At 08:52 AM 9/17/01, Jeroen wrote:
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: Ronn Blankenship
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Verzonden: Sunday, September 16, 2001 6:10 PM
> > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Onderwerp: Re: Retaliation RE: Attack
>
> > *If you had not heard it before, VP Cheney explained that when a threat
> > situation exists, the SS does not _take_ orders from the Pres. or VP,
> > but _gives_ them. He said that the agents grabbed him on each side
> > and his feet "occasionally" touched the floor as they moved him
> > downstairs to the bunker.
>
>Er, Ronn (and everyone else), could you please NOT abbreviate "Secret
>Service" to "SS"? Us Europeans still have vivid memories of an other
>organisation who's name was abbreviated to "SS", some 50-odd years ago. They
>too would "grab you on each side as they moved you downstairs to the bunker"
>(or to an other very unpleasant location).
>
>Compared to the organisation we Europeans remember as "SS", the American
>"SS" are harmless boy scouts...
Point taken!
-- Ronn! :)
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