From: Lehmans (lehmans@execpc.com)
Date: Sat Sep 07 2002 - 06:04:07 PDT
List,
I usually just give most of this the big D key treatment. Many good points
all around. Just a comment about "armor" etc... Besides the big green things
many of us play with there are many thousands of urban/suburban cammoed
"armored" vehicles around us every day. You see them or don't as the case
may be as they hide in plain sight... cammoed under the moniker of Wells
Fargo, Purolator, XYZ Messenger Service. These things are no longer just the
big step van type either, saw a really neat Suburban-esk the other day parked
in the firelane of the local food store. Although I don't know I suspect
these dudes are at least as "armored" as a V-100 or the like and get better
gas mileage too.
I really don't care to start collecting these things but just an odd
observation the "armor" comments.
I will quit typing now.
Oh yeah Big Brother if you want to stop by just call I can use some help
getting my jeep running.....
Would the 'gummint' label all these people as 'potential terrorists'
merely to sieze a lot of old jeeps, trucks, and de-milled armor? It is
scary to think of, but I don't think they would do it, I don't see the
gain, unless they want the armor off the street? Something more
sinister?
opcom wrote:
> I own an MV because I like big green trucks. I'm in the Texas State
> Guard because I desire to serve my State (and by doing so my Country),
> and am not young enough for the National Guard. The truck goes with me
> sometimes on a local mission, which adds a little more fun as well as
> function. I work as an engineer for an IC-chip manufacturer.
>
> Anyone labeling me a 'potential terrorist' is in need of a correction. I
> imagine most all MV owners are law abiding and respectable citizens
> also. -probably even more respectable than me!
>
> Would the 'gummint' label all these people as 'potential terrorists'
> merely to sieze a lot of old jeeps, trucks, and de-milled armor? It is
> scary to think of, but I don't think they would do it, I don't see the
> gain, unless they want the armor off the street? Something more
> sinister?
>
> I look at the NRA and gun owners.. They'll go after them first maybe..
> Another reason for MV'ers and NRA'ers to support each others'
> organizations. I realize that we are interested in antique or
> collectible vehicles, sort of an 'old car club', and not in guns
> (necessarily), but these things both fall into a 'tool of war' category,
> and like alot of other things of late, such as many common household
> chemicals, could be broadly grouped, by some idiots, into a 'tools of
> terrorists' category.
>
> Look at Belgium. The nicest people you'd ever want to meet, but they're
> so used to having the government do anything it wants, they just accept
> it. They're happy, and have a high standard of living for the most part,
> but only the super-rich can afford a detached house, or an MV, and
> almost no one but no one has a gun, except for maybe a *licensed*
> hunting gun. Moslems are a sizeable population, which is no issue,
> except that the system is biased so that they can spit on your infidel
> religion, but if you spit on the moon god, it is an offense under the
> law (you have done a bigoted act -something the peaceful Moslem would
> never provoke or do). Can you say PABLUM? Maybe my picture of Belgium is
> not accurate, but it is based on having alot of Belgian co-workers tell
> me all about it, including the chocolate, the pissing boy, invasions by
> foreign powers overthe years, on and on.., and what I am afraid of is
> that the USA is going to be turned into.. Belgium! a litle bit of 1984
> and THX1138..
>
> ===Mil-Veh is a member-supported mailing list===
> To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: <mil-veh-off@mil-veh.org>
> To switch to the DIGEST mode, send e-mail to <mil-veh-digest@mil-veh.org>
> To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Wed Apr 23 2003 - 13:21:19 PDT