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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (58763)	1/11/2005 1:35:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<But, there are always trouble makers proposing big trouble. Ergo, push comes to shove - the stupid cycle seem endless. I don't see your type of thinking as part of any solution.> Mary, I can understand that, because you don't understand. Defending yourself against somebody or something attacking you isn't being a trouble-maker. The person doing the attacking is the trouble=maker. I know this is a difficult concept, but I'll try to explain. Imagine you are walking down the road on a lovely day in the countryside, perhaps to visit your grandchilden in the next valley. You have baked some scones to share with the family. Then, from behind a tree jumps a big bad wolf. You plead to be left alone and threaten to hit him if he comes to get you. He ignores your pleadings and threats, punches you, rapes you and takes your scones, telling you that he is the boss and that redistribution of income and scones is a political priority. I'm surprised you think that Grandma is a trouble-maker for pleading, and threatening some reprisal. Big Bad Wolves don't concern themselves if relatively defenceless people make pathetic threats. They neutralize the threat, as Malcolm Rewa safe-nz.org.nz did by whacking Susan Burdett on the head with her baseball bat which she, being a trouble-maker, kept by her bed, failing to understand that a Big Bad Wolf would be able to grab it from her and would feel annoyed at the resistance. She died. Maybe she just fell on her bat. Rewa was only convicted of rape. nzherald.co.nz It's funny how you think that such a questionable series of events as attacking Taiwan will lead to an inevitable outcome. Do you recall how inevitable was the outcome of the attack on Iraq? And that was the huge USA, with all mod cons against a pokey little totalitarian gang with the population largely against them. Perhaps you haven't heard the expressions, "Many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip", "the best laid plans of mice and men and Chinese clones" etc. But you are right that they are control freaks - they are just like monkeys, who don't have much of a thinking department to control their limbic system. They are simply enacting their chimpoid alpha-male drives. They haven't evolved to a fully-human state. That is unfortunate because it's like living in a monkey cage with no bars between us and the monkeys; what's worse, we are the monkeys too, so we have trouble figuring out and understanding. But we can discuss and derive enlightenment. I hope you are now enlightened. You are also right that it's ironic that the Republicans say they are against Big Government, then lo and behold, the government's spending is waayyyyyyy up after a few years running the place. Read Fred on Everything to understand why [he has actually pinched by theory, but never mind]. Message 20930245 I'm happy to have been of help, so no need to thank me. Mqurice