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   From: kwicker1b_nospam@comcast.net   
      
   "Jaxtraw"  wrote in message   
   news:447c5178$0$28768$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk...   
   > John VanSickle wrote:   
   >> James Gassaway wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It was more the silliness of calling a four to five foot long blade a   
   >>> "knife" that was tickling my funny bone.   
   >>   
   >> There's probably a rationale for it, but yeah, treating an artifact   
   >> of a fringe hobby as if it were part of a crime wave does have an air   
   >> of the ridiculous.   
   >   
   > It's an important part of maintaining a constant mood of fear, which   
   > justifies more draconian laws and police powers. We're a lousy country in   
   > that regard, and this government is particularly bad, they can't stop   
   > banning things. Certainly with Blair and his paranoid end of the world as   
   > we   
   > know it fantasies, the last shreds of any concept of civil liberties have   
   > completely disappeared. We live in interesting times.   
   >   
   > Fear of the outsider (muslim terrorists) combined with fear of the insider   
   > (your neighbour is a paedophile with guns and knives who wants to kill   
   > you).   
   > A heady concoction.   
   >   
   > Ian   
      
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