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Subject: Re: Edmonton Canada Gestapo Bad International Reputation - AVOID Edmonton - MORE!! Posted on: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:37:02 GMT

"Alan Pollock" wrote in message
news:e96etj$m2p$1@reader2.panix.com...
>
> I could care less whether any of this bullcrapola about Edmonton has a
> tenuous
> basis in truth, a strong one, is all true, or is merely the wet dream of
> an
> Edmonton hater, but I do suspect there's some personal animosity there on
> the
> part of the muckrakers because they seem too prolific and rabid on the
> subject.
>
> When I lived in Canada over ten years ago there were all manner of
> political
> perverts (including many at the CBC) who abhorred Alberta (Edmonton's
> province) merely due to the fact that it tended to vote right of center.
> This
> was good enough for many to demonize Alberta as being a monstrous place to
> live.
>
> Does this have anything to do with it?
>
> What gives? Why care so much as to post interminably about how bad a city
> is?
>
> Makes no sense to me so I ask those so concerned to please explain it to
> me,
> *honestly*. Without the nazi headline flames.
>
> (I know, I ask for the impossible in certain quarters)
>
> Nex
>
The comments are so strident that I take them with a grain of salt. If they
were toned down serious people might take them more seriously. KM

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