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G0FTD > RUGGER 01.12.03 02:43l 29 Lines 910 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 692738G0FTD
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Subj: Re: "Oz Tabloid Press Grovels"
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Sent: 031130/1944Z @:GB7WIG.#34.GBR.EU #:31819 XFBB7.03 Bid:692738G0FTD
From: G0FTD@GB7WIG.#34.GBR.EU
To : RUGGER@WW
VK6BE sent:-
> There have been snide allusions made of Australia's "convict past" by our
> favourite English humourist(?)
How can FACTS be "allusions" ?
> Were any serious criminals - murderers, felons, etc.,transported to
> Australia? Of course not, since the British hanged all of those. They
> never made it here. Crimes committed by transportees were either petty or
> political.
They were not so petty if your were to study the social and economic
conditions of the time. It's a bit like trying to understand the works
of Karl Marx - you HAVE to understand the arguments OF THE TIME they are
written , and the socioeconomics of the time.
> :- (that symbol excuses everything if you know what it means!!!!).
Oh dear now you have gone and done it.
Report to Governor Ian's office for a good dose of flaggellation - for you
have sinned ;-)
- Andy -
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