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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (236937)	7/18/2007 4:14:29 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

It's called getting a bullet in your head, if not having it actually cut off; <There is something about Arab culture that does not permit self-criticism. It makes news when someone dares.> Around the world, that has been a common approach to people who disagree. My father's cousin [Ormond Burton] spent years in prison for speaking in public during WWII about how the war was a bad thing [he was a pacifist having been honoured for valour over years in WWI at Gallipoli and in France]. The consequences are less in the "freedom-loving" [snicker] West, but the ideology is the same. It's just normal murderous tribal alpha male dominance hierarchy 'thinking' [which doesn't actually involve thinking processes and in fact specifically excludes them]. Chimps are capable of the same level of thinking. Mqurice