my cynicism turns a shallow shade of green in the shadow of yours, oliver.

this is very reminiscent of the gang wars in new york in the '70s.
so, with the worsening disenfranchisement of the huddled masses against the backdrop of a (hopefully short-term) worsening of the global economy, and increasingly limited access to quality educational resources for the marginalized, where find we a solution?

oh, and about that little misunderstanding, let's just say that i'm glad to make your acquaintance. btw, 93 isn't an octane rating, is it? {descending intonation}

: “We are responsible for the hell that these kids are living
: in,” says Colombes official Camps-Voqeur.

: This is what happens when immigration policies ignore social
: integration, when tribal paranoia spawns
: officially-sanctioned snobbery (under the guise of
: real-estate values, etc.) and creates ghettoes, and when

: the economy slips so that those on the fringes of the
: workforce are offered little hope. Humans are predatory
: animals. Give them these conditions and they will follow
: the script. Their behavior will justify Draconian
: law-enforcement measures which eventually can be used
: against anyone. "We can't just outlaw handgun
: ownership by Arabs, or Hispanics, or Blacks; we must outlaw
: it by all." Which of course shows you how shallow
: Democracy has become.

: Of course the whole thing's premeditated, with a guile that
: rivals that of the Nazis in the '30s. But it's not the
: mixing of races that does this, it's their isolation in
: vast tracts of lookalike housing, each unit of which is a
: dungeon with low ceilings and paperthin walls so you can
: hear Jose next-door beating his pregnant-again wife every
: Friday night, and fat Maria screaming at her husband
: because he doesn't bring home enough money...or Ahmad
: berating his kids for disobeying the Koran while from the
: other side come the nighttime moans of old Fatima who is
: dying slowly from a disease only money will cure.

: Every ethnic group and every individual has a predetermined
: role in this vast dismal drama. It's what we were born to
: do, right?

: Faction Two is working from the stock market down. Eventually
: they will get around to your neighborhood and lay a wreath
: of olive and hyssop on Fatima's casket.

[snip]

: Chenin Blanced,

: oliverhaddo