differentia specifica (was: guns & purses (was Re: guns & crime)

[jf noonan]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Carl Remick wrote:
> 
> I think you're on to something there, Wojtek.  Despite the
> "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" mythology that
> every American grows up with, I've come to believe that this
> nation attracted a good number of folks who were not
> oppressed so much as too violent, greedy or plain selfish to
> get on with their neighbors in the Old World.

Yeah, I think we should have shut the door on those drunken
Irish and those fucking thieving, swarthy, Italians before 1850
and we'd be a lot better off now.

Liberatrian criminals, one and all.

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Joseph Noonan
Houston, TX
jfn1 at msc.com