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Subject: Re: [Leica] wimpy slightly drunk dutchman
From: "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:16:27 -0700
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animal wrote in part:

>Now at 0400 still cant sleep even though i ingested some legal narcotic
>substances.
>
Are you sure that it was legal?

>
>Why?
>I,d like to share my feelings even though i know fully well that they have
>not much bearing on the dismanteling of an m3 yes i did that as well tonight
>and got it back together what engineering marvellous.
>Why do world events keep me awake?
>10 years ago things were easy .Our old aly(spelling seems off)Iraq who had
>to defend the free west against the fundamentalistic Iran had gone sour and
>invaded Kuwait.Oops that apart from the oil reserves was not nice and we had
>to get them out of there.
>Yeah that was better then flying a couple of hundred tourists to some exotic
>destination to be bored.Now we felt a bit of use again deploying the immense
>power at our fingertips to do something worthwhile for a change.
>And in the meantime there were the kurds to watch over and the turks gee
>must have carried a zillion gas masks in those days and some other stuff of
>course.
>But now?I,ve seen on CNN palestinian boys ,protected in vain by their
>fathers , killed with American bullets .I,ve seen fledling nations being
>bulldozed into oblivion.
>I know of so many lands , so many tales.
>I know my countries strength and also it,s
>guilt
>It was said during the period where the dutch and the english ruled the
>waves,
>that one could smell a dutch ship west bound before it was seen above the
>horizon because of it,s cargo you see imported peoples from Africa.
>Main reason for that was the at that time big discovery of dry ships(like in
>not leaking) which enabled the dutch to import spices from far away places
>and unfortunately transport African captives to the west.Your word drug is a
>derivative of the word droog in dutch meaning dry.We had some more skeletons
>of course (still think it silly however that we traded new york(amsterdam)
>for surinam)and after centuries of debate and defeats decided that we were a
>bad people indeed.
>
>Now ,even though our collective conscentiousness detests colonialism we
>together with great britain still find ourselves helping the USA.Well at
>least a quarter of the usa is related to us somehow so what can you do they
>are family!
>But there is worse to come .I feel belittled .wasn,t my family proud once
>were we not David,s father once?
>Are we not part of this nice institution the UN which we support financially
>,
>unlike the USA which never has really.
>Didn,t we learn of our sins and help to make a better world?
>Wimps ?we are number 10 on any scale and one on one we,ll beat americans
>nearly asleep.Hell they even have to buy our ships to have half a chance
>against us.
>Sorry for the testosteron.
>If the USA chooses to go it alone the rest of the world has no option other
>then to rearm.
>We do not want the People of the united states of america to decide for us.
>Think we are powerless?
>Simon(about ready for bed phew finally)
>
>
>
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