[fh ot] Re: [GZG][FH] Planet types (was Re: Locations of Star s)

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> Glover, Owen wrote:

> Why is the FCT necessarily anti-NAC? Since 1776 the US and UK have

*Sputter* Try the late 1860s! We fought two wars since 1776 (AWI, 1812), and
damn near had British warships and troops intervene in our First Civil War.

> pretty well allied. The GZG history stated that the FCT breakaway was

Hrm. . . maybe not anti-NAC in behavior, but philisophically.  I see FCT
as a safety valve for NAC--a dumping ground for militant US
nationalists, conspiracy theorists (who would see in British troops occupying
the US a validation of their One World Government Black Helicopter nonsense),
Gun Nuts (FCT Const. likely has a clause permitting all inhabitants to own
tactical nuclear weapons), Xenophobes (Damn British Furriners!), the Irish
population of Boston (OK, maybe this is a bit farfetched) and other types who
would otherwise be a destabilizing influence in the NAC. Before anyone points
out California's reputation for liberalism, I've been told that's mostly in LA
and San Francisco, so if those two cities catch nukes during the Second
American Civil War, then it makes sense.

> that the Sa'eed Khalifate - IF relationship would be similar to Saudi

That would presume the IF was as rational as the Saudis are--which ain't
the case. The IF, I think of as Lybians, and the Khalifate I think of as
people who think the Lybians are liberals.

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> On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, John M. Atkinson wrote:

> That's enough to send a lot of people into a bit of a nationalistic

perhaps this idea of usa / uk dominance is not really useful; we are
thinking of one country composed of two nations. what is to say that the
cultures won't blend into each other quite quickly - a revival of the
bowler hat on the streets of philadelphia, the appearance of buicks in
liverpool.

also, there is the revisionist view that the usa actually is britain, and
the uk is germany: the war of indpendence was won by free-thinking
englishmen against the armies of a german king. one day, true englishmen in
the uk will rise up, overthrow the hated continental oppressor (the queen
still signs bills into law in french!) and rejoin with our brothers across the
sea.

Tom

> Glover, Owen wrote:

> John M. Atkinson wrote:

> Hrm. . . maybe not anti-NAC in behavior, but philisophically. I see

Yeah! Any country should be so lucky as to have a convenient dumping ground
for all their trouble makers that isn't six feet under somehwere...

On Saturday, 05 December 1998 05:34, Thomas Anderson
> [SMTP:thomas.anderson@university-college.oxford.ac.uk] wrote:

> also, there is the revisionist view that the usa actually is britain,

> queen still signs bills into law in french!) and rejoin with our

It was the weather. Without the separation, FCT would still be part of the UK,
and you know how terrible the weather is in England.

That, and I'm sure to a True Texan the thought of wearing a 37.86-liter
hat is completely revolting!

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