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Posted by Kris Krieger on March 26, 2008, 2:42 am
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Kris Said:
>>> He wasn't doing that, tho' - which actually isn't necvessarily
>>> relevant, since the point is that the ending was about people who
>>> were just doing their own thing, not harming anybody, and not
>>> running around armed to the teeth, versus violent nitwits whose
>>> ignorant and obsessive hatred lay at the root of an act of cowardice
>>> and violence.
>>>
>>
Edgar Said:
>> Well if YOU were the one writing that, then yes, I would have
>> interpreted it that way, but it was Don writing it, and I have to
>> take what he writes in the context of the rest of his posts in this
>> NG. I expected, for Don, that isolationists armed to the teeth was a
>> good thing to him, considering his other posts, and thus see that he
>> thinks the hippes are too stupid to carry a gun and protect
>> themselves.
>
> Edgar, did you miss the posts where I say I've had hair halfway to my
> ass for 35 years, where I've done every kind of drug known to mankind,
> where I play rock music on multiple instruments, where I own $100k
> worth of audio equipment, where I said I used to ride a Harley
> chopper, where I said I haven't fired a gun in over 4 years, where
> I've said everyone should be free, where I've said no one has the
> right to harm anyone else, etc., etc.?
>
> In all of that how do you get to the idea that I am a redneck?
>
>
Then Kris Said:
>>> The bit about "armed isolatinists" was, as I saw it, not a
>>> comparison with the hippies, but the complete opposite:
>
> And right there is where you are wrong.
> Instead of blaming me for fantasys in your head, examine yourself.
> I was very clear in what I wrote, it is YOU that twisted it.
You're getting your quotes confused.
>
>
>
> an example of people who
>>> would have been armed and ready opponents, i.e. dangerous, and
>>> therefore people whom the cowards would not have been so eager to
>>> take on.
>
> Well, duh.
> Have you ever known someone to attack heavily armed people?
That also was one of my statements. IWO, I was agreeing with what I saw
as being your point. You're getting all those carrots mixed up ;)
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>
> Ken brought up the Easy Rider thing, not me, and I don't remember why
> he did it.
I think cuzza they also rode bikes, plus, teh thing about bikes being
seen as a free lifestyle, the open road and all of that, which a lot of
other people find tthreatening. But i'm only guessing.
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