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KB2VXA > EVENT 24.08.12 14:34l 69 Lines 3770 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VE3WBZ > 1812, etc.
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Hi Pete and all,
I don't know why you compared a special event station to a net when
they're miles apart, nets bear no comparison to anything else IMO. I
listened occasionally and only participated in one from time to time, a
swap net on a local repeater. The rest left me cold, after a few
check-ins and roll call with each station declaring "no traffic" the nets
closed and that was that... duh? One on 20M I found amusing, a DX net
that was like shooting fish in a barrel and the net control in Florida
yelling so loud he could be heard in Maine without a radio. I even drew a
cartoon depicting a DX hound chasing a DX chicken, yeah, it was like that.
For some reason history in school skipped over 1812 except for the Battle
of New Orleans and THAT was probably the only interesting one anyway.
Then there was the Johnny Horton song that didn't mention Jean Le
Stinkfeet, a privateer and gun runner who saved the day for old Andy
Jackson. I guess that's what made it interesting, skulduugery usually is.
Yes, Ghandi was a very unusual man and terribly misunderstood until
decades later. I remember watching cartoons Saturday morning on TV
depicting him as a buffoon, very unfortunate. An amazing parallel was Dr.
Martin Luther King and his way of peace when Panther violence (burn baby
burn) went on all around him. That set him apart and made him one of the
men in history I admire most! Like Ghandi he didn't live to see his dream
become reality but the fact that it did made all the difference in the
world. He was such an orator, that moving speech was made up on the spot,
no script writer could have done better.
Viet Nam never saw protests? Where were you when the lights went out? Eh,
two events mixed but it saves some nasty sarcasm you don't deserve but
I'll say this, for me they were highly emotionally charged times and
Civil Rights violence only added to my anger and confusion... WHY???
"HE got away with murder!"
I had no idea what you were talking about until I looked it up, when I
read the complete story I was thinking O. J. would be a better choice. In
Bryant's case "murder" doesn't apply at all, if anything it would be
(formally) negligent manslaughter or careless indifference to human life.
The cyclist was drunk as a skunk, well over the legal limit and making a
royal pain of himself, Bryant happened along at the wrong time and their
paths met. His big mistake was panic, as a result his was a classic scene
out of a Hollywood movie as he attempted to swat this drunken gecko off
his car. To make a long story short, that's what resulted in death which
was NOT Mr. Bryant's intention so murder does not apply at all. That's
why charges were dropped, there could be no successful procecution at the
criminal level, in Civil Court it would be another matter entirely as
negligence was at the heart of it. Oh, about the only thing having money
had to do with it was a defense lawyer's remark about him being released
on ROR before the trial when the average person would have been held over
for a bail hearing "unshaven and desheveled". I wouldn't expect him to be
any more popular than the Jew who ran over a Black kid and the event
started a riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
One last thing, both cases were tried in the press and social media which
prejudiced them when they got to court. Now if you ask my opinion or if
you don't I'll give it to you anyway (;->) I think they got a raw deal
even if they weren't conviced, after being dragged through the mud no
washing can make them clean again.
73 de Warren
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