British Aggressors arrest Member of the European Parliament

[Arrian]

USAians love Tony because he seems to have the ability to form complete sentances and speak fairly coherently. This makes him look very appealing in comparison to the Chimp in Chief.

-Arrian

[Cort Haus]

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Pop : 7.5 million - so probably a couple of dozen seats, though it's still a Red State IIUC, and are you sure that Republican voters are ready for New Labour style levels of taxation and state control over the minutiae of people's lives?

republican voters mainly wouldnt, but about half of the US electorate is Dems or Dem leaners, and the number of them who would oppose Tony from the left is not all that large, despite Iraq.

Plus add the faction of the GOP that is more interested in foreign policy than domestic, and that loves Tony.

I mean I didnt mean to say that ONLY Virginia gets MPs.

The Tories would stand a chance, but theyd have move quickly to the right on a number of social issues to avoid a fundie oriented 3rd (well, actually what, 5th? 7th?) party. But New Labuor would be reinforced by all those Clintonian New Dems, who mostly dont have all the resentments against Tony that Labourites do.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Actually, it should be given to FYROM.

you're 45 mins and several post late with that "joke"...

[Straybow]

What kind of idiot politician squanders his political capital getting arrested in foreign territory? That kind of publicity stunt is what you do before you get elected.

Oh, wait... he's in the Euroweenie Parlaiment... doesn't have anything better to do...

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MarkG
if you read the article you'll realize that he refused to pay a fine in order to not have further trouble and even went on to protest again at the military bases...

So what's the problem with his being arrested ?

He's committed criminal damage, refused to cough up, therefore he goes to jail.

I'm sure he'll be offering up his Greek delight for a few Euros or cigarettes in no time.... just like so many Greeks before.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MarkG
do the birts have their own guadanamo

Akrotiri.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MarkG
or give Greece all the land conquered by Alexander the Great...

Or Iran all the land conquered by the Achaemenids.

Or Egypt all the land the Ptolemies once possessed.

Or the Italians the lands of the Roman Empire.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


no problem. How many MPs does Virginia get?

Virginia who ? Is that a Bush, Cheney, Powell or Wolfowitz Virginia ?

Nepotism can be so confusing.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by molly bloom

Or Egypt all the land the Ptolemies once possessed.

do you realize that the Ptolemaic dynasty was Greek?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by MarkG
do you realize that the Ptolemaic dynasty was Greek?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter

lol LOL

Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaios Soter, i.e. Ptolemy the Savior, 367 BC—283 BC) was a Macedonian general

[Cort Haus]

Those Fyromians get around.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by LordShiva
lol LOL

Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaios Soter, i.e. Ptolemy the Savior, 367 BC�283 BC) was a Macedonian general

yeah one of those barbarians with the greek names, greek language and greek gods....

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MarkG
do you realize that the Ptolemaic dynasty was Greek?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_I_Soter

No, that escaped me in reading about the Diadochoi in the post-Alexandrian Hellenic Oikoumene.

Was Alexander a Greek too ?

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by MarkG
yeah one of those barbarians with the greek names, greek language and greek gods....

I know an Indian Christian whose family worships a Jewish god, has Syriac as a church language and she speaks English as her first tongue.

A shared culture/religion do not necessarily equal ethnicity or nationality.

The Tsarist Russians had a policy of Russification- forcible conversion to Russian orthodoxy and forcible use of the Russian language- they applied it to Catholics, Lutherans, Uniates, Muslims and Jews.

And to Poles, Finns, Ukrainians, Armenians, et cetera.