Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Luftwaffen Leica - Help with Identification
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 15:30:16 -0700

Andre Jean Quintal wrote:
> 
> At 09:55 -0500 04/01/99, B. D. Colen wrote:
> [ . . . ]
> Aren't there some "collectibles" that, given their provenance, shouldn't be
> collected other than in Museums. Or, are their certain items that we should
> neither invest in nor profit from?
> [ . . . ]
>         Mr Colen,
>         Just how deep do people like you have to furrow
>         in murky and equivocal self-justification
>         snip
>         War is ugly, even today, with as many Iraqi children
>         dead in less than ten years of international boycott
>         than in the sorrowful nazi death camps, now about
>         one million and counting...
>        snip
>         You owe yourself a minute of silence.
> 
>         Respectfully,
> 
>         Andre Jean Quintal
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
>    Before you judge me,
>    try hard to love me,
>    look within your heart then ask,
>    have you seen my childhood.
>               Michael Jackson
I sniped most of your diatribe in iambic pentameter, Sir. While most
will be moved by that heartfelt Michel Jackson Quote I couldn't help
noticing as I read your whole thing closely your interesting statistics:
"with as many Iraqi children
>         dead in less than ten years of international boycott
>         than in the sorrowful nazi death camps,".
the rest of your poem is certainly a smoke screen for these off kilter sentiments.