Comments on: I do not think it means what you think it means

By: Metulj

Metulj — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:03:59 +0000

“It was much more appealing when it was a free country.”

When exactly was that? There has never been a right to anything in Britain.

By: # 9

# 9 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:35:23 +0000

I am just trying to see exactly what and when # 9 found appealing about England.

It was much more appealing when it was a free country.

By: Michael Hawkins

Michael Hawkins — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:52:25 +0000

Yeh, news over here in Belgium did that too.

“He started out opposing the Vietnam war, but made a 180 degree turn to supporting the right of every American to own guns”

So many things wrong there it made me facepalm.

Oh, and: screw airstrip 1

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:17:56 +0000

Ya gotta admit, though, what they wrote has a better ring to it than “Charlton Heston: From guy who supports the civil rights I like to guy who supports the ones I don’t.”

By: Metulj

Metulj — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:10:40 +0000

I am just trying to see exactly what and when # 9 found appealing about England. Personally, I hate London with a passion. It’s an upholstered toilet seat and a miserable place to get stuck on a business trip. Manchester is infinitely more interesting. I burned up my BA miles and don’t book through London to go to Europe anymore.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:31:31 +0000

“You are monarchists?” England sort of took care of that back in the 1600s, didn’t they? Since then, the monarchy has been little more than a quaint formality (a family living richly on welfare and showing up in parades) while an elected Parliament, headed by a Prime Minister, has been running the government.

“…in the UK gun ownership is not looked at as a civil right.”

Exactly, just like in the U.S., there was a time when voting wasn’t looked at as a civil right of black people either. Both instances are disgraceful (note also how the term “gun lover” is used in exactly the same way that a person might have been termed a “ni**er lover” for advocating abolition, or later, for the right of black people to vote).

And just to pick a nit; one could, technically, be an advocate of civil rights, including the right to bear arms, and not actually “love” guns or even like them. If said person were to take a fancy to guns at some later time, the statement would be true and without contradiction.

By: Metulj

Metulj — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:40:00 +0000

Fascinating. Lusting for England? So you aren’t minarchists? You are monarchists? Take me back to dear old Blighty, indeed.

By: gattsuru

gattsuru — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:21:56 +0000

More as if civil rights advocate and gun lover are that different in the first place.

You have to remember that in the UK gun ownership is not looked at as a civil right.

Which is rather funny, for a place with the thing enshrined in the Magna Carta, but it’s not like that was ever important.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:12:53 +0000

As if civil rights advocate and gun lover are mutually exclusive.

I agree with you and No. 9 - England (including Londonistan) are gone.

By: BobG

BobG — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:14:20 +0000

You have to remember that in the UK gun ownership is not looked at as a civil right.

By: Cactus Jack

Cactus Jack — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:02:39 +0000

“Heston said Clooney “lacked class”.”

Looney Clooney talking about someone not having class? Heston had more class in his little finger than Clooney and his ilk will ever have.

By: # 9

# 9 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:36:46 +0000

Great Britain, particularly England, is gone. This is one of the great tragedies of modern times. It can happen here.