On (20 Sep 05) Miles Maxted wrote to George Pope...
 MM> still befuddled enough 12 years later to happily pay more per
 MM> litre of water than for they do now for a litre of petrol...

What water is this?  & how much?

 MM> They say populations get the systems and governments they deserve,
 MM> but no-one here can explain what awful crime sentenced NZ to its
 MM> current 12-year spell of aimless drifting.

Possibly daring to make the world THINK they stood up to the USA re:
nukes in harbour?

(when we know that the USA won the real battle, in that nukes are parked
in NZ harbours any damb time the yanks feel like it!)

 MM> As our Air Force's moth balled jet fighters have just been sold
 MM> off for peanuts by our `Minister for Disarmament',  it was left to
 MM> our only Police chopper to plod around the night sky armed only
 MM> with a search light,  solemnly assuring the invisible offender
 MM> that he was under arrest and should not make things worse by
 MM> actually flying into the tower....

Every two-bit terrorist-wannabe group has a Stinger or three, why
doesn't NZ buy one or two?

 MM> Send us some real democracy !!

It's in saddlebags on a unicorn being ridden by a beautiful virgin
20-year-old woman!

Because I care,
<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))


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