Re: more electoral defeats for the feudalists

ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx <ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

royls@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:16:25 +0100,
peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Bj=F8rn_Perls=F8?=) wrote:
ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx <ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Peter
Bjørn Perlsø wrote: > >> > Bob Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >
Peter Bjørn Perlsø wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > > Sure it can, but
society will likely be either transformed or fragmented > >> > > > into
smaller societies, or perhaps clans. > >> > > > >> > > Meaning the
original society did not survive. Just as I said. > >> > > > >> > > Why
not revert to hunter-gathering while we are at it? > >> > > > >> > > Bob
Kolker > >> > > >> > Nice strawman, Bob, but no cigar. Somalia and other
anarchies has not > >> > reverted to hunter-gathering because the state
was absent. > >> > >> They're not that far from it. > > > >Oh really? Even
Coca COla had a botting plant in Mogadishu. > > ?? "Even" Coca-Cola?
Coke is a franchise operation. If someone > thinks they can make money
flogging Coke in a country-sized insane > asylum, Coke will license him.
Coke does not build the bottling > plants, local entrepreneurs do. IOW,
the fact that there is a Coke > bottler in Mogadishu proves nothing but
that someone with more money > than brains thinks they can make money from
the Coke brand there.

What Peter failed to mention was the fact that Coca Cola originally had a
bottling plant in Somalia before the government collapsed. It was
destroyed by rival clan members after Somalia descended into anarchy. The
only reason the new plant was successfully built was because the investors
were hand picked to represent each of the major clans. Had this not been
done, those clan members who were left out would have destroyed the plant
immediately after its construction. Also, the plant has dramatically
reduced production as of late, since the Islamic clerics have declared the
consumption of Coca Cola to be against Islam and the Islamic militias have
begun threatening any restaurant owners who sell the beverage. Some
freedom, eh?

I am no fan of Islam or the Islamic theocracy that has been instated in
Mogadishu and surronding areas as of late. In fact, I am a bitter
opponent of that pre-medeival worldview and all it results in.

-- regards , Peter B. P. - http://titancity.com/blog
http://markedspartiet.dk, http://macplanet.dk http://siad.dk
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