OK, OK, I'll hit the = delete button but before I do, people, my Christmas wish is that list members would = stick to Vanagon issues and avoid those dealing with politics, religion, = firearms, etc.., etc.., etc..,
 
Roy O.
'87 Westfalia
(till death us do part)
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: = Robert A. Alexander <satcong@VOL.COM>
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: = Saturday, December 12, 1998 5:10 PM
Subject: GERRY's EMIGRATION TO THE NORTHERN = TRIBES!

>Volks, GERRY, apparently, is in transit = to reside amongst our Northern
>neighbors!  My hopes are that = GERRY will not be subjected to Canadian
>Customs for the purposes of = downloading his/her memories of those
>Canadians who have possibly breached = Canadian laws concerning "hate
>speech"!!!
>
>Down = here, in the Good 'Ole USA, we still have some semblance of a = 1st
>Amendment of our Constitution, but, after reading the Canadian
>Constitution, I = fear for our Northern Brethren when it comes to any
>amongst them who make = the fatal mistake of referring to such "hatefully"
>loaded = comments as substandard parts made in "Red China", via "slave
>labor", sold, officially, by = "murderers" and other such facts that
>abound today.
>
>Could our = Canadian neighbors, who criticize parts for our Vanagons made
>down in = Mexico or Brazil be prosecuted, under the terms of NAFTA, for
>making = disparaging remarks about Vanagon parts coming from either of
>those = countries, when comparing them to Vanagon parts coming out of
>Europe or Tennessee???
>
>Under Canadian Law, who can say, for = sure!  I only bring this up because
>of clients of mine who have given up = trying to trek up to Canada to hunt
>wild game because of the perplexing = laws they have there concerning the
>transport of guns into Canada AND the = reading of weird stuff about
>Canadian politics at
>http://= www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16525.html which scares
>me.
>
>BOB - WA4RRN
>'85GL
>