Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?

["Sonny Carter" <sonc@gmx.net>]

Olivier,

You must be very proud of your parents.

Regards,
Sonny


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Nguyen,  T [AMSTA-AR-CCF]" <onguyen@pica.army.mil>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 10:09 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?


>
> sONC,
> I completely agree with you.  not all janitors are thieves
or poor people
> are thieves also not having leica.  I have 2 leicas now.
one is M6TTL and
> another is an R8.  I am not a doctor, not a lawyer, or any
business man at
> all or professional photographer (i wish one day i would
be) but i still own
> leica stuff.
>
> It is just depend on how personality of each person to be
a thieves instead
> of all poor people or not intelligence.
>
> My parents use to work really hard as an assembler and
janitor to support me
> 4 years in college (for my room and board + extra money
for books and food)
> and they never still anything from anyone.  nor they are
not intelligence.
> both of my parents are very educated people.  they could
not get a job in US
> because when they came to US, they already old.  instead
of go school again
> and fight so hard for more book to retake the degree, they
sacrify
> themselves for me and my sisters in order we young kids
has a better future.
> Not all poor people are thieves or not intelligence or not
own a leica.  or
> LEICA ARE OWN BY HIGH CLASS OR WHAT EVER.  IT IS JUST A
BEAUTIFUL TOOL FOR
> SOME ONE WHO LIKE IT.
> Olivier
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sonny Carter [mailto:sonc@gmx.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 12:34 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?
>
>
> Thanks, B.D.
>      I earned the money for my first 35mm camera by
cleaning
> the floors in stairwells of apartment buildings in
Germany.
> It never crossed my "poor dim-witted"  mind to steal  to
get
> the camera.
>     I was not a wealthy ex-pat; my father was a non-com in
> the Air Force during the Cold War in the early 60's.
>
> Regards,
> SonC
> http://www.sonc.com
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?
>
>
> >
> >
> > Mxsmanic wrote:
> >
> > The type of people who work cleaning toilets and/or
> > > steal the property of others tend to be poor and
> dim-witted,
> >
> > Yes, people who work cleaning toilets and who out of
> desperation steal
> > the property of others tend to be poor, but to suggest
> that they are
> > dim-witted because they are poor or clean toilets is a
> truly repulsive,
> > vile, classist thing to say that tells us a great deal
> about you.
> >
> > There are plenty of people on this list who at one time
or
> another
> > worked at jobs that were the equivalent of cleaning
> toilets, or had
> > parents or grandparents who did.
> >
> > Just who the hell do you think you are, Anthony, to make
> this kind of
> > statement. Boy, was Kyle on the mark when he pointed out
> that there are
> > people who think that they are somehow "special" because
> they own
> > Leicas.
> >
> > B. D.
> >
>