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Article #3857Re: The gun debate and aus.politics
From: James D. Nicholson
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 00:00
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Fred Davis VA3FD wrote: > > In article <sX232D1w165w@codeworks.gen.nz>, system@codeworks.gen.nz (Wayne > W. McDougall) wrote: > > >Aim_Junk_Email@sum1.else.please (Alan Peyton-Smith=avps@tpgi.com.au) writes: > > > >> I want to know what makes someone _want_ to be a net.busybody? Is it a > >> calling, sorta like a calling to the priesthood? > >> > >> Is it a feeling of power? > >> > >> Or is it that you're such a thoroughly decent person that you want to > >> make sure that no net surfer sees stuff that you judge as being > >> inappropriate? > >> > >> Or are you just a thorough bloody nuisance? There's plenty of choice > >> there, one of these must fit. > > > >Well there are plenty more options, although perhaps two is getting close. > >How about, a servant of thye usenet community, wanting to share my > >pre-parsing with the world? > > Ridiculous. You cancelled one of my postings much earlier today > Wayne (from fmdavis@nortel.com), and there was no need for it. > We ARE (supposedly) all of the same commonwealth, and as such, > have similar culture and laws (English common law), which we are > discussing here, so there is no need to cancel articles because > YOU deem them "irrelevant" to nz.general. There are many forms of tyranny. Give a man a little power and you can get a better measure of him. -- Jim Nicholson Read John Ross' Unintended Consequences-Now available from TSRA http://www.tsra.com Self-defence is Nature's eldest law. John Dryden (1631-1700), English poet, dramatist, critic. Absalom and Achitophel
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,5d89fc81a649cede X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 10004d,5d89fc81a649cede X-Google-Attributes: gid10004d,public X-Google-Thread: 114a4e,5d89fc81a649cede X-Google-Attributes: gid114a4e,public From: "James D. Nicholson" <jamesd@iamerica.net> Subject: Re: The gun debate and aus.politics Date: 1997/02/14 Message-ID: <33049B22.65E8@iamerica.net> X-Deja-AN: 218789731 References: <5drcln$dmn@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <sX232D1w165w@codeworks.gen.nz> <5du61t$lb4@news.istar.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Texas State Rifle Association Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jamesd@iamerica.net Newsgroups: nz.general,aus.politics,can.talk.guns X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)