Post by King John on Dec 8, 2006 12:53:22 GMT -6
Paper rustles, liquid gurgles, a chair scrapes the floor.
My Lord President, My Lord Duke, My Lord, Gentlemen of the Senäts –
When, on 25 June 1998, Lounès Matoub was murdered by Moslem terrorists, apparently in retaliation for his efforts on behalf of the oppressed Berbers of Algeria, the Kingdom of Talossa responded with two legislative proposals. MC Ián Anglatzarâ (now alas! a citizen of the Republic, but once again woo-hoo! posting here on Wittenberg) offered 24RZ36, The Stop Killing Berbers Act; while at the same time MC R. Ben Madison (remember the Bad Old Days when the King sat in the Cosâ?) offered 24RZ41, The Condemnation of Islamic Stupidity Act. The two Bills covered roughly the same ground. Both condemned the cowardly assassination of M. Matoub, and also condemned Islamic terrorism. Both passed into law, and both are currently in force in Talossa.
S:reu Toctviac'htéir’s Bill now before us as 36RZ12 would repeal Mr. Madison’s Act, while leaving S:reu Anglatzarâ’s untouched. This strikes me as a good thing, not primarily because of the redundancy of having two laws on the same topic, but because of the potentially offensive and inaccurate title of the latter Act. Moslems are no more likely than anyone else to be stupid. Nor are terrorists — successful ones, anyway — usually characterised by stupidity, any more than stupidity usually issues in terrorism. To identify the two things is inaccurate, and perhaps dangerously so. It is never a good idea to underestimate your opponents. Those enemies of civilisation who pursue their evil ends by acts of terrorism would be far less dangerous, and far easier to deal with, if only they were stupid.
Talossa condemns terrorism. Talossa not only does not condemn, but would seem occasionally to embrace stupidity. Talossa doesn’t have much to say one way or another about Islam. These things being so, I vote PËR on 36RZ12, and congratulate S:reu Toctviac'htéir on his first legislative offering.
Thank you all for your indulgence.
— John Woolley, UrN, Senator from Florenciâ
My Lord President, My Lord Duke, My Lord, Gentlemen of the Senäts –
When, on 25 June 1998, Lounès Matoub was murdered by Moslem terrorists, apparently in retaliation for his efforts on behalf of the oppressed Berbers of Algeria, the Kingdom of Talossa responded with two legislative proposals. MC Ián Anglatzarâ (now alas! a citizen of the Republic, but once again woo-hoo! posting here on Wittenberg) offered 24RZ36, The Stop Killing Berbers Act; while at the same time MC R. Ben Madison (remember the Bad Old Days when the King sat in the Cosâ?) offered 24RZ41, The Condemnation of Islamic Stupidity Act. The two Bills covered roughly the same ground. Both condemned the cowardly assassination of M. Matoub, and also condemned Islamic terrorism. Both passed into law, and both are currently in force in Talossa.
S:reu Toctviac'htéir’s Bill now before us as 36RZ12 would repeal Mr. Madison’s Act, while leaving S:reu Anglatzarâ’s untouched. This strikes me as a good thing, not primarily because of the redundancy of having two laws on the same topic, but because of the potentially offensive and inaccurate title of the latter Act. Moslems are no more likely than anyone else to be stupid. Nor are terrorists — successful ones, anyway — usually characterised by stupidity, any more than stupidity usually issues in terrorism. To identify the two things is inaccurate, and perhaps dangerously so. It is never a good idea to underestimate your opponents. Those enemies of civilisation who pursue their evil ends by acts of terrorism would be far less dangerous, and far easier to deal with, if only they were stupid.
Talossa condemns terrorism. Talossa not only does not condemn, but would seem occasionally to embrace stupidity. Talossa doesn’t have much to say one way or another about Islam. These things being so, I vote PËR on 36RZ12, and congratulate S:reu Toctviac'htéir on his first legislative offering.
Thank you all for your indulgence.
— John Woolley, UrN, Senator from Florenciâ
