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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (112573)	8/24/2003 5:12:14 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine, I'd be surprised if a NUN would get anywhere close to the harmonious joy that bonds the happy citizens of the USA, in one fell swoop. It's okay for Jacob, Neocon, John, you, Win, Hawk, GST and Chuckie to hold hands in a circle and ommmmmmm away in happy unison. The rest of us have a few issues to deal with before we can sing "It's a small world ...." in a single choir. Maybe one step at a time would be a good start. Such as, for example, changing the UN constitution to better reflect geopolitical facts as they are today, rather than as at the end of WWII. If we find We the Sheeple are enamoured of the trend, we could speed it up accordingly. If not, the process could be slower, interspersed with some blood feuds, nuclear wars and genocidal sanctions. I notice that most people like more government than I do, so I dare say that I'll be in the vanguard of cursing the NUN before it has reached full bloom. Already, I am working on subverting the megalomaniac NUN bosses. Johny-come-latelies will lecture me about the great benefits of the NUN while I am opposing their runaway madness. It's a bit like recycling [rubbish]. Way back in the 1960s, my family were avid recyclers and waging environmental battles [over the pollution of the Manukau harbour]; me too. Now, I'm more mindful of the economics of recycling and am lectured by recent converts and wasteful government about the wonderful benefits of environmental 'protection'. Way back in the 1960s, I chose to wear crash helmets when not legally required when riding my motorcycle. Now, mindless authorities and others go nuts if a child rides a tricycle without a crash helmet and I can be fined for not wearing one on my bicycle. I installed seat belts in my crusty and rusty old 1951 Hillman when there was no law and few people wore seatbelts. Now, I can be fined for not wearing one and people would go nuts if I was to take my children a short way without seat belts on - they'd probably charge me with criminal negligence and wanton child endangerment. Sometimes, I don't want to wear a crash helmet, a seat belt or recycle my rubbish. I don't want busy-body NUN fanatics making laws for everything that moves, or doesn't, and ordering every detail of our lives. I do not want wet behind the ears crazed converts lecturing me about how important it is that we all live in the same way. The rows of Allah acoyltes, all pointing to Mecca, gives me the creeps. I wouldn't like to think of the whole world lining up and kneeling three times a day, like so many iron filings, to the magnetic pole of the NUN HQ in Baghdad. By the time the NUN fanatics get the NUN rampant and overbearing, I should have my secret plan in action to head them off at the pass. It is under construction as we speak. Mqurice