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Re: The gun debate and aus.politics

#3857
From: James D. Nicholson
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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From: "James D. Nicholson" <jamesd@iamerica.net>
Subject: Re: The gun debate and aus.politics
Date: 1997/02/14
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