Text 48143, 80 rader
Skriven 2007-02-09 12:39:04 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 48119 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Childporn
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09 Feb 07 08:38, Ward Dossche wrote to Dale Shipp:


 >> BZZZZT..  WRONG.  Read the article again.   It says that about 600 out
 >> of 2,360 were from US.  Last time I counted, 600 is no where near a
 >> majority of 2360.

 WD> Well if 30 million are a majority which can elect a President in a
 WD> country of 300 million (10%) then 600 out of 2360 (25%) as an even
 WD> bigger majority.

Fact is, 30 milliion voters in the US doesn't make a majority, nor is it
even close to the number of votes cast for the loser.

The 2004 US Presidential election had over 121 million (25% of the entire
population) votes. The loser got over 59 million votes.

 >> The article does not give a break down of where all 2360 were located,
 >> nor does it even say that the US number is the largest of any country.

 WD> Ohhh ... you've read only "1" article? I'm sorry about that because
 WD> I've read about it in 3 different English articles, 2 Dutch, 3
 WD> French, a couple German, ... I saw it mentionned on Scandinavian,
 WD> Italian and Spanish newswires also.

That's wonderful...so you watched as they inflated numbers, as the news
spread from one reporter to another.

 >> The numbers quoted account for less than half
 >> of the total.  It may well be that a majority came from Russia.   It
 >> is more than likely that a majority came from Europe.

 WD> No, no, nooooo ... not "Europe". You need to identify individual
 WD> countries, I spoke about the USA, not North America ... ;-)

Since the web site originated in Russia, isn't that part of urope?

 WD> I'll give you a clue ... 30 of the discovered IP-addresses were
 WD> pointing to Belgium. It appears that at least 3 of these come from
 WD> the Casteau-area where SHAPE is localised ... (Supreme Headquarters
 WD> Allied Powers Europe). In case you don't know, that's an American
 WD> military base.

And the 1000 germans who linked to that site were also US military
based ... yeah sure.

 >> WD> And some people just moan about Menno Blom who technically
 >> WD> committed no crime.

 >> Perhaps in your opinion, but not in the opinion of the courts where
 >> he plead guilty.

 WD> If you plead guilty then the court does not even need to have an
 WD> opinion.

That's right. They understand that you've pled (not pleaded) to a crime
and that there is only one more thing to do; investigate the mental
competence of the accused and sentence them if the examination of the
mental status of the accused is found to be that of a normal person.

 WD> Tonya Harding pleaded "guilty" in 1994, it was televised 'live' even

Wrong word usage -----^  You can thank Vlist and Neut the nut for that.

 WD> overhere and the case was over in minutes ... no opinion or ruling
 WD> over guilt or innocense by the court was needed.

Of course not, she pled guilty to the charges. See above for the next
procedure. BTW, Menno Blom pled guilty to lesser charges than he was
accused of, which is normal for those who're caught breaking the law, but
will plead guilty to a lesser charge if they don't have to do as much
time. It's a called a 'plea bargain' ...

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