Hello DadaistDadaist wrote:It's not as simple as that.Bob Jefferson wrote:I think that's a fair assessment. Let's concentrate on PHS for a moment
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Opposing the school on Portobello Park is opposing the re-build of PHS, it's as simple as that. The funding is a red herring
You've followed up saying that a statement you agree with is "fair" (without really saying why) with an unfair assessment of your own.
Next, you narrow the agenda to being PHS. This is interesting, because whereas before you may well have been saying that people who *didn't* come up with a funding solution were therefore enemies of education, now it suddenly doesn't matter!
Why is it interesting? Because it simply doesn't follow that someone who opposes building on Portobello Park is suddenly an enemy of education.
George Bush and his cronies are fond of making statements like "if you aren't with us, you're with the terrorists" - meaning that either the Bushies are talking rubbish, or the world is populated by billions of terrorists.
Similarly, people who oppose building on Portobello Park should be allowed to simply oppose building on Portobello Park without being forced to come up with locations, funding packages - (or whatever this week's hoop PFANS have decided to create for anyone who dares oppose whatever their plan is this week) to jump through.
You've made similar demands of your opponents before, when you said that they should (insert hoop to be jumped through) or "accept the label of nimbyism".
Once this matter is complete - and it may be a long while - there will be a proportion of the community who are unhappy with whatever the final outcome was.
At that time, your erstwhile opponents may well have memories which serve to remind them of the plethora of labels you heaped upon them - and they'll know that they were never nimbys nor education haters - just people who didn't want their park built on.
Let's concentrate on this for a moment Dadaist even if it is totally off topic. You mentioned, "George Bush and his cronies are fond of making statements like "if you aren't with us, you're with the terrorists" - meaning that either the Bushies are talking rubbish, or the world is populated by billions of terrorists." Do you have a url that will support the above quote which you state 'George Bush and his cronies are fond of making'.
It seems someone complained about you. It wasn't me. There should be a hospitality sign posted for newcomers that don't reside in Scotland or the UK. You don't wish to kill off American tourists or future Portobello residents do you?
(Did it occur to either of you that people from other countries were on one of those four airplanes? Two hit the Twin Towers and another the Pentagon 
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DIED and thousands of people suffered as a result of insane terrorists. It is because of this herific action against mankind those terrorists (men) that we today are still experiencing and reliving the grief they caused the world. 
I do wish you both would spend your time more wisely on music. Consider pleasing your listening and viewing audience rather than building up hateful or unkind remarks.
