[SOC] How much for airfare to VK???

[Charles Harpole]

That Ian can write and reason..... how much is airfare to VK?Can I get a reciprocal license?  73

Charles Harpole
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> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:47:38 +1100
> From: ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au
> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [SOC] This is What I'm Talkin' About!
> 
> w9ya wrote:
> 
> > This guy is full of it....and he should probably have an honest talk with
> > himself about it...
> Well Bob that could be construed as a nice introduction to civilised and 
> rational discussion.
> 
> > i.e. EVERYWHERE there are criminals who will steal what
> > is not theirs including another's life.
> 
> And your point is? In Australia we simply do not have criminals running 
> amok. Similarly other countries such as UK, Canada, New Zealand and most 
> if not all European Union countries. Speaking for Australia alone, I 
> don't lock my house, I don't lock my car. I don't live my life in fear 
> of anything. I don't personally know anyone else who does.
> 
> > History and the wisdom attained from an honest appraisal tells us EXACTLY that.
> 
> I see absolutely no history of that in Australia nor in the other 
> countries I mentioned. None of us are perfect, none of us are crime free 
> and never will be. But we don't live with constant fear.
> 
> > ALSO there are a class of folks that will happily decide for YOU whether you have the god-given right to protect that which is yours, including your life
> 
> Who would those folks be in Australia? Would they be the huge majority 
> who do not ever want a gun culture? Nobody here is denied the right to 
> protect themselves.
> 
> We simply don't see a problem where one doesn't exist.
> 
> > those societies will destroy themselves because of such tyranny, again something history teaches if you take the trouble to read and study
> 
> Not Australia nor probably the other countries mentioned earlier are 
> they likely to destroy themselves. Australia is most certainly not 
> tearing itself apart politically from within.
> 
> Among all the advanced countries in the world, for all practical 
> purposes, 100% of all eligible Australian people vote in fair elections 
> and everyone abides by the result - with good grace and manners.
> 
> Among all OECD countries, we don't even have a recession. We don't have 
> dodgy Banks or dodgy Insurance companies because we don't have a lack of 
> good prudential regulation. We have a world class and very cheap 
> universal health care system. Cost? - 1.5% of taxable income. We 
> continually embrace reform and good governance no matter which party is 
> in government.
> 
> So where is the need for fear?
> 
> > And so it goes......NOTHING NEW HERE, NOW MOVE ALONG......
> 
> Well this is not a "Fox News" forum where they shout. No doubt you will 
> inform us upon what basis you can conclude to inform me to:
> 
> > NOW MOVE ALONG......
> 
> You know nothing of me, my background or my history with this list. 
> Because people do not agree with the views circulating in your little 
> section of the world, it doesn't make them wrong, just simply different.
> 
> 
> 72/73's
> 
> Ian C. Purdie
> Budgewoi N.S.W. Australia - Co-ords -S33° 13' 54.70", +E151° 33' 4.75"
> VK2TIP "I'll give ya the TIP mate" QRP-L #1978. SOC #171 FP#91
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