----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2004-02-21 13:30 Subject: [USMA:28845] Re: Removed... and buried
> I was told privately that Chimps Are Cute's previous post was a joke, but > now I'm starting to wonder if that is the case: > > At 21 02 04, 10:32 AM, Chimpsarecute wrote: > >Please be aware that as long as there is ARM (Active Resistance to > >Metrication) there should be ARI (Active Resistance to Imperial). I don't > >like the idea of destroying property that we the taxpayers have to pay > >for. But sometimes you have to take action against those who take action > >against you. Isn't this the new American policy of George Bush? > > Presuming you are serious, Euric, then there are so many fallacies in this > paragraph I hardly know where to start: > > (1) What does the international policy of George Bush (or Bill Clinton, or > Tony Blair, etc.) have to do with local metrication signs? Other than to > serve as a lame excuse for your law breaking? First of all, I am not breaking any laws. I am not the one who is doing this. This was someone else's posting that I copied here. I just happen to agree that if the person is doing it in response to others who are doing the same against metric, then I am not going to be the one to tell that person he is wrong. > > (2) Just because a sign is imperial does not mean any one has "taken action > against you." Presumably the signs long predate your concerns with them, > making you the intruder. See above! > > (3) For such mundane things as signs, most people believe democracy is the > appropriate way of making decisions. Are the signs there in contravention > to democratically-chosen alternatives? Are the ones that have been installed in metric and have been defaced any different? Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Democratic means don't always work. We have tried the democratic way for a long time and it failed. It is time for new techniques. Personally I would rather see the collapse of the dollar wipe out the American economy, then have it rebuilt along metric lines. > > >You might want to take note that the BWMA supports the actions of > >ARM. The only way to fight ARM is with ARI. > > Bovine scat. Analogously, if someone murders your mother, you are justified > in murdering that person? What b.s.! Yep! That is exactly what the state does. I don't have to do it myself, I'll let the state do the dirty work. I'll let others do the dirty work of destroying imperial signs and just silently approve. > > I stand by my previous post -- I don't know about where you live Euric, but > I guarantee you that if pro-metricationists start vandalizing colloquial > signage in the USA, it will generate GREATER resistance to metrication. And what will destruction of metric signs generate? Bovine scat to you on this nonsense. There is no greater resistence then what exists now in the US. It won't get any worse. But like I said, I'm going to put my hope in the collapse of the dollar and hope that is motivation enough to force the US into metrication. If that does not work, nothing will. At least then a weakened US won't be in a position to imperialise the rest of the world. That will be one victory. > > Is that your goal? I goal is to support whatever method brings results. The ones tried so far have not. If anything, weakness has broguht about reversion. Is this your goal, reversion? > > Jim Elwell > >
