Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 10:14:05 05/19/04
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On May 19, 2004 at 10:59:38, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >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). But the reason was different. Was it about the "regime", war issues, former dutch colony or general danger? I guess the main reason was solidarity with junior team - or? > >However all Germans and Americans showed up there. Yes. > >Chance YOU get arrested or killed in Jakarta is always bigger for a tourist than >in Israel. Yes, and it is probably more dangerous to drive on german highways! Gerd > >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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