[Leica] A Tale of two flags

[Douglas Barry]

Razor blades? That's terrible, Barney. How on earth did they access the car? 
What did the police say? I hope they tested the blades for DNA and that the 
culprit is found. Mind yourself.

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barney Quinn" <bjq1 at mac.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 1:20 AM
Subject: [Leica] A Tale of two flags


>
> Someone scattered some single edge razor blades on the drivers seat of my 
> car overnight. I noticed them before I got in the car. Thank God. I want 
> to tell you what I saw and felt. To my eye the scene was very much 
> dominated by the so called confederate flag. To me it symbolizes so much I 
> do not want this Nation to be about. It feels to me as if these negative 
> and hateful things are close to overwhelming us. A boat docked several 
> spots ahead of Net’s Pride is flying an American flag which is flapping 
> proudly in the breeze. To me Old Glory symbolizes what I think our Nation 
> should be about. Fairness, Justice, Tolerance. Just as the American Flag 
> in this picture is small, and isn’t so easy to see it feels to me as if 
> these very worthwhile and necessary goals are now only a glimpse of 
> something distant and far off swamped and overwhelmed by what is going on 
> this election year. That is what I felt. It is what I saw. It is why I 
> took and posted the picture.
>
> Thanks for the razor blades. I have been warned. Let me return the favor. 
> For those of you who think that the system doesn’t work, that you have 
> been passed,  and that this justifies your anger and tactics because the 
> system needs to be shaken or and taken down. You may not think that you 
> have much to loose. But you do. Far more that you realize and you may well 
> not know how much until it is gone. Beware. The fire that you seem so 
> anxious to start can just as easily consume you as it burns everyone else.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Net_s+Pride.jpg.html
>
> I apologize for the rant, but it was very important to me to say this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barny
>
>
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