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I met Robert Fripp when I worked at Trace Elliot many years ago. A charming and decent fella ISTR, who treated everyone as mates.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Maybe Threaded has been reading Pravda and letting his imagination run away with him:
Great Britain looks like the first candidate for violent change in the coming months. Already there is talk of an upcoming “Summer of Rage,” starting when the G-20 leaders will meet in London at the beginning of April.
British authorities are certainly bracing themselves for what is coming, with 130.000 heavily armed policemen nationwide ready to quell street revolts. If that will not prove to be enough, army units will be deployed. Indeed, the British army has broad experience in controlling urban crowds. After all, that is essentially what the army has been doing all those years in Northern Ireland and Iraq (Basrah).
Students are angry and have been occupying some 30 universities in protest against British government support of Israel trying to revive the Warsaw Ghetto in the Gaza strip.
Pensioners are angry and desperate, the middle classes are fearful of joining the proletarian masses in Britain's horrid slums, and the millions of Muslims in Britain are also enraged.
In short, Britain is a powder keg just waiting to explode.
Sussed it now - I think this may be what Threaded has been on about:
North Korea threatens war if rocket is intercepted North Korea says it will wage war on America, Japan and South Korea if any attempt is made to intercept satellite rocket launch
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