"Murchadh" <murchadh@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:4007739b.5806629@news...
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 02:58:38 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
> <ccaine@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawillers@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> >news:aBCNb.17509$ws.2081108@news02.tsnz.net...
> >>
> >> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
> >> news:100d6t93o01cv9e@corp.supernews.com...
> >> > In news:6DoNb.17257$ws.2056059@news02.tsnz.net,
> >> > Adam Whyte-Settlar <grawillers@hotmail.com> radiated into the
> >> > WorldWideWait:
> >> > > "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
> >> > > news:100apt0hirhntd2@corp.supernews.com...
> >> > >> In news:bu3j2n$d55va$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
> >> > >> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the
> >> > >> WorldWideWait:
> >> > >>> "Duke of URL" <macbenahATkdsiDOTnet> wrote in message
> >> > >>> news:100ail8tmslmbaa@corp.supernews.com...
> >> > >>>> In news:bu30fu$d1mu9$1@ID-101276.news.uni-berlin.de,
> >> > >>>> Ryan Ginstrom <ginstrom@hotmail.com> radiated into the
> >> > >>>> WorldWideWait:
> >> > >>
> >> > >>>>> Like my granddaddy always used to say, you throw a rock into a
> >> > >>>>> pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit.
> >> > >>>>> If he doesn't like the US, he should just go on the hell home.
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>> Adam is an expatriate Brit living in New Zealand.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> Now I know you're trying to pull a fast one on me. They don't
have
> >> > >>> the Internet in New Zealand!
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Well, no, but he hollers real loud...
> >> > >
> >> > > Only sometimes... I think I must be missing synarse and Dave.
> >> > > Is Dave still posting by the way? Havn't seen any mention of him
> >> > > lately. He (Ryan) is not far wrong though - we just bought another
> >> > > house and the property manager at the bank doesn't have e-mail!
> >> >
> >> > Hopefully, the Brit Law finally caught up with him in his
> >> > terrorist-support activities and locked him away for a looonng time.
> >> >
> >> I don't think he actually engaged in 'activities' - just speaking out -
> >and
> >> as of this writing that is still not punishable by a long jail term in
the
> >> UK. Is it?
> >> A W-S
> >
> >Depends.
> >Be mindful of the Official Secrets Act.
>
> To be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act you have to have
> signed an official declaration promising to be bound by it.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, Dave has never signed it, but I'm sure
> quite a few people here have, myself included. The last bloke to tell
> all (from MI5) went to jail to remind us that a promise is a promise.

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> When I was in the Army, the workings of the Lewis machinegun (used
> extensively in WWI) was still classified as a military secret.

Highlander, please be more careful what you write.
I was sore tempted here.
   ;=)