!) what I choose, to marry whom I choose and to work in my chosen profession. These things, and a host more, would not have been possible for me if I had been an East German. Watch the film "The Lives of Others" (Das Leben der Anderen: 2006) and quite apart from it being a most excellent film, I'll bet you won't complain about living in a dictatorship afterwards! |
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| Rose of York | Sunday, 13. September 2009, 00:21 Post #36 |
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If this country was marxist or communist, we would not have such diverse organisations as British National Party, anti-fascist movements, UKIP, Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child, Media Watch and the Catholic Church. There would be fewer newspapers. Those we had would not have differing editorial policies. |
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| Bob Crowley | Sunday, 13. September 2009, 11:52 Post #37 |
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This is not meant to be a threat or even a hint of one, and it's easy for me to say half a world away, but I suspect London would be very high on a terrorist hit list for a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb. The Brits (and we Australians) are seen as amongst the US's most dependable allies in the "war on terror", and so have attracted a certain amount of negative publicity. You've already had your tube bombs, and the recent arrests over planned attacks on airlines. We lost 99 peope in the Bali bombings in 2002. So while I can understand people getting upset over monitoring, I also think the authorities have good reasons to be concerned. The problem for London is that its so easily accessible from the continent. And you have a large number of home grown would-be terrorists. It would be more difficult to attack the US in the same way. I think London is a tempting target for Islamic terrorists. Incidentally if a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb does go off, it would hasten the application of a fool proof monitoring mechanism such as an implanted chip, aka "mark of the beast." Make not mistake - that's what it will be - a monitoring device. |
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