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|    BumbleBee to Cafe Racer    |
|    Re: Is it crime or is it terrorism?    |
|    14 Oct 17 18:43:27    |
      XPost: can.politics, alt.politics.usa       From: cama@ro.tran              On 10/14/2017 5:49 PM, Cafe Racer wrote:       > On Saturday, October 14, 2017 at 4:38:13 PM UTC-7, BumbleBee wrote:       >>>> Are you ekshually representing yourself now as a "fellow American"?!?       >>>       >>>       >>> Are you an American citizen posting on this Canadian newsgroup?       >>>       >>       >> I am indeed, yes!       >>       >> I mean I was pretty clear about saying that, so your query is odd to me.       >       >       > I'm not,              Not WHAT???              > nor did I say I was a fellow American.              Oh?              "Since free-enterprise capitalism is the heart and soul of the USA, we       would never refer to the numerous organized-crime families (whose       knives, guns, and drugs kill or enslave tens of thousands of fellow       Americans) as "terrorists" ---they are businessmen!"                     You not only /SPECIFICALLY/ referred to yourself as a "fellow American"       you led off with "we" when referring to US!              The rest of your filthy rant against capitalism is risible in its own right.                     > I shouldn't have used the term "fellow Americans" when writing about all       Americans' experience ---              You should not have used the term "we" when referring to ANYTHING American!              > but organized crime harms "fellow Americans", ie their co-citizens,       neighbours, people in the same community.              Oh there's a news flash!              > I did not intend to appear American myself.              Your /words/ say otherwise.              > But now that that's clear, I'm sure we can enjoy our cross-border yelling       matches ;-)              What's clear is that you were caught in a repugnant LIE.              Instead of apologizing UN_conditionally you instead rationalized, tried       to revise yourself, and basically came off looking like the kid with his       hand in the cookie jar.              A SAD performance, truly sad...              Out.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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