Subject: [smof-politics] Re: Current affairs and overreactions
From: "Bob Schroeck" (rms@ourtown.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 3/18/2014, 11:41 AM
You know I'm just a bit confused on one thing -- witch hunt or not, what does Kellerman think he can *do*? I mean, as has been pointed out, we've just come out of a war footing. We have what amounts to a full gods-be-damned *space navy*. Our main 'Daneside port of call is in Australia. And hell, aren't we technically a sovereign nation (or federation of same, depending on who you ask)? To the best of my knowledge -- although I will gladly bow to the better-informed -- the US government has managed to field at best a handful of wavecraft. So what if we end up with bad press in the US because Kellerman's grandstanding for purposes of self-aggrandizement?
(Although I still maintain that if they do try to annex us -- excuse me, "repatriate us" -- we need to drop rocks on them. Big ones.)
-- Bob Schroeck, Citizen-at-large and part-time captain,
Grover's Corners, Inc., A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Bavarian Illuminati
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
From: "Bob Schroeck" (rms@ourtown.fen)
Reply-To: smof-politics@smofcon.fen
Date: 3/18/2014, 11:41 AM
You know I'm just a bit confused on one thing -- witch hunt or not, what does Kellerman think he can *do*? I mean, as has been pointed out, we've just come out of a war footing. We have what amounts to a full gods-be-damned *space navy*. Our main 'Daneside port of call is in Australia. And hell, aren't we technically a sovereign nation (or federation of same, depending on who you ask)? To the best of my knowledge -- although I will gladly bow to the better-informed -- the US government has managed to field at best a handful of wavecraft. So what if we end up with bad press in the US because Kellerman's grandstanding for purposes of self-aggrandizement?
(Although I still maintain that if they do try to annex us -- excuse me, "repatriate us" -- we need to drop rocks on them. Big ones.)
-- Bob Schroeck, Citizen-at-large and part-time captain,
Grover's Corners, Inc., A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Bavarian Illuminati
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.