Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Richard Thompson
First, through job experience (only currently employed as a police officer of 20 years experience) and through life experience I have a much better working knowledge of these issues that you credit me with. I assure you, I have done my research - for longer than some of the members of this list

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Randy Donohoe
Second - Bin ladin is a businessman. He has actual, physical business interests and stock investments which produce large amounts of money. He is the first businessman terrorist. I made no comment on where he got his startup funds - that was irrelevent, and still is. I don't want to get

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Marvin Dickens
Richard Thompson wrote: First, through job experience (only currently employed as a police officer of 20 years experience) and through life experience I have a much better working knowledge of these issues that you credit me with. I assure you, I have done my research - for longer than

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Lee
I don't want to get into the argumentative portions of this thread but I saw something interesting on the news last night. Germany, I believe, is investigating whether bin Laden bought shares of the company insuring the WTC, then sold them short or whatever it 's called where you profit if

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 10:50:14AM -0400, Lee wrote: I don't want to get into the argumentative portions of this thread but I saw something interesting on the news last night. Germany, I believe, is investigating whether bin Laden bought shares of the company insuring the WTC, then sold

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:19:38AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: ... Got a mosque in your area? You may well have a terrorist cell. Mosques are used to raise money for these guys. How many churches in Boston raise money for the IRA? Didn't Hillary recommend clemency for Palestinian terrorists?

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread dep
On Sunday 16 September 2001 12:43, Bill Campbell wrote: | Didn't Hillary recommend clemency for Palestinian terrorists? and for the FALN terrorists who set off bombs in new york city -- including the one at police headquarters that killed several cops. and we mustn't forget her embrace of

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Rick Sivernell
On Sunday 16 September 2001 08:04 am, you wrote: Richard Thompson wrote: First, through job experience (only currently employed as a police officer of 20 years experience) and through life experience I have a much better working knowledge of these issues that you credit me with. I

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:43:16AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:19:38AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: ... Got a mosque in your area? You may well have a terrorist cell. Mosques are used to raise money for these guys. How many churches in Boston raise money for the

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote: ... I stick by my statement that the current Afgan government as well as all other governments who participate in state sponsored terrorism must be removed from the face of the earth. If they are not, the cost of having them

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-16 Thread Joel Hammer
Likely, if Bin Laden (sp?) wants a Christian-Muslin war, he doesn't care if Islam loses. Likely, he sees most Muslims as corrupted by the West and would like to see a pure tribe of Muslims emerge from the Great Holy War, even if they just lived in the desert in tents. Joel

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-15 Thread Marvin Dickens
This is wrong. Bin Ladin is a businessman, pal. Sorry pal. Do a little research and you will find that Bin Ladin has never worked a day in his life. He is the son of one of wealthiest Saudi's of the 20th century. His father, who *actually* was a businessman, was first involved in the oil

Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-14 Thread Richard Thompson
I've followed the thread Re: New York WTC over the past several days. I have not commented on some of the things said in this, and similar, threads, as I am simply too angry at this point to respond without winding up on a lot of kill lists. That would be pointless. I offer the following as

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-14 Thread dep
On Friday 14 September 2001 03:13, Richard Thompson wrote: | This list, and its progenitor, provides forums for some of the most | articuate, intelligent and well respected minds in the linux | community today. There is a wealth of collective knowledge here | that could be put to many uses -

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-14 Thread Richard Thompson
dep wrote: On Friday 14 September 2001 03:13, Richard Thompson wrote: | This list, and its progenitor, provides forums for some of the most | articuate, intelligent and well respected minds in the linux | community today. There is a wealth of collective knowledge here | that could be put

Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)

2001-09-14 Thread Zoki (News)
On Sep 14 dep was heard saying: snip -these guys do not get their funding via paypal. they're supported by -saudia, by iraq, by syria, and by others. we are now saying to those -countries: shut them down or we'll shut you down, and right now we -don't especially care which it is, but you