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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> From: Jonathan Harker [<A HREF="mailto:jon@jonathanharker.co.uk">mailto:jon@jonathanharker.co.uk</A>]</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> <rant level="flamethrower, cheeky bastard, deliberately provocative"></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> As it happens, we should really try and drive manual </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> transmissions, as they </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> can be up to 10% more fuel efficient. I'd be more worried </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> about that, and the </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> fact that the US saw fit to flout ten hard years of trying to </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> build up </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> effective UN environmental legislation (Kyoto, Rio, etc), and </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> yet produce </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> nearly half of the world's CO2. Geez, now they're walking all </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> over 50 year </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> old Geneva POW conventions, too. "Illegal combatants", my arse (ass)!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> PS. reply subject should be "Greenhouse emissions (was Geforce2)" :-)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">> </rant></FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All of the above is of course that everyone drives their cars at optimum efficiency. An automatic for the masses is generally a more efficient car as you do not get people revving their cars to death or boy racers on the motorway in third gear because it sounds good. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As for the POW bit as far as I am aware the pictures taken where at the start of the prisoners internment. I personally would not want a bunch of suicidal maniacs capable of an atrocity like 09/11 and spreading anthrax touching or breathing on me in any shape form or fashion. If the yanks wanted or where going to be really bad to them I think you might find that there would be no press pictures or otherwise coming out of that area. They are very capable of shutting up shop and following the rules i.e. No one gets to see these prisoners except UN or red cross and that does not include the press. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Have you ever thought why the pictures got out in the first place, every yank wants to see these boys in some form of distress and discomfort, cast a vote in America at the moment and a large percentage would be happy to have them shot. Its the mob that gets the vote and Bush's administration is playing his countries banjo like the kid from deliverance. There is always a second, third, fourth add infinitum agenda that we can only second guess and I have not spent 8 years at MIT Harvard or Yale being groomed for spin. Thinking they are being cruel because they can is a bit short sighted.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I know it sounds as if I do not care what happens to these guys. To be brutally honest they should be thankful they are alive at all. I do not condone cruelty as I would not condone being cruel to an animal but sometime rabid animals need to be muzzled. In fact rabid animals are taken to the vet and murdered in the UK. This is a rant for another list and I will no doubt have lots of replies detailing how far from civilisation I am and that bad only leads to more bad. I like to look at these things from the perspective of both parties. I am not one to stand on the touchline and slag off the people doing the dirty work. It very easy to cry shame when you are a million miles from someone trying to spill your guts and rape your mother while we watch television have a nice dinner, live in a two up two down house with gas central heating and milk delivered to your door. Its a sad fact that in the society we live in that violence is sometimes the only method to put things right. I would love to live in a world where all parties see reason sit around a table and talk things through come to a conclusion and shake hands but sadly this is not the case.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">If genocide is being carried out what do we do if talking does not work. In a highly civilised world peel would keep talking until all the people where dead as almost happened in Somalia. Are we not morally obliged to stop it when it occurs no matter what the cost or would the loss of lives doing it through violence be unacceptable to the highly civilised.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I know I went off on one here but I know some middle class edjits who love to take the moral high ground with no concept of what is happening at the coal face. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Harry</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Multiple choice</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The guy in the cell knows where the 10000 bomb is complete with detonator. It goes off in 24 hours. What do you do???</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A. Have a cup of tea and a chat.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">B. Tell him you cannot harm him but really want to know where its at.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">C. You will tell his mother if he won't co-operate.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">D. Torture him.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All of the above will have varying degrees of success but if the lives of two people where in the hands of one I would do whatever was necessary to one to save the two.</FONT></P>
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