New World Order or Isolationism?

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Morticutor_UK
The reason I picked up on the car was because I live in Carlise - right on the scottish border, where people come down from the hills in muddy 4x4 cars. But how, I always wondered, did anyone ever need them in the super-flat, tamed & pristine county of Buckinghamshire?

I'm just saying that there's a little less choice and a little more outright manipulation than people seem to need.

---

An interesting bit for the anti-SUV parties: http://www.reason.com/0207/fe.he.four.shtml

What amazes me is these are things most of our envrio-nuts drive.

OK, the US government doesn't buy companies. But it did buy up a load of currency from the countries I mentioned earlier, then flood the market with them a few years later. This devalued the currencies, and led to economic collapse. I have a friend who was out there at the time, and he knows the results weren't pretty. Matter of fact, he got kicked out of Malaysia because the local government was so pissed at the Western world they expelled all foreign workers. Pretty tough considering he was (and, fortunately, still is) married to a Malaysian woman at the time and has two kids by her. Luckily they only had to spend six months apart (only, he says...) before he could make arrangements to bring her over here.

Oh, and the percentage of gun-related crime per head of the population is still way lower in the UK than in the US. And as long as some would-be gun-toting punk has to do dodgy deals in back alleys with nasty black marketeers, instead of just nabbing his dad's legally-owned handgun from the cabinet by the door, that's the way it's gonna stay. Yeah, criminals want guns. But we can make it as difficult as possible for them to get at them.

Currency flooding is a practice which many industrial nations use when they want to get a point accross. Such as lower your tariffs or allow more foreign investment, the United States is not unique in the use. It is the most successfull seeing as its GDP is a third of the world's GDP.

Just a note for SUV's, they may guzzle fuel in the city but on the highway they become very very fuel efficient. My dad just bought himself the Saturn Vue, 16 L. in town and something like 8-9 on the highways. Its extremely roomy, with enough space to stretch inside. You can't get any of this from a smaller vehicle. BTW, people should be able to buy whatever vehicle they want. Don't try being environmentally friendly on someone else's back.

I see what you're saying Khrys, but there's a difference between "getting a point across" and "screwing up the economy so bad it collapses".

And bravo on the SUV issue - you're right, people should be able to buy whatever cars they want. The way to go is to develop cleaner fuels.

Yup.. The IRA just has a horrible time...

Quote:

---

Originally posted by Capt.Hunter
Oh, and the percentage of gun-related crime per head of the population is still way lower in the UK than in the US. And as long as some would-be gun-toting punk has to do dodgy deals in back alleys with nasty black marketeers, instead of just nabbing his dad's legally-owned handgun from the cabinet by the door, that's the way it's gonna stay. Yeah, criminals want guns. But we can make it as difficult as possible for them to get at them.

---

Considering that your own Home Office estimates that 3 million illegal handguns have entered the country since the total ban, I'd have to say that you're not making it very hard.

Well, the IRA gets (or used to get, prior to 9/11) plenty of money from groups in the US (and funnily enough, that's where they went to buy most of their weapons...).

CPT Hunter is right there. In fact, many of our elected officials (Pet Moynihan was one particular offended, Ted Kennedy is another) that send huge amounts of funds through NORAM to the IRA. Though that outlet was allegedly shut down, it simply changed names. (Kinda like the soft money now banned by the Incumbent Protection Act...I mean the Campaign Finance Reform...just changes name and path of desemination.)

Most of their weapons are actually purchased in Colombia and Northern Africa since the mid-1980s, however. They are also conducting weapons research on homemade rocket launchers, new bonb types, etc. with FARC right now; several news outlets have bothered to finally report it.

I remember a case in my hometown in PA while I was growing up where the IRA was building rocket launchers in the woods. (They got caught...)