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To be fair to the BBC. I was there when the guy was doing the interview and I did hear him talk about the threats.
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To be fair to the BBC. I was there when the guy was doing the interview and I did hear him talk about the threats.
Without trying to get too deep into it, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that you don't have a government owned by the wealthiest tiny percentage of people on the planet. Our 1% owns over 99% of our nation's assets, and they're the ones running the government.
As the political philosopher Alan Moore once said (and famously paraphrased in the wonderful V for Vendetta), "'People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
With the resources and weapons at the disposal of the modern US government, removing the right to bear arms of the American people is unthinkable. This is certainly not to imply each are at odds with one another, or that one should ever even attempt direct physical harm on the other, but that balance of power has to be maintained.
On the surface I don't blame you at all, but I can assure you life here is nothing like what the media portrays with the frequency of shootings and violence. In fact, shooting numbers have actually dropped in all but one city here in the US in the last decade/
But Jesus, one camera/10-14 people. Do you give a thumbs up to the camera while having a wank?
This is SpursManChris we're talking about. He's probably asking the questions now-e.g. why firefighters were called at 05:00 instead of 04:59
Probably a faulty Amstrad. Sugar finally doing some good.
This is SpursManChris we're talking about. He's probably asking the questions now-e.g. why firefighters were called at 05:00 instead of 04:59
But surely this is just an illusion? Doesn't matter how many of the public are armed you aren't going to stand up up to the State. And with only 30% of them being armed it's even more futile. Peaceful or should I say unarmed protest has always achieved more ie abolition, women's vote ect ect. Saying all that though, if I lived in rural US I'd probably be armed to the teeth just because I could be
Has anyone seen Omar lately?
Forget about it!
We have blamed various people but surely its Adebayors penalty against Basle re-entering the atmosphere???
There are probably 5 knives to every adult in England . I do not walk the streets terrified of being stabbed. I am more worried about losing my privacy than losing my life to violence.
Have you heard something?Is Big Brother threatening to install CCTV throughout your house?
Is Big Brother threatening to install CCTV throughout your house?
Maybe I'm wrong, but from my limited experience working in the insurance industry, this has fraud written all over it. I've seen the same scenario (although maybe not on this level) a million times before, and I wouldn't give these people the time of day.
Here is how it works:
1) Find a bullshit reason to inflate the value of your resource. (I.e. it may only be a £500k property but the big football team wants to buy it so it should be worth £500M).
2) Pull out before the insurance company have a reason to deflate the value of the resource you have insured and thus pay you less money (I.e. court case forcing you to sell to the big football club).
3) Burn the property and take the insurance money based upon your own valuation and strike it rich
Unfortunately (Sorry fortunately), this never works. Funnily enough, big insurance firms who hire lots of top notch lawyers do not generally fall into such easy traps. The insurance companies investigators will do a far more thorough job than the police as they have money on it.
Don't get me wrong, it may be a rogue Spurs fan, but this scenario fills the A-Z of insurance con jobs.