From: "Bill Sloman"
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: MICROWAVE DETECTOR FOR CONCEALED FIREARMS.
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 00:57:08 +0100
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"Barry Lennox" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:33:13 -0000, "Designori"
> wrote:
>Oh no, I forgot, this is the UK, where that clown that runs
> the country has zero tolerance of opponents, and personal liberties
> are something that went out before he was born.
Margret Thatcher stopped being prime minister around 1991 and was actually
female - I knew New Zealand was provincial, but this was more than ten years
ago. The current prime minister is a perfectly ordinary lawyer-turned
politician, but he tolerates his Chancellor of the Exchequer, who isn't
exactly on the same political wavelength.
And which particular personal liberty do you think that the U.K. population
is actively missing? The right to bear arms?
If John Woodgate is anything to go by, what they'd really like to be able to
do is to drive a few kph over the posted speed limit and not get fined - not
exactly fertile ground for revolution.
> Do you carry ID cards there?
They don't.
> or are they too easy to forge? Maybe a National ID number
> tattoed on your arm would work, I seem to recall it was used in
> Germany some time back.
Only for certain specific groups - you had to have been consigned to a
concentration camp to earn the tattoo.
> They should have the decency to stop calling the place a democracy.
They haven't started. They call it a constitutional monarchy, despite the
fact that the country hasn't got a written constitution.
Even for a right-wing nutter, you seem curiously under-informed. Have you
been outside New Zealand yet?
I know Australia is a long way away, and rather too like New Zealand for
comfort, but it would be a start.
------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen (but born and brought up in Burnie, Tasmania - there
is hope for you yet, Barry)