From: Philip Dunn (pscumnud@DIRCON.CO.UK)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 14:54:58 EDT
Hi Andrew I hear you have taken to keeping explosives in the bathtup oop North. Makes a change from coal. :-) (I was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne.) The money question is: who is prepared to admit cricket loving suicide bombers into their ontology? Phil Quoting Andrew Brown <A.Brown@LUBS.LEEDS.AC.UK>: > Hello from Leeds. > > Leeds -- like rest of UK -- very different culture from Spain and NY in ways > I don't have time, nor knowledge, to analyse. Anyway, there's no need for > police occupation - there is, on the other hand, a world press occupation of > some previously anonymous backstreets. > > Andy > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: OPE-L on behalf of glevy@PRATT.EDU > Sent: Thu 14/07/2005 17:28 > To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > Cc: > Subject: Re: [OPE-L] On recent events in London and elsewhere > > > > Don't we have a member (or members) in Leeds? What's it like > there? Had the 'terrorists' come from my community in New > York City, I can tell you that it would be locked-down and > under police occupation. But, maybe that's a difference > between the situation 'there' and 'here'? To what extent will > this event further empower Blair and his 'Labour' (!) agenda? > > The popular response in London to the events there are quite > different -- it seems to me from afar -- to the reaction of > people in Madrid after the events there. Why is that? Shouldn't > it be obvious to everyone that the events in London are > connected to the war against Iraq? > > In solidarity, Jerry > Belfast, Maine > > > Philip Dunn
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