[BNM] Burma

[Chris Billett]

Oh, so what you meant was you didn't understand my quoting style. That's
ok. :)

Shall I assume you never studied Irish history, or that you don't count
them the Irish as British citizens?

> On Sep 28, 2007 at 15:29, Chris Billett praised the llamas by saying:
>> >> "Wow, your quoting style is all kinds of wrong."
>>
>> There's a correct quoting style? I'm not sure what you're on about...
>
> Copying contents from the body of an email and then top posting it is a
> new one to me. Your quote marks suggest you said my words.
>>
>> I guess we're in agreement about extremes, then. Burma (oh, on a
>> Galls-Peters world map it's Myanmar with Burma in brackets, by the way)
>> has been at an extreme for some time.
>>
> How is that relevant to something similar happening here? The British
> public might be apathetic about politics, but they wouldn't stand for
> anywhere near the levels of police brutality you see in Burma or for a
> military coup. I can't see either the rank and file police or soliders
> supporting their superiors over the public.
>
>> CB
>>
>> > On Sep 28, 2007 at 15:03, Chris Billett praised the llamas by saying:
>> >> > Ignoring the fact you can't protest in Parliament Square without
>> >> > permission, I find it rather hard to believe that they would start
>> >> > shooting anyone who tried to do so.
>> >>
>> >> I don't... if it went to the extremes.
>> >>
>> > Wow, your quoting style is all kinds of wrong.
>> >
>> > If you go to extremes anything could happen. It is incredibly unlikely
>> > that a peaceful, unarmed demonstrator would be shot and killed by any
>> > member of the police or armed forces in the foreseeable future. I find
>> > it hard to believe that the armed forces would attempt to sieze power
>> > any time soon.
>> >
>> >
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