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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I don't have a clue why you are teaming me with the people about whom I 
worry.  My people, though not from the hills, are of the same stock as yours. 
 I know the tri-cities and I know from where I began.  The similarities are 
much stronger than the differences.

What the hell do you mean comparing me to barbarous telemarketers?  I used no 
such language.  I stated what I believe is true, that barbarity is not only 
possible, but is proven by history to be a good possiblitlity during societal 
breakdown.

  What you just said about yourself and your mountain people is no different 
than what any reasonable man would say about himself and his clan.  It is 
easy to write on the internet.  I have been in the situation , already , in 
my life where I had to make a fast decision, concerning the relevance of the 
physical well-being of another man as opposed to my own.  To act decisively 
in than instant is much different than saying what one 'would do'.

  You may lecture me on homesteading, and the general philosophy of life, I 
do learn from you.  But, don't think you may tell me the definition of he who 
is allowed to call himself a man.   I do not regale people with those sorts 
of tales of my past or future threats of my capabilities, because it is 
vulgar. 

 If you think the people in your region are the best and brightest and most 
capable, I am glad for your self-pride.  That doesn't mean that I agree, it 
just means that to argue is pointless.  Knowing what I do about you, which is 
limited, I do think you are prepared better than most, including me. I also 
believe you and your people are strong.  But;  I also believe there is a 
great strength and madness capable in the masses of people that you so easily 
ridicule.  

I guess I am on the side of 'better safe than sorry' and " I choose not to 
confront except when absolutely necessary" to use cliches.

I prefer to learn from you rather than to argue with you; but I can't agree 
when you present me as something I have never been.......


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--- On Mon, 12/8/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Go ld  -- feel free to ignore
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 1:47 PM
> > >Hitler was a failed artist with soft hands.  His
> brown-shirts were general 
> > low-life miscreants.  Many of the Bolsheviks were
> intellectuals with soft 
> > 
> 
> 'Many' is meaningless in this context.
> 
> 
>  >Would you kill a man over a stolen pig?, or maybe a
> stolen watermelon.  
> People in 
> > the city are killed for things of less value.  I
> expect the very worse from 
> > my fellow man, 'if' things become as bad as
> some are 
> > forcasting........................
> 
> I don't concern myself with the best or the worst, only
> with the possible.  
> And a teeming hoard of out of work stock traders,
> supervisors, and coodinators 
> is not within the realm of possibilities.
> 
> You, Bob, are no doubt typical (at worst) of these would be
> doomsday 
> warriors.  How many of you do you suppose it would take to
> dislodge me from this 
> mountainside?   First let me tell you that I and/or my
> neighbors can very easily 
> make getting here as four mile walk.  It is steep enough
> here to give a billy 
> goat a nose bleed.  I know where everything is, where
> everything is hidden, 
> where all the resources are, and how to get from anywhere
> to anywhere silently and 
> unseen.
> 
> Moreover, peaceable man that I am, if anyone harms,
> threatens to harm, or 
> makes the slightest overture or suggestion of harming any
> of my family or 
> neighbors ... I do not possess the capacity for mercy.
> 
> And I am not alone. Your army of phone telemarketers and
> pharmaceutical route 
> salesmen would have to go through a thousand people like me
> to even get here.
> 
> I don't care a wit what your capacity for barbarity is,
> I only care what your 
> practica capacity for mayhem is.  And that adds up to nil
> in my estimation.
> 
> 
> James
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