From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 12:13:25 MDT
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> ...
>
>This isn't really analogous to the real world situation. Better
>description would be a gun walking in your direction, wearing gang
>colors and tatoos, who you have witnessed mugging other neighbors in
>the past, you've even stopped one of them yourself, yet the police
>refuse to do anything about the punk because he is paying various
>police commissioners off.
>...
>=====
>Mike Lorrey
>
>
More like he's toting a knife, and you're carrying not only a .45, but
also an UZI. And you weigh 5 times what he does, and are 3 times as
tall. And that's still underestimating the mis-match.
During the middle-ages the great crime that the Christians charges the
Muslims with was the burning of the Library at Alexandria. They didn't
do it, but they were blamed anyway. (It did happen while they were in
charge, soon after the conquest of Alexandria.) Now Bagdad's library
wasn't as significant, but it wasn't minor. Especially if Arabic is you
native tongue. Whatever our reputation was, it's now worse. That we
didn't do it isn't going to cut much ice. We were in charge, and didn't
do anything to stop it or put out the fire, or even collect the scraps
of parchment that flutter out on the flames.
-- -- Charles Hixson Gnu software that is free, The best is yet to be.
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