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Subject: Re: Only the good die young.

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 07:59:38 05/19/04

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On May 19, 2004 at 10:14:40, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:

>On May 19, 2004 at 08:00:01, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>I suggest to watch the news then and when. Consider the date also.
>>
>>One single WCCCh isn't that important...
>>
>>Wrong priorities! Let's hope nobody has to learn the hard way.
>>
>>I can only shake my head.
>

>You are right, Michael. It's totally foolish that anyone will participate in a

Which fellow did your parents follow that you look so prejudiced?

Because we, the dutch programmers, in general did boycot Jakarta (Fritz=german
management).

However all Germans and Americans showed up there.

Chance YOU get arrested or killed in Jakarta is always bigger for a tourist than
in Israel.

Yet i didn't hear you complain during Jakarta...

>tourney in Isreal at all! The political implications, regular suicide attacks
>from palestine idiots, combined with the right-winged and terrible politics of
>Sharon makes Isreal one place in the world, I would not want to be at the moment
>- apart from Bush's USA, North Korea and a couple of other states where my
>personal freedom would be endangered.
>
>In Israel it's my life at the stake, so I consider it dumb and foolish to go
>there, only for a tournament with no real meaning at all.
>
>Andreas



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