Paisley was giving a sermon, many years ago, in which he was describing Hell
as he saw it. Among the usual nonsense, he said there would be "a wailing
and a gnashing of teeth."
A wag in his audience called out, "What about those who have no teeth?"
Paisley's thunderous reply was, "Teeth will be provided!"
(Try to imagine Paisley's words being spoken with his very strong Ulster
accent.)
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: February 28, 2001 07:05
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:11367] Ian Paisley on Thoburn
>
>
>
> I found this article about Thoburn on the website of Ian Paisley,
> founder of
> the Free Presbyterian Church in Ulster, from his bogus European
> Institute of
> Protestant Studies, a pseudo-scholarly institute that spreads
> hate against
> Catholics and their religion. But here Ian also comments on the
> Metric Martyrs.
>
> A telling point is that his so-called 'scholarly' institution's
> URL cannot be
> found on any website of mainstream Protestant churches or on the
> websites of
> accredited Protestant universities, like our own Presbyterian Vrije
> Universiteit (Free University) in Amsterdam. Paisley has not links with
> mainstream Presbyterianism whatsoever.
>
> Paisley is an MEP and when we were writing last year to MEP's in
> order to get
> them to vote against the 10 year delay, I did not even bother to
> write to The
> Reverend: he is an extreme British loyalist and I knew already
> that he is anti-
> EU.
>
> You can also see that his site uses the American settings for
> dates amd times.
>
> http://www.ianpaisley.org
>
> Han
>
>
>
> Wednesday, February 28, 2001
> Date Posted:
> 2/22/2001
>
> Contents
>
> <Snip>
> Kilo Kicks the Pound
> <snip>
>
> Sunderland in Blunderland � The Kilo Kicks the Pound
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> You can kill a fox and they will justify it. You can have an
> abortion and no
> one turns a hair, but try and sell bananas by the pound and you will be
> hung �peeled� and quartered - so is the state of the world�s mindset.
> Dr. Ian R.K. Paisley
>
> Anyone for a pound of Bananas? Perhaps he should have sold a can
> of worms In
> Sunderland a man sold a pound of bananas rather than ½ a kilo and
> this has
> caused a storm of protest and is being made into a test case. He
> is in breach
> of the EU metrication directives 80/181 and 89/617 although not
> contrary to the
> Act of Parliament 1985 Weights and measures Act which still
> permits goods to be
> sold in pounds and ounces. The fight is on.
>
> This is not an action stemming from a complaint by a customer, but by
> undercover agents whose sole purpose was just to buy enabling
> them to make the
> allegation. The officers cite their ploy and action as �customer
> protection�.
>
> People have a choice. They do not have to patronise Mr Thoburn�s
> stall. His
> goods were labelled, priced and sold in pounds and ounces. It is
> not a question
> of an item being sold and found under weight. Local people are
> obviously happy
> to buy goods from Mr Thoburn�s stall otherwise he would not be in
> business. One
> presumes that as no deception has taken place except for the
> person buying the
> bananas, and no complaint has been made, his �crime� is less
> serious than if he
> had stolen a can of sardines.
>
> The sale of bananas costing 34pence could result in a fine of £2000.
>
> The officers in the case say that they had no choice is
> inaccurate. An officer
> has the discretion not to proceed and should have applied the test of
> proportionality. That is, has any wrong been done and if so, is
> it serious
> enough to justify a prosecution.
>
> Two MEP�s Jeffrey Titford and Nigel Farage face disciplinary
> proceedings from
> the European Parliament for contributing to Mr Thoburn�s defence
> fund from the
> travel allowances given to MEPS. The two have been told by the Brussels
> parliament that any excess must be kept for their own personal
> use [?]. Unless
> they reimburse thousands of pounds (or should that be stated in
> EUROS!) they
> have paid into the defence fund they face legal action.
>
> Firstly how did the European Parliament find such information
> (yet not the Flax
> fraud monies, to state one example) and who are they to say such
> came from the
> travelling expenses. Surely the EU is not trying to force what
> can and cannot
> be done, in our �democracy� by MEP�s! I wonder. A Radio 4
> newsreader at 6am
> said that Sunderland Council was bringing the action in
> accordance with the EU
> directive �to force� the use of metric measures. Yet in the next
> bulletin an
> hour later �to require� was the phraseology. Perhaps the term
> used in the first
> instance was unwittingly the truth spoken in error. Anyone for
> Freudian slips �
> two for a �shilling�.
>
> Since this debacle has been brought to our attention, it not only
> appears that
> the appropriate authorities have money to waste in excess of
> common sense, but
> that there are approximately 40,000 shop keepers and traders who
> sell using
> imperial measures that 90% of customers prefer.
>
> Europe forces us to have VAT. We did not want that. Now we are
> ever forced into
> a manipulating quagmire of Mad Hatterish rules and nonsense that no right-
> minded person in this nation wants either.
>
> Taxpayers money will have bought the bananas many times over by
> the time the
> court case has been completed.
>
> You can kill a fox and they will justify it. You can have an
> abortion and no
> one turns a hair, but try and sell bananas by the pound and you will be
> hung �peeled� and quartered - so is the state of the world�s mindset.
>
> It appears that the nuts will be deciding the case of the bananas.
>
> http://www.ianpaisley.org
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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