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To: AC Flyer who wrote (44832)	1/16/2004 8:22:17 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

I own shares in Siemens the company I most work for overseas and made money from. Which, by the way, has just offered a post since people there calls me an 'Alter Kampfer'. 'Alter Kampfer' is how the Wehrmacht former soldiers call, among themselves, the guys who fougth WWII. I have respect for good people and good enterprises and for good deeds. But if dissing means I don't kiss ass you're right. I have praise for good things the British did -like the British Counci library and their respect for the human being. But that doesn't mean that I would use any action against Ireland as an exemple and I would be hiding this from the public since this is seen as demeaning. I am proud of being a tower climber in my youth. As I am proud to be making my money in the profession I've chosen. See this crsysis in telecoms? I am here earning my money. The market already decided my value. You can't diminish it.

To: AC Flyer who wrote (44832)	1/16/2004 8:25:30 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

British 'suicided' David Kely weapons inspector, remember? <<The death of the respected former UN arms inspector -- only days after he was exposed as the source of a BBC report which alleged that Downing Street embellished intelligence on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction -- hurled Prime Minister Tony Blair into the worst political crisis of his more than six years in office>> British report into weapons expert suicide to be published January 28 LONDON : The findings of a judicial inquiry into the suicide of David Kelly, the weapons expert at the heart of allegations that the British government "sexed up" intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs, will be published on January 28. This is a weapons inspector, imagine what can be done to rank and file!!!!

To: AC Flyer who wrote (44832)	1/18/2004 10:59:16 AM
From: que seria	Respond to of 74559

OT--AC Flyer: Given your experience in N. Ireland, do you have any books to recommend about that conflict? I have an ancestral devotion to Ireland and some historical knowledge of what Britain did to the Irish, yet I have long respected and admired many things about Britain, imperialism and recent social decline aside. (Much as I find more to admire about my own nation from 40 years ago vs. today). Seems to me the Brits have done a mostly respectable job of disengaging, post-WWI and -WWII, from places they colonized. But when you've annexed a place, it's a bit hard to disengage. At least when the U.S. seized and later annexed what is today the U.S. Southwest in the Mexican War of 1846, we weren't displacing the Mexicans--indeed, we were hardly ruling any in that mostly desolate land. True, the settlers and Army proved hard on the Indians, but at least it is plainly true that freedom and economic opportunity in the U.S. Southwest have since been far better (for non-Indians) than life there would have been under what we've seen of Mexican rule since 1846. I suppose many N. Ireland residents would say the same. The truth in that parallel (albeit on a far lesser scale) seems to me to be a large part of the problem facing those who seek to devolve N. Ireland to the Republic. I have the impression that even those Brits who would like to pack up the troops and return Ireland to the Irish won't ever vote in large enough numbers to do so, for fear of a civil war erupting on the heels of departing troops, and in recognition that many in N. Ireland have ancestry, social and economic ties, and identity that are as much or more British (English) than Irish. It's not as though the Republic of Ireland wants a civil war up North, either. My U.S.-based, Irish-centric perspective is that a united Ireland (obviously, not now a common goal up North) would be more attainable if the Republic would adopt a constitution that one-ups the Brits as a modern and irrevocable commitment to protect the rights Britain (and, it seems, the EU) protects. (Recalling your reasons for leaving Britain, it seems almost funny to me that the Irish might shrink from guaranteeing protection of British rights and freedoms as too capitalistic--i.e., too incompatible with traditional Irish communitarian society). Perhaps nothing would assuage the structural-political concerns of the purely British remnant, and certainly not their emotional need to be British. However, a strong (and then fully implemented) charter that first alters the Republic might later dispel fears of Catholic hegemony in the North by foreswearing it (by word and deed) in the South. No one should have to live under the thumb of the Catholic Church--or any other. If that fantasy scenario of dangling a reformed Irish Republic as enticement to N. Irish voters were to unfold, might that tilt the probably decisive number of N. Irish residents who have layers of attachment to both Britain and Ireland, and just want an end to conflict and their existing rights and lifestyle? Some nation has to be sovereign, and right now I suppose the Brits still look stronger and thus better even to those whose vote would not turn upon history. From my admittedly outside perspective, it doesn't seem that Britain ruling part of Ireland (even if they call it part of Britain) is a peaceful LT solution. Am I off base here?

To: AC Flyer who wrote (44832)	1/18/2004 7:37:57 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

AC Flyer be economical with Que seria. We don't want any 'accident' to happen with you. That because the British chased all the Gemans who had been guards of concentration camps and started 'suciding' everyone of them. The remaing run to South America not because they love the food and the climate but because the 'accidents' with them were coming. Of course you are going to say that this is just imagination of Elmat but if needed ne I can help settle in Brazil. We're friendly to everybody.